Galactic Archaeology: The dwarfs that survived and perished

V Belokurov - New Astronomy Reviews, 2013 - Elsevier
From the archaeological point of view, the local dwarf galaxies are unique objects in which
the imprint of the conditions that shaped the early structure formation can be studied today at …

Extragalactic science, cosmology, and Galactic archaeology with the Subaru Prime Focus Spectrograph

M Takada, RS Ellis, M Chiba, JE Greene… - Publications of the …, 2014 - academic.oup.com
Abstract The Subaru Prime Focus Spectrograph (PFS) is a massively multiplexed fiber-fed
optical and near-infrared three-arm spectrograph (N fiber= 2400, 380≤ λ≤ 1260 nm, 1 3 …

Rings and radial waves in the disk of the Milky Way

Y Xu, HJ Newberg, JL Carlin, C Liu… - The Astrophysical …, 2015 - iopscience.iop.org
We show that in the anticenter region, between Galactic longitudes of 110< l< 229, there is
an oscillating asymmetry in the main-sequence star counts on either side of the Galactic …

The Auriga stellar haloes: connecting stellar population properties with accretion and merging history

A Monachesi, FA Gómez, RJJ Grand… - Monthly Notices of …, 2019 - academic.oup.com
We examine the stellar haloes of the Auriga simulations, a suite of 30 cosmological
magnetohydrodynamical high-resolution simulations of Milky Way-mass galaxies performed …

The large-scale structure of the halo of the Andromeda galaxy. I. Global stellar density, morphology and metallicity properties

RA Ibata, GF Lewis, AW McConnachie… - The Astrophysical …, 2013 - iopscience.iop.org
We present an analysis of the large-scale structure of the halo of the Andromeda galaxy,
based on the Pan-Andromeda Archeological Survey (PAndAS), currently the most complete …

The extended halo of Centaurus A: uncovering satellites, streams, and substructures

D Crnojević, DJ Sand, K Spekkens… - The Astrophysical …, 2016 - iopscience.iop.org
We present the widest-field resolved stellar map to date of the closest ($ D\sim 3.8$ Mpc)
massive elliptical galaxy NGC 5128 (Centaurus A; Cen A), extending out to a projected …

The merger and assembly histories of Milky Way-and M31-like galaxies with TNG50: disc survival through mergers

D Sotillo-Ramos, A Pillepich, M Donnari… - Monthly Notices of …, 2022 - academic.oup.com
We analyse the merger and assembly histories of Milky Way (MW) and Andromeda (M31)-
like galaxies to quantify how, and how often, disc galaxies of this mass can survive recent …

The Andromeda galaxy's most important merger about 2 billion years ago as M32's likely progenitor

R D'Souza, EF Bell - Nature Astronomy, 2018 - nature.com
Although the proximity of the Andromeda galaxy (M31) offers an opportunity to understand
how mergers affect galaxies, uncertainty remains about M31's most important mergers …

Beyond 31 mag arcsec− 2: the frontier of low surface brightness imaging with the largest optical telescopes

I Trujillo, J Fliri - The Astrophysical Journal, 2016 - iopscience.iop.org
The detection of structures in the sky with optical surface brightnesses fainter than 30 mag
arcsec− 2 (3σ in 10× 10 arcsec boxes; r-band) has remained elusive in current photometric …

The artemis simulations: stellar haloes of Milky Way-mass galaxies

AS Font, IG McCarthy, R Poole-Mckenzie… - Monthly Notices of …, 2020 - academic.oup.com
We introduce the Assembly of high-ResoluTion Eagle-simulations of MIlky Way-type
galaxieS (artemis) simulations, a new set of 42 zoomed-in, high-resolution (baryon particle …