5 papers
Bar Formation During a Gaia-Sausage-Enceladus-like Merger Event
Bin-Hui Chen, Juntai Shen, Paola Di Matteo
Bars are among the most prominent galactic structures, yet their formation mechanisms remain incompletely understood. They can form either internally, via dynamical instabilities,…
Turbulent gas-rich discs at high redshift: origin of thick stellar discs through 3D 'baryon sloshing'
Joss Bland-Hawthorn, Thor Tepper-Garcia, Oscar Agertz +8
In response to recent observations from JWST and ALMA, we explore a new class of dynamically self-consistent models using our AGAMA/Ramses hydrodynamic N-body framework (Nexus) tha…
Evidence of Gaia Enceladus experiencing at least two passages around the Milky Way
Ãsa Skúladóttir, Heitor Ernandes, Diane K. Feuillet +4
One of the major recent breakthroughs has been the discovery of the last Major Merger to happen in the history of the Milky Way. Around 10 Gyr ago the galaxy Gaia Enceladus, with e…
Chemical Abundances in the Nuclear Star Cluster of the Milky Way: alpha-Element Trends and Their Similarities with the Inner Bulge
N. Ryde, G. Nandakumar, M. Schultheis +15
A chemical characterization of the Galactic Center is essential for understanding its formation and structural evolution. Trends of alpha-elements, such as Mg, Si, and Ca, serve as…
Rediscovering the Milky Way with orbit superposition approach and APOGEE data I. Method validation
Sergey Khoperskov, Glenn van de Ven, Matthias Steinmetz +9
We introduce a novel orbit superposition method designed to reconstruct the stellar density structure, kinematics, and chemical abundance distribution of the entire Milky Way by le…