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most citedMapping the anisotropic Galactic stellar halo with Blue Horizontal Branch stars

29 citations · 51 across the 12 of their papers we have counts for

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13 papers

astro-ph.GA2026

: Effects of a Central Black Hole in GSE-like Dwarf-galaxy Mergers Around Milky Way-like Hosts

Pedro Naethe Motta, João A. S. Amarante, Guilherme Limberg +6

Recent evidence points to an intermediate-mass black hole (IMBH) in the most massive globular cluster of the Milky Way, Centauri. This globular cluster is commonly associated w…

astro-ph.GA2026

The Low- Splash Population in the Milky Way

Lais Borbolato, João A. S. Amarante, Hélio D. Perottoni +5

The Milky Way in-situ halo, also known as the Splash, consists of old (age 10 Gyr), metal-rich ([Fe/H] ), high- stars, i.e., thick disk-like chemistry, on halo-like…

astro-ph.GA2026

The velocity field of our Milky Way outer stellar halo based on DESI DR2

Songting Li, Wenting Wang, Sergey E. Koposov +53

Using 64,000 halo K giants from Dark Energy Spectroscopic Instrument (DESI) second Data Release (DR2), we decompose the Milky Way (MW) stellar halo between 3 and 160 kpc into metal…

astro-ph.GA2026★ 1 cited

The edge of the Milky Way's star-forming disc: Evidence from a 'U-shaped' stellar age profile

Karl Fiteni, Stuart Robert Anderson, Victor. P. Debattista +7

We leveraged reliable age and distance estimates from LAMOST-DR3 and APOGEE-DR17+AstroNN combined with \gaia\ data to perform a detailed analysis of the stellar age distribution in…

astro-ph.GA2026

Signatures of a Tidally Induced Spiral Arm at the Anticenter of the Milky Way and a Kinematically Extended Anticenter Stream Using DESI DR2

Mika Lambert, Constance M. Rockosi, Sergey E. Koposov +46

Using the Dark Energy Spectroscopic Instrument Milky Way Survey (DESI MWS), we examine the 6D space of the anticenter region of the stellar disk (150 Galactic longitude…

astro-ph.GA2025

The Milky Way stellar halo is twisted and doubly broken: insights from DESI DR2 Milky Way Survey observation

Songting Li, Wenting Wang, Sergey E. Koposov +45

Using K giants from the second data release (DR2) of the Dark Energy Spectroscopic Instrument (DESI) Milky Way (MW) Survey, we measure the shape, orientation, radial profile, and d…

astro-ph.GA2025★ 1 cited

GASTRO library II: Exploring Chemical Bimodalities in Disk Galaxies with GSE-like Mergers and Massive Star-forming Clumps

João A. S. Amarante, Chervin F. P. Laporte, Victor P. Debattista +10

We use several smoothed particle hydrodynamics+N-body models as part of the GASTRO library to study the role of high-density star-forming clumpy regions and a single merger on the…

astro-ph.EP2025★ 1 cited

Modelling the Milky Way's exoplanet population based on cosmological galaxy simulations

Chloé Padois, Daniel del Ser, Friedrich Anders +7

In this paper we aim to simulate realistic exoplanet populations across different regions of the MW by combining state-of-the-art cosmological simulations of our Galaxy with exopla…

astro-ph.GA2025

A 3D Chemodynamical Census of Inner-Galaxy Metal-poor Giants to [Fe/H]~-3.5

Shenglan Sun, Yang Huang, Fangzhou Jiang +8

The earliest assembly of the Milky Way remains poorly understood, yet the spatial, chemical, and kinematic properties of its most metal-poor stars provide a unique fossil record of…

astro-ph.GA2025★ 4 cited

Dark matter spiral arms in Milky Way-like halos

Marcel Bernet, Pau Ramos, Teresa Antoja +9

The coupling between the dark matter (DM) halo and the stellar disc is a key factor in galactic evolution. While the interaction between structures like the Galactic bar and DM hal…

astro-ph.GA2024★ 29 cited

Mapping the anisotropic Galactic stellar halo with Blue Horizontal Branch stars

João A. S. Amarante, Sergey E. Koposov, Chervin F. P. Laporte

We use Legacy Survey photometric data to probe the stellar halo in multiple directions of the sky using a probabilistic methodology to identify Blue Horizontal Branch (BHB) stars.…

astro-ph.GA2023★ 7 cited

Exploring the ex-situ components within Gaia DR3

Zhuohan Li, Gang Zhao, Ruizhi Zhang +3

The presence of Gaia DR3 provides a large sample of stars with complete 6D information, offering a fertile ground for the exploration of stellar objects that were accreted to the M…

astro-ph.SR2023★ 8 cited

Chemodynamical Properties and Ages of Metal-Poor Stars in S-PLUS

Felipe Almeida-Fernandes, Vinicius Placco, Helio Rocha-Pinto +10

Metal-poor stars are key to our understanding of the early stages of chemical evolution in the Universe. New multi-filter surveys, such as the Southern Photometric Local Universe S…