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LAMOST 1: A Disrupted Satellite in the Constellation Draco
John J. Vickers, Martin C. Smith, Yonghui Hou +2
Using LAMOST spectroscopic data, we find a strong signal of a comoving group of stars in the constellation of Draco. The group, observed near the apocenter of its orbit, is 2.6 kpc…
An extended view of the Pisces Overdensity from the SCUSS survey
J. D. Nie, M. C. Smith, V. Belokurov +15
SCUSS is a u-band photometric survey covering about 4000 square degree of the South Galactic Cap, reaching depths of up to 23 mag. By extending around 1.5 mag deeper than SDSS sing…
Red Runaways: Hypervelocity Stars, Hills Ejecta and Other Outliers in the F-M Star Regime
John J. Vickers, Martin C. Smith, Eva K. Grebel
In this paper we analyze a sample of metal-rich (>-0.8 dex) main sequence stars in the extended solar neighborhood, investigating kinematic outliers from the background population.…
Estimation of distances to stars with stellar parameters from LAMOST
Jeffrey L. Carlin, Chao Liu, Heidi Jo Newberg +15
We present a method to estimate distances to stars with spectroscopically derived stellar parameters. The technique is a Bayesian approach with likelihood estimated via comparison…
Resonant Orbits and the High Velocity Peaks Towards the Bulge
Matthew Molloy, Martin C. Smith, N. Wyn Evans +1
We extract the resonant orbits from an N-body bar that is a good representation of the Milky Way, using the method recently introduced by Molloy et al. (2015). By decomposing the b…
Kinematics of the X-shaped Milky Way Bulge: Expectations from a Self-consistent N-body Model
Yujing Qin, Juntai Shen, Zhao-Yu Li +5
We explore the kinematics (both the radial velocity and the proper motion) of the vertical X-shaped feature in the Milky Way with an N-body bar/bulge model. From the solar perspect…