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astro-ph.GA2025★ 3 cited

Ultra-Faint Milky Way Satellites Discovered in Carina, Phoenix, and Telescopium with DELVE Data Release 3

C. Y. Tan, W. Cerny, A. B. Pace +76

We report the discovery of three Milky Way satellite candidates: Carina IV, Phoenix III, and DELVE 7, in the third data release of the DECam Local Volume Exploration survey (DELVE)…

astro-ph.GA2025★ 2 cited

DELVE Milky Way Satellite Galaxy Census I: Satellite Population and Survey Selection Function in DES, DELVE, and Pan-STARRS

C. Y. Tan, A. Drlica-Wagner, A. B. Pace +84

The properties of Milky Way satellite galaxies have important implications for galaxy formation, reionization, and the fundamental physics of dark matter. However, the population o…

astro-ph.GA2025★ 4 cited

A second-generation star in a relic dwarf galaxy

Anirudh Chiti, Vinicius M. Placco, Andrew B. Pace +22

Stars that contain only trace amounts of elements heavier than helium, referred to as having low "metallicity", preserve the chemical fingerprints of the first generation of stars…

astro-ph.GA2025

Testing OH Megamaser Identification Methods in HI Surveys: Updated Source-Flagging Algorithms and New Detections in ALFALFA

Hayley Roberts, Jeremy Darling, Kelley M. Hess +3

OH megamasers (OHMs) are extragalactic masers found primarily in gas-rich galaxy major mergers. To date, only 120 OHMs have been cataloged since their discovery in 1982, and…

astro-ph.GA2025★ 4 cited

Reconstructing the Milky Way chemical map with Galactic Chemical Evolution tool OMEGA+ from SDSS-MWM

Viola Hegedűs, Szabolcs Mészáros, Blanka Világos +4

We obtain two-infall galactic chemical evolution (GCE) models simulating the chemical evolution of the Milky Way as constrained by a golden sample of stellar abundances o…

astro-ph.GA2024★ 4 cited

The COS-Holes Survey: Connecting Galaxy Black Hole Mass with the State of the CGM

Samantha L. Garza, Jessica K. Werk, Benjamin D. Oppenheimer +9

We present an analysis of \textit{HST}/COS/G160M observations of CIV in the inner circumgalactic medium (CGM) of a novel sample of eight z0, LL galaxies, p…

astro-ph.GA2024★ 2 cited

Carbon- and Oxygen-rich stars in MaStar: identification and classification

Lewis Hill, Claudia Maraston, Daniel Thomas +5

Carbon- and Oxygen-rich stars populating the Thermally-Pulsing Asymptotic Giant Branch (TP-AGB) phase of stellar evolution are relevant contributors to the spectra of ~1 Gyr old po…

astro-ph.GA2023★ 115 cited

PDRs4All IV. An embarrassment of riches: Aromatic infrared bands in the Orion Bar

Ryan Chown, Ameek Sidhu, Els Peeters +136

(Abridged) Mid-infrared observations of photodissociation regions (PDRs) are dominated by strong emission features called aromatic infrared bands (AIBs). The most prominent AIBs ar…

astro-ph.GA2023

The 107 GHz methanol transition is a dasar in G0.253+0.016

Alyssa Bulatek, Adam Ginsburg, Jeremy Darling +2

We present observations of population anti-inversion in the transition of CHOH (methanol) at 107.013831 GHz toward the Galactic Center cloud G0.253+0.016 ("The…

astro-ph.GA2023★ 19 cited

The Detection of Hot Molecular Cores in the Small Magellanic Cloud

Takashi Shimonishi, Kei E. I. Tanaka, Yichen Zhang +1

We report the first detection of hot molecular cores in the Small Magellanic Cloud, a nearby dwarf galaxy with 0.2 solar metallicity. We observed two high-mass young stellar object…

astro-ph.GA2023★ 12 cited

ABYSS I: Targeting strategy for APOGEE & BOSS young star survey in SDSS-V

Marina Kounkel, Eleonora Zari, Kevin Covey +15

The fifth iteration of the Sloan Digital Sky Survey (SDSS-V) is set to obtain optical and near-infrared spectra of 5 million stars of all ages and masses throughout the Milky…

astro-ph.GA2023★ 5 cited

Disk Wind Feedback from High-mass Protostars. II. The Evolutionary Sequence

Jan E. Staff, Kei E. I. Tanaka, Jon P. Ramsey +2

Star formation is ubiquitously associated with the ejection of accretion-powered outflows that carve bipolar cavities through the infalling envelope. This feedback is expected to b…

astro-ph.GA2023★ 4 cited

Constraining a Model of the Radio Sky Below 6 MHz Using the Parker Solar Probe/FIELDS Instrument in Preparation for Upcoming Lunar-based Experiments

