Publications by Jorge Peñarrubia

A dynamical attractor in the evolution of dwarf spheroidal galaxies DOI
Jorge Peñarrubia and Ethan O. Nadler, Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, 548, 4, p. 1-6 (2026)
Signatures of dark subhaloes in dwarf spheroidal galaxies - I. Fluctuations in surface density DOI
Eduardo Vitral, Jorge Penarrubia and Matthew G. Walker, Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, 546, 3, p. 1-19 (2026)
HSTPROMO Internal Proper-motion Kinematics of Dwarf Spheroidal Galaxies. II. Velocity Anisotropy and Dark Matter Cusp Slope of Sculptor DOI
Eduardo Vitral, Roeland P. Van Der Marel, Sangmo Tony Sohn, Jorge Penarrubia, Ekta Patel, Laura L. Watkins, Mattia Libralato, Kevin A. Mckinnon, Andrea Bellini, Andres Del Pino and Paul Bennet, Astrophysical Journal, 998, 2, p. 1-19 (2026)
Gravothermal expansion of dwarf spheroidal galaxies heated by dark subhaloes DOI
Jorge Peñarrubia, Raphaël Errani, Eduardo Vitral and Matthew G. Walker, Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, 544, 2, p. 2557-2576 (2025)
The angular momentum spiral of the Milky Way disc in Gaia DOI
Rashid Yaaqib, Aneesh P. Naik, Jorge Peñarrubia and Michael S. Petersen, Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, 544, 4, p. 3744-3754 (2025)
Disentangling the Galaxy’s Gordian knot: evidence from APOGEE–Gaia for a knotted and slower bar in the Milky Way DOI
Danny Horta Darrington, Michael S. Petersen and Jorge Peñarrubia, Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, 538, 2, p. 998-1018 (2025)
Capture of field stars by dark substructures DOI
Jorge Peñarrubia, Raphaël Errani, Matthew G. Walker, Mark Gieles and Tjarda C. N. Boekholt, Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, 533, 3, p. 3263-3282 (2024)
The radial variation of the LMC-induced reflex motion of the Milky Way disc observed in the stellar halo DOI
Rashid Yaaqib, Michael S. Petersen and Jorge Peñarrubia, Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, 531, 3, p. 3524-3538 (2024)
Microgalaxies in LCDM DOI
Raphaël Errani, Rodrigo Ibata, Julio F. Navarro, Jorge Peñarrubia and Matthew G. Walker, Astrophysical Journal, 968, 2, p. 1-18 (2024)
The Timeless Timing Argument and the Mass of the Local Group DOI
Till Sawala, Jorge Peñarrubia, Shihong Liao and Peter H. Johansson, Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society: Letters, 526, 1, p. L77-L82 (2023)
Dynamics in the outskirts of four Milky Way globular clusters: it's the tides that dominate DOI
Zhen Wan, Anthony D. Arnold, William H. Oliver, Geraint F. Lewis, Holger Baumgardt, Mark Gieles, Vincent Henault-Brunet, Thomas De Boer, Eduardo Balbinot, Annette Ferguson, Pete Kuzma, Jorge Peñarrubia et al., Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, 519, 1, p. 192-207 (2023)
The effect of the deforming dark matter haloes of the Milky Way and the Large Magellanic Cloud on the Orphan-Chenab stream DOI
S5 Collaboration, Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, 518, 1, p. 774-790 (2023)
Forward and Back: Kinematics of the Palomar 5 Tidal Tails DOI
P B Kuzma, A M N Ferguson, A L Varri, M J Irwin, E J Bernard, E Tolstoy, J Peñarrubia and D B Zucker, Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, 512, 1, p. 315-327 (2022)
Two-Point Separation Functions for Modeling Wide Binary Systems in Nearby Dwarf Galaxies DOI
Christopher Kervick, Matthew G. Walker, Jorge Peñarrubia and Sergey E. Koposov, Astrophysical Journal, 929, 1, p. 1-16 (2022)
Detecting Globular Cluster Tidal Extensions with Bayesian Inference: DOI
