Stellar tidal streams around nearby spiral galaxies with deep imaging from amateur telescopes
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| author | Martinez-Delgado, David Stein, Michael Sakowska, Joanna D. Weigelt, M. Maurice Roman, Javier Donatiello, Giuseppe Roca-Fabrega, Santi Schirmer, Mischa Grebel, Eva K. Saifollahi, Teymoor Kanipe, Jeff Gomez-Flechoso, M. Angeles Akhlaghi, Mohammad Javanmardi, Behnam Wu, Gang Eskandarlou, Sepideh Bomans, Dominik J. Henkel, Cristian Block, Adam Hanson, Mark Schedler, Johannes Teuwen, Karel GaBany, R. Jay Perez, Alvaro Ibañez Crawford, Ken Promper, Wolfgang Jimenez, Manuel Farras-Aloy, Silvia Miro-Carretero, Juan |
| author_facet | Martinez-Delgado, David Stein, Michael Sakowska, Joanna D. Weigelt, M. Maurice Roman, Javier Donatiello, Giuseppe Roca-Fabrega, Santi Schirmer, Mischa Grebel, Eva K. Saifollahi, Teymoor Kanipe, Jeff Gomez-Flechoso, M. Angeles Akhlaghi, Mohammad Javanmardi, Behnam Wu, Gang Eskandarlou, Sepideh Bomans, Dominik J. Henkel, Cristian Block, Adam Hanson, Mark Schedler, Johannes Teuwen, Karel GaBany, R. Jay Perez, Alvaro Ibañez Crawford, Ken Promper, Wolfgang Jimenez, Manuel Farras-Aloy, Silvia Miro-Carretero, Juan |
| contents | Tidal interactions between massive galaxies and their satellites are fundamental processes in a Universe with L-Cold Dark Matter cosmology, redistributing material into faint features that preserve records of past galactic interactions. While stellar streams in the Local Group impressively demonstrate satellite disruption, they do not constitute a statistically significant sample. Constructing a substantial catalog of stellar streams beyond the Local Group remains challenging due to the difficulties in obtaining deep, wide-field images of galaxies. Despite their potential to illuminate dark matter distribution and galaxy formation processes, stellar streams remain underutilized as cosmological probes. The Stellar Tidal Stream Survey (STSS) addresses this observational gap by leveraging amateur telescopes to obtain deep, scientific-grade images of galactic outskirts, capable of building a more statistically meaningful sample of stellar streams. Over the last decade, the STSS has acquired deep (up to surface brightness limit 28.3 mag/arcsec^2 in the r-band), wide-field images of 15 nearby Milky Way analog galaxies using a network of robotic amateur telescopes, avoiding the issues associated with "mosaicing" smaller images taken with a professional telescope. Our survey has revealed a diverse range of previously unreported faint features related to dwarf satellite accretion - including stellar streams, shells, and umbrella-like structures. We discover an ultra-diffuse galaxy (NGC150-UDG1), which shows hints of tidal tails. The STSS demonstrates the suitability of modern amateur telescopes to detect and study faint, diffuse structures in large fields around nearby spiral galaxies. Their economic and accessibility advantages enable larger samples with deep imaging, essential for testing galaxy formation models and constraining the properties of minor merger events in the local Universe. |
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| spellingShingle | Stellar tidal streams around nearby spiral galaxies with deep imaging from amateur telescopes Martinez-Delgado, David Stein, Michael Sakowska, Joanna D. Weigelt, M. Maurice Roman, Javier Donatiello, Giuseppe Roca-Fabrega, Santi Schirmer, Mischa Grebel, Eva K. Saifollahi, Teymoor Kanipe, Jeff Gomez-Flechoso, M. Angeles Akhlaghi, Mohammad Javanmardi, Behnam Wu, Gang Eskandarlou, Sepideh Bomans, Dominik J. Henkel, Cristian Block, Adam Hanson, Mark Schedler, Johannes Teuwen, Karel GaBany, R. Jay Perez, Alvaro Ibañez Crawford, Ken Promper, Wolfgang Jimenez, Manuel Farras-Aloy, Silvia Miro-Carretero, Juan Astrophysics of Galaxies Tidal interactions between massive galaxies and their satellites are fundamental processes in a Universe with L-Cold Dark Matter cosmology, redistributing material into faint features that preserve records of past galactic interactions. While stellar streams in the Local Group impressively demonstrate satellite disruption, they do not constitute a statistically significant sample. Constructing a substantial catalog of stellar streams beyond the Local Group remains challenging due to the difficulties in obtaining deep, wide-field images of galaxies. Despite their potential to illuminate dark matter distribution and galaxy formation processes, stellar streams remain underutilized as cosmological probes. The Stellar Tidal Stream Survey (STSS) addresses this observational gap by leveraging amateur telescopes to obtain deep, scientific-grade images of galactic outskirts, capable of building a more statistically meaningful sample of stellar streams. Over the last decade, the STSS has acquired deep (up to surface brightness limit 28.3 mag/arcsec^2 in the r-band), wide-field images of 15 nearby Milky Way analog galaxies using a network of robotic amateur telescopes, avoiding the issues associated with "mosaicing" smaller images taken with a professional telescope. Our survey has revealed a diverse range of previously unreported faint features related to dwarf satellite accretion - including stellar streams, shells, and umbrella-like structures. We discover an ultra-diffuse galaxy (NGC150-UDG1), which shows hints of tidal tails. The STSS demonstrates the suitability of modern amateur telescopes to detect and study faint, diffuse structures in large fields around nearby spiral galaxies. Their economic and accessibility advantages enable larger samples with deep imaging, essential for testing galaxy formation models and constraining the properties of minor merger events in the local Universe. |
| title | Stellar tidal streams around nearby spiral galaxies with deep imaging from amateur telescopes |
| topic | Astrophysics of Galaxies |
| url | https://arxiv.org/abs/2504.02071 |