Search Results - "Mackereth, J Ted"
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Life in the fast lane: a direct view of the dynamics, formation, and evolution of the Milky Way’s bar
Published in Monthly notices of the Royal Astronomical Society (01-12-2019)“…ABSTRACT Studies of the ages, abundances, and motions of individual stars in the Milky Way provide one of the best ways to study the evolution of disc galaxies…”
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The origin of diverse α-element abundances in galaxy discs
Published in Monthly notices of the Royal Astronomical Society (01-07-2018)“…ABSTRACT Spectroscopic surveys of the Galaxy reveal that its disc stars exhibit a spread in [α/Fe] at fixed [Fe/H], manifest at some locations as a bimodality…”
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Dynamical heating across the Milky Way disc using APOGEE and Gaia
Published in Monthly notices of the Royal Astronomical Society (11-10-2019)“…Abstract The kinematics of the Milky Way disc as a function of age are well measured at the solar radius, but have not been studied over a wider range of…”
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The origin of accreted stellar halo populations in the Milky Way using APOGEE, Gaia , and the EAGLE simulations
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Identifying resonances of the Galactic bar in Gaia DR2: I. Clues from action space
Published in Monthly notices of the Royal Astronomical Society (01-01-2021)“…ABSTRACT Action space synthesizes the orbital information of stars and is well suited to analyse the rich kinematic substructure of the disc in the second Gaia…”
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A galaxy’s accretion history unveiled from its integrated spectrum
Published in Monthly notices of the Royal Astronomical Society (01-01-2020)“…Abstract We present a new method of quantifying a galaxy’s accretion history from its integrated spectrum alone. Using full spectral fitting and calibrated…”
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The chemical compositions of accreted and in situ galactic globular clusters according to SDSS/APOGEE
Published in Monthly notices of the Royal Astronomical Society (01-04-2020)“…ABSTRACT Studies of the kinematics and chemical compositions of Galactic globular clusters (GCs) enable the reconstruction of the history of star formation,…”
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The Galactic Interstellar Object Population: A Framework for Prediction and Inference
Published in The Astronomical journal (01-12-2023)“…Abstract The Milky Way is thought to host a huge population of interstellar objects (ISOs), numbering approximately 10 15 pc −3 around the Sun, which are…”
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The contribution of N-rich stars to the Galactic stellar halo using APOGEE red giants
Published in Monthly notices of the Royal Astronomical Society (01-02-2021)“…ABSTRACT The contribution of dissolved globular clusters (GCs) to the stellar content of the Galactic halo is a key constraint on models for GC formation and…”
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Disentangling Stellar Age Estimates from Galactic Chemodynamical Evolution
Published in The Astrophysical journal (01-01-2024)“…Abstract Stellar ages are key for determining the formation history of the Milky Way, but are difficult to measure precisely. Furthermore, methods that use…”
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Searching for solar siblings in APOGEE and Gaia DR2 with N-body simulations
Published in Monthly notices of the Royal Astronomical Society (11-05-2020)“…ABSTRACT We make use of APOGEE and $Gaia\,$ data to identify stars that are consistent with being born in the same association or star cluster as the Sun. We…”
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APOGEE detection of N-rich stars in the tidal tails of Palomar 5
Published in Monthly notices of the Royal Astronomical Society (01-03-2022)“…ABSTRACT Recent results from chemical tagging studies using Apache Point Observatory Galactic Evolution Experiment data suggest a strong link between the…”
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Weighing the stellar constituents of the galactic halo with APOGEE red giant stars
Published in Monthly notices of the Royal Astronomical Society (01-03-2020)“…ABSTRACT The stellar mass in the halo of the Milky Way is notoriously difficult to determine, owing to the paucity of its stars in the solar neighbourhood…”
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Fast Estimation of Orbital Parameters in Milky Way-like Potentials
Published in Publications of the Astronomical Society of the Pacific (01-11-2018)“…Orbital parameters, such as eccentricity and maximum vertical excursion, of stars in the Milky Way are an important tool for understanding its dynamics and…”
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A variational encoder–decoder approach to precise spectroscopic age estimation for large Galactic surveys
Published in Monthly notices of the Royal Astronomical Society (02-05-2023)“…ABSTRACT Constraints on the formation and evolution of the Milky Way Galaxy require multidimensional measurements of kinematics, abundances, and ages for a…”
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Evidence from APOGEE for the presence of a major building block of the halo buried in the inner Galaxy
Published in Monthly notices of the Royal Astronomical Society (01-01-2021)“…ABSTRACT We report evidence from APOGEE for the presence of a new metal-poor stellar structure located within ∼4 kpc of the Galactic Centre. Characterized by a…”
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The kinematic properties of Milky Way stellar halo populations
Published in Monthly notices of the Royal Astronomical Society (01-03-2022)“…ABSTRACT In the Gaia era, stellar kinematics are extensively used to study Galactic halo stellar populations, to search for halo structures, and to…”
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The stellar mass of the Gaia-Sausage/Enceladus accretion remnant
Published in Monthly notices of the Royal Astronomical Society (01-11-2023)“…ABSTRACT The Gaia-Sausage/Enceladus (GS/E) structure is an accretion remnant that comprises a large fraction of the Milky Way’s stellar halo. We study GS/E…”
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Signatures of resonance and phase mixing in the Galactic disc
Published in Monthly notices of the Royal Astronomical Society (21-11-2019)“…ABSTRACT Gaia DR2 has provided an unprecedented wealth of information about the kinematics of stars in the Solar neighbourhood, and has highlighted the degree…”
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The age–metallicity structure of the Milky Way disc using APOGEE
Published in Monthly notices of the Royal Astronomical Society (01-11-2017)“…Abstract The measurement of the structure of stellar populations in the Milky Way disc places fundamental constraints on models of galaxy formation and…”
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