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Chemical Abundances in the Metal-Poor Globular Cluster ESO 280-SC06: A Formerly Massive, Tidally Disrupted Globular Cluster
Sam A. Usman, Alexander P. Ji, Jandrie Rodriguez +6
We present the first high-resolution abundance study of ESO 280-SC06, one of the least luminous and most metal-poor gravitationally bound Milky Way globular clusters. Using Magella…
Multiple Populations and a CH Star Found in the 300S Globular Cluster Stellar Stream
Sam A. Usman, Alexander P. Ji, Ting S. Li +14
Milky Way globular clusters (GCs) display chemical enrichment in a phenomenon called multiple stellar populations (MSPs). While the enrichment mechanism is not fully understood, th…
Chemical Abundances in the Leiptr Stellar Stream: A Disrupted Ultra-faint Dwarf Galaxy?
Kaia R. Atzberger, Sam A. Usman, Alexander P. Ji +11
Chemical abundances of stellar streams can be used to determine the nature of a stream's progenitor. Here we study the progenitor of the recently discovered Leiptr stellar stream,…
Flipping of the tidal tails of the Ophiuchus stream due to the decelerating Galactic bar
Yong Yang, Geraint F. Lewis, Denis Erkal +16
The Ophiuchus stellar stream presents a puzzle due to its complicated morphology, with a substructure perpendicular to the main track (spur), a broadened tail (fanning), and a shor…
: New insights from deep spectroscopic observations of the tidal tails of the globular clusters NGC 1261 and NGC 1904
Petra Awad, Ting S. Li, Denis Erkal +22
As globular clusters (GCs) orbit the Milky Way, their stars are tidally stripped forming tidal tails that follow the orbit of the clusters around the Galaxy. The morphology of thes…
Inferring dark matter subhalo properties from simulated subhalo-stream encounters
Tariq Hilmi, Denis Erkal, Sergey E. Koposov +9
In the cold dark matter paradigm, our Galaxy is predicted to contain >10000 dark matter subhaloes in the range which should be completely devoid of stars. Stella…