The DECam local volume exploration survey: Overview and first data release

A Drlica-Wagner, JL Carlin, DL Nidever… - The Astrophysical …, 2021 - iopscience.iop.org
Abstract The DECam Local Volume Exploration survey (DELVE) is a 126-night survey
program on the 4 m Blanco Telescope at the Cerro Tololo Inter-American Observatory in …

Stellar streams in the Gaia era

A Bonaca, AM Price-Whelan - New Astronomy Reviews, 2024 - Elsevier
The hierarchical model of galaxy formation predicts that the Milky Way halo is populated by
tidal debris of dwarf galaxies and globular clusters. Due to long dynamical times, debris from …

Excluding fuzzy dark matter with sizes and stellar kinematics of ultrafaint dwarf galaxies

N Dalal, A Kravtsov - Physical Review D, 2022 - APS
We use observations of ultrafaint dwarf (UFD) galaxies to constrain the particle mass of
ultralight dark matter. Potential fluctuations created by wave interference in virialized “fuzzy” …

In-situ versus accreted Milky Way globular clusters: a new classification method and implications for cluster formation

V Belokurov, A Kravtsov - Monthly Notices of the Royal …, 2024 - academic.oup.com
We present a new scheme for the classification of the in-situ and accreted globular clusters
(GCs). The scheme uses total energy E and z-component of the orbital angular momentum …

Constraints on dark matter properties from observations of Milky Way satellite galaxies

EO Nadler, A Drlica-Wagner, K Bechtol, S Mau… - Physical review …, 2021 - APS
We perform a comprehensive study of Milky Way (MW) satellite galaxies to constrain the
fundamental properties of dark matter (DM). This analysis fully incorporates inhomogeneities …

FIRE-3: updated stellar evolution models, yields, and microphysics and fitting functions for applications in galaxy simulations

PF Hopkins, A Wetzel, C Wheeler… - Monthly Notices of …, 2023 - academic.oup.com
Increasingly, uncertainties in predictions from galaxy formation simulations (at sub-Milky
Way masses) are dominated by uncertainties in stellar evolution inputs. In this paper, we …

The exploration of local volume satellites (elves) survey: A nearly volume-limited sample of nearby dwarf satellite systems

SG Carlsten, JE Greene, RL Beaton… - The Astrophysical …, 2022 - iopscience.iop.org
We present the final sample of the Exploration of Local VolumE Satellites (ELVES) survey, a
survey of the dwarf satellites of a nearly volume-limited sample of Milky Way (MW)− like …

What causes the formation of discs and end of bursty star formation?

PF Hopkins, AB Gurvich, X Shen… - Monthly Notices of …, 2023 - academic.oup.com
As they grow, galaxies can transition from irregular/spheroidal with 'bursty'star formation
histories (SFHs), to discy with smooth SFHs. But even in simulations, the direct physical …

Nitrogen enrichment and clustered star formation at the dawn of the Galaxy

V Belokurov, A Kravtsov - Monthly Notices of the Royal …, 2023 - academic.oup.com
Anomalously high nitrogen-to-oxygen abundance ratios [N/O] are observed in globular
clusters (GCs), among the field stars of the Milky Way (MW), and even in the gas in az≈ 11 …

The saga survey. ii. building a statistical sample of satellite systems around milky way–like galaxies

YY Mao, M Geha, RH Wechsler, B Weiner… - The Astrophysical …, 2021 - iopscience.iop.org
We present the Stage II results from the ongoing Satellites Around Galactic Analogs (SAGA)
Survey. Upon completion, the SAGA Survey will spectroscopically identify satellite galaxies …