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astro-ph.GA2019★ 30 cited
The Virgo Overdensity Explained
Thomas Donlon, Heidi Jo Newberg, Jake Weiss +2
We suggest that the Virgo Overdensity (VOD) of stars in the stellar halo is the result of a radial dwarf galaxy merger that we call the Virgo Radial Merger. Because the dwarf galax…
astro-ph.GA2019★ 33 cited
Detecting the Sagittarius stream with LAMOST DR4 M giants \& Gaia DR2
Jing Li, Chao Liu, Xiangxiang Xue +4
We use LAMOST DR4 M giants combined with Gaia DR2 proper motions and ALLWISE photometry to obtain an extremely pure sample of Sagittarius (Sgr) stream stars. Using TiO5 and CaH spe…