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List of works by Gurtina Besla

A Widespread, Clumpy Starburst in the Isolated Ongoing Dwarf Galaxy Merger dm1647+21

scientific article published in the Astrophysical Journal

A stellar overdensity associated with the Small Magellanic Cloud

scholarly article

A timing constraint on the (total) mass of the Large Magellanic Cloud ⬇️

scientific article published in January 2016

Absolute Hubble Space Telescope Proper Motion (HSTPROMO) of Distant Milky Way Globular Clusters: Galactocentric Space Velocities and the Milky Way Mass

And yet it moves: the dangers of artificially fixing the Milky Way center of mass in the presence of a massive Large Magellanic Cloud ⬇️

scientific article published in January 2015

Are the Magellanic Clouds on Their First Passage about the Milky Way? ⬇️

Connecting the first galaxies with ultrafaint dwarfs in the Local Group: chemical signatures of Population III stars ⬇️

scientific article published in January 2017

Direct evidence of hierarchical assembly at low masses from isolated dwarf galaxy groups

Direct evidence of hierarchical assembly at low masses from isolated dwarf galaxy groups

scientific article published in January 2017

Dynamics of the Magellanic Clouds in a Lambda cold dark matter universe

scientific article

Estimating the Mass of the Milky Way Using the Ensemble of Classical Satellite Galaxies

scientific article published in the Astrophysical Journal

Exploring the Very Extended Low-surface-brightness Stellar Populations of the Large Magellanic Cloud with SMASH

scholarly article

First Gaia Dynamics of the Andromeda System: DR2 Proper Motions, Orbits, and Rotation of M31 and M33

scientific article published in the Astrophysical Journal

Formation of narrow dust rings in circumstellar debris disks ⬇️

scientific article published in January 2007

Gaia DR2 proper motions of dwarf galaxies within 420 kpc. Orbits, Milky Way mass, tidal influences, planar alignments, and group infall

scientific article

Gas and Star Formation in Satellites of Milky Way Analogs

scientific article published on 26 April 2024

HST Proper Motions of Distant Globular Clusters: Constraining the Formation & Mass of the Milky Way

Heavenly harmony: red giant pulsating in many modes

scientific article published in January 2003

Hubble Space Telescope proper motions of individual stars in stellar streams: Orphan, Sagittarius, Lethe, and the new "Parallel' stream" ⬇️

scientific article published in the Astrophysical Journal

Hunting for the Dark Matter Wake Induced by the Large Magellanic Cloud

scientific article published on 11 October 2019

Hydra II: a faint and compact Milky Way dwarf galaxy found in the survey of the Magellanic stellar history ⬇️

article

Kinematical structure of the Magellanic System

Kinematics of luminous blue variables in the Large Magellanic Cloud

scientific article published on 18 August 2022

Local Volume TiNy Titans: gaseous dwarf–dwarf interactions in the Local Universe ⬇️

scientific article

Low surface brightness imaging of the Magellanic system: imprints of tidal interactions between the clouds in the stellar periphery ⬇️

scientific article published in the Astrophysical Journal

Modelling the baryon cycle in low-mass galaxy encounters: the case of NGC 4490 and NGC 4485

scientific article published in January 2018

Multiperiodicity in five small-amplitude pulsating red giants

scholarly article

New analysis of the proper motions of the Magellanic Clouds using HST/WFPC2

On the origin of dynamically cold rings around the Milky Way ⬇️

scientific article published in January 2008

Orbits of massive satellite galaxies - I. A close look at the Large Magellanic Cloud and a new orbital history for M33 ⬇️

scholarly article

Orbits of massive satellite galaxies - II. Bayesian estimates of the Milky Way and Andromeda masses using high-precision astrometry and cosmological simulations

scientific article published in January 2017

Probing the assembly of dwarf galaxies through cosmic time with damped Ly{alpha} absorption spectroscopy ⬇️

scientific article published in January 2019

Quantifying the Stellar Halo's Response to the LMC's Infall with Spherical Harmonics

