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Publications (14)

astro-ph.GA2024

Chemical Cartography with APOGEE: Two-process Parameters and Residual Abundances for 288,789 Stars from Data Release 17

Tawny Sit, David H. Weinberg, Adam Wheeler +4

Stellar abundance measurements are subject to systematic errors that induce extra scatter and artificial correlations in elemental abundance patterns. We derive empirical calibrati…

astro-ph.SR2021

An unsupervised method for identifying -enriched stars directly from spectra: Li in LAMOST

Adam Wheeler, Melissa Ness, David W. Hogg

Stars with peculiar element abundances are important markers of chemical enrichment mechanisms. We present a simple method, tangent space projection (TSP), for the detection of

astro-ph.EP2020

Hundreds of new periodic signals detected in the first year of with the

Joheen Chakraborty, Adam Wheeler, David Kipping

We apply the , a nonparametric signal detection algorithm based on phase dispersion minimization, in a search for low duty-cycle periodic signals in the Transi…

astro-ph.GA2024

ACACIAS I: Element abundance labels for 192 stars in the dwarf galaxy NGC 6822

Melissa K. Ness, J. Trevor Mendel, Sven Buder +8

The element abundances of local group galaxies connect enrichment mechanisms to galactic properties and serve to contextualise the Milky Way's abundance distributions. Individual s…

astro-ph.SR2026

A constrained linear model for continuum normalization of stellar spectra

Andrew R. Casey, Adam Wheeler, Megan Bedell +3

Inferring stellar parameters and chemical abundances by forward modeling stellar spectra usually requires a spectral synthesis code, or an emulator constructed from a curated train…

astro-ph.GA2025

The Nineteenth Data Release of the Sloan Digital Sky Survey

SDSS Collaboration, Gautham Adamane Pallathadka, Mojgan Aghakhanloo +209

Mapping the local and distant Universe is key to our understanding of it. For decades, the Sloan Digital Sky Survey (SDSS) has made a concerted effort to map millions of celestial…

astro-ph.GA2023

The Eighteenth Data Release of the Sloan Digital Sky Surveys: Targeting and First Spectra from SDSS-V

Andrés Almeida, Scott F. Anderson, Maria Argudo-Fernández +151

The eighteenth data release of the Sloan Digital Sky Surveys (SDSS) is the first one for SDSS-V, the fifth generation of the survey. SDSS-V comprises three primary scientific progr…

astro-ph.EP2019

The Weird Detector: Flagging periodic, coherent signals of arbitrary shape in time series photometry

Adam Wheeler, David Kipping

By design, model-based approaches for flagging transiting exoplanets in light curves, such as boxed least squares, excel at detecting planets with low S/N at the expense of finding…

astro-ph.IM2021

Disentangled Representation Learning for Astronomical Chemical Tagging

Damien de Mijolla, Melissa Ness, Serena Viti +1

Modern astronomical surveys are observing spectral data for millions of stars. These spectra contain chemical information that can be used to trace the Galaxy's formation and chemi…

astro-ph.GA2025

Spectroscopic Follow-up of Young High- Dwarf Star Candidates: Still Likely Genuinely Young

Yuxi Lu, Catherine Manea, Maryum Sayeed +9

The question of whether genuinely young high- stars exist has been discussed for over a decade since their discovery from asteroseismology of giant stars as it is challenging t…

astro-ph.IM2025

Sloan Digital Sky Survey-V: Pioneering Panoptic Spectroscopy

Juna A. Kollmeier, Hans-Walter Rix, Conny Aerts +217

The Sloan Digital Sky Survey-V (SDSS-V) is pioneering panoptic spectroscopy: it is the first all-sky, multi-epoch, optical-to-infrared spectroscopic survey. SDSS-V is mapping the s…

astro-ph.GA2022

Chemodynamical signatures of bar resonances in the Galactic disk: current data and future prospects

Adam Wheeler, Irene Abril-Cabezas, Wilma H. Trick +2

The Galactic disk exhibits complex chemical and dynamical substructure thought to be induced by the bar, spiral arms, and satellites. Here, we explore the chemical signatures of ba…

astro-ph.SR2021

The Swan: Data-Driven Inference of Stellar Surface Gravities for Cool Stars from Photometric Light Curves

Maryum Sayeed, Daniel Huber, Adam Wheeler +1

Stellar light curves are well known to encode physical stellar properties. Precise, automated and computationally inexpensive methods to derive physical parameters from light curve…

astro-ph.SR2020

Abundances in the Milky Way across five nucleosynthetic channels from 4 million LAMOST stars

Adam Wheeler, Melissa Ness, Sven Buder +10

Large stellar surveys are revealing the chemodynamical structure of the Galaxy across a vast spatial extent. However, the many millions of low-resolution spectra observed to date a…