papers

Publications (110)

astro-ph.GA2019

Dynamical Masses for a Complete Census of Local Dwarf Galaxies

Joshua D. Simon, Keith Bechtol, Alex Drlica-Wagner +9

astro-ph.GA2013

A Megacam Survey of Outer Halo Satellites. II. Blue Stragglers in the Lowest Stellar Density Systems

Felipe A. Santana, Ricardo R. Munoz, Marla Geha +4

astro-ph.CO2012

Internal Stellar Kinematics of M32 from the SPLASH Survey: Dark Halo Constraints and the Formation of Compact Elliptical Galaxies

Kirsten Howley, Puragra Guhathakurta, Roeland van der Marel +6

astro-ph.GA2025

SAGAbg III: Environmental Stellar Mass Functions, Self-Quenching, and the Stellar-to-Halo Mass Relation in the Dwarf Galaxy Regime

Erin Kado-Fong, Yao-Yuan Mao, Yasmeen Asali +8

astro-ph.CO2010

Accurate masses for dispersion-supported galaxies

Joe Wolf, Gregory D. Martinez, James S. Bullock +5

astro-ph.GA2022

Timing the r-Process Enrichment of the Ultra-Faint Dwarf Galaxy Reticulum II

Joshua D. Simon, Thomas M. Brown, Burçin Mutlu-Pakdil +65

astro-ph.GA2012

A Cold Milky Way Stellar Stream in the Direction of Triangulum

Ana Bonaca, Marla Geha, Nitya Kallivayalil

astro-ph.GA2015

A Hubble Astrometry Initiative: Laying the Foundation for the Next-Generation Proper-Motion Survey of the Local Group

Nitya Kallivayalil, Andrew R. Wetzel, Joshua D. Simon +6

astro-ph.GA2024

The SAGA Survey. IV. The Star Formation Properties of 101 Satellite Systems around Milky Way-mass Galaxies

Marla Geha, Yao-Yuan Mao, Risa H. Wechsler +9

astro-ph.GA2026

Probing the IMF in the Early Universe -- Direct measurements in the Boötes I UFD with JWST/NIRCam

Keyi Ding, Mario Gennaro, Roberto J. Avila +20

astro-ph.GA2026

A Chemodynamical Census of the Milky Way's Ultra-Faint Compact Satellites. I. A First Population-Level Look at the Internal Kinematics and Metallicities of 19 Extremely-Low-Mass Halo Stellar Systems

William Cerny, Ting S. Li, Andrew B. Pace +13

astro-ph.GA2025

ELVES-Dwarf I: Satellites Systems of Eight Isolated Dwarf Galaxies in the Local Volume

Jiaxuan Li, Jenny E. Greene, Shany Danieli +4

astro-ph.GA2025

Multi-wavelength constraints on the local black hole occupation fraction

Colin J. Burke, Priyamvada Natarajan, Vivienne F. Baldassare +1

astro-ph.GA2020

HST Proper Motions of NGC 147 and NGC 185: Orbital Histories and Test of Dynamically Coherent Andromeda Satellite Plane

Sangmo Tony Sohn, Ekta Patel, Mark A. Fardal +4

astro-ph.GA2020

Multiple Chemodynamic Stellar Populations of the Ursa Minor Dwarf Spheroidal Galaxy

Andrew B. Pace, Manoj Kaplinghat, Evan Kirby +6

astro-ph.GA2026

The Keck/DEIMOS Stellar Archive: I. Uniform Velocities and Metallicities for 78 Milky Way Dwarf Galaxies and Globular Clusters

Marla Geha, Debora Pelliccia, J. Xavier Prochaska +5

astro-ph.CO2012

The Primeval Populations of the Ultra-Faint Dwarf Galaxies

Thomas M. Brown, Jason Tumlinson, Marla Geha +9

astro-ph.CO2019

Astrophysical Tests of Dark Matter with Maunakea Spectroscopic Explorer

Ting S. Li, Manoj Kaplinghat, Keith Bechtol +27

astro-ph.GA2023

X-ray Properties of Optically Variable Low-mass AGN Candidates

Alexander Messick, Vivienne Baldassare, Marla Geha +1

astro-ph2018

LSST: from Science Drivers to Reference Design and Anticipated Data Products

Željko Ivezić, Steven M. Kahn, J. Anthony Tyson +310

astro-ph.GA2022

Extending the SAGA Survey (xSAGA) I: Satellite Radial Profiles as a Function of Host Galaxy Properties

