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Stellar Streams

Stellar Streams is a stellar kinematic structure consisting of elongated, coherent trails of stars that originate from tidally disrupted star clusters, dwarf galaxies, or stellar associations and that orbit within the galactic halo, serving as tracers of the gravitational potential and hierarchical assembly history of the Milky Way.

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Dark Matter Substructure within Galactic Halos

Ben Moore, Sebastiano Ghigna, Fabio Governato et al. · The Astrophysical Journal · 1999 · 3K citations · Full text

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The Field of Streams: Sagittarius and Its Siblings

Vasily Belokurov, D. B. Zucker, N. W. Evans et al. · The Astrophysical Journal · 2006 · 914 citations · Full text

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Cold gas accretion in galaxies

R. Sancisi, Filippo Fraternali, Tom Oosterloo et al. · The Astronomy and Astrophysics Review · 2008 · 590 citations · Full text

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A giant stream of metal-rich stars in the halo of the galaxy M31

Rodrigo Ibata, Michael J. Irwin, Geraint F. Lewis et al. · Nature · 2001 · 585 citations · Full text

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Great Circle Tidal Streams: Evidence for a Nearly Spherical Massive Dark Halo around the Milky Way

The Astrophysical Journal · 2001 · 459 citations · Full text

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  1. RI
    Rodrigo Ibata

    Observatoire astronomique de Strasbourg, France

    37 publications · 3.3K citations

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  2. VB
    Vasily Belokurov

    University of Cambridge, United Kingdom

    33 publications · 4.5K citations

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  3. DE
    Denis Erkal

    University of Surrey, United Kingdom

    28 publications · 2.7K citations

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  4. SE
    S. E. Koposov

    University of Cambridge, United Kingdom

    25 publications · 2.2K citations

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  5. GF
    Geraint F. Lewis

    The University of Sydney, Australia

    23 publications · 2.7K citations

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478

  1. University of Cambridge

    Cambridge, United Kingdom

    51 h-index

    186 publications

    32.5K citations

  2. Max Planck Institute for Astronomy

    Heidelberg, Germany

    49 h-index

    134 publications

    13.4K citations

  3. Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique

    Paris, France

    41 h-index

    242 publications

    14.5K citations

  4. Observatoire astronomique de Strasbourg

    Strasbourg, France

    41 h-index

    180 publications

    11.8K citations

  5. Université de Strasbourg

    Strasbourg, France

    36 h-index

    162 publications

    9.6K citations

  6. The University of Sydney

    Sydney, Australia

    32 h-index

    72 publications

    4.9K citations

  7. Princeton University

    Princeton, United States

    29 h-index

    46 publications

    4K citations

  8. University of Toronto

    Toronto, Canada

    27 h-index

    39 publications

    2.8K citations

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  1. The Astrophysical Journal

    ApJ · 166 publications · 17.2K citations

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  2. Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society

    151 publications · 10.3K citations

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  3. Astronomy and Astrophysics

    50 publications · 2.5K citations

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  4. The Astrophysical Journal Letters

    29 publications · 1.7K citations

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  5. The Astronomical Journal

    AJ · 31 publications · 2K citations

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