Is the sky falling? Searching for stellar streams in the local Milky Way disc in the CORAVEL and RAVE surveys

Understand

We have searched for in-falling stellar streams on to the local Milky Way disc in the CORAVEL and RAVE surveys.

• The CORAVEL survey consists of local dwarf stars (Nordstrom et al.
• Geneva-Copenhagen survey) and local Famaey et al.
• giant stars.