John F. Wu, J. E. G. Peek, Erik J. Tollerud +6

astro-ph.CO2019

Testing the Nature of Dark Matter with Extremely Large Telescopes

Joshua D. Simon, Simon Birrer, Keith Bechtol +12

astro-ph.GA2018

Gas Kinematics in FIRE Simulated Galaxies Compared to Spatially Unresolved HI Observations

Kareem El-Badry, Jeremy Bradford, Eliot Quataert +9

astro-ph.GA2025

The Morphology of Dwarf Galaxies Hosting Variable Active Galactic Nuclei

Erin Kimbro, Vivienne Baldassare, Guy Worthey +2

astro-ph2007

The Kinematics of the Ultra-Faint Milky Way Satellites: Solving the Missing Satellite Problem

Joshua D. Simon, Marla Geha

astro-ph.GA2023

Target Selection and Sample Characterization for the DESI LOW-Z Secondary Target Program

Elise Darragh-Ford, John F. Wu, Yao-Yuan Mao +39

astro-ph.GA2024

Deep Hubble Space Telescope Photometry of LMC and Milky Way Ultra-Faint Dwarfs: A careful look into the magnitude-size relation

Hannah Richstein, Nitya Kallivayalil, Joshua D. Simon +16

astro-ph.GA2025

No Observational Evidence for Dark Matter Nor a Large Metallicity Spread in the Extreme Milky Way Satellite Ursa Major III / UNIONS 1

William Cerny, Daisy Bissonette, Alexander P. Ji +9

astro-ph.GA2021

Star Formation Histories of Ultra-Faint Dwarf Galaxies: environmental differences between Magellanic and non-Magellanic satellites?

Elena Sacchi, Hannah Richstein, Nitya Kallivayalil +18

astro-ph.GA2016

Multi-epoch Spectroscopy of Dwarf Galaxies with AGN Signatures: Identifying Sources with Persistent Broad H-alpha Emission

Vivienne F. Baldassare, Amy E. Reines, Elena Gallo +6

astro-ph.GA2020

Eridanus II: A Fossil from Reionization with an Off-Center Star Cluster

Joshua D. Simon, Thomas M. Brown, Alex Drlica-Wagner +10

astro-ph.GA2025

The SAGA Survey. V. Modeling Satellite Systems around Milky Way-mass Galaxies with Updated UniverseMachine

Yunchong Wang, Ethan O. Nadler, Yao-Yuan Mao +11

astro-ph.GA2016

A MegaCam Survey of Outer Halo Satellites. VI: The Spatially Resolved Star Formation History of the Carina Dwarf Spheroidal Galaxy

Felipe A. Santana, Ricardo R. Muñoz, T. J. L. de Boer +6

astro-ph.GA2026

A Possible "Too-Many-Satellites" Problem in the Isolated Dwarf Galaxy DDO 161

Jiaxuan Li, Jenny E. Greene, Shany Danieli +2

astro-ph.GA2018

The initial mass function in the Coma Berenices dwarf galaxy from deep near-infrared HST observations

Mario Gennaro, Marla Geha, Kirill Tchernyshyov +6

astro-ph.GA2024

The JWST UNCOVER Treasury survey: Ultradeep NIRSpec and NIRCam ObserVations before the Epoch of Reionization

Rachel Bezanson, Ivo Labbe, Katherine E. Whitaker +40

astro-ph.GA2016

Portrait of a Dark Horse: a Photometric and Spectroscopic Study of the Ultra-faint Milky Way Satellite Pegasus III

Dongwon Kim, Helmut Jerjen, Marla Geha +6

astro-ph.GA2018

Identifying AGNs in low-mass galaxies via long-term optical variability

Vivienne F. Baldassare, Marla Geha, Jenny Greene

astro-ph.GA2017

The SAGA Survey: I. Satellite Galaxy Populations Around Eight Milky Way Analogs

Marla Geha, Risa H. Wechsler, Yao-Yuan Mao +8

astro-ph.IM2023

NANCY: Next-generation All-sky Near-infrared Community surveY

Jiwon Jesse Han, Arjun Dey, Adrian M. Price-Whelan +206

astro-ph.GA2018

Pristine Dwarf-Galaxy Survey I: A detailed photometric and spectroscopic study of the very metal-poor Draco II satellite

