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2018MNRAS.481.3442M - Mon. Not. R. Astron. Soc., 481, 3442-3455 (2018/December-2)

Ghostly tributaries to the Milky Way: charting the halo's stellar streams with the Gaia DR2 catalogue.

MALHAN K., IBATA R.A. and MARTIN N.F.

Abstract (from CDS):

We present a panoramic map of the stellar streams of the Milky Way based upon astrometric and photometric measurements from the Gaia DR2 catalogue. In this first contribution, we concentrate on the halo at heliocentric distances beyond 5 kpc, and at Galactic latitudes |b| > 30°, using the STREAMFINDER algorithm to detect structures along plausible orbits that are consistent with the Gaia proper motion measurements. We find a rich network of criss-crossing streams in the halo. Some of these structures were previously known, while several are new discoveries, but others are potentially artefacts of the Gaia scanning law and will require confirmation. With these initial discoveries, we are starting to unravel the complex formation of the halo of our Galaxy.

Abstract Copyright: © 2018 The Author(s) Published by Oxford University Press on behalf of the Royal Astronomical Society

Journal keyword(s): stars: kinematics and dynamics - Galaxy: halo - Galaxy: kinematics and dynamics - Galaxy: structure

Nomenclature: Table 1: [MIM2018] Gaia-N (Nos Gaia-1 to Gaia-5).

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