22 papers
The Milky Way - Large Magellanic Cloud Interaction with Simulation Based Inference
Richard A. N. Brooks, Jason L. Sanders, Vedant Chandra +4
The infall of the Large Magellanic Cloud (LMC) into the Milky Way (MW) has displaced the MW's centre of mass, manifesting as an observed reflex motion in the velocities of outer ha…
A systematic survey for hypervelocity runaways from thermonuclear supernovae
Kareem El-Badry, Klaus Werner, Ken J. Shen +16
The explosion of a white dwarf (WD) in a close binary can launch a surviving runaway star at velocities of . Such runaways provide a direct probe of…
An Ultramassive White Dwarf with a Likely Oxygen-Neon Core
Stefan M. Arseneau, J. J. Hermes, Vedant Chandra +4
The core composition of ultramassive white dwarfs remains an open question in stellar evolution. The carbon content of white dwarf cores is critical to their role as progenitors of…
Tracing the very early disruption of the Sagittarius dwarf galaxy in the distant Milky Way halo
Manuel Bayer, Else Starkenburg, Akshara Viswanathan +3
Current models predict that at distances beyond 80 kpc in the Milky Way halo, we can find the earliest escaped stars from the merging Sagittarius dwarf galaxy. However, observation…
Quantifying the Milky Way, LMC and their interaction using all-sky kinematics of outer halo stars
Richard A. N. Brooks, Jason L. Sanders, Adam M. Dillamore +4
The recent pericentric passage of the Large Magellanic Cloud (LMC) has dislodged the Milky Way's (MW) centre of mass, inducing dynamical disequilibrium, the reflex motion, in the k…
A nearly pristine star from the Large Magellanic Cloud
Alexander P. Ji, Vedant Chandra, Selenna Mejias-Torres +28
The first stars formed out of pristine gas, causing them to be so massive that none are expected to have survived until today. If their direct descendants were sufficiently low-mas…