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A -like metallicity profile in the disk of the Sagittarius dwarf galaxy
Zixi Guo, Xiang-Xiang Xue, Jiang Chang +12
Unveiling the properties of the progenitors that formed the tidal structures of the Milky Way (MW) is essential for exploring the MW's assembly history. Such studies further afford…
Distance estimation of the high-velocity cloud Anti-Center Shell
Yu-Ting Wang, Chao Liu, Zhi-Yu Zhang
High-velocity clouds (HVCs) are interstellar gas clouds whose velocities are incompatible with Galactic rotation. Since the first discovery of HVCs in 1963, their origins have been…
The first comprehensive Milky Way stellar mock catalogue for the Chinese Space Station Telescope Survey Camera
Yang Chen, Xiaoting Fu, Chao Liu +9
The Chinese Space Station Telescope (CSST) is a cutting-edge two-meter astronomical space telescope currently under construction. Its primary Survey Camera (SC) is designed to cond…
A Catalog of Distance Determinations for the LAMOST DR8 K Giants in the Galactic Halo
Lan Zhang, Xiang-Xiang Xue, Chengqun Yang +4
We present a catalog of distances for 19544 K giants drawn from LAMOST DR8. Most of them are located in the halo of the Milky Way up to ~120~kpc. There are 15% K giants without SDS…
Stellar Initial Mass Function Varies with Metallicities and Time
Jiadong Li, Chao Liu, Zhi-Yu Zhang +4
Most structural and evolutionary properties of galaxies strongly rely on the stellar initial mass function (IMF), namely the distribution of the stellar mass formed in each episode…
Constructing the Milky Way Stellar Halo in the Galactic Center by Direct Orbit Integration
Chengqun Yang, Ling Zhu, Behzad Tahmasebzadeh +2
The halo stars on highly radial orbits should inevitably pass the center regions of the Milky Way. Under the assumption that the stellar halo is in dynamical equilibrium and axisym…
Classifying globular clusters and applying them to estimate the mass of the Milky Way
GuangChen Sun, Yougang Wang, Chao Liu +3
We combine the kinematics of 159 globular clusters (GCs) provided by the Gaia Early Data Release 3 (EDR3) with other observational data to classify the GCs, and to estimate the mas…
The North/South Asymmetry of the Galaxy: Possible Connection to the Vertical Phase Space Snail
Rui Guo, Juntai Shen, Zhao-yu Li +2
The Galaxy is found to be in disequilibrium based on recent findings of the North/South (N/S) asymmetry and the phase mixing signatures, such as a phase spiral (snail) structure in…
Milky Way Mass with K Giants and BHB Stars Using LAMOST, SDSS/SEGUE, and Gaia: 3D Spherical Jeans Equation and Tracer Mass Estimator
Sarah A. Bird, Xiang-Xiang Xue, Chao Liu +8
We measure the enclosed Milky Way mass profile to Galactocentric distances of and kpc using the smooth, diffuse stellar halo samples of Bird et al. The samples ar…
Is the core-cusp problem a matter of perspective: Jeans Anisotropic Modeling against numerical simulations
Wenting Wang, Ling Zhu, Zhaozhou Li +14
Mock member stars for 28 dwarf galaxies are constructed from the cosmological Auriga simulation, which reflect the dynamical status of realistic stellar tracers. The axis-symmetric…
Searching Extra-tidal Features around the Globular Cluster Whiting 1
Jundan Nie, Hao Tian, Jing Li +14
Whiting 1 is a faint and young globular cluster in the halo of the Milky Way, and was suggested to have originated in the Sagittarius spherical dwarf galaxy (Sgr dSph). In this pap…
The Flare and Warp of the Young Stellar Disk traced with LAMOST DR5 OB-type stars
Yang Yu, Hai-Feng Wang, Wen-Yuan Cui +9
We present analysis of the spatial density structure for the outer disk from 814 \,kpc with the LAMOST DR5 13534 OB-type stars and observe similar flaring on north and south sid…
