Publications (41)
The Hobby-Eberly Telescope Dark Energy Experiment (HETDEX) Survey Design, Reductions, and Detections
Karl Gebhardt, Erin Mentuch Cooper, Robin Ciardullo +60
We describe the survey design, calibration, commissioning, and emission-line detection algorithms for the Hobby-Eberly Telescope Dark Energy Experiment (HETDEX). The goal of HETDEX…
Astro2020 APC White Paper: Accessible Astronomy: Policies, Practices, and Strategies to Increase Participation of Astronomers with Disabilities
Alicia Aarnio, Nicholas Murphy, Karen Knierman +14
(Abridged) In this white paper, we outline the major barriers to access within the educational and professional practice of astronomy. We present current best practices for inclusi…
Following the Metals in the Intergalactic and Circumgalactic Medium over Cosmic Time
Nicolas Lehner, Joseph N. Burchett, J. Christopher Howk +5
The circumgalactic medium (CGM) of galaxies serves as a record of the influences of outflows and accretion that drive the evolution of galaxies. Feedback from star formation drives…
The HETDEX Survey: Emission Line Exploration and Source Classification
Dustin Davis, Karl Gebhardt, Erin Mentuch Cooper +20
The Hobby-Eberly Telescope Dark Energy Experiment (HETDEX) is an untargeted spectroscopic survey that aims to measure the expansion rate of the Universe at to 1% preci…
The Sixteenth Data Release of the Sloan Digital Sky Surveys: First Release from the APOGEE-2 Southern Survey and Full Release of eBOSS Spectra
Romina Ahumada, Carlos Allende Prieto, Andres Almeida +310
This paper documents the sixteenth data release (DR16) from the Sloan Digital Sky Surveys; the fourth and penultimate from the fourth phase (SDSS-IV). This is the first release of…
Reframing astronomical research through an anticolonial lens -- for TMT and beyond
Chanda Prescod-Weinstein, Lucianne M. Walkowicz, Sarah Tuttle +2
This white paper explains that professional astronomy has benefited from settler colonial white supremacist patriarchy. We explicate the impact that this has had on communities whi…
BreakBRD Galaxies: Evolutionary Clues Through an Analysis of Gas Content
David V. Stark, Sarah Tuttle, Stephanie Tonnesen +1
By combining newly obtained deep GBT 21cm observations with optical spectroscopic data, we present an analysis of the gas content of BreakBRD galaxies, a population denoted by thei…
Statistics of Two-point Correlation and Network Topology for Lyman Alpha Emitters at
Sungryong Hong, Arjun Dey, Kyung-Soo Lee +9
We investigate the spatial distribution of Lyman alpha emitting galaxies (LAEs) at , selected from the NOAO Deep Wide-Field Survey (NDWFS), using two-point statisti…
Emission Line Mapping of the Circumgalactic Medium of Nearby Galaxies
Dennis Zaritsky, Peter Behroozi, Molly S. Peeples +3
The circumgalactic medium (CGM), which harbors > 50% of all the baryons in a galaxy, is both the reservoir of gas for subsequent star formation and the depository of chemically pro…
The Influence of Motion and Stress on Optical Fibers
Jeremy D. Murphy, Gary J. Hill, Phillip J. MacQueen +13
We report on extensive testing carried out on the optical fibers for the VIRUS instrument. The primary result of this work explores how 10+ years of simulated wear on a VIRUS fiber…
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…
The Seventeenth Data Release of the Sloan Digital Sky Surveys: Complete Release of MaNGA, MaStar and APOGEE-2 Data
Abdurro'uf, Katherine Accetta, Conny Aerts +337
This paper documents the seventeenth data release (DR17) from the Sloan Digital Sky Surveys; the fifth and final release from the fourth phase (SDSS-IV). DR17 contains the complete…
HETDEX Public Source Catalog 1 -- Stacking 50K Lyman Alpha Emitters
Dustin Davis, Karl Gebhardt, Erin Mentuch Cooper +25
We describe the ensemble properties of the Lyman Alpha Emitters (LAEs) found in the HETDEX survey's first public data release, HETDEX Public Source Catalog 1 (Mentu…
25,000 optical fiber positioning robots for next-generation cosmology
Joseph H. Silber, David J. Schlegel, Ricardo Araujo +10
Massively parallel multi-object spectrographs are on the leading edge of cosmology instrumentation. The highly successful Dark Energy Spectroscopic Instrument (DESI) which begun su…
Astro2020 APC White Paper: Collaboration with Integrity: Indigenous Knowledge in 21st Century Astronomy