scientific article published on 16 July 2020

Ram pressure stripping of the Large Magellanic Cloud's disk as a probe of the Milky Way's circumgalactic medium ⬇️

scientific article published in the Astrophysical Journal

Resolved kinematics of runaway and field OB stars in the Small Magellanic Cloud ⬇️

scientific article published in January 2018

Resonant stripping as the origin of dwarf spheroidal galaxies

scientific article

Response of the Milky Way's disc to the Large Magellanic Cloud in a first infall scenario

scientific article published on 11 September 2017

Revisiting the role of M31 in the dynamical history of the Magellanic Clouds ⬇️

scientific article published in the Astrophysical Journal

SMASH 1: a very faint globular cluster disrupting in the outer reaches of the LMC? ⬇️

SMASH: Survey of the MAgellanic Stellar History

scientific article published in Astronomical Journal

SMASHing the LMC: A Tidally Induced Warp in the Outer LMC and a Large-scale Reddening Map

scientific article published in the Astrophysical Journal

SMASHing the LMC: Mapping a Ring-like Stellar Overdensity in the LMC Disk

scientific article published in the Astrophysical Journal

SMHASH: anatomy of the Orphan Stream using RR Lyrae stars

scientific article

Simulations of the Magellanic Stream in a first infall scenario ⬇️

Space Motions of the Dwarf Spheroidal Galaxies Draco and Sculptor Based on HST Proper Motions with a ∼10 yr Time Baseline

scientific article published in the Astrophysical Journal

Spiral-induced star formation in the outer disks of galaxies ⬇️

scientific article published in the Astrophysical Journal

Structural Parameters and Possible Association of the Ultra-faint Dwarfs Pegasus III and Pisces II from Deep Hubble Space Telescope Photometry

scientific article published in 2022

The Hubble Space Telescope Survey of M31 Satellite Galaxies. I. RR Lyrae–based Distances and Refined 3D Geometric Structure

scientific article published in 2022

The M31 velocity vector. II. Radial orbit toward the Milky Way and implied Local Group mass ⬇️

scientific article published in the Astrophysical Journal

The M31 velocity vector. III. Future Milky Way M31-M33 orbital evolution, merging, and fate of the Sun ⬇️

scientific article (publication date: 8 June 2012)

The Missing Satellites of the Magellanic Clouds? Gaia Proper Motions of the Recently Discovered Ultra-faint Galaxies

scientific article

The Orbital History of the LMC

The Proper Motion Field of the Small Magellanic Cloud: Kinematic Evidence for Its Tidal Disruption

The Proper-motion Field along the Magellanic Bridge: A New Probe of the LMC–SMC Interaction

scholarly article

The Radical Consequences of Realistic Satellite Orbits for the Heating and Implied Merger Histories of Galactic Disks ⬇️

scientific article published in the Astrophysical Journal

The binarity of the Clouds and the formation of the Magellanic Stream

The frequency of dwarf galaxy multiples at low redshift in SDSS versus cosmological expectations

scientific article published in January 2018

The influence of Sagittarius and the Large Magellanic Cloud on the stellar disc of the Milky Way Galaxy

scientific article

The origin of the microlensing events observed towards the LMC and the stellar counterpart of the Magellanic stream

scientific article published in January 2013

The role of dwarf galaxy interactions in shaping the Magellanic System and implications for Magellanic Irregulars

scientific article

The space motion of Leo I: Hubble space telescope proper motion and implied orbit ⬇️

scientific article published in the Astrophysical Journal

The space motion of Leo I: the mass of the Milky Way's dark matter halo ⬇️

scientific article published in the Astrophysical Journal

Third-epoch Magellanic cloud proper motions. I. Hubble space Telescope/WFC3 data and orbit implications ⬇️

scientific article

TiNy TITANS: THE ROLE OF DWARF–DWARF INTERACTIONS IN LOW-MASS GALAXY EVOLUTION ⬇️

scientific article published in the Astrophysical Journal

Variable stars in the field of the Hydra II ultra-faint dwarf galaxy ⬇️

scientific article published in Astronomical Journal

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