Exploring the Galactic Anticenter substructure with LAMOST & Gaia DR2
Jing Li, Xiang-Xiang Xue, Chao Liu +12
We characterize the kinematic and chemical properties of 589 Galactic Anticenter Substructure Stars (GASS) with K-/M- giants in Integrals-of-Motion space. These stars likely includ…
Understanding the velocity distribution of the Galactic Bulge with APOGEE and Gaia
Yingying Zhou, Zhao-Yu Li, Iulia Simion +5
We revisit the stellar velocity distribution in the Galactic bulge/bar region with APOGEE DR16 and {\it Gaia} DR2, focusing in particular on the possible high-velocity (HV) peaks a…
Detection of the LMC-induced sloshing of the Galactic halo
Denis Erkal, Alis J. Deason, Vasily Belokurov +8
A wealth of recent studies have shown that the LMC is likely massive, with a halo mass . One consequence of having such a nearby and massive neighbour is that the…
The mass of the Milky Way out to 100 kpc using halo stars
Alis J. Deason, Denis Erkal, Vasily Belokurov +9
We use a distribution function analysis to estimate the mass of the Milky Way out to 100 kpc using a large sample of halo stars. These stars are compiled from the literature, and t…
Differential rotation of the halo traced by the K-giant stars
Hao Tian, Chao Liu, Yougang Wang +4
We use K-giant stars selected from the LAMOST DR5 to study the variation of the rotational velocity of the galactic halo at different space positions. Modelling the rotational velo…
Measuring the local dark matter density with LAMOST DR5 and Gaia DR2
Rui Guo, Chao Liu, Shude Mao +3
We apply the vertical Jeans equation to the kinematics of Milky Way stars in the solar neighbourhood to measure the local dark matter density. More than 90,000 G- and K-type dwarf…
Constraints on the assembly history of the Milky Way's smooth, diffuse stellar halo from the metallicity-dependent, radially-dominated velocity anisotropy profiles probed with K giants and BHB stars using LAMOST, SDSS/SEGUE, and Gaia
Sarah A. Bird, Xiang-Xiang Xue, Chao Liu +5
We analyze the anisotropy profile of the Milky Way's smooth, diffuse stellar halo using SDSS/SEGUE blue horizontal branch stars and SDSS/SEGUE and LAMOST K giants. These intrinsica…
The extended Gaia-PS1-SDSS (GPS1+) proper motion catalog
Hai-Jun Tian, Yang Xu, Chao Liu +3
The GPS1 catalog was released in 2017. It delivered precise proper motions for around 350 million sources across three-fourths of the sky down to a magnitude of \,mag. In…
On the Chemical and Kinematic Consistency Between N-rich Metal-poor Field Stars and Enriched Populations in Globular Clusters
Baitian Tang, J. G. Fernandez-Trincado, Chao Liu +5
Interesting chemically peculiar field stars may reflect their stellar evolution history and their possible origin in a different environment from where they are found now, which is…
Tracing Kinematic and Chemical Properties of Sagittarius Stream by K-Giants, M-Giants, and BHB stars
Chengqun Yang, Xiang-Xiang Xue, Jing Li +12
We characterize the kinematic and chemical properties of 3,000 Sagittarius (Sgr) stream stars, including K-giants, M-giants, and BHBs, select from SEGUE-2, LAMOST, and SDSS s…
Identifying Galactic Halo Substructure in 6D Phase-space Using 13,000 LAMOST K Giants
Chengqun Yang, Xiang-Xiang Xue, Jing Li +6
We construct a large halo K-giant sample by combining the positions, distances, radial velocities, and metallicities of over 13,000 LAMOST DR5 halo K giants with the Gaia DR2 prope…
Detecting the Sagittarius stream with LAMOST DR4 M giants \& Gaia DR2
Jing Li, Chao Liu, Xiangxiang Xue +4
We use LAMOST DR4 M giants combined with Gaia DR2 proper motions and ALLWISE photometry to obtain an extremely pure sample of Sagittarius (Sgr) stream stars. Using TiO5 and CaH spe…