The effect of the LMC on the Milky Way system

E Vasiliev - Galaxies, 2023 - mdpi.com
We review the recent theoretical and observational developments concerning the interaction
of the Large Magellanic Cloud (LMC) with the Milky Way and its neighbourhood. An …

The DECam local volume exploration survey: Overview and first data release

A Drlica-Wagner, JL Carlin, DL Nidever… - The Astrophysical …, 2021 - iopscience.iop.org
Abstract The DECam Local Volume Exploration survey (DELVE) is a 126-night survey
program on the 4 m Blanco Telescope at the Cerro Tololo Inter-American Observatory in …

Overview of the DESI Milky Way Survey

AP Cooper, SE Koposov, CA Prieto… - The Astrophysical …, 2023 - iopscience.iop.org
Abstract We describe the Milky Way Survey (MWS) that will be undertaken with the Dark
Energy Spectroscopic Instrument (DESI) on the Mayall 4 m telescope at the Kitt Peak …

S 5: Probing the Milky Way and Magellanic Clouds potentials with the 6D map of the Orphan–Chenab stream

SE Koposov, D Erkal, TS Li, GS Da Costa… - Monthly Notices of …, 2023 - academic.oup.com
We present a 6D map of the Orphan–Chenab (OC) stream by combining the data from
Southern Stellar Stream Spectroscopic Survey (S 5) and Gaia. We reconstruct the proper …

The Spur and the Gap in GD-1: Dynamical evidence for a dark substructure in the Milky Way halo

A Bonaca, DW Hogg, AM Price-Whelan… - The Astrophysical …, 2019 - iopscience.iop.org
We present a model for the interaction of the GD-1 stellar stream with a massive perturber
that naturally explains many of the observed stream features, including a gap and an off …

S 5: The Orbital and Chemical Properties of One Dozen Stellar Streams

TS Li, AP Ji, AB Pace, D Erkal… - The Astrophysical …, 2022 - iopscience.iop.org
We report the kinematic, orbital, and chemical properties of 12 stellar streams with no
evident progenitors using line-of-sight velocities and metallicities from the Southern Stellar …

The total mass of the Large Magellanic Cloud from its perturbation on the Orphan stream

D Erkal, V Belokurov, CFP Laporte… - Monthly Notices of …, 2019 - academic.oup.com
In a companion paper by Koposov et al., RR Lyrae from Gaia Data Release 2 are used to
demonstrate that stars in the Orphan stream have velocity vectors significantly misaligned …

Orbital Clustering Identifies the Origins of Galactic Stellar Streams

A Bonaca, RP Naidu, C Conroy… - The Astrophysical …, 2021 - iopscience.iop.org
The origins of most stellar streams in the Milky Way are unknown. With improved proper
motions provided by Gaia EDR3, we show that the orbits of 23 Galactic stellar streams are …

Mining for Dark Matter Substructure: Inferring subhalo population properties from strong lenses with machine learning

J Brehmer, S Mishra-Sharma, J Hermans… - The Astrophysical …, 2019 - iopscience.iop.org
The subtle and unique imprint of dark matter substructure on extended arcs in strong-lensing
systems contains a wealth of information about the properties and distribution of dark matter …

The southern stellar stream spectroscopic survey (S5): Overview, target selection, data reduction, validation, and early science

TS Li, SE Koposov, DB Zucker, GF Lewis… - Monthly Notices of …, 2019 - academic.oup.com
We introduce the southern stellar stream spectroscopy survey (S 5), an on-going program to
map the kinematics and chemistry of stellar streams in the southern hemisphere. The initial …