Nicolas Longeard, Nicolas Martin, Else Starkenburg +17

astro-ph.GA2026

The Metallicity Distribution of the Ultra-Faint Dwarf Galaxy Segue 1

Daisy Bissonette, Alexander P. Ji, Joshua D. Simon +6

astro-ph.GA2024

SAGAbg I: A Near-Unity Mass Loading Factor in Low-Mass Galaxies via their Low-Redshift Evolution in Stellar Mass, Oxygen Abundance, and Star Formation Rate

Erin Kado-Fong, Marla Geha, Yao-Yuan Mao +7

astro-ph.GA2024

Structural parameters and possible association of the Ultra-Faint Dwarfs Pegasus III and Pisces II from deep Hubble Space Telescope photometry

Hannah Richstein, Ekta Patel, Nitya Kallivayalil +17

astro-ph.IM2019

The Detailed Science Case for the Maunakea Spectroscopic Explorer, 2019 edition

The MSE Science Team, Carine Babusiaux, Maria Bergemann +258

astro-ph.GA2025

Stellar Mass Calibrations for Local Low-Mass Galaxies

Mithi A. C. de los Reyes, Yasmeen Asali, Risa Wechsler +10

astro-ph.GA2020

Populating the low-mass end of the relation

Vivienne F. Baldassare, Claire Dickey, Marla Geha +1

astro-ph.IM2026

A Path to an All-Sky Survey with Roman

Jiwon Jesse Han, Anirudh Chiti, Kai-Feng Chen +93

astro-ph.GA2024

Signatures of tidal disruption of the Hercules ultra-faint dwarf galaxy

Xiaowei Ou, Anirudh Chiti, Nora Shipp +6

astro-ph.GA2015

Spectroscopic Confirmation of the Existence of Large, Diffuse Galaxies in the Coma Cluster

Pieter van Dokkum, Aaron Romanowsky, Roberto Abraham +6

astro-ph.GA2015

Forty-Seven Milky Way-Sized, Extremely Diffuse Galaxies in the Coma Cluster

Pieter van Dokkum, Roberto Abraham, Allison Merritt +3

astro-ph.GA2024

The SAGA Survey. III. A Census of 101 Satellite Systems around Milky Way-mass Galaxies

Yao-Yuan Mao, Marla Geha, Risa H. Wechsler +9

astro-ph.GA2019

Variations in the width, density, and direction of the Palomar 5 tidal tails

Ana Bonaca, Sarah Pearson, Adrian M. Price-Whelan +8

astro-ph2007

Testing cold dark matter with the low mass Tully-Fisher relation

Michael R. Blanton, Marla Geha, Andrew A. West

astro-ph2007

The Most Dark Matter Dominated Galaxies: Predicted Gamma-ray Signals from the Faintest Milky Way Dwarfs

Louis E. Strigari, Savvas M. Koushiappas, James S. Bullock +4

astro-ph.GA2019

Astro2020 Science White Paper: Construction of an L* Galaxy: the Transformative Power of Wide Fields for Revealing the Past, Present and Future of the Great Andromeda System

Karoline M. Gilbert, Erik J. Tollerud, Jay Anderson +34

astro-ph.IM2022

A Standardized Framework for Collecting Graduate Student Input in Faculty Searches

Yasmeen Asali, Konstantin Gerbig, Aritra Ghosh +3

astro-ph.GA2020

IQ Collaboratory II: The Quiescent Fraction of Isolated, Low Mass Galaxies Across Simulations and Observations

Claire M Dickey, Tjitske K Starkenburg, Marla Geha +10

astro-ph.GA2025

The SAGA Survey. VI. The Size-Mass Relation for Low-Mass Galaxies Across Environments

Yasmeen Asali, Marla Geha, Erin Kado-Fong +10

astro-ph.GA2016

High-resolution spectroscopy of extremely metal-poor stars in the least evolved galaxies: Bootes II

