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most citedThe Sixth Data Release of the Radial Velocity Experiment (RAVE) -- II: Stellar Atmospheric Parameters, Chemical Abundances and Distances

167 citations

47 papers

astro-ph.GA2025★ 4 cited

CAPOS: The bulge Cluster APOgee Survey VIII. Final ASPCAP results for all clusters

Doug Geisler, Cesar Muñoz, Sandro Villanova +12

Bulge globular clusters(BGCs) are exceptional tracers of the formation and chemodynamical evolution of this oldest Galactic component. However, until now, observational difficultie…

astro-ph.GA2025

The Galactic Bulge exploration VI.: Gaia Enceladus/Sausage RR Lyrae stars in the inner-central stellar halo of the Milky Way

Andrea Kunder, Zdenek Prudil, Antonela Monachesi +6

We present a view of the stellar halo in the inner-central regions of the Milky Way (R <~ 10 kpc) mapped by RR Lyrae stars. The combined BRAVA-RR/APOGEE RR Lyrae catalog is used to…

astro-ph.GA2025★ 8 cited

The Galactic Bulge exploration IV.: RR~Lyrae stars as traces of the Galactic bar -- 3D and 5D analysis, extinction variation

Z. Prudil, A. Kunder, L. Beraldo e Silva +10

We created new reddening maps and derived new extinction laws from visual to near-infrared passbands using improved RR~Lyrae period-absolute magnitude-metallicity relations, thus e…

math.CO2024

On the impossibility of certain configurations

Jackson Philbrook, Benjamin Peet

This paper investigates the impossibility of certain configurations. Firstly, for , the result of \cite{gropp1992non} that is even and $n…

astro-ph.SR2024

RR Lyrae Stars Belonging to the Candidate Globular Cluster Patchick 99

Evan Butler, Andrea Kunder, Zdenek Prudil +16

Patchick 99 is a candidate globular cluster located in the direction of the Galactic bulge, with a proper motion almost identical to the field and extreme field star contamination.…

astro-ph.GA2023

Roman Early-Definition Astrophysics Survey Opportunity: Galactic Roman Infrared Plane Survey (GRIPS)

Roberta Paladini, Catherine Zucker, Robert Benjamin +67

A wide-field near-infrared survey of the Galactic disk and bulge/bar(s) is supported by a large representation of the community of Galactic astronomers. The combination of sensitiv…

math.CO2022

Variations on Ramsey numbers and minimum numbers of monochromatic triangles in line -colorings of configurations

Jamie Bishop, Rebekah Kuss, Benjamin Peet

This paper begins by exploring some old and new results about Ramsey numbers and minimum numbers of monochromatic triangles in -colorings of complete graphs, both in the disjoin…

astro-ph.GA2022

Blanco DECam Bulge Survey (BDBS) IV: Metallicity Distributions and Bulge Structure from 2.6 Million Red Clump Stars

Christian I. Johnson, R. Michael Rich, Iulia T. Simion +12

We present photometric metallicity measurements for a sample of 2.6 million bulge red clump stars extracted from the Blanco DECam Bulge Survey (BDBS). Similar to previous studies,…

astro-ph.GA2022★ 10 cited

Blanco DECam Bulge Survey (BDBS) V. Cleaning the foreground populations from Galactic bulge colour-magnitude diagrams using Gaia EDR3

Tommaso Marchetti, Christian I. Johnson, Meridith Joyce +8

The Blanco DECam Bulge Survey (BDBS) has imaged more than 200 square degrees of the southern Galactic bulge, providing photometry in the ugrizy filters for million uniqu…

math.CO2022

Configurations of higher orders

Benjamin Peet

This paper begins by extending the notion of a combinatorial configuration of points and lines to a combinatorial configuration of points and planes that we refer to as configurati…

astro-ph.GA2021★ 6 cited

Spectroscopic Observations of Obscured Populations in the Inner Galaxy: 2MASS-GC02, Terzan 4, and the 200 km/s stellar peak

Andrea Kunder, Riley E. Crabb, Victor P. Debattista +2

The interpretation of potentially new and already known stellar structures located at low-latitudes is hindered by the presence of dense gas and dust, as observations toward these…

math.NT2021

The Abundancy Index and Feebly Amicable Numbers

Jamie Bishop, Abigail Bozarth, Rebekah Kuss +1

This research explores the sum of divisors - - and the abundancy index given by the function . We give a generalization of amicable pairs - feebly amicable p…

astro-ph.GA2021★ 15 cited

Blanco DECam Bulge Survey (BDBS) III: A new view of the double red clump in the Milky Way bulge through luminosity and color distribution

