No Stream Left Unscathed: The imprint of a host galaxy

arXiv:2605.16200 · astro-ph.GA · Submitted 2026-05-15 · Read on arXiv

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Submitted: 2026-05-15

Updated: 2026-05-15

Comments: 34 pages, 24 figures, submitted to APJ. Comments are welcome!

DOI: 10.3847/1538-4357/ae89af

Code: https://github.com/appy2806/Nbody_streams

License: http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/

Terminology

• Milky Way — 7× in this paper
• Calibration — 6× in this paper · explained in 7 episodes
• Fidelity — 3× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes
• N-body simulations — 3× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes
• Accuracy — 2× in this paper · explained in 1 episode
• Core — 2× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes
• Reconstruction Error — 2× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes
• Trace — 2× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes
• Wasserstein Distance — 2× in this paper · explained in 4 episodes
• Coherence Length — 1× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes
• Consistency — 1× in this paper · explained in 3 episodes
• Interpretability — 1× in this paper · explained in 15 episodes
• Legacy Survey of Space and Time — 1× in this paper
• Mass Segregation — 1× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes
• Population Synthesis — 1× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes
• Velocity Dispersion — 1× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes

Sources

• Shaping the Milky Way. II. The dark matter halo's response to the LMC's passage in a cosmological context
• Probing Atomic Dark Matter with Stellar Streams in Milky Way-Mass Galaxies
• Catalog of Mock Stellar Streams in Milky Way-Like Galaxies
• The dark matter wake of a galactic bar revealed by multichannel Singular Spectral Analysis
• S 5: Tidal Disruption in Crater 2 and Formation of Diffuse Dwarf Galaxies in the Local Group
• Forecasting Dark Matter Subhalo Constraints from Stellar Streams using Implicit Likelihood Inference
• Measurement of Substructure from the Kinematics of the GD-1 Stellar Stream
• The Binary Populations of Stellar Streams are Set by Cluster Dynamics
• Wide-Field InfrarRed Survey Telescope-Astrophysics Focused Telescope Assets WFIRST-AFTA 2015 Report
• Dancing Streams In Merging Halos: Stellar Streams in a MW--LMC-like merger
• Second public data release of the FIRE-2 cosmological zoom-in simulations of galaxy formation

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