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The realm of Aurora. Density distribution of metal-poor giants in the heart of the Galaxy
Evgeny P. Kurbatov, Vasily Belokurov, Sergey Koposov +11
The innermost portions of the Milky Way's stellar halo have avoided scrutiny until recently. The lack of wide-area survey data, made it difficult to reconstruct an uninterrupted vi…
GaiaUnlimited: The old stellar disc of the Milky Way as traced by the Red Clump
Shourya Khanna, Jie Yu, Ronald Drimmel +9
We present an exploration of the Milky Way's structural parameters using an all-sky sample of RC giants to map the stellar density from the Galactic disc beyond 3 kpc. These evolve…
Blind source separation of the stellar halo
Elliot Y. Davies, Vasily Belokurov, Andrey Kravtsov +4
The stellar halo of the Milky Way comprises an abundance of chemical signatures from accretion events and \textit{in-situ} evolution, that form an interweaving tapestry in kinemati…
Predicting metallicities and carbon abundances from Gaia XP spectra for (carbon-enhanced) metal-poor stars
Anke Ardern-Arentsen, Sarah G. Kane, Vasily Belokurov +4
Carbon-rich (C-rich) stars can be found at all metallicities and evolutionary stages. They are often the result of mass-transfer from a companion, but some of the most metal-poor C…
The ones that got away: chemical tagging of globular cluster-origin stars with Gaia BP/RP spectra
Sarah G. Kane, Vasily Belokurov, Miles Cranmer +4
Globular clusters (GCs) are sites of extremely efficient star formation, and recent studies suggest they significantly contributed to the early Milky Way's stellar mass build-up. A…
Deciphering the Milky Way disc formation time encrypted in the bar chrono-kinematics
Hanyuan Zhang, Vasily Belokurov, N. Wyn Evans +3
We present a novel method to constrain the formation time of the Milky Way disc using the chrono-kinematic signatures of the inner Galaxy. We construct an O-rich Mira variable samp…
Kinematics and dynamics of the Galactic bar revealed by Gaia long-period variables
Hanyuan Zhang, Vasily Belokurov, N. Wyn Evans +2
We use low-amplitude, long period variable (LA-LPV) candidates in \textit{Gaia} DR3 to trace the kinematics and dynamics of the Milky Way bar. LA-LPVs, like other LPVs, are intrins…
Stochastic star formation and the abundance of UV-bright galaxies
Andrey Kravtsov, Vasily Belokurov
We use a well-motivated galaxy formation framework to predict stellar masses, star formation rates (SFR), and ultraviolet (UV) luminosities of galaxy populations at redshifts $z\in…
Close Binary Fractions in accreted and in-situ Halo Stars
Dolev Bashi, Vasily Belokurov, Simon Hodgkin
The study of binary stars in the Galactic halo provides crucial insights into the dynamical history and formation processes of the Milky Way. In this work, we aim to investigate th…
The ratio of [Eu/] differentiates accreted/in-situ Milky Way stars across metallicities, as indicated by both field stars and globular clusters
Stephanie Monty, Vasily Belokurov, Jason L. Sanders +7
We combine stellar orbits with the abundances of the heavy, -process element europium and the light, -element, silicon to separate in-situ and accreted populations in the Mil…
Gaia DR3 detectability of unresolved binary systems
Alfred Castro-Ginard, Zephyr Penoyre, Andrew R. Casey +10
Gaia can not individually resolve very close binary systems, however, the collected data can still be used to identify them. A powerful indicator of stellar multiplicity is the sou…