Aparna Venkatesan, David Begay, Adam Burgasser +7
As the oldest science common to all human cultures, astronomy has a unique connection to indigenous knowledge (IK) and the long history of indigenous scientific contributions. Many…
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…
The Astropy Problem
Demitri Muna, Michael Alexander, Alice Allen +151
The Astropy Project (http://astropy.org) is, in its own words, "a community effort to develop a single core package for Astronomy in Python and foster interoperability between Pyth…
HETDEX Public Source Catalog 1: 220K Sources Including Over 50K Lyman Alpha Emitters from an Untargeted Wide-area Spectroscopic Survey
Erin Mentuch Cooper, Karl Gebhardt, Dustin Davis +43
We present the first publicly released catalog of sources obtained from the Hobby-Eberly Telescope Dark Energy Experiment (HETDEX). HETDEX is an integral field spectroscopic survey…
SDSS-V Algorithms: Fast, Collision-Free Trajectory Planning for Heavily Overlapping Robotic Fiber Positioners
Conor Sayres, José R. Sánchez-Gallego, Michael R. Blanton +8
Robotic fiber positioner (RFP) arrays are becoming heavily adopted in wide field massively multiplexed spectroscopic survey instruments. RFP arrays decrease nightly operational ove…
Building an Inclusive AAS - The Critical Role of Diversity and Inclusion Training for AAS Council and Astronomy Leadership
Carolyn Brinkworth, Allison Byrd Skaer, Chanda Prescod-Weinstein +2
Diversity, equity and inclusion are the science leadership issues of our time. As our nation and the field of astronomy grow more diverse, we find ourselves in a position of enormo…
Builders Instead of Consumers: Training Astronomers in Instrumentation & Observation
Sarah Tuttle, Hanshin Lee, Cynthia Froning +1
The astronomy community has made clear our shared scientific vision in the Astro2010 decadal survey. Who will build this future? The cost and scarcity of telescope resources makes…
Ardua: Unveiling the Baryon Cycle from Stars to the Cosmic Web
Carlos J. Vargas, Caroline Kilbourne, Haeun Chung +29
Ardua is a proposed NASA mission that combines wide‑field far‑ultraviolet spectroscopy with an X‑ray microcalorimeter to create the first emission maps of the circumgalactic medium…
Automated Spectroscopic Wavelength Calibration using Dynamic Time Warping
James R. A. Davenport, Francisca Chabour Barra, K. Azalee Bostroem +14
Here we present an automated method for obtaining wavelength calibrations for one-dimensional spectra, using Dynamic Time Warping (DTW). DTW is a flexible and well-understood algor…
Lyα Nebulae in HETDEX: The Largest Statistical Census Bridging Lyα Halos and Blobs across Cosmic Noon
Erin Mentuch Cooper, Karl Gebhardt, Dustin Davis +20
The Hobby-Eberly Dark Energy Experiment (HETDEX) is an untargeted ~540 deg^2 spectroscopic survey of Lyα emission in the 1.9 < z < 3.5 Universe. In surface brightness, this survey…
Astro2020 APC White Paper: Providing a Timely Review of Input Demographics to Advisory Committees
Dara Norman, Terri J. Brandt, Nancy D. Morrison +12
Organizations that support science (astronomy) such as federal agencies, research centers, observatories, academic institutions, societies, etc. employ advisory committees and boar…
The breakBRD Breakdown: Using IllustrisTNG to Track the Quenching of an Observationally-Motivated Sample of Centrally Star-Forming Galaxies
Claire Kopenhafer, Tjitske K. Starkenburg, Stephanie Tonnesen +1
The observed breakBRD ("break bulges in red disks") galaxies are a nearby sample of face-on disk galaxies with particularly centrally concentrated star formation: they have red dis…
Galaxy redshift surveys with sparse sampling
Chi-Ting Chiang, Philipp Wullstein, Donghui Jeong +16
Survey observations of the three-dimensional locations of galaxies are a powerful approach to measure the distribution of matter in the universe, which can be used to learn about t…
The Twentieth Data Release of the Sloan Digital Sky Survey: First All-Sky BOSS Spectra, eROSITA-SDSS-V Mapper Coordinated Observations, and a Preview of the Local Volume Mapper
SDSS Collaboration, Mojgan Aghakhanloo, David Aguilar +273
The paper describes the twentieth data release (DR20) of the Sloan Digital Sky Survey, providing over 3 million new optical spectra from the SDSS‑V Milky Way, Black Hole, and Local…