Neil Bassett, David Rapetti, Bang D. Nhan +4

We present a Bayesian analysis of data from the FIELDS instrument on board the Parker Solar Probe (PSP) spacecraft with the aim of constraining low frequency ( 6 MHz) sky…

astro-ph.GA2023★ 282 cited

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.GA2022★ 28 cited

SDSS-IV MaNGA: How Galaxy Interactions Influence Active Galactic Nuclei

Joshua L. Steffen, Hai Fu, Joel R. Brownstein +7

We present a comparative study of active galactic nuclei (AGN) between galaxy pairs and isolated galaxies with the final data release of the MaNGA integral field spectroscopic surv…

astro-ph.GA2022★ 1 cited

Witnessing a Galaxy Cluster Merger with JWST and a Chandra X-ray Temperature Map

Brian C. Alden, Jack O. Burns

The first James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) image released was of galaxy cluster SMACSJ0723.3- 7327, a lensing cluster at z=0.39 showing detail only JWST can provide. While the maj…

astro-ph.GA2022★ 15 cited

Stellar Properties for a Comprehensive Collection of Star Forming Regions in the SDSS APOGEE-2 Survey

Carlos G. Román-Zúñiga, Marina Kounkel, Jesús Hernández +25

The Sloan Digital Sky Survey IV (SDSS-IV) APOGEE-2 primary science goal was to observe red giant stars throughout the Galaxy to study its dynamics, morphology, and chemical evoluti…

astro-ph.GA2022★ 19 cited

Salt-bearing disk candidates around high-mass young stellar objects

Adam Ginsburg, Brett A. McGuire, Patricio Sanhueza +6

Molecular lines tracing the orbital motion of gas in a well-defined disk are valuable tools for inferring both the properties of the disk and the star it surrounds. Lines that aris…

astro-ph.GA2022★ 7 cited

SDSS-IV MaStar: Stellar Parameter Determination with Continuum-Supplemented Full-Spectrum Fitting

Daniel Lazarz, Renbin Yan, Ronald Wilhelm +13

We present a stellar parameter catalog built to accompany the MaStar Stellar Library, which is a comprehensive collection of empirical, medium-resolution stellar spectra. We constr…

astro-ph.GA2022★ 10 cited

Untangling the Sources of Abundance Dispersion in Low-Metallicity Stars

Emily J. Griffith, Jennifer A. Johnson, David H. Weinberg +4

We measure abundances of 12 elements (Na, Mg, Si, Ca, Sc, Ti, V, Cr, Mn, Fe, Co, Ni) in a sample of 86 metal-poor () subgiant stars in the so…

astro-ph.GA2022★ 62 cited

Six More Ultra-Faint Milky Way Companions Discovered in the DECam Local Volume Exploration Survey

W. Cerny, C. E. Martínez-Vázquez, A. Drlica-Wagner +28

We report the discovery of six ultra-faint Milky Way satellites discovered through matched-filter searches conducted using Dark Energy Camera (DECam) data processed as part of the…

astro-ph.GA2022★ 13 cited

The First Detection of a Protostellar CO Outflow in the Small Magellanic Cloud with ALMA

Kazuki Tokuda, Sarolta Zahorecz, Yuri Kunitoshi +12

Protostellar outflows are one of the most outstanding features of star formation. Observational studies over the last several decades have successfully demonstrated that outflows a…

astro-ph.GA2022★ 19 cited

Massive Protostars in a Protocluster -- A Multi-Scale ALMA View of G35.20-0.74N

Yichen Zhang, Kei E. I. Tanaka, Jonathan C. Tan +8

We present a detailed study of the massive star-forming region G35.2-0.74N with ALMA 1.3 mm multi-configuration observations. At 0.2" (440 au) resolution, the continuum emission re…

astro-ph.GA2022★ 158 cited

The Far-Ultraviolet Continuum Slope as a Lyman Continuum Escape Estimator at High-redshift

J. Chisholm, A. Saldana-Lopez, S. Flury +25

Most of the hydrogen in the intergalactic medium (IGM) was rapidly ionized at high-redshifts. While observations have established that reionization occurred, observational constrai…