Streams, substructures, and the early history of the Milky Way

A Helmi - Annual Review of Astronomy and Astrophysics, 2020 - annualreviews.org
The advent of the second data release of the Gaia mission, in combination with data from
large spectroscopic surveys, is revolutionizing our understanding of the Galaxy. Thanks to …

Star clusters across cosmic time

MR Krumholz, CF McKee… - Annual Review of …, 2019 - annualreviews.org
Star clusters stand at the intersection of much of modern astrophysics: the ISM, gravitational
dynamics, stellar evolution, and cosmology. Here, we review observations and theoretical …

Gaia early data release 3-the astrometric solution

L Lindegren, SA Klioner, J Hernández… - Astronomy & …, 2021 - aanda.org
Context. Gaia Early Data Release 3 (Gaia EDR3) contains results for 1.812 billion sources in
the magnitude range G= 3–21 based on observations collected by the European Space …

Gaia Early Data Release 3-Parallax bias versus magnitude, colour, and position

L Lindegren, U Bastian, M Biermann… - Astronomy & …, 2021 - aanda.org
Context. Gaia Early Data Release 3 (Gaia EDR3) gives trigonometric parallaxes for nearly
1.5 billion sources. Inspection of the EDR3 data for sources identified as quasars reveals …

Gaia EDR3 view on galactic globular clusters

E Vasiliev, H Baumgardt - Monthly Notices of the Royal …, 2021 - academic.oup.com
We use the data from Gaia Early Data Release 3 (EDR3) to study the kinematic properties of
Milky Way globular clusters. We measure the mean parallaxes and proper motions (PM) for …

[HTML][HTML] Gaia data release 2-the astrometric solution

L Lindegren, J Hernández, A Bombrun… - Astronomy & …, 2018 - aanda.org
Context. Gaia Data Release 2 (Gaia DR2) contains results for 1693 million sources in the
magnitude range 3 to 21 based on observations collected by the European Space Agency …

The merger that led to the formation of the Milky Way's inner stellar halo and thick disk

A Helmi, C Babusiaux, HH Koppelman, D Massari… - Nature, 2018 - nature.com
The assembly of our Galaxy can be reconstructed using the motions and chemistry of
individual stars1, 2. Chemo-dynamical studies of the stellar halo near the Sun have …

Tango for three: Sagittarius, LMC, and the Milky Way

E Vasiliev, V Belokurov, D Erkal - Monthly Notices of the Royal …, 2021 - academic.oup.com
We assemble a catalogue of candidate Sagittarius stream members with 5D and 6D phase-
space information, using astrometric data from Gaia DR2, distances estimated from RR …

Evidence for two early accretion events that built the Milky Way stellar halo

GC Myeong, E Vasiliev, G Iorio… - Monthly Notices of …, 2019 - academic.oup.com
Abstract The Gaia Sausage is the major accretion event that built the stellar halo of the Milky
Way galaxy. Here, we provide dynamical and chemical evidence for a second substantial …

Gaia data release 2-catalogue validation

F Arenou, X Luri, C Babusiaux, C Fabricius… - Astronomy & …, 2018 - aanda.org
Context. The second Gaia data release (DR2) contains very precise astrometric and
photometric properties for more than one billion sources, astrophysical parameters for …