15 papers
The Milky Way's Missing In-Situ Halo
Madeline Lucey, Robyn E. Sanderson, Alexander H. Riley +3
The Milky Way's stellar halo preserves a record of its mass assembly history, encoding accretion events in its structural properties. Among the most prominent of these features is…
The Dynamics of Old Inner Galaxy Stars in Milky Way-mass Galaxies Using FIRE-2 Simulations
Emma Tasso, Madeline Lucey, Robyn Sanderson +2
Understanding how galaxies like the Milky Way assembled over cosmic time remains a central question in astrophysics. Understanding the processes that shaped their formation and evo…
Mergers Matter: Gravothermal Collapse in Dwarf Halos with Self-Interacting Dark Matter
Maya Silverman, Abdelaziz Hussein, Arpit Arora +8
Self-Interacting Dark Matter (SIDM) models with large cross sections at relative velocities below can be tested with dwarf galaxy observations. We ana…
Self-consistent dynamical modelling of the Milky Way bar with orbital frequency analysis
Zachary Langford, Robyn Sanderson, Madeline Lucey +1
We present an update to the frequency analysis method for measuring the properties of a galactic bar. The method involves computing the fundamental frequencies of orbits in rotatin…
Probing Atomic Dark Matter with Stellar Streams in Milky Way-Mass Galaxies
Lucas S. Mandacarú Guerra, Stephanie O'Neil, Mariangela Lisanti +7
We present the first detailed analysis of the effects of dissipative dark matter on stellar streams. As a concrete example, we generate a cosmological hydrodynamic zoom-in simulati…
Inferring Stellar Densities with Flexible Models I: The Distribution of RR Lyrae in the Milky Way with DR3
Madeline Lucey, Cecilia Mateu, Adrian Price-Whelan +3
Understanding the formation and evolutionary history of the Milky Way requires detailed mapping of its stellar components, which preserve fossil records of the Galaxy's assembly th…