Overview
- Introduces the field of tidal streams in galactic halos, including the discovery history, the cosmological origins of halo substructure, the techniques for discovering these streams and the use of tidal streams to constrain the dark matter distribution in the Milky Way
- Provides a complete list of all substructures (in both density and velocity) discovered to date in the Milky Way halo
- Written by leading researchers in the field
- The first book focusing on the substructure of the Milky Way halo and similar substructure in other galaxies
Part of the book series: Astrophysics and Space Science Library (ASSL, volume 420)
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Table of contents (9 chapters)
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Front Matter
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Back Matter
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Reviews
“This book focusses (mostly) on substructures generated by the tidal dissolution of previously gravitationally-bound small stellar systems – satellite galaxies and globular star clusters. … this book provides a good introduction and overview of the field from a somewhat SDSS-centric perspective.” (Gerry Gilmore, The Observatory, Vol. 136 (1255), December, 2016)
Editors and Affiliations
About the editors
Heidi Newberg is professor of astronomy at the Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute. She did her Ph.D. with the Berkeley Automated Supernova Search, which measured the supernova rates as a function of supernova type in Virgo-distance galaxies; and the Supernova Cosmology Project (SCP), which is measured the cosmological parameters Omega and Lambda using the light curves of distant supernovae. She shared the Gruber Cosmology Prize for her work with SCP. Newberg’s current research is primarily related to understanding the structure and evolution of our own galaxy through using stars as tracers of the Galactic halo and disks. She helped to build the Sloan Digital Sky Survey (SDSS), which imaged ~10,000 square degrees of the sky in five optical filters and obtained over a million spectra of galaxies.
Jeffrey Carlin is a postdoctoral research associate in the Department of Physics, Applied Physics and Astronomy at the Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute. He is working with Heidi J. Newberg in support of the Chinese LAMOST spectroscopic survey as part of the Participants in LAMOST, US (PLUS) collaboration. His research has focused on dwarf galaxies and their remnant stellar tidal streams in the Milky Way system.
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Tidal Streams in the Local Group and Beyond
Book Subtitle: Observations and Implications
Editors: Heidi Jo Newberg, Jeffrey L. Carlin
Series Title: Astrophysics and Space Science Library
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-19336-6
Publisher: Springer Cham
eBook Packages: Physics and Astronomy, Physics and Astronomy (R0)
Copyright Information: Springer International Publishing Switzerland 2016
Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-319-19335-9Published: 08 January 2016
Softcover ISBN: 978-3-319-79274-3Published: 30 March 2018
eBook ISBN: 978-3-319-19336-6Published: 29 December 2015
Series ISSN: 0067-0057
Series E-ISSN: 2214-7985
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: X, 250
Number of Illustrations: 29 b/w illustrations, 58 illustrations in colour