Search Results - "Belokurov, V"

The feeble giant. Discovery of a large and diffuse Milky Way dwarf galaxy in the constellation of Crater by Torrealba, G., Koposov, S. E., Belokurov, V., Irwin, M.

“…We announce the discovery of the Crater 2 dwarf galaxy, identified in imaging data of the VLT Survey Telescope ATLAS survey. Given its half-light radius of…”
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The upper bound on the lowest mass halo by Jethwa, P., Erkal, D., Belokurov, V.

“…Abstract We explore the connection between galaxies and dark matter haloes in the Milky Way (MW) and quantify the implications on properties of the dark matter…”
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A Magellanic origin of the DES dwarfs by Jethwa, P., Erkal, D., Belokurov, V.

“…We establish the connection between the Magellanic Clouds (MCs) and the dwarf galaxy candidates discovered in the Dark Energy Survey (DES) by building a…”
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Co-formation of the disc and the stellar halo by Belokurov, V, Erkal, D, Evans, N W, Koposov, S E, Deason, A J

“…ABSTRACT Using a large sample of main sequence stars with 7D measurements supplied by Gaia and SDSS, we study the kinematic properties of the local (within ∼10…”
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Evidence for two early accretion events that built the Milky Way stellar halo by Myeong, G C, Vasiliev, E, Iorio, G, Evans, N W, Belokurov, V

“…Abstract The Gaia Sausage is the major accretion event that built the stellar halo of the Milky Way galaxy. Here, we provide dynamical and chemical evidence…”
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Age demographics of the Milky Way disc and bulge by Grady, J, Belokurov, V, Evans, N W

“…ABSTRACT We exploit the extensive Gaia Data Release 2 set of long-period variables to select a sample of O-rich Miras throughout the Milky Way disc and bulge…”
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Gaia 1 and 2. A pair of new Galactic star clusters by Koposov, Sergey E., Belokurov, V., Torrealba, G.

“…Abstract We present the results of the very first search for faint Milky Way satellites in the Gaia data. Using stellar positions only, we are able to…”
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The total mass of the Large Magellanic Cloud from its perturbation on the Orphan stream by Erkal, D, Belokurov, V, Laporte, C F P, Koposov, S E, Li, T S, Grillmair, C J, Kallivayalil, N, Price-Whelan, A M, Evans, N W, Hawkins, K, Hendel, D, Mateu, C, Navarro, J F, del Pino, A, Slater, C T, Sohn, S T

“…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…”
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Magellanic Mayhem: Metallicities and Motions by Grady, J., Belokurov, V., Evans, N. W.

“…Abstract We assemble a catalog of Magellanic Cloud red giants from Data Release 2 of the Gaia mission and, utilizing machine-learning methods, obtain…”
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The hidden giant: discovery of an enormous Galactic dwarf satellite in Gaia DR2 by Torrealba, G, Belokurov, V, Koposov, S E, Li, T S, Walker, M G, Sanders, J L, Geringer-Sameth, A, Zucker, D B, Kuehn, K, Evans, N W, Dehnen, W

“…ABSTRACT We report the discovery of a Milky Way satellite in the constellation of Antlia. The Antlia 2 dwarf galaxy is located behind the Galactic disc at a…”
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Satellites of LMC-mass dwarfs: close friendships ruined by Milky Way mass haloes by Deason, A. J., Wetzel, A. R., Garrison-Kimmel, S., Belokurov, V.

“…Motivated by the recent discovery of several dwarfs near the Large Magellanic Cloud (LMC), we study the accretion of massive satellites onto Milky Way…”
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Discovery of new retrograde substructures: the shards of ω Centauri? by Myeong, G C, Evans, N W, Belokurov, V, Sanders, J L, Koposov, S E

“…ABSTRACT We use the Sloan Digital Sky Survey (SDSS)–Gaia catalogue to search for substructure in the stellar halo. The sample comprises 62 133 halo stars with…”
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Halo substructure in the SDSS--Gaia catalogue: streams and clumps by Myeong, G C, Evans, N W, Belokurov, V, Amorisco, N C, Koposov, S E

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Dipping our toes in the water: first models of GD-1 as a stream by Bowden, A., Belokurov, V., Evans, N. W.

“…We present a model for producing tidal streams from disrupting progenitors in arbitrary potentials, utilizing the idea that the majority of stars escape from…”
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Nine tiny star clusters in Gaia DR1, PS1, and DES by Torrealba, G, Belokurov, V, Koposov, S E

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At the survey limits: discovery of the Aquarius 2 dwarf galaxy in the VST ATLAS and the SDSS data by Torrealba, G., Koposov, S. E., Belokurov, V., Irwin, M., Collins, M., Spencer, M., Ibata, R., Mateo, M., Bonaca, A., Jethwa, P.

“…We announce the discovery of the Aquarius 2 dwarf galaxy, a new distant satellite of the Milky Way, detected on the fringes of the VLT Survey Telescope (VST)…”
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‘Skinny Milky Way please’, says Sagittarius by Gibbons, S. L. J., Belokurov, V., Evans, N. W.

“…Motivated by recent observations of the Sagittarius stream, we devise a rapid algorithm to generate faithful representations of the centroids of stellar tidal…”
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The Milky Way stellar halo out to 40 kpc: squashed, broken but smooth by Deason, A. J., Belokurov, V., Evans, N. W.

“…We introduce a new maximum-likelihood method to model the density profile of blue horizontal branch and blue straggler stars and apply it to the Sloan Digital…”
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The first all-sky view of the Milky Way stellar halo with Gaia+2MASS RR Lyrae by Iorio, G, Belokurov, V, Erkal, D, Koposov, S E, Nipoti, C, Fraternali, F

“…Abstract We exploit the first Gaia data release to study the properties of the Galactic stellar halo as traced by RR Lyrae. We demonstrate that it is possible…”
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The star formation history of the Sagittarius stream by de Boer, T. J. L., Belokurov, V., Koposov, S.

“…We present the first detailed quantitative study of the stellar populations of the Sagittarius (Sgr) streams within the Stripe 82 region, using photometric and…”
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