<p><a href="https://arxiv.org/abs/1804.11339" rel="nofollow noreferrer">Malhan et al. (2018)</a> summarise progress so far (the Gaia astrometry is improving all the time as more data are collected) using Gaia DR2 data. In particular they produce "panoramic maps" of streams in the Galaxy halo, which I believe is exactly what you are looking for (see below).</p>

<p><a href="https://i.sstatic.net/qVBVv.jpg" rel="nofollow noreferrer"><img src="https://i.sstatic.net/qVBVv.jpg" alt="Streams in the southern Galactic sky"></a>
<em>Coherent tangential velocity structures, a.k.a. "streams", seen in the southern Galactic hemisphere by Gaia DR2 - from Malhan et al. (2018).</em></p>

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I believe it is exactly what I was looking for as well; *it's really beautiful!* I'll definitely enjoy reading this paper, thanks.
uhoh
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<p>I ran across the image below in the August 2000 ESA Bulletin # 103 <a href="http://www.esa.int/esapub/bulletin/bullet103/perryman103.pdf" rel="nofollow noreferrer">GAIA – Unravelling the Origin and
Evolution of Our Galaxy</a></p>

<blockquote>
  <p>Figure 3. This simulation shows how a galaxy halo, like our own, may have been
  built up by the accretion of 50 dwarf galaxies colliding with the galaxy at various
  times during the last 10 billion years. The unit of distance is the kpc, or kiloparsec, where 1 kpc is a little more than 3000 lightyears. GAIA would be able
  to detect the fossil streams of these ancient merging events (Courtesy of Paul Harding)</p>
</blockquote>

<p>Twenty years later, have results from GAIA been used to generate any data of this nature, identifying groups of stars that are likely to have come from nearby dwarf galaxies merging with our own?</p>

<p><a href="https://i.sstatic.net/rHsdy.jpg" rel="nofollow noreferrer"><img src="https://i.sstatic.net/rHsdy.jpg" alt="enter image description here"></a></p>

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Wassily Kandinsky's [Composition with Red and Blue Stripes, 1913](https://i.sstatic.net/CIeDG.jpg) for comparison. [Source](https://www.art.com/products/p32990649071-sa-i9222346/wassily-kandinsky-composition-with-red-and-blue-stripes-1913.htm)
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What has GAIA found out about the dwarf galaxy heritage of stars in the Milky Way, if anything?
uhoh
# What has GAIA found out about the dwarf galaxy heritage of stars in the Milky Way, if anything?

(Asked by: username_0 on 2019-04-23)

I ran across the image below in the August 2000 ESA Bulletin # 103 [GAIA – Unravelling the Origin and
Evolution of Our Galaxy](http://www.esa.int/esapub/bulletin/bullet103/perryman103.pdf)

> Figure 3. This simulation shows how a galaxy halo, like our own, may have been
> built up by the accretion of 50 dwarf galaxies colliding with the galaxy at various
> times during the last 10 billion years. The unit of distance is the kpc, or kiloparsec, where 1 kpc is a little more than 3000 lightyears. GAIA would be able
> to detect the fossil streams of these ancient merging events (Courtesy of Paul Harding)

Twenty years later, have results from GAIA been used to generate any data of this nature, identifying groups of stars that are likely to have come from nearby dwarf galaxies merging with our own?

[![enter image description here](https://i.sstatic.net/rHsdy.jpg)](https://i.sstatic.net/rHsdy.jpg)

**Tags:** galaxy, galactic-dynamics, gaia

> **Comments:**
> **username_0**: Wassily Kandinsky's [Composition with Red and Blue Stripes, 1913](https://i.sstatic.net/CIeDG.jpg) for comparison. [Source](https://www.art.com/products/p32990649071-sa-i9222346/wassily-kandinsky-composition-with-red-and-blue-stripes-1913.htm)  

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## 1 answers

### Answer by username_1 on 2019-05-22. Score: 2 | Accepted answer

[Malhan et al. (2018)](https://arxiv.org/abs/1804.11339) summarise progress so far (the Gaia astrometry is improving all the time as more data are collected) using Gaia DR2 data. In particular they produce "panoramic maps" of streams in the Galaxy halo, which I believe is exactly what you are looking for (see below).

[![Streams in the southern Galactic sky](https://i.sstatic.net/qVBVv.jpg)](https://i.sstatic.net/qVBVv.jpg)
*Coherent tangential velocity structures, a.k.a. "streams", seen in the southern Galactic hemisphere by Gaia DR2 - from Malhan et al. (2018).*

> **Comments:**
> **username_0**: I believe it is exactly what I was looking for as well; *it's really beautiful!* I'll definitely enjoy reading this paper, thanks.  

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