Refining the M_BH-V_c scaling relation with HI rotation curves of water megamaser galaxies
Ai-Lei Sun, Jenny E. Greene, C. M. Violette Impellizzeri +3
Black hole - galaxy scaling relations provide information about the coevolution of supermassive black holes and their host galaxies. We compare the black hole mass - circular veloc…
Astronomical Advantages of a Boost Mission to Facilitate HST Science into the 2030s: Imaging the Circumgalactic Medium of Galaxies
Matthew J. Hayes, Kate H. R. Rubin, Michelle A. Berg +20
We present the case for imaging ultraviolet line emission from highly ionized metals and HI Lya in the circumgalactic medium of galaxies, should the Hubble Space Telescope receive…
Ultraviolet Technology To Prepare For The Habitable Worlds Observatory
Sarah Tuttle, Mark Matsumura, David R. Ardila +22
We present here the current state of a collection of promising ultraviolet technologies in preparation for the Habitable Worlds Observatory. Working with experts representing a sig…
Initial Fabrication and Characterization of Chemically-Etched Silicon Slits for KOSMOS
Debby Tran, Sarah Tuttle, Kal Kadlec +5
KOSMOS is a low-resolution, long-slit, optical spectrograph that has been upgraded at the University of Washington for its move from Kitt Peak National Observatory's Mayall 4m tele…
SDSS DR17: The Cosmic Slime Value Added Catalog
Matthew C. Wilde, Oskar Elek, Joseph N. Burchett +5
The "cosmic web", the filamentary large-scale structure in a cold dark matter Universe, is readily apparent via galaxy tracers in spectroscopic surveys. However, the underlying dar…
MAGPIS: A Multi-Array Galactic Plane Imaging Survey
David J. Helfand, Robert H. Becker, Richard L. White +2
We present the Multi-Array Galactic Plane Imaging Survey (MAGPIS), which maps portions of the first Galactic quadrant with an angular resolution, sensitivity and dynamic range that…
Lyα Halos around [O III]-Selected Galaxies in HETDEX
Maja Lujan Niemeyer, William P. Bowman, Robin Ciardullo +13
We present extended Lyman-α (Lyα) emission out to 800 kpc of 1034 [O III]-selected galaxies at redshifts 1.9<z<2.35 using the Hobby-Eberly Telescope Dark Energy Experiment (HETDE…
The Pre-explosion Environments and The Progenitor of SN 2023ixf from the Hobby Eberly Telescope Dark Energy Experiment (HETDEX)
Chenxu Liu, Xinlei Chen, Xinzhong Er +20
Supernova (SN) 2023ixf was discovered on May 19th, 2023. The host galaxy, M101, was observed by the Hobby Eberly Telescope Dark Energy Experiment (HETDEX) collaboration over the pe…
Detection of Lyman Continuum from 3.0 < z < 3.5 Galaxies in the HETDEX Survey
Dustin Davis, Karl Gebhardt, Erin Mentuch Cooper +15
Questions as to what drove the bulk reionization of the Universe, how that reionization proceeded, and how the hard ionizing radiation reached the intergalactic medium remain open…
The Active Galactic Nuclei in the Hobby-Eberly Telescope Dark Energy Experiment Survey (HETDEX) II. Luminosity Function
Chenxu Liu, Karl Gebhardt, Erin Mentuch Cooper +13
We present the LyA emission line luminosity function (LF) of the Active Galactic Nuclei (AGN) in the first release of the Hobby-Eberly Telescope Dark Energy Experiment Survey (HETD…
You Are What You Eat: The Circumgalactic Medium Around BreakBRD Galaxies has Low Mass and Angular Momentum
Stephanie Tonnesen, Daniel DeFelippis, Sarah Tuttle
Observed breakBRD ("break bulges in red disks") galaxies are a nearby sample of face-on disk galaxies with particularly centrally-concentrated star formation: they have red disks b…
Understanding the circumgalactic medium is critical for understanding galaxy evolution
Molly S. Peeples, Peter Behroozi, Rongmon Bordoloi +69
Galaxies evolve under the influence of gas flows between their interstellar medium and their surrounding gaseous halos known as the circumgalactic medium (CGM). The CGM is a major…
The Smallsat Technology Accelerated Maturation Platform-1 (STAMP-1): A Proposal to Advance Ultraviolet Science, Workforce, and Technology for the Habitable Worlds Observatory
Kevin France, Jason Tumlinson, Brian Fleming +8
NASA's Great Observatories Maturation Program (GOMAP) will advance the science definition, technology, and workforce needed for the Habitable Worlds Observatory (HWO) with the goal…