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astro-ph.GA2026

The GALAH Survey: Neutron-Capture Elemental Abundances for 350,000 Gaia-RVS spectra and the Chemodynamics of Accreted Structures

Pradosh Barun Das, Daniel B. Zucker, Aldo Mura-Guzmán +15

We present a comprehensive data-driven spectroscopic analysis of 357,415 red giant stars using Gaia DR3 Radial Velocity Spectrometer (RVS) spectra (8460-8700 A; ),…

astro-ph.GA2026

Searching for and characterizing halo substructures with the GALAH DR4 survey

Iryna Kushniruk, Kristopher Youakim, Karin Lind +12

Recent studies show that the Milky Way stellar halo is composed of populations of different origins, shaped by multiple accretion events. To better understand the formation of the…

astro-ph.GA2025★ 4 cited

The VMC survey -- LIII. Data release #7. Complete survey data and data from additional programmes

M. -R. L. Cioni, N. J. G. Cross, V. Ripepi +29

The near-infrared YJKs Visual and Infrared Survey Telescope for Astronomy (VISTA) survey of the Magellanic Clouds (VMC) is complete and there are also data from additional programm…

astro-ph.GA2025★ 7 cited

The VMC survey -- LIV. The internal kinematics of the LMC with new VISTA observations

S. Vijayasree, F. Niederhofer, M. -R. L. Cioni +10

Context: Studying the internal kinematics of galaxies provides insights into their past evolution, current dynamics, and future trajectory. The Large Magellanic Cloud (LMC), as the…

astro-ph.GA2025★ 5 cited

The GALAH survey: Improving chemical abundances using star clusters

Janez Kos, Sven Buder, Kevin L. Beeson +18

Large spectroscopic surveys aim to consistently compute stellar parameters of very diverse stars while minimizing systematic errors. We explore the use of stellar clusters as bench…

astro-ph.GA2024

An automated method to detect and characterise semi-resolved star clusters

Amy E. Miller, Zachary Slepian, Elizabeth A. Lada +8

We present a novel method for automatically detecting and characterising semi-resolved star clusters: clusters where the observational point-spread function (PSF) is smaller than t…

astro-ph.GA2024★ 8 cited

The GALAH Survey: Stellar parameters and abundances for 800,000 Gaia RVS spectra using GALAH DR4 and The Cannon

Pradosh Barun Das, Daniel B. Zucker, Gayandhi M. De Silva +15

Analysing stellar parameters and abundances from nearly one million Gaia Data Release 3 (DR3) Radial Velocity Spectrometer (RVS) spectra poses challenges due to the limited spectra…

astro-ph.GA2024★ 20 cited

The GALAH survey: Tracing the Milky Way's formation and evolution through RR Lyrae stars

Valentina D'Orazi, Nicholas Storm, Andrew R. Casey +39

Stellar mergers and accretion events have been crucial in shaping the evolution of the Milky Way (MW). These events have been dynamically identified and chemically characterised us…

astro-ph.GA2021★ 35 cited

Stellar substructures in the periphery of the Magellanic Clouds with the VISTA Hemisphere Survey from the red clump and other tracers

Dalal El Youssoufi, Maria-Rosa L. Cioni, Cameron P. M. Bell +11

We study the morphology of the stellar periphery of the Magellanic Clouds in search of substructure using near-infrared imaging data from the VISTA Hemisphere Survey (VHS). Based o…

astro-ph.GA2021★ 38 cited

The VMC Survey -- XLII. Near-infrared period-luminosity relations for RR Lyrae stars and the structure of the Large Magellanic Cloud

F. Cusano, M. I. Moretti, G. Clementini +11

We present results from an analysis of 29,000 RR Lyrae stars located in the Large Magellanic Cloud (LMC). For these objects, near-infrared time-series photometry from the VI…

astro-ph.GA2021★ 2 cited

Searching for chemical abundance variations in young star clusters in the Magellanic Clouds: NGC 411, NGC 1718 and NGC 2213

Shalmalee Kapse, Richard de Grijs, Daniel B. Zucker

The conventional picture of coeval, chemically homogeneous, populous star clusters -- known as `simple stellar populations' (SSPs) -- is a view of the past. Photometric and spectro…

astro-ph.GA2021★ 36 cited

The VMC survey -- XLI. Stellar proper motions within the Small Magellanic Cloud

F. Niederhofer, M. -R. L. Cioni, S. Rubele +13

We used data from the near-infrared VISTA survey of the Magellanic Cloud system (VMC) to measure proper motions (PMs) of stars within the Small Magellanic Cloud (SMC). The data ana…

astro-ph.GA2020★ 35 cited

The VMC Survey -- XL. Three-dimensional structure of the Small Magellanic Cloud as derived from red clump stars

