This report summarises progress made in estimating the local density of dark matter (ρ
DM,⊙), a quantity that is especially important for dark matter direct detection experiments …

I review current efforts to measure the mean density of dark matter near the Sun. This
encodes valuable dynamical information about our Galaxy and is also of great importance …

Aims. The goal of this paper is to demonstrate the outstanding quality of the second data
release of the Gaia mission and its power for constraining many different aspects of the …

Context. The assembly history experienced by the Milky Way is currently being unveiled
thanks to the data provided by the Gaia mission. It is likely that the globular cluster system of …

Context. The second Gaia data release (Gaia DR2) contains high-precision positions,
parallaxes, and proper motions for 1.3 billion sources as well as line-of-sight velocities for …

Galactic haloes in a Λ-CDM universe are predicted to host today a swarm of debris resulting
from cannibalized dwarf galaxies. The chemodynamical information recorded in their stellar …

We analyse an N-body simulation of the interaction of the Milky Way (MW) with a Sagittarius-
like dSph (Sgr), looking for signatures which may be attributed to its orbital history in the …

The Large Sky Area Multi-Object Fiber Spectroscopic Telescope (LAMOST), also known as
the Guoshoujing Telescope, is a major national scientific facility for astronomical research …

We use the second data releases of the European Space Agency Gaia astrometric survey
and the high-resolution Galactic Archaeology with HERMES (GALAH) spectroscopic survey …

We present N-body simulations of a Sagittarius (Sgr)-like dwarf spheroidal galaxy that
follows its orbit about the Milky Way (MW) since its first crossing of the Galaxy's virial radius …