# The Sausage Globular Clusters

@article{Myeong2018TheSG,
title={The Sausage Globular Clusters},
author={Gyuchul Myeong and N. Wyn Evans and Vasily A Belokurov and Jason L. Sanders and Sergey E. Koposov},
journal={The Astrophysical Journal},
year={2018}
}
The Gaia Sausage is an elongated structure in velocity space discovered by Belokurov et al. (2018) using the kinematics of metal-rich halo stars. It was created by a massive dwarf galaxy ($\sim 5 \times 10^{10} M_\odot$) on a strongly radial orbit that merged with the Milky Way at a redshift $z\lesssim 3$. We search forthe associated Sausage Globular Clusters by analysing the structure of 91 Milky Way globular clusters (GCs) in action space using the Gaia Data Release 2 catalogue, complemented…
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