B. L. Tatton, J. Th. van Loon, M. -R. L. Cioni +12

Galaxy interactions distort the distribution of baryonic matter and can affect star formation. The nearby Magellanic Clouds are a prime example of an ongoing galaxy interaction pro…

astro-ph.GA2020★ 626 cited

The GALAH+ Survey: Third Data Release

Sven Buder, Sanjib Sharma, Janez Kos +44

The ensemble of chemical element abundance measurements for stars, along with precision distances and orbit properties, provides high-dimensional data to study the evolution of the…

astro-ph.GA2020★ 33 cited

Gaia view of a stellar sub-structure in front of the Small Magellanic Cloud

Abinaya O. Omkumar, Smitha Subramanian, Florian Niederhofer +6

Recent observational studies identified a foreground stellar sub-structure traced by red clump (RC) stars (~ 12 kpc in front of the main body) in the eastern regions of the Small M…

astro-ph.GA2020★ 15 cited

The intrinsic reddening of the Magellanic Clouds as traced by background galaxies -- II. The Small Magellanic Cloud

Cameron P. M. Bell, Maria-Rosa L. Cioni, A. H. Wright +23

We present a map of the total intrinsic reddening across ~34 deg of the Small Magellanic Cloud (SMC) derived using optical () and near-infrared (IR; …

astro-ph.GA2020★ 26 cited

The VMC survey -- XXXIX: Mapping metallicity trends in the Small Magellanic Cloud using near-infrared passbands

Samyaday Choudhury, Richard de Grijs, Stefano Rubele +7

We have derived high spatial resolution metallicity maps covering 42 deg across the Small Magellanic Cloud (SMC) in an attempt to understand its metallicity distribution…

astro-ph.GA2020★ 33 cited

The VMC survey -- XXXVIII. Proper motion of the Magellanic Bridge

Thomas Schmidt, Maria-Rosa L. Cioni, Florian Niederhofer +14

The Magellanic Clouds are a nearby pair of interacting dwarf galaxies and satellites of the Milky Way. Studying their kinematic properties is essential to understanding their origi…

astro-ph.GA2020★ 4 cited

Clustering of Local Group distances: publication bias or correlated measurements? VII. A distance framework out to 100 Mpc

Richard de Grijs, Giuseppe Bono

We consider the published distance moduli to the Fornax and Coma galaxy clusters, with emphasis on the period since 1990. We have carefully homogenized our catalogs of distance mod…

astro-ph.GA2020★ 18 cited

The MALATANG Survey: Dense Gas and Star Formation from High Transition HCN and HCO+ maps of NGC253

Xue-Jian Jiang, Thomas R. Greve, Yu Gao +26

To study the high-transition dense-gas tracers and their relationships to the star formation of the inner 2 kpc circumnuclear region of NGC253, we present HCN and HC…

astro-ph.GA2019★ 10 cited

The HASHTAG project I. A Survey of CO(3-2) Emission from the Star Forming Disc of M31

Zongnan Li, Zhiyuan Li, Matthew W. L. Smith +26

We present a CO(3-2) survey of selected regions in the M31 disc as part of the JCMT large programme, HARP and SCUBA-2 High-Resolution Terahertz Andromeda Galaxy Survey (HASHTAG). T…

astro-ph.GA2019★ 7 cited

Clustering of Local Group distances: publication bias or correlated measurements? VI. Extending to Virgo cluster distances

Richard de Grijs, Giuseppe Bono

We have established an internally consistent Local Group distance framework, using the Galactic Center, the Large Magellanic Cloud, and Messier 31 (M31) as important stepping stone…

astro-ph.GA2019★ 13 cited

Influence of Wolf-Rayet stars on surrounding star-forming molecular clouds

T. Baug, Richard de Grijs, L. K. Dewangan +5

We investigate the influence of Wolf-Rayet (W-R) stars on their surrounding star-forming molecular clouds. We study five regions containing W-R stars in the inner Galactic plane ($…

astro-ph.GA2019★ 48 cited

The VMC Survey -- XXXIV. Morphology of Stellar Populations in the Magellanic Clouds

Dalal El Youssoufi, Maria-Rosa L. Cioni, Cameron P. M. Bell +11

The Magellanic Clouds are nearby dwarf irregular galaxies whose morphologies show different properties when traced by different stellar populations, making them an important labora…