Alexander P. Ji, Anna Frebel, Joshua D. Simon +1

astro-ph.HE2019

A search for optical AGN variability in 35,000 low-mass galaxies with the Palomar Transient Factory

Vivienne F. Baldassare, Marla Geha, Jenny Greene

astro-ph.GA2018

A MegaCam Survey of Outer Halo Satellites. III. Photometric and Structural Parameters

Ricardo R. Munoz, Patrick Cote, Felipe A. Santana +5

astro-ph.GA2023

A Comparison Between the Morphologies and Structures of Dwarf Galaxies with and without Active Massive Black Holes

Seth J. Kimbrell, Amy E. Reines, Jenny E. Greene +1

astro-ph2007

The Extended Star Formation History of the Andromeda Spheroid at Twenty One Kiloparsecs on the Minor Axis

Thomas M. Brown, Ed Smith, Henry C. Ferguson +8

astro-ph.CO2009

Dwarf Galaxies in 2010: Revealing Galaxy Formation's Threshold and Testing the Nature of Dark Matter

James S. Bullock, Manoj Kaplinghat, Andrew Fruchter +4

astro-ph.GA2021

The Diverse Morphologies and Structures of Dwarf Galaxies Hosting Optically-Selected Active Massive Black Holes

Seth J. Kimbrell, Amy E. Reines, Zachary Schutte +2

astro-ph.GA2020

The SAGA Survey. II. Building a Statistical Sample of Satellite Systems around Milky Way-like Galaxies

Yao-Yuan Mao, Marla Geha, Risa H. Wechsler +4

astro-ph.CO2010

Indirect Dark Matter Detection Limits from the Ultra-Faint Milky Way Satellite Segue 1

Rouven Essig, Neelima Sehgal, Louis E. Strigari +2

astro-ph.GA2009

The Role of Dwarf Galaxies in Building Large Stellar Halos

Evan N. Kirby, Puragra Guhathakurta, James S. Bullock +10

astro-ph.CO2013

The Formation History of the Ultra-Faint Dwarf Galaxies

Thomas M. Brown, Jason Tumlinson, Marla Geha +11

astro-ph.GA2021

Forecasts on the Dark Matter Density Profiles of Dwarf Spheroidal Galaxies with Current and Future Kinematic Observations

Juan Guerra, Marla Geha, Louis E. Strigari

astro-ph.GA2016

Is Draco II one of the faintest dwarf galaxies? First study from Keck/DEIMOS spectroscopy

Nicolas F. Martin, Marla Geha, Rodrigo A. Ibata +8

astro-ph.GA2011

Segue 3: An Old, Extremely Low luminosity Star Cluster in the Milky Way's Halo

Ross Fadely, Beth Willman, Marla Geha +6

astro-ph.GA2025

The DREAMS Project: Disentangling the Impact of Halo-to-Halo Variance and Baryonic Feedback on Milky Way Satellite Galaxies

Jonah C. Rose, Mariangela Lisanti, Paul Torrey +24

astro-ph.GA2018

A MegaCam Survey of Outer Halo Satellites. I. Description of the Survey

Ricardo R. Munoz, Patrick Cote, Felipe A. Santana +5

astro-ph.GA2009

High-Resolution Spectroscopy of Extremely Metal-Poor Stars in the Least Evolved Galaxies: Ursa Major II and Coma Berenices

Anna Frebel, Joshua D. Simon, Marla Geha +1

astro-ph.GA2014

The Quenching of the Ultra-Faint Dwarf Galaxies in the Reionization Era

Thomas M. Brown, Jason Tumlinson, Marla Geha +11

astro-ph.GA2023

The mass profiles of dwarf galaxies from Dark Energy Survey lensing

Joseph Thornton, Alexandra Amon, Risa H. Wechsler +7

astro-ph.GA2009

Turning the Tides on the Ultra-Faint Dwarf Spheroidal Galaxies: Coma Berenices and Ursa Major II

Ricardo R. Munoz, Marla Geha, Beth Willman

astro-ph2008

Uncovering Extremely Metal-Poor Stars in the Milky Way's Ultra-Faint Dwarf Spheroidal Satellite Galaxies