P.B. Kuzma, A.M.N. Ferguson and J. Peñarrubia, Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, 507, 1, p. 1127-1137 (2021)
A supra-massive population of stellar-mass black holes in the globular cluster Palomar 5 DOI
Mark Gieles, Denis Erkal, Fabio Antonini, Eduardo Balbinot and Jorge Peñarrubia, Nature Astronomy, p. 1-10 (2021)
Creation/destruction of ultra-wide binaries in tidal streams DOI
Jorge Penarrubia, Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, 501, 3, p. 3670-3686 (2021)
Detection of the Milky Way reflex motion due to the Large Magellanic Cloud infall DOI
Michael S. Petersen and Jorge Peñarrubia, Nature Astronomy, 2020, p. 1-13 (2020)
Searching Gaia for extended structure in Globular Clusters DOI
Pete B. Kuzma, Annette M.N. Ferguson and Jorge Peñarrubia, Proceedings of the International Astronomical Union, 14, p. 468-471 (2020)
Can tides disrupt cold dark matter subhaloes? DOI
Raphaël Errani and Jorge Peñarrubia, Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, 491, 4, p. 4591-4601 (2019)
Orbital scattering by random interactions with extended substructures DOI
Jorge Peñarrubia, Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society (2019)
Two major accretion epochs in M31 from two distinct populations of globular clusters DOI
Dougal Mackey, Geraint F. Lewis, Brendon J. Brewer, Annette M. N. Ferguson, Jovan Veljanoski, Avon P. Huxor, Michelle L. M. Collins, Patrick Côté, Rodrigo A. Ibata, Mike J. Irwin, Jorge Peñarrubia et al., Nature, 574, 7776, p. 69-71 (2019)
The large-scale structure of the halo of the Andromeda galaxy II. Hierarchical structure in the Pan-Andromeda Archaeological Survey DOI
Alan W. McConnachie, Rodrigo Ibata, Nicolas Martin, Annette M. N. Ferguson, Michelle Collins, Stephen Gwyn, Mike Irwin, Geraint F. Lewis, A. Dougal Mackey, Tim Davidge, Jorge Penarrubia et al., Astrophysical Journal, 868, 1 (2018)
Systematics in virial mass estimators for pressure-supported systems DOI
Raphaël Errani, Jorge Peñarrubia and Matthew G. Walker, Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society (2018)
On the early evolution of Local Group dwarf galaxy types DOI
José R. Bermejo-Climent, Giuseppina Battaglia, Carme Gallart, Arianna Di Cintio, Chris B. Brook, Luis Cicuéndez, Matteo Monelli, Ryan Leaman, Lucio Mayer, Jorge Peñarrubia et al., Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, 479, 2, p. 1514-1527 (2018)
Probing dark matter with star clusters: a dark matter core in the ultra-faint dwarf Eridanus II DOI
Filippo Contenta, Eduardo Balbinot, James A. Petts, Justin I. Read, Mark Gieles, Michelle L. M. Collins, Jorge Peñarrubia, Maxime Delorme and Alessia Gualandris, Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society (2018)
Fluctuations of the gravitational field generated by a random population of extended substructures DOI
Jorge Peñarrubia, Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, 474, 2, p. 1482-1498 (2018)
Unbiased constraints on ultralight axion mass from dwarf spheroidal galaxies DOI
Alma X. González-Morales, David J. E. Marsh, Jorge Peñarrubia and Luis A. Ureña-López, Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, 472, 2, p. 1346-1360 (2017)
Siriusly, a newly identified intermediate-age Milky Way stellar cluster: a spectroscopic study of Gaia 1 DOI
J. D. Simpson, G. M. De Silva, S. L. Martell, D. B. Zucker, A. M. N. Ferguson, E. J. Bernard, M. Irwin, J. Penarrubia and E. Tolstoy, Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, 471, 4, p. 4087-4098 (2017)
