8 papers
The DECam MAGIC Survey Mapping the Ancient Galaxy in CaHK: Overview and Summary of Early Science
A. Chiti, A. Drlica-Wagner, A. B. Pace +42
We present the DECam Mapping the Ancient Galaxy in CaHK (MAGIC) survey, a 54-night NOIRLab Survey Program to image 5,000deg of the southern hemisphere using a meta…
Phase spirals across galactic disks I: Exploring dynamical influences on winding
Kiyan Tavangar, Kathryn V. Johnston, Jason A. S. Hunt +4
The vertical phase-space spirals in the Milky Way are clear evidence of disequilibrium. However, they are challenging to study because phase mixing signals evolve under the influen…
A near field guide to Roman's wide-area surveys
Robyn E. Sanderson, Kevin A. McKinnon, Adrien C. R. Thob +7
The Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope currently plans to survey nearly 6000 square degrees of the sky, mainly in the High-Latitude Wide-Area Survey (HLWAS) and Galactic Plane Surve…
Winding, Unwinding, Rewinding the Gaia Phase Spiral
Neige Frankel, Marcin Semczuk, Teresa Antoja +10
The Gaia Space Satellite has transformed the field of Galactic Dynamics by collecting 6D phase space information for hundreds of millions of stars. In 2018, it enabled the discover…
DELVE-ing into the Milky Way's Globular Clusters: Assessing extra-tidal features in NGC 5897, NGC 7492, and testing detectability with deeper photometry
A. Chiti, K. Tavangar, P. S. Ferguson +22
Extra-tidal features around globular clusters (GCs) are tracers of their disruption, stellar stream formation, and their host's gravitational potential. However, these features rem…
Inferring the density and membership of stellar streams with flexible models: The GD-1 stream in Gaia Data Release 3
Kiyan Tavangar, Adrian M. Price-Whelan
Stellar streams provide one of the most promising avenues for constraining the global mass distribution of the Milky Way and the nature of dark matter (DM). The stream stars' kinem…