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most citedUrsa Major III/UNIONS 1: the darkest galaxy ever discovered?

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astro-ph.GA2026

Characterizing the disruption of Böotes III: a missing link in the Galactic halo?

Jaclyn Jensen, Daniel A. Boyea, Alan W. McConnachie +14

The Böotes III (Boo3) dwarf galaxy has long been suspected of being the progenitor of Styx, a ~50°-long stellar stream that was simultaneously discovered in the same region of sky.…

astro-ph.GA2026

The primordial nature of the C-19 stellar stream

Kim A. Venn, Zhen Yuan, Nicolas F. Martin +32

Stellar streams, remnants of compact star systems stretched out by the tidal forces of the Milky Way, offer a unique way to study stellar populations that formed billions of years…

astro-ph.GA2025

No Observational Evidence for Dark Matter Nor a Large Metallicity Spread in the Extreme Milky Way Satellite Ursa Major III / UNIONS 1

William Cerny, Daisy Bissonette, Alexander P. Ji +9

The extremely-low-luminosity, compact Milky Way satellite Ursa Major III / UNIONS 1 (UMaIII/U1; ; pc) was found to have a substantial velocity d…

astro-ph.GA2025★ 2 cited

UNIONS: The Ultraviolet Near-Infrared Optical Northern Survey

Stephen Gwyn, Alan W. McConnachie, Jean-Charles Cuillandre +86

The Ultraviolet Near-Infrared Optical Northern Survey (UNIONS) is a "collaboration of collaborations" that is using the Canada-France-Hawai'i Telescope, the Pan-STARRS telescopes,…

astro-ph.GA2025

Deep in the Fields of the Andromeda Halo: Discovery of the Pegasus VII dwarf galaxy in UNIONS

Simon E. T. Smith, Alan W. McConnachie, Stephen Gwyn +8

We present the newly discovered dwarf galaxy Pegasus VII (Peg VII), a member of the M31 sub-group which has been uncovered in the photometric catalogs from the Ultraviolet Nea…

astro-ph.CO2025★ 2 cited

Quantifying the Detectability of Milky Way Satellites with Image Simulations: a Case Study with KiDS

Shiyang Zhang, Hendrik Hildebrandt, Ziang Yan +6

Ultra-faint dwarf galaxies, which can be detected as resolved satellite systems of the Milky Way, are critical to understanding galaxy formation, evolution, and the nature of dark…

astro-ph.GA2023

New Kids in Town. Sextans~II: a new stellar system in the outskirts of the Milky Way

Massimiliano Gatto, Michele Bellazzini, Crescenzo Tortora +9

We report on the discovery of a significant and compact over-density of old and metal-poor stars in the KiDS survey (data release 4). The discovery is confirmed by deeper HSC-SSC d…

astro-ph.GA2023★ 2 cited

The discovery of the faintest known Milky Way satellite using UNIONS

Simon E. T. Smith, William Cerny, Christian R. Hayes +14

We present the discovery of Ursa Major III/UNIONS 1, the least luminous known satellite of the Milky Way, which is estimated to have an absolute V-band magnitude of $+2.2^{+0.4}_{-…

astro-ph.GA2023★ 28 cited

Ursa Major III/UNIONS 1: the darkest galaxy ever discovered?

Raphaël Errani, Julio F. Navarro, Simon E. T. Smith +1

The recently discovered stellar system Ursa Major III/UNIONS 1 (UMa3/U1) is the faintest known Milky Way satellite to date. With a stellar mass of and a…

astro-ph.GA2023★ 1 cited

Small-scale stellar haloes: detecting low surface brightness features in the outskirts of Milky Way dwarf satellites

Jaclyn Jensen, Christian R. Hayes, Federico Sestito +5

Dwarf galaxies are valuable laboratories for dynamical studies related to dark matter and galaxy evolution, yet it is currently unknown just how physically extended their stellar c…

astro-ph.GA2023★ 17 cited

Stars on the edge: Galactic tides and the outskirts of the Sculptor dwarf spheroidal

Federico Sestito, Joel Roediger, Julio F. Navarro +5

The formation of "stellar halos" in dwarf galaxies have been discussed in terms of early mergers or Galactic tides, although fluctuations in the gravitational potential due to stel…

astro-ph.GA2022★ 7 cited

Velocity-Coherent Substructure in TMC-1: Inflow and Fragmentation

Simon E. T. Smith, Rachel Friesen, Antoine Marchal +11

Filamentary structures have been found nearly ubiquitously in molecular clouds and yet their formation and evolution is still poorly understood. We examine a segment of Taurus Mole…

astro-ph.GA2022★ 27 cited

Discovery of a new Local Group Dwarf Galaxy Candidate in UNIONS: Boötes V

Simon E. T. Smith, Jaclyn Jensen, Joel Roediger +12

We present the discovery of Boötes V, a new ultra-faint dwarf galaxy candidate. This satellite is detected as a resolved overdensity of stars during an ongoing search for new Local…