Research
We discover and characterize the population of stellar streams around the Milky Way using large surveys like the Dark Energy Suvey, Gaia, and the Rubin Observatory LSST.
Milky Way Stellar Streams
Disrupting Satellites Across Simulations
Using populations of disrupting satellites in cosmological simulations, we test our understanding of small-scale galaxy formation, examine the Milky Way’s place in our Universe, and challenge the standard cosmological model.
Galactic Dynamics
We create dynamical models of the Milky Way in order to understand the local distribution of dark matter and to characterize disequilibrium in our Galaxy.
Select Publications
Shaping the Milky Way: The interplay of mergers and cosmic filaments
Arora, Garavito-Camargo, incl. Shipp, et al.
2025
Auriga Streams II: Orbital properties of tidally disrupting satellites of Milky Way-mass galaxies
Shipp, Riley, Simpson, et al.
2025
Auriga Streams I: Identifying and characterising disrupting satellites across multiple resolutions
Riley, Shipp, Simpson, et al.
2025
StreamGen: Connecting Populations of Streams and Shells to Their Host Galaxies
Dropulic, Shipp, Kim, et al.
2025
Efficient and accurate force replay in cosmological-baryonic simulations
Arora, Sanderson, incl. Shipp, et al.
2024
Streams on FIRE: Populations of Detectable Stellar Streams in the Milky Way and FIRE
Shipp, Panithanpaisal, Necib, et al.
2023
Measuring the Mass of the Large Magellanic Cloud with Stellar Streams Observed by S5
Shipp, Erkal, Drlica-Wagner, et al.
2021
Discovery of Extended Tidal Tails around the Globular Cluster Palomar 13
Shipp, Price-Whelan, Tavangar, et al.
2020
Proper Motions of Stellar Streams Discovered in the Dark Energy Survey
Shipp, Li, Pace, et al.
2019
Stellar Streams Discovered in the Dark Energy Survey
Shipp, Drlica-Wagner, Balbinot, et al.
2018
Public Press
April 2024
April 2024