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Kinematics beats dust: unveiling nested substructure in the perturbed outer disc of
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Chervin F P Laporte  , Sergey E Koposov, Vasily Belokurov

Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society: Letters, Volume 510, Issue 1, February 2022, Pages L13–L17,
https://doi.org/10.1093/mnrasl/slab109
Published: 18 October 2021 Article history 

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We use the Gaia eDR3 data and legacy spectroscopic surveys to map the Milky Way disc substructure towards the Galactic
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Anticentre at heliocentric distances d ≥ 10 kpc . We report the discovery of multiple previously undetected new laments
embedded in the outer disc in highly extincted regions. Stars in these overdensities have distance gradients expected for disc
material and move on disc-like orbits with vϕ ∼ 170−230 km s
−1
, showing small spreads in energy. Such a morphology argues

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 against a quiescently growing Galactic thin disc. Some of these structures are interpreted as excited outer disc material, kicked up
by satellite impacts and currently undergoing phase mixing (disc streams, ‘feathers’). Due to the long time-scale in the outer
disc regions, these structures can stay coherent in con guration space over several Gyrs. We nevertheless note that some of these
structures could also be folds in the perturbed disc seen in projection from the Sun’s location. A full 6D phase–space
characterization and age dating of these structures should help distinguish between the two possible morphologies.

Keywords: Galaxy: disc, Galaxy: kinematics and dynamics, Galaxy: stellar content, Galaxy: structure
Issue Section: Letter

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