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most citedStrong constraints on the gravitational law from DR3 wide binaries

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astro-ph.GA2026

Mapping parameters of idealised hydrodynamic galaxy simulations to bar properties: a case study with the RAMSES code

Srikanth T. Nagesh, Benoit Famaey, Jonathan Freundlich +4

Cosmological simulations with high spatial resolution often struggle to reproduce the observed fraction of galactic bars across redshift and may produce bars that are too short. To…

astro-ph.GA2026

A direct measurement of the tilting rate of the Milky Way disc

Guillaume F. Thomas, Benoit Famaey, Alicia Rivero +2

The Milky Way disc is typically described, at lowest order, as a flattened rotating stellar component with a fixed spin axis. However, interactions and mergers with smaller galaxie…

astro-ph.GA2025

Asymmetries in stellar streams induced by a galactic merger

Claire Guillaume, Florent Renaud, Nicolas F. Martin +6

Stellar streams are sensitive to perturbations from, e.g., giant molecular clouds, bars and spiral arms, infalling dwarf galaxies, or globular clusters which can imprint gaps, clum…

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★ 6 cited

Gaps in stellar streams as a result of globular cluster fly-bys

Salvatore Ferrone, Marco Montuori, Paola Di Matteo +10

Thin stellar streams, such as those resulting from the tidal disruption of globular clusters, have long been known and used as probes of the gravitational potential of our Galaxy,…

astro-ph.GA2024★ 8 cited

A non-axisymmetric potential for the Milky Way disk

Y. R. Khalil, B. Famaey, G. Monari +9

We provide a purely dynamical global map of the non-axisymmetric structure of the Milky Way disk. For this, we exploit the information contained within the in-plane motions of disk…

astro-ph.GA2024★ 9 cited

Reassessing the proper motions of M31/M33 with Gaia DR3. Unraveling systematic uncertainties

Samuel Rusterucci, Nicolas F. Martin, Else Starkenburg +1

We provide an updated inference of the proper motion of M31 using the Gaia DR3 proper motions of bright stars from the disc of M31. By refining the motion of the quasar reference f…

astro-ph.GA2024

C-19 and Hot, Wide, Star Streams

Raymond G. Carlberg, Rodrigo Ibata, Nicolas F. Martin +4

The C-19 star stream has the abundance characteristics of an unusually metal poor globular cluster but kinematically is uncharacteristically hot and wide for a cluster stream, havi…

astro-ph.GA2024★ 4 cited

Simulations of cluster ultra-diffuse galaxies in MOND

Srikanth T. Nagesh, Jonathan Freundlich, Benoit Famaey +4

Ultra-diffuse galaxies (UDGs) in the Coma cluster have velocity dispersion profiles that are in full agreement with the predictions of Modified Newtonian Dynamics (MOND) in isolati…

astro-ph.GA2023★ 1 cited

Charting the Galactic acceleration field II. A global mass model of the Milky Way from the STREAMFINDER Atlas of Stellar Streams detected in Gaia DR3

Rodrigo Ibata, Khyati Malhan, Wassim Tenachi +17

We present an atlas and follow-up spectroscopic observations of 87 thin stream-like structures detected with the STREAMFINDER algorithm in Gaia DR3, of which 29 are new discoveries…

astro-ph.GA2023★ 10 cited

Could very low-metallicity stars with rotation-dominated orbits have been shepherded by the bar?

Zhen Yuan, Chengdong Li, Nicolas F. Martin +11

The most metal-poor stars (e.g. [Fe/H] ) are the ancient fossils from the early assembly epoch of our Galaxy, very likely before the formation of the thick disc. Recent s…

astro-ph.GA2023★ 10 cited

Exploring the impact of a rapidly decelerating bar on transforming bulge orbits into disc-like orbits

Chengdong Li, Zhen Yuan, Giacomo Monari +7

The most metal-poor tail of the Milky Way ([Fe/H] 2.5) contains a population of stars with very prograde planar orbits, which is puzzling in both their origin and evoluti…

astro-ph.GA2023★ 15 cited

Micro galaxies in LCDM

Raphaël Errani, Rodrigo Ibata, Julio F. Navarro +2

A fundamental prediction of the Lambda Cold Dark Matter (LCDM) cosmology is the centrally divergent cuspy density profile of dark matter haloes. Density cusps render CDM haloes res…

astro-ph.GA2021★ 29 cited

Probing the radial acceleration relation and the strong equivalence principle with the Coma cluster ultra-diffuse galaxies

J. Freundlich, B. Famaey, P. -A. Oria +3

The tight radial acceleration relation (RAR) obeyed by rotationally supported disk galaxies is one of the most successful a priori predictions of the modified Newtonian dynamics (M…

astro-ph.GA2020

Perturbed distribution functions with accurate action estimates for the Galactic disc

H. Al Kazwini, Q. Agobert, A. Siebert +8

In the Gaia era, understanding the effects of the perturbations of the Galactic disc is of major importance in the context of dynamical modelling. In this theoretical paper we exte…