Stellar envelopes of globular clusters embedded in dark mini-haloes DOI
Jorge Peñarrubia, Anna Lisa Varri, Philip G. Breen, Annette M. N. Ferguson and Rubén Sánchez-Janssen, Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society: Letters, 471, 1, p. L31-L35 (2017)
Dynamical evolution of globular clusters in dark matter halos
Philip Breen, Anna Lisa Varri, Jorge Penarrubia and Douglas C. Heggie (2017)
What galaxy masses perturb the local cosmic expansion? DOI
Jorge Peñarrubia and Azadeh Fattahi, Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, 468, 2, p. 1300-1316 (2017)
The effect of a disc on the population of cuspy and cored dark matter substructures in Milky Way-like galaxies DOI
Raphaël Errani, Jorge Penarrubia, Chervin F. P. Laporte and Facundo Gomez, Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society: Letters (2016)
Finding Horndeski theories with Einstein gravity limits DOI
Ryan McManus, Lucas Lombriser and Jorge Peñarrubia, Journal of Cosmology and Astroparticle Physics (JCAP), 11, 11 (2016)
Wide binaries in ultrafaint galaxies: a window on to dark matter on the smallest scales DOI
Jorge Peñarrubia, Aaron D. Ludlow, Julio Chanamé and Matthew G. Walker, Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society: Letters, 461, 1 (2016)
A timing constraint on the (total) mass of the Large Magellanic Cloud DOI
Jorge Peñarrubia, Facundo A. Gómez, Gurtina Besla, Denis Erkal and Yin-Zhe Ma, Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society: Letters, 456, 1, p. L54-L58 (2015)
A probability theory for non-equilibrium gravitational systems DOI
Jorge Peñarrubia, Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, 451, 4, p. 3537-3550 (2015)
The SLUGGS survey DOI
Vincenzo Pota, Aaron J. Romanowsky, Jean P. Brodie, Jorge Penarrubia, Duncan A. Forbes, Nicola R. Napolitano, Caroline Foster, Matthew G. Walker, Jay Strader and Joel C. Roediger, Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, 450, 3, p. 3345-3358 (2015)
Selecting Sagittarius: Identification and Chemical Characterization of the Sagittarius Stream DOI
E. A. Hyde, S. Keller, D. B. Zucker, R. Ibata, A. Siebert, G. F. Lewis, J. Penarrubia, M. Irwin, G. Gilmore, R. R. Lane et al., Astrophysical Journal, 805, 2 (2015)
Constraining the distribution of dark matter in dwarf spheroidal galaxies with stellar tidal streams DOI
Raphael Errani, Jorge Penarrubia and Giuseppe Tormen, Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society: Letters, 449, 1, p. L46-L50 (2015)
How chameleons core dwarfs with cusps DOI
Lucas Lombriser and Jorge Peñarrubia, Physical Review D, 91, 8 (2015)
Under the sword of Damocles DOI
Chervin F. P. Laporte and Jorge Penarrubia, Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society: Letters, 449, 1, p. L90-L94 (2015)
Insights from the outskirts DOI
Benjamin Hendricks, Andreas Koch, Matthew Walker, Christian I. Johnson, Jorge Penarrubia and Gerard Gilmore, Astronomy & Astrophysics, 572 (2014)
Accretion in action: phase space coherence of stellar debris and globular clusters in Andromeda's South-West Cloud★ DOI
A. D. Mackey, G. F. Lewis, M. L. M. Collins, N. F. Bate, R. A. Ibata, N. F. Martin, Scott Chapman, A. Conn, P. Elahi, A. M. N. Ferguson, J. Peñarrubia et al., Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society: Letters, 445, 1, p. L89-L93 (2014)
A dynamical model of the local cosmic expansion DOI
Jorge Penarrubia, Yin-Zhe Ma, Matthew G. Walker and Alan McConnachie, Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, 443, 3, p. 2204-2222 (2014)
