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Ibata, R., Malhan, K., Martin, N., Aubert, D., Famaey, B., Bianchini, P., . . . Renaud, F. (2021). Charting the Galactic Acceleration Field. I. A Search for Stellar Streams with Gaia DR2 and EDR3 with Follow-up from ESPaDOnS and UVES. Astrophysical Journal, 914(2), Article ID 123.
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2021 (English)In: Astrophysical Journal, ISSN 0004-637X, E-ISSN 1538-4357, Vol. 914, no 2, article id 123Article in journal (Refereed) Published
Abstract [en]

We present maps of the stellar streams detected in the Gaia Data Release 2 (DR2) and Early Data Release 3 (EDR3) catalogs using the STREAMFINDER algorithm. We also report the spectroscopic follow-up of the brighter DR2 stream members obtained with the high-resolution CFHT/ESPaDOnS and VLT/UVES spectrographs as well as with the medium-resolution NTT/EFOSC2 spectrograph. Two new stellar streams that do not have a clear progenitor are detected in DR2 (named Hrid and Gunnthra), and seven are detected in EDR3 (named Gaia-6 to Gaia-12). Several candidate streams are also identified. The software also finds very long tidal tails associated with the 15 globular clusters: NGC 288, NGC 1261, NGC 1851, NGC 2298, NGC 2808, NGC 3201, M68, omega Cen, NGC 5466, Palomar 5, M5, NGC 6101, M92, NGC 6397, and NGC 7089. These stellar streams will be used in subsequent contributions in this series to chart the properties of the Galactic acceleration field on similar to 100 pc to similar to 100 kpc scales.

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urn:nbn:se:su:diva-196265 (URN)10.3847/1538-4357/abfcc2 (DOI)000664728900001 ()
Available from: 2021-09-06 Created: 2021-09-06 Last updated: 2022-11-10Bibliographically approved
Ibata, R., Bellazzini, M., Thomas, G., Malhan, K., Martin, N., Famaey, B. & Siebert, A. (2020). A Panoramic Landscape of the Sagittarius Stream in Gaia DR2 Revealed with the STREAMFINDER Spyglass. Astrophysical Journal Letters, 891(1), Article ID L19.
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2020 (English)In: Astrophysical Journal Letters, ISSN 2041-8205, E-ISSN 2041-8213, Vol. 891, no 1, article id L19Article in journal (Refereed) Published
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We present the first full six-dimensional panoramic portrait of the Sagittarius stream, obtained by searching for wide stellar streams in the Gaia DR2 data set with the STREAMFINDER algorithm. We use the kinematic behavior of the sample to devise a selection of Gaia RR Lyrae, providing excellent distance measurements along the stream. The proper motion data are complemented with radial velocities from public surveys. We find that the global morphological and kinematic properties of the Sagittarius stream are still reasonably well reproduced by the simple Law & Majewski model (LM10), although the model overestimates the leading arm and trailing arm distances by up to similar to 15%. The sample newly reveals the leading arm of the Sagittarius stream as it passes into very crowded regions of the Galactic disk toward the Galactic anticenter direction. Fortuitously, this part of the stream is almost exactly at the diametrically opposite location from the Galactic center to the progenitor, which should allow an assessment of the influence of dynamical friction and self-gravity in a way that is nearly independent of the underlying Galactic potential model.

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Dwarf galaxies, Milky Way Galaxy, Local Group, Milky Way dynamics
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Physical Sciences
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urn:nbn:se:su:diva-180636 (URN)10.3847/2041-8213/ab77c7 (DOI)000518655700001 ()2-s2.0-85086374982 (Scopus ID)
Available from: 2020-04-18 Created: 2020-04-18 Last updated: 2022-11-07Bibliographically approved
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