6 papers
Improved constraints on the Milky Way potential using the M68 stream and DESI spectroscopic data
Carles G. Palau, Wenting Wang, Jiaxin Han +41
We present a selection of stars belonging to the stellar stream of the M68 (NGC 4590) globular cluster, also known as Fjörm. This star selection is an improvement on previous ones…
The shape-velocity alignment of satellites forged by tidal locking and dynamical friction
Hao Yang, Wenting Wang, Ting S. Li +8
Utilizing the TNG50 simulation, we study two types of alignments for satellites/subhalos: 1) the alignment of their major axes with the galactocentric radial directions (radial ali…
Modelling the M68 stellar stream with realistic mass loss and frequency distributions in angle-action coordinates
Carles G. Palau, Wenting Wang, Jiaxin Han
We develop a new method for simulating stellar streams generated by globular clusters using angle-action coordinates. This method reproduces the variable mass-loss and variable fre…
Constraining the potential of the Milky Way using stellar streams and the Inverse Time Integration method
C. G. Palau, W. Wang, J. Han
We develop a method for constraining the potential of the Milky Way using stellar streams with a known progenitor. The method expresses the stream in angle-action coordinates and i…
The dark matter content of Milky Way dwarf spheroidal galaxies: Draco, Sextans and Ursa Minor
Hao Yang, Wenting Wang, Ling Zhu +50
The Milky Way Survey of the Dark Energy Spectroscopic Instrument (DESI) has so far observed three classical dwarf spheroidal galaxies (dSphs): Draco, Sextans and Ursa Minor. Based…
SpecDis: Value added distance catalogue for 4 million stars from DESI Year-1 data
Songting Li, Wenting Wang, Sergey E. Koposov +55
We present the SpecDis value added stellar distance catalog accompanying DESI DR1. SpecDis trains a feed-forward Neural Network (NN) with Gaia parallaxes and gets the distance esti…