Serendipitous discovery of a thin stellar stream near the Galactic bulge in the Pan-STARRS1 3π Survey DOI
Edouard J. Bernard, Annette M. N. Ferguson, Edward F. Schlafly, Mohamad Abbas, Eric F. Bell, Niall R. Deacon, Nicolas F. Martin, Hans-Walter Rix, Branimir Sesar, Colin T. Slater, Jorge Peñarrubia et al., Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society: Letters, 443 (2014)
The outer halo globular cluster system of M31 - II. Kinematics DOI
J. Veljanoski, A. D. Mackey, A. M. N. Ferguson, A. P. Huxor, P. Côté, M. J. Irwin, N. R. Tanvir, J. Peñarrubia, E. J. Bernard, M. Fardal, N. F. Martin et al., Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, 442, 4, p. 2929-2950 (2014)
The Complex Structure of Stars in the Outer Galactic Disk as Revealed by Pan-STARRS1 DOI
Colin T. Slater, Eric F. Bell, Edward F. Schlafly, Eric Morganson, Nicolas F. Martin, Hans-Walter Rix, Jorge Penarrubia, Edouard J. Bernard, Annette M. N. Ferguson, David Martinez-Delgado, Rosemary F. G. Wyse et al., Astrophysical Journal, 791, 1 (2014)
THE PAndAS FIELD OF STREAMS DOI
Nicolas F. Martin, Rodrigo A. Ibata, R. Michael Rich, Michelle L. M. Collins, Mark A. Fardal, Michael J. Irwin, Geraint F. Lewis, Alan W. McConnachie, Arif Babul, Annette M. N. Ferguson, Jorge Penarrubia et al., Astrophysical Journal, 787, 1 (2014)
The Metal-poor Knee in the Fornax Dwarf Spheroidal Galaxy DOI
Benjamin Hendricks, Andreas Koch, Gustavo A. Lanfranchi, Corrado Boeche, Matthew Walker, Christian I. Johnson, Jorge Peñarrubia and Gerard Gilmore, Astrophysical Journal, 785, 2, p. 102 (2014)
The Large-Scale Structure of the Halo of the Andromeda Galaxy. I. Global Stellar Density, Morphology and Metallicity Properties DOI
Rodrigo A. Ibata, Geraint F. Lewis, Alan W. McConnachie, Nicolas F. Martin, Michael J. Irwin, Annette M. N. Ferguson, Arif Babul, Edouard J. Bernard, Scott C. Chapman, Michelle Collins, Jorge Peñarrubia et al., Astrophysical Journal, 780, 2 (2014)
Precession of the Sagittarius stream DOI
V. Belokurov, S. E. Koposov, N. W. Evans, J. Penarrubia, M J Irwin, M. C. Smith, G. F. Lewis, M Gieles, M. I. Wilkinson, G Gilmore, E W Olszewski et al., Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, 437, 1, p. 116-131 (2014)
Dynamical Invariants and Diffusion of Merger Substructures in Time-Dependent Gravitational Potentials DOI
Jorge Penarrubia, Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, 433, 3, p. 2576-2587 (2013)
HERSCHEL-ATLAS: A BINARY HyLIRG PINPOINTING A CLUSTER OF STARBURSTING PROTOELLIPTICALS DOI
R. J. Ivison, A. M. Swinbank, Ian Smail, A. I. Harris, R. S. Bussmann, A. Cooray, P. Cox, H. Fu, A. Kovacs, J. Penarrubia et al., Astrophysical Journal, 772, 2 (2013)
Measuring the slopes of mass profiles for dwarf spheroidals in triaxial cold dark matter potentials DOI
Chervin F. P. Laporte, Matthew G. Walker and Jorge Penarrubia, Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, 433, 1, p. L54-L58 (2013)
Kinematics of Outer Halo Globular Clusters in M31 DOI
J. Veljanoski, A. M. N. Ferguson, A. D. Mackey, A. P. Huxor, M. J. Irwin, P. Côté, N. R. Tanvir, E. J. Bernard, S. C. Chapman, R. A. Ibata, J. Peñarrubia et al., Astrophysical Journal Letters, 768, 2 (2013)
A Kinematic Study of the Andromeda Dwarf Spheroidal System
Michelle L. M. Collins, Scott C. Chapman, R. Michael Rich, Rodrigo A. Ibata, Nicolas F. Martin, Michael J. Irwin, Nicholas F. Bate, Geraint F. Lewis, Jorge Peñarrubia, Nobuo Arimoto, Annette M. N. Ferguson et al., Astrophysical Journal, 768, p. 172 (2013)
