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Probing the Galactic halo with RR Lyrae stars III. The chemical and kinematic properties of the stellar halo
Gaochao Liu, Yang Huang, Sarah Ann Bird +3
Based on a large spectroscopic sample of 4,300 RR Lyrae stars with metallicity, systemic radial velocity and distance measurements, we present a detailed analysis of the che…
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…
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 Stellar "Snake" I: Whole Structure and Properties
Fan Wang, Hai-Jun Tian, Dan Qiu +10
To complement our previous discovery of the young snake-like structure in the solar neighborhood and reveal the structure's full extent, we build two samples of stars within the Sn…
Discovery of a young stellar "snake" with two dissolving cores in the solar neighborhood
Hai-Jun Tian
We report the discovery of a young (only 30-40\,Myr) snake-like structure (dubbed a stellar "snake") in the solar neighborhood from {\it Gaia} DR2. The average distance of this str…
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…