8 papers
Rise of the forsaken relics: connecting present-day stellar streams and phase-mixed galaxies to the Epoch of Reionization
Aritra Kundu, Robyn Sanderson, Adam Lidz +6
The `near-far' approach to studying reionization leverages the star formation histories of the Milky Way (MW) or Local Group (LG) galaxies, derived from resolved photometry, to inf…
Modeling Globular Cluster Stellar Streams with a Basis-Expansion N-body Code
Brian T. Cook, Kerwann Tep, Carl L. Rodriguez +6
Globular cluster stellar streams probe galaxy-formation processes and can potentially reveal the distribution of dark matter in galaxies. In many theoretical studies, streams are m…
Kinematic Signatures in the Stellar Halo from Cosmological Encounters between the Milky Way and its Clouds
Mia Mansfield, Robyn Sanderson, Daniel Hey +4
Recent theoretical and observational analysis of the interaction between the Milky Way (MW) and LMC suggest that it has a significant dynamical impact on the MW's stellar halo. We…
Breaking Down the : Toward Modeling and Understanding Globular Cluster Stellar Streams in a Fully Cosmological Context
Nondh Panithanpaisal, Robyn E. Sanderson, Carl L. Rodriguez +7
Next-generation surveys are expected to uncover thousands of globular cluster (GC) stellar streams, motivating the need for a theoretical framework that produces realistic GC strea…
Second public data release of the FIRE-2 cosmological zoom-in simulations of galaxy formation
Andrew Wetzel, Jenna Samuel, Pratik J. Gandhi +34
We describe the second data release (DR2) of the FIRE-2 cosmological zoom-in simulations of galaxy formation, from the Feedback In Realistic Environments (FIRE) project, available…
Shaping the Milky Way: The interplay of mergers and cosmic filaments
Arpit Arora, Nicolás Garavito-Camargo, Robyn E. Sanderson +12
The large-scale morphology of Milky Way (MW)-mass dark matter (DM) halos is shaped by two key processes: filamentary accretion from the cosmic web and interactions with massive sat…