Dongwook Lim, Andreas J. Koch-Hansen, Chul Chung +9

Red clump (RC) stars are one of the best stellar tracers of the structure of the Milky Way (MW) bulge. Here we report a new view of the double RC through luminosity and color distr…

astro-ph.SR2020★ 7 cited

Spectroscopic analysis of the bulge Globular Cluster ESO~456-SC38

Andrea Kunder, Evan Butler

It has been suggested that the oldest stellar populations in the Milky Way Galaxy are tightly bound and confined to the central regions of the Galaxy. This is one of the reasons wh…

astro-ph.GA2020★ 22 cited

The Blanco DECam Bulge Survey. I. The Survey Description and Early Results

R. Michael Rich, Christian I. Johnson, Michael Young +18

The Blanco Dark Energy Camera (DECam) Bulge survey is a Vera Rubin Observatory (LSST) pathfinder imaging survey, spanning sq. deg. of the Southern Galactic bulge, $-2^\c…

astro-ph.GA2020★ 34 cited

Blanco DECam Bulge Survey (BDBS) II: Project Performance, Data Analysis, and Early Science Results

Christian I. Johnson, R. Michael Rich, Michael D. Young +7

The Blanco DECam Bulge Survey (BDBS) imaged more than 200 square degrees of the Southern Galactic bulge using the ugrizY filters of the Dark Energy Camera, and produced point sprea…

astro-ph.GA2020★ 30 cited

The Magellanic Edges Survey I. Description and First Results

L. R. Cullinane, A. D. Mackey, G. S. Da Costa +6

We present an overview of, and first science results from, the Magellanic Edges Survey (MagES), an ongoing spectroscopic survey mapping the kinematics of red clump and red giant br…

astro-ph.SR2020★ 117 cited

The -Process Alliance: Fourth Data Release from the Search for -Process-Enhanced Stars in the Galactic Halo

Erika M. Holmbeck, Terese T. Hansen, Timothy C. Beers +22

This compilation is the fourth data release from the -Process Alliance (RPA) search for -process-enhanced stars, and the second release based on "snapshot" high-resolution ($…

astro-ph.GA2020★ 65 cited

The age of the Milky Way inner stellar spheroid from RR Lyrae population synthesis

A. Savino, A. Koch, Z. Prudil +2

The central kiloparsecs of the Milky Way are known to host an old, spheroidal stellar population, whose spatial and kinematical properties set it apart from the boxy/peanut structu…

astro-ph.SR2020★ 15 cited

On the Metamorphosis of the Bailey diagram for RR Lyrae stars

G. Bono, V. F. Braga, J. Crestani +37

We collected over 6000 high-resolution spectra of four dozen field RR Lyrae (RRL) variables pulsating either in the fundamental (39 RRab) or in the first overtone (9 RRc) mode. We…

astro-ph.SR2020★ 58 cited

The Bulge Radial Velocity Assay for RR Lyrae stars (BRAVA-RR) DR2: a Bimodal Bulge?

Andrea Kunder, Angeles Perez-Villegas, R. Michael Rich +11

Radial velocities of 2768 fundamental mode RR Lyrae stars (RRLs) toward the Southern Galactic bulge are presented, spanning the southern bulge from -8 < l < +8 and -3 < b <-6. Dist…

astro-ph.GA2020★ 32 cited

The RAdial Velocity Experiment (RAVE): Parameterisation of RAVE spectra based on convolutional neural networks

G. Guiglion, G. Matijevic, A. B. A. Queiroz +22

In the context of large spectroscopic surveys of stars, data-driven methods are key in deducing physical parameters for millions of spectra in a short time. Convolutional neural ne…

astro-ph.SR2020★ 167 cited

The Sixth Data Release of the Radial Velocity Experiment (RAVE) -- II: Stellar Atmospheric Parameters, Chemical Abundances and Distances

Matthias Steinmetz, Guillaume Guiglion, Paul J. McMillan +58

We present part 2 of the 6th and final Data Release (DR6 or FDR) of the Radial Velocity Experiment (RAVE), a magnitude-limited (9<I<12) spectroscopic survey of Galactic stars rando…

astro-ph.SR2020★ 165 cited

The Sixth Data Release of the Radial Velocity Experiment (RAVE) -- I: Survey Description, Spectra and Radial Velocities

Matthias Steinmetz, Gal Matijevic, Harry Enke +59

The Radial Velocity Experiment (RAVE) is a magnitude-limited (9<I<12) spectroscopic survey of Galactic stars randomly selected in the southern hemisphere. The RAVE medium-resolutio…