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In Pursuit of Galactic Archaeology: Astro2020 Science White Paper
Melissa Ness, Jonathan Bird, Jennifer Johnson +30
The next decade affords tremendous opportunity to achieve the goals of Galactic archaeology. That is, to reconstruct the evolutionary narrative of the Milky Way, based on the empir…
Detecting Thin Stellar Streams in External Galaxies: Resolved Stars & Integrated Light
Sarah Pearson, Tjitske K. Starkenburg, Kathryn V. Johnston +2
The morphology of thin stellar streams can be used to test the nature of dark matter. It is therefore crucial to extend searches for globular cluster streams to other galaxies than…
Variations in -element ratios trace the chemical evolution of the disk
Kirsten Blancato, Melissa Ness, Kathryn V. Johnston +2
It is well established that the chemical structure of the Milky Way exhibits a bimodality with respect to the -enhancement of stars at a given [Fe/H]. This has been studied larg…
The Implications of Local Fluctuations in the Galactic Midplane for Dynamical Analysis in the Gaia Era
Angus Beane, Robyn E. Sanderson, Melissa K. Ness +6
Orbital properties of stars, computed from their six-dimensional phase space measurements and an assumed Galactic potential, are used to understand the structure and evolution of t…
The Multidimensional Milky Way
Robyn E. Sanderson, Jeffrey L. Carlin, Emily C. Cunningham +6
Studying our Galaxy, the Milky Way (MW), gives us a close-up view of the interplay between cosmology, dark matter, and galaxy formation. In the next decade our understanding of the…
Hunting for the Dark Matter Wake Induced by the Large Magellanic Cloud
Nicolas Garavito-Camargo, Gurtina Besla, Chervin F. P Laporte +3
Satellite galaxies are predicted to generate gravitational density wakes as they orbit within the dark matter (DM) halos of their hosts, causing their orbits to decay over time. Th…