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astro-ph.SR2018★ 4 cited

unVEil the darknesS of The gAlactic buLgE (VESTALE)

G. Bono, M. Dall'Ora, M. Fabrizio +55

The main aim of this experiment is to provide a complete census of old (t > 10 Gyr, RR Lyrae, type II Cepheids, red horizontal branch), intermediate age (red clump, Miras) and youn…

astro-ph.GA2018★ 15 cited

Variable Stars in Local Group Galaxies. IV. RR Lyrae stars in the central regions of the low-density galaxy Crater II

M. Monelli, A. R. Walker, C. E. Martìnez-Vàzquez +9

We present a search and analysis of variable stars in the recently discovered Crater~II dwarf galaxy. Based on , , data collected with the Isaac Newton Telescope (FoV$\si…

astro-ph.GA2018★ 11 cited

Impact of distance determinations on Galactic structure. II. Old tracers

A. Kunder, E. Valenti, M. Dall'Ora +14

Here we review the efforts of a number of recent results that use old tracers to understand the build up of the Galaxy. Details that lead directly to using these old tracers to mea…

astro-ph.GA2018★ 68 cited

Modelling the Tucana III stream - a close passage with the LMC

D. Erkal, T. S. Li, S. E. Koposov +67

We present results of the first dynamical stream fits to the recently discovered Tucana III stream. These fits assume a fixed Milky Way potential and give proper motion predictions…

astro-ph.IM2018★ 1.9k cited

Overview of the DESI Legacy Imaging Surveys

Arjun Dey, David J. Schlegel, Dustin Lang +157

The DESI Legacy Imaging Surveys are a combination of three public projects (the Dark Energy Camera Legacy Survey, the Beijing-Arizona Sky Survey, and the Mayall z-band Legacy Surve…

astro-ph.GA2018★ 76 cited

The First Tidally Disrupted Ultra-Faint Dwarf Galaxy? - Spectroscopic Analysis of the Tucana III Stream

T. S. Li, J. D. Simon, K. Kuehn +68

We present a spectroscopic study of the tidal tails and core of the Milky Way satellite Tucana III, collectively referred to as the Tucana III stream, using the 2dF+AAOmega spectro…