Dynamics in the satellite system of Triangulum: is And XXII a dwarf satellite of M33? DOI
S. C. Chapman, L. Widrow, M. L. M. Collins, J. Dubinski, R. A. Ibata, M. Rich, A. M. N. Ferguson, M. J. Irwin, G. F. Lewis, N. Martin, J. Peñarrubia et al., Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, 430, p. 37-49 (2013)
A Statistical Method for Measuring the Galactic Potential and Testing Gravity with Cold Tidal Streams DOI
Jorge Peñarrubia, Sergey E. Koposov and Matthew G. Walker, Astrophysical Journal, 760, 1, p. 2 (2012)
The Coupling between the Core/Cusp and Missing Satellite Problems DOI
Jorge Peñarrubia, Andrew Pontzen, Matthew G. Walker and Sergey E. Koposov, Astrophysical Journal Letters, 759, 2 (2012)
Spectroscopic hint of a cold stream in the direction of the globular cluster NGC 1851 DOI
A. Sollima, R. G. Gratton, J. A. Carballo-Bello, D. Martínez-Delgado, E. Carretta, A. Bragaglia, S. Lucatello and J. Peñarrubia, Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, 426, 2, p. 1137-1143 (2012)
The cold veil of the Milky Way stellar halo DOI
A. J. Deason, V. Belokurov, N. W. Evans, S. E. Koposov, R. J. Cooke, J. Peñarrubia, C. F. P. Laporte, M. Fellhauer, M. G. Walker and E. W. Olszewski, Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, 425, 4, p. 2840-2853 (2012)
The Sagittarius Streams in the Southern Galactic Hemisphere DOI
Sergey E. Koposov, V. Belokurov, N. W. Evans, G. Gilmore, M. Gieles, M. J. Irwin, G. F. Lewis, M. Niederste-Ostholt, J. Peñarrubia, M. C. Smith, D. Bizyaev et al., Astrophysical Journal, 750, 1, p. 80 (2012)
The Gaia-ESO Public Spectroscopic Survey
G. Gilmore, S. Randich, M. Asplund, J. Binney, P. Bonifacio, J. Drew, S. Feltzing, A. Ferguson, R. Jeffries, G. Micela, N. Hambly, J. Penarrubia, M. Read et al., The Messenger, 147, p. 25-31 (2012)
A METHOD FOR MEASURING (SLOPES OF) THE MASS PROFILES OF DWARF SPHEROIDAL GALAXIES DOI
Matthew G. Walker and Jorge Peñarrubia, Astrophysical Journal, 742, 1 (2011)
Accurate Stellar Kinematics at Faint Magnitudes: DOI
Sergey E. Koposov, G. Gilmore, M. G. Walker, V. Belokurov, N. Wyn Evans, M. Fellhauer, W. Gieren, D. Geisler, L. Monaco, J. E. Norris, J. Penarrubia et al., Astrophysical Journal (2011)
A Deep View of the Monoceros Ring in the Anticenter Direction: Clues of Its Extra-galactic Origin DOI
A. Sollima, D. Valls-Gabaud, D. Martinez-Delgado, J. Fliri, J. Peñarrubia and H. Hoekstra, Astrophysical Journal Letters, 730, 1 (2011)
Discovery of Tidal Tails Around the Distant Globular Cluster Palomar 14 DOI
A. Sollima, D. Martínez-Delgado, D. Valls-Gabaud and J. Peñarrubia, Astrophysical Journal, 726, 1, p. 47 (2011)
No Evidence for Internal Rotation in the Remnant Core of the Sagittarius Dwarf DOI
Jorge Peñarrubia, Daniel B. Zucker, Mike J. Irwin, Elaina A. Hyde, Richard R. Lane, Geraint F. Lewis, Gerard Gilmore, N. Wyn Evans and Vasily Belokurov, Astrophysical Journal Letters, 727, 1 (2011)
A UNIVERSAL MASS PROFILE FOR DWARF SPHEROIDAL GALAXIES? DOI
Matthew G. Walker, Mario Mateo, Edward W. Olszewski, Jorge Peñarrubia, N. Wyn Evans and Gerard Gilmore, Astrophysical Journal, 704, 2, p. 1274-1287 (2009)
The Tidal Evolution of Local Group Dwarf Spheroidals DOI
Jorge Penarrubia, Julio F. Navarro and Alan W. Mcconnachie, Astrophysical Journal, 673, 1, p. 226-240 (2008)
The Cold Dark Matter Halos of Local Group Dwarf Spheroidals DOI
Jorge Penarrubia, Alan W. Mcconnachie and Julio F. Navarro, Astrophysical Journal, 672, 2, p. 904-913 (2008)

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Publications by Jorge Peñarrubia