Evan N. Kirby, Joshua D. Simon, Marla Geha +2

astro-ph2008

The Least Luminous Galaxy: Spectroscopy of the Milky Way Satellite Segue 1

Marla Geha, Beth Willman, Josh D. Simon +4

astro-ph.GA2026

Discovery of the Distant, Ultra-Faint Milky Way Satellite Aquarius IV with the Vera C. Rubin Observatory Early Data Preview 2

William Cerny, Aashay Pai, Alex Drlica-Wagner +16

astro-ph.GA2019

Astro2020 Science White Paper: Local Dwarf Galaxy Archaeology

Alexander P. Ji, Rachel Beaton, Sukanya Chakrabarti +8

astro-ph.CO2013

The Distribution of Alpha Elements in Ultra-Faint Dwarf Galaxies

Luis C. Vargas, Marla Geha, Evan N. Kirby +1

astro-ph.GA2010

NGC 2419 -- Another Remnant of Accretion by the Milky Way

Judith G. Cohen, Evan N. Kirby, Joshua D. Simon +1

astro-ph2008

A common mass scale for satellite galaxies of the Milky Way

Louis E. Strigari, James S. Bullock, Manoj Kaplinghat +4

astro-ph.GA2018

Evidence of a non universal stellar Initial Mass Function. Insights from HST optical imaging of 6 Ultra Faint Dwarf Milky Way Satellites

Mario Gennaro, Kirill Tchernyshyov, Thomas M. Brown +9

astro-ph.GA2015

A Megacam Survey of Outer Halo Satellites. IV. Two foreground populations possibly associated with the Monoceros substructure in the direction of NGC2419 and Koposov2

Julio A. Carballo-Bello, Ricardo R. Munoz, Jeffrey L. Carlin +4

astro-ph.GA2026

The Keck/DEIMOS Stellar Archive: II. Dynamical Masses and Metallicities for a Uniform Sample of Milky Way Satellites

Marla Geha

astro-ph.GA2024

The UNCOVER Survey: A First-look HST+JWST Catalog of Galaxy Redshifts and Stellar Population Properties Spanning

Bingjie Wang, Joel Leja, Ivo Labbé +41

astro-ph.IM2020

The Habitable Exoplanet Observatory (HabEx) Mission Concept Study Final Report

B. Scott Gaudi, Sara Seager, Bertrand Mennesson +183

astro-ph.GA2023

The discovery of the faintest known Milky Way satellite using UNIONS

Simon E. T. Smith, William Cerny, Christian R. Hayes +14

astro-ph.GA2019

A MegaCam Survey of Outer Halo Satellites. VII. A Single Sérsic Index v/s Effective Radius Relation for Milky Way Outer Halo Satellites

Sebastián Marchi-Lasch, Ricardo R. Muñoz, Felipe A. Santana +6

astro-ph.GA2016

When the Jeans don't fit: How stellar feedback drives stellar kinematics and complicates dynamical modeling in low-mass galaxies

Kareem El-Badry, Andrew R. Wetzel, Marla Geha +5

astro-ph.GA2016

Breathing FIRE: How Stellar Feedback Drives Radial Migration, Rapid Size Fluctuations, and Population Gradients in Low-Mass Galaxies

Kareem El-Badry, Andrew R. Wetzel, Marla Geha +4

astro-ph.GA2011

A Complete Spectroscopic Survey of the Milky Way Satellite Segue 1: The Darkest Galaxy

Joshua D. Simon, Marla Geha, Quinn E. Minor +9

astro-ph.CO2013

Segue 2: The Least Massive Galaxy

Evan N. Kirby, Michael Boylan-Kolchin, Judith G. Cohen +3

astro-ph.GA2023

A non-interacting Galactic black hole candidate in a binary system with a main-sequence star

Sukanya Chakrabarti, Joshua D. Simon, Peter A. Craig +10

astro-ph.GA2011

A Complete Spectroscopic Survey of the Milky Way satellite Segue 1: Dark matter content, stellar membership and binary properties from a Bayesian analysis

Gregory D. Martinez, Quinn E. Minor, James Bullock +3

astro-ph.GA2024

SAGAbg II: the Low-Mass Star-Forming Sequence Evolves Significantly Between 0.05<z<0.21

Erin Kado-Fong, Marla Geha, Yao-Yuan Mao +8