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astro-ph.GA2016★ 115 cited

Clouds, Streams and Bridges. Redrawing the blueprint of the Magellanic System with Gaia DR1

Vasily Belokurov, Denis Erkal, Alis J. Deason +5

We present the discovery of stellar tidal tails around the Large and the Small Magellanic Clouds in the Gaia DR1 data. In between the Clouds, their tidal arms are stretched towards…

astro-ph.GA2016★ 48 cited

The Clouds are breaking: tracing the Magellanic system with Gaia DR1 Mira variables

Alis J. Deason, Vasily Belokurov, Denis Erkal +2

We exploit the first data release from the Gaia mission to identify candidate Mira variables in the outskirts of the Magellanic Clouds. The repeated observations of sources during…

astro-ph.GA2016★ 51 cited

Portrait of a Dark Horse: a Photometric and Spectroscopic Study of the Ultra-faint Milky Way Satellite Pegasus III

Dongwon Kim, Helmut Jerjen, Marla Geha +6

Pegasus III (Peg III) is one of the few known ultra-faint stellar systems in the outer halo of the Milky Way. We present the results from a follow-up campaign with Magellan/IMACS a…

astro-ph.GA2016★ 10 cited

No sign (yet) of intergalactic globular clusters in the Local Group

Dougal Mackey, Michael A. Beasley, Ryan Leaman

We present Gemini/GMOS imaging of twelve candidate intergalactic globular clusters (IGCs) in the Local Group, identified in a recent survey of the SDSS footprint by di Tullio Zinn…

astro-ph.GA2016★ 54 cited

A Young Cluster With an Extended Main Sequence Turnoff: Confirmation of a Prediction of the Stellar Rotation Scenario

N. Bastian, F. Niederhofer, V. Kozhurina-Platais +13

We present Hubble Space Telescope photometry of NGC1850, a ~100 Myr, ~10^5 Msun cluster in the Large Magellanic Cloud. The colour magnitude diagram clearly shows the presence of an…