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A tale of two populations: surviving and destroyed dwarf galaxies and the build-up of the Milky Way’s stellar halo (2020)
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Fattahi, A., Deason, A. J., Frenk, C. S., Simpson, C. M., Gómez, F. A., Grand, R. J., Monachesi, A., Marinacci, F., & Pakmor, R. (2020). A tale of two populations: surviving and destroyed dwarf galaxies and the build-up of the Milky Way’s stellar halo. Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, 497(4), 4459-4471. https://doi.org/10.1093/mnras/staa2221

We use magneto-hydrodynamical simulations of Milky Way-mass haloes from the Auriga project to investigate the properties of surviving and destroyed dwarf galaxies that are accreted by these haloes over cosmic time. We show that the combined luminosit... Read More about A tale of two populations: surviving and destroyed dwarf galaxies and the build-up of the Milky Way’s stellar halo.

How Unusual is the Milky Way’s Assembly History? (2020)
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Evans, T. A., Fattahi, A., Deason, A. J., & Frenk, C. S. (2020). How Unusual is the Milky Way’s Assembly History?. Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, 497(4), 4311-4321. https://doi.org/10.1093/mnras/staa2202

In the ΛCDM model of structure formation galactic haloes build up by accretion of mass and mergers of smaller haloes. The most recent massive merger event experienced by the Milky Way (MW) halo was the accretion of the Large Magellanic Cloud (LMC; wh... Read More about How Unusual is the Milky Way’s Assembly History?.

The dark matter component of the Gaia radially anisotropic substructure (2020)
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Bozorgnia, N., Fattahi, A., Frenk, C., Cheek, A., Cerdeño, D., Gómez, F., Grand, R., & Marinacci, F. (2020). The dark matter component of the Gaia radially anisotropic substructure. Journal of Cosmology and Astroparticle Physics, 2020(7), Article 036. https://doi.org/10.1088/1475-7516/2020/07/036

We study the properties of the dark matter component of the radially anisotropic stellar population recently identified in the Gaia data, using magneto-hydrodynamical simulations of Milky Way-like halos from the Auriga project. We identify 10 simulat... Read More about The dark matter component of the Gaia radially anisotropic substructure.

The dual origin of the Galactic thick disc and halo from the gas-rich Gaia-Enceladus-Sausage merger (2020)
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Pakmor, R., Marinacci, F., Gómez, F. A., Fragkoudi, F., Fattahi, A., Deason, A. J., Belokurov, V., Kawata, D., & Grand, R. J. (2020). The dual origin of the Galactic thick disc and halo from the gas-rich Gaia-Enceladus-Sausage merger. Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, 497(2), 1603-1618. https://doi.org/10.1093/mnras/staa2057

We analyse a set of cosmological magneto-hydrodynamic simulations of the formation of Milky Way-mass galaxies identified to have a prominent radially anisotropic stellar halo component similar to the so-called “Gaia Sausage” found in the Gaia data. W... Read More about The dual origin of the Galactic thick disc and halo from the gas-rich Gaia-Enceladus-Sausage merger.

The Edge of the Galaxy (2020)
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Deason, A. J., Fattahi, A., Frenk, C. S., Grand, R. J., Oman, K. A., Garrison-Kimmel, S., Simpson, C. M., & Navarro, J. F. (2020). The Edge of the Galaxy. Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, 496(3), 3929-3942. https://doi.org/10.1093/mnras/staa1711

We use cosmological simulations of isolated Milky Way (MW)-mass galaxies, as well as Local Group (LG) analogues, to define the ‘edge’ – a caustic manifested in a drop in density or radial velocity – of Galactic-sized haloes, both in dark matter and i... Read More about The Edge of the Galaxy.

Baryonic clues to the puzzling diversity of dwarf galaxy rotation curves (2020)
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Santos-Santos, I. M., Navarro, J. F., Robertson, A., Benítez-Llambay, A., Oman, K. A., Lovell, M. R., Frenk, C. S., Ludlow, A. D., Fattahi, A., & Ritz, A. (2020). Baryonic clues to the puzzling diversity of dwarf galaxy rotation curves. Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, 495(1), 58-77. https://doi.org/10.1093/mnras/staa1072

We use a compilation of disc galaxy rotation curves to assess the role of the luminous component (‘baryons’) in the rotation curve diversity problem. As in earlier work, we find that rotation curve shape correlates with baryonic surface density: high... Read More about Baryonic clues to the puzzling diversity of dwarf galaxy rotation curves.

The Milky Way total mass profile as inferred from Gaia DR2 (2020)
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Cautun, M., Benítez-Llambay, A., Deason, A. J., Frenk, C. S., Fattahi, A., Gómez, F. A., Grand, R. J., Oman, K. A., Navarro, J. F., & Simpson, C. M. (2020). The Milky Way total mass profile as inferred from Gaia DR2. Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, 494(3), 4291-4313. https://doi.org/10.1093/mnras/staa1017

We determine the Milky Way (MW) mass profile inferred from fitting physically motivated models to the Gaia DR2 Galactic rotation curve and other data. Using various hydrodynamical simulations of MW-mass haloes, we show that the presence of baryons in... Read More about The Milky Way total mass profile as inferred from Gaia DR2.

The biggest Splash (2020)
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Grand, R. J., Evans, N. W., Deason, A. J., Smith, M. C., Fattahi, A., Sanders, J. L., & Belokurov, V. (2020). The biggest Splash. Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, 494(3), 3880-3898. https://doi.org/10.1093/mnras/staa876

Using a large sample of bright nearby stars with accurate Gaia Data Release 2 astrometry and auxiliary spectroscopy we map out the properties of the principle Galactic components such as the “thin” and “thick” discs and the halo. We confirm previous... Read More about The biggest Splash.

The missing dwarf galaxies of the Local Group (2020)
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Fattahi, A., Navarro, J. F., & Frenk, C. S. (2020). The missing dwarf galaxies of the Local Group. Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, 493(2), 2596-2605. https://doi.org/10.1093/mnras/staa375

We study the Local Group (LG) dwarf galaxy population predicted by the APOSTLE ΛCDM cosmological hydrodynamics simulations. These indicate that: (i) the total mass within 3 Mpc of the Milky Way-Andromeda midpoint (M3Mpc) typically exceeds ∼3 times th... Read More about The missing dwarf galaxies of the Local Group.

The Ophiuchus stream progenitor: a new type of globular cluster and its possible Sagittarius connection (2020)
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Lane, J. M., Navarro, J. F., Fattahi, A., Oman, K. A., & Bovy, J. (2020). The Ophiuchus stream progenitor: a new type of globular cluster and its possible Sagittarius connection. Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, 492(3), 4164-4174. https://doi.org/10.1093/mnras/staa095

The Ophiuchus stream is a short arc-like stellar feature of uncertain origin located ∼5 kpc North of the Galactic centre. New proper motions from the second Gaia data release reconcile the direction of motion of stream members with the stream arc, re... Read More about The Ophiuchus stream progenitor: a new type of globular cluster and its possible Sagittarius connection.