Browsing by Author "Evans, N. Wyn"

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    • Elevated r-process enrichment in Gaia Sausage and Sequoia 

      Aguado, David S.; Belokurov, Vasily; Myeong, G. C.; Evans, N. Wyn; Kobayashi, Chiaki; Sbordone, Luca; Chanamé, Julio; Navarrete, Camila; Koposov, Sergey E. (2021-02-10)
      The Gaia Sausage and the Sequoia represent the major accretion events that formed the stellar halo of the Milky Way. A detailed chemical study of these main building blocks provides a pristine view of the early steps of ...

    • Ongoing astrometric microlensing events from VVV and Gaia 

      McGill, Peter; Smith, Leigh C.; Evans, N. Wyn; Belokurov, Vasily; Lucas, Philip W. (2019-07)
      We extend predictive microlensing event searches using the Vista Variables in the Via Lactea survey and the second Gaia data release. We identify two events with maxima in 2019 that require urgent follow-up. First, we ...

    • Transverse kinematics of the Galactic bar-bulge from VVV and Gaia 

      Sanders, Jason L.; Smith, Leigh; Evans, N. Wyn; Lucas, Philip (2019-08)
      We analyse the kinematics of the Galactic bar-bulge using proper motions from the ESO public survey Vista Variables in the Via Lactea (VVV) and the second Gaia data release. Gaia has provided some of the first absolute ...

    • VVV-WIT-08: the giant star that blinked 

      Smith, Leigh C.; Koposov, Sergey E.; Lucas, Philip W.; Sanders, Jason L.; Minniti, Dante; Udalski, Andrzej; Evans, N. Wyn; Aguado, David; Ivanov, Valentin D.; Saito, Roberto K.; Fraga, Luciano; Pietrukowicz, Pawel; Penoyre, Zephyr; González-Fernández, Carlos (2021-06-11)
      We report the serendipitous discovery of a late-type giant star that exhibited a smooth, eclipse-like drop in flux to a depth of 97 per cent. Minimum flux occurred in April 2012 and the total event duration was a few hundred ...