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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…