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Snapshots of r-process production in the Milky Way disk
Sarah G. Kane, Stephanie Monty, Madeleine McKenzie +9
Stars enhanced in heavy neutron capture elements like europium (Eu) provide a window into the rarest and most exotic nucleosynthetic events. Most Eu-enhanced stars discovered thus…
Gone with the wind? Potential gas inflow in the broad-line region of a QSO at traced by time-varying Balmer absorption
Xihan Ji, Dominic J. Walton, Francesco D'Eugenio +6
We report spectroscopic observations of a remarkable QSO, J115724.80-000455.56 at from the Dark Energy Spectroscopic Instrument (DESI) survey. This QSO exhibits variabili…
Slow stellar halo rotation as a signature of disc flips and GES-like mergers
Kirill Batrakov, Alis J. Deason, Francesca Fragkoudi +3
The stellar halo of the Milky Way (MW) exhibits a weak net prograde rotational signal ( km~s), yet its origin remains unexplained. To investigate this, we u…
Neighbors, Not Kin: Kinematic evidence for tidal tails from NGC 7492 along the Sagittarius stream
Camila Navarrete, Álvaro Rojas-Arriagada, Andrés E. Piatti +8
The formation, extension, and morphology of extra-tidal stars around globular clusters depend on the internal kinematics of the host cluster and the Galactic potential. Tracing the…
Constraints on the population level distribution of nearby Dark Matter halo shapes with extragalactic streams
David Chemaly, Elisabeth Sola, Sergey Koposov +3
Stellar streams trace the gravitational potential of their host galaxies and provide a sensitive probe of dark matter halo structure. Previously, we developed, and tested on simula…
Globular cluster abundance patterns inherited from giant molecular clouds
William McClymont, Vasily Belokurov, Sandro Tacchella +16
Globular clusters exhibit large star-to-star variations and anticorrelations in their light element abundances that are commonly interpreted in terms of in-cluster self-enrichment,…
SchwarMAX: a GPU-friendly Schwarzschild orbit-superposition modelling framework
HanYuan Zhang, David Chemaly, Eugene Vasiliev +3
The Schwarzschild orbit-superposition method is a highly flexible dynamical modelling tool. It constrains the mass distribution of a galaxy using line-of-sight velocity and photome…
A hierarchical Bayesian framework for cosmology using Type 1 AGN variability
Júlia Laguna-Miralles, Vasily Belokurov, Miles Cranmer
Independent luminosity-distance probes beyond the Type Ia supernova range are needed to test cosmic expansion at high redshift. Type 1 AGN are abundant at \(z>2\), but their use fo…
Self-interacting dark matter promotes bar formation in disk galaxies
Shashank Dattathri, Frank C. van den Bosch, HanYuan Zhang +4
Despite its remarkable success on large scales, the standard CDM paradigm faces persistent small-scale challenges that have motivated alternative models for the dark sector. Sel…
Bar-induced migration of Centauri away from Gaia Sausage-Enceladus
Adam M. Dillamore, Hanyuan Zhang, Vasily Belokurov
The globular cluster Cen has been suggested to have originated in the Gaia Sausage-Enceladus (GSE) merger event, possibly as its nuclear star cluster. However, the present-day…
A Quadruple Excess in Wide Binary Systems: Evidence for Correlated Binary Formation
Dolev Bashi, Cathie J. Clarke, Vasily Belokurov
Understanding the multiplicity of stellar systems and the correlations between their hierarchical components provides crucial insights into star formation processes. If binary comp…
The erasure of Galactic bar resonances by dark matter subhaloes
Elliot Y. Davies, Adam M. Dillamore, Vasily Belokurov +1
In the context of increasing appreciation for the coupling between the Galactic bar and the halo, we introduce a new framework using stars trapped in resonance with the bar to prob…
Hide and Seek with Gaia. Detectability of Predicted Thin-Disc Metal-Rich RR Lyrae Binaries in Gaia DR3 and DR4
Giuliano Iorio, Pranav Nagarajan, Alexey Bobrick +8
RR Lyrae stars (RRLs) are classical tracers of old stellar populations, yet growing evidence suggests the presence of a metal-rich ([Fe/H]>-0.5), intermediate-age (2-7 Gyr) sub-pop…
Constraining the population of dark matter halo shapes using hierarchical inference with extragalactic stellar streams
David Chemaly, Elisabeth Sola, Vasily Belokurov +4
Stellar streams, the debris of tidally disrupted satellites, trace their host's gravitational potential and thus probe dark matter halo structure. While six-dimensional phase-space…
Galaxies as stochastic systems: why the next breakthrough in galaxy evolution requires one hundred million spectra
Sandro Tacchella, Vasily Belokurov, Harry T. J. Bevins +4
Each galaxy is observed only once along its life, making galaxy evolution fundamentally an inverse statistical problem: time-dependent physics must be inferred from ensembles of si…
Orbital migration and heating history of the Galactic disc: a transition between the bimodal discs
HanYuan Zhang, Vasily Belokurov, Jason L. Sanders +7
Stellar orbits in the Galactic disc evolve from their birth to the current shape through both radial migration and dynamical heating. The history of their secular evolution is impr…
Enhanced rates of stellar radial migration in gas-rich discs at high redshift
HanYuan Zhang, Thor Tepper-García, Vasily Belokurov +6
Radial migration and dynamical heating redistribute stars within galactic discs and thereby modify the chemo-kinematic structure of their host galaxies. Usually, these secular proc…
STRRINGS: STReams in Residual Images of Nearby GalaxieS
E. Sola, D. Chemaly, V. Belokurov +11
Tidal features from galaxy mergers, particularly stellar streams, offer valuable insights into galaxy assembly and dark matter halo properties. This paper aims to identify a large…
On the connection between nitrogen-enhanced field stars and the Galactic globular clusters
Sarah G. Kane, Vasily Belokurov, Stephanie Monty +6
As sites of some of the most efficient star formation in the Universe, globular clusters (GCs) have long been hypothesized to be the building blocks of young galaxies. Within the M…
JADES: the chemical enrichment pattern of distant galaxies -- enhancement, silicon depletion, and iron enhancement
Yuki Isobe, Roberto Maiolino, Xihan Ji +26
We present gas-phase abundances of carbon (C), -elements (O, Ne, Si, and Ar) and iron (Fe) obtained from stacked spectra of high- star-forming galaxies with the deep Near Inf…
Lord of LRDs: Insights into a "Little Red Dot" with a low-ionization spectrum at z = 0.1
Xihan Ji, Francesco D'Eugenio, Ignas Juodžbalis +14
Recent observations by the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) have revealed a puzzling population of optically red and compact galaxies with peculiar "V"-shaped spectra at high reds…
The THESAN-ZOOM project: Mystery N/O more -- uncovering the origin of peculiar chemical abundances and a not-so-fundamental metallicity relation at
William McClymont, Sandro Tacchella, Aaron Smith +15
We present an analysis of metallicities and chemical abundances at in the THESAN-ZOOM simulations. We find that smoothly curved gas-phase and stellar mass-metallicity rela…
Fewer Companions in the Crowd: The Low Close Binary Fraction in Globular Clusters from Gaia RVS
Dolev Bashi, Vasily Belokurov
In dense environments like globular clusters (GCs), dynamical interactions can disrupt or harden close binaries, nonetheless, detailed comparisons with field binary fractions remai…
The completeness of the open cluster census towards the Galactic anticentre
Emily L. Hunt, Tristan Cantat-Gaudin, Friedrich Anders +9
Open clusters have long been used as tracers of Galactic structure. However, without a selection function to describe the completeness of the cluster census, it is difficult to qua…