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most citedPHANGS-JWST First Results: Massive Young Star Clusters and New Insights from JWST Observations of NGC 1365

48 citations

20 papers

astro-ph.GA2026

Star Cluster Populations in 38 Spiral Galaxies: Evidence for Near-Universal Mass and Age Distributions from PHANGS

Rupali Chandar, Matthew R. Floyd, David A. Thilker +23

We present the largest study to date of star cluster mass and age distributions in nearby galaxies. The analysis is based on a uniformly selected catalog of over 15,000 (36,000) hu…

astro-ph.GA2026★ 1 cited

Nowhere Left to Hide: Uncovering All of the Massive Young Embedded Star Clusters in the Antennae with JWST

Rupali Chandar, Miranda Caputo, Paul Goudfrooij +15

The Antennae galaxies merger produces the brightest infrared emission of any galaxy within ~20 Mpc, mostly from intense star formation taking place in supergiant molecular cloud co…

astro-ph.GA2024★ 1 cited

Clusters, Clumps, Dust, & Gas (CCDG) in NGC1614: Bench-marking Cluster Demographics in Extreme Systems

Miranda Caputo, Rupali Chandar, Angus Mok +3

Observations of young star clusters in a variety of galaxies have been used to constrain basic properties related to star-formation, such as the fraction of stars found in clusters…

cs.HC2023★ 5 cited

Design Frameworks for Hyper-Connected Social XRI Immersive Metaverse Environments

Jie Guan, Alexis Morris

The metaverse refers to the merger of technologies for providing a digital twin of the real world and the underlying connectivity and interactions for the many kinds of agents with…

cs.HC2023★ 23 cited

An XRI Mixed-Reality Internet-of-Things Architectural Framework Toward Immersive and Adaptive Smart Environments

Alexis Morris, Jie Guan, Amna Azhar

The internet-of-things (IoT) refers to the growing number of embedded interconnected devices within everyday ubiquitous objects and environments, especially their networks, edge co…

cs.HC2023★ 11 cited

Extending the Metaverse: Hyper-Connected Smart Environments with Mixed Reality and the Internet of Things

Jie Guan, Alexis Morris, Jay Irizawa

The metaverse, i.e., the collection of technologies that provide a virtual twin of the real world via mixed reality, internet of things, and others, is gaining prominence. However,…

cs.HC2023★ 8 cited

Cross-Reality for Extending the Metaverse: Designing Hyper-Connected Immersive Environments with XRI

Jie Guan, Alexis Morris, Jay Irizawa

The Metaverse comprises technologies to enable virtual twins of the real world, via mixed reality, internet of things, and others. As it matures unique challenges arise such as a l…

cs.HC2023★ 12 cited

Extended-XRI Body Interfaces for Hyper-Connected Metaverse Environments

Jie Guan, Alexis Morris

Hybrid mixed-reality (XR) internet-of-things (IoT) research, here called XRI, aims at a strong integration between physical and virtual objects, environments, and agents wherein Io…

cs.HC2023★ 24 cited

Toward Mixed Reality Hybrid Objects with IoT Avatar Agents

Alexis Morris, Jie Guan, Nadine Lessio +1

The internet-of-things (IoT) refers to the growing field of interconnected pervasive computing devices and the networking that supports smart, embedded applications. The IoT has mu…

astro-ph.GA2023★ 11 cited

A Tale of 3 Dwarfs: No Extreme Cluster Formation in Extreme Star-Forming Galaxies

Rupali Chandar, Miranda Caputo, Angus Mok +8

Nearly all current simulations predict that outcomes of the star formation process, such as the fraction of stars that form in bound clusters (Gamma), depend on the intensity of st…

cs.HC2023★ 39 cited

Extended Reality and Internet of Things for Hyper-Connected Metaverse Environments

Jie Guan, Jay Irizawa, Alexis Morris

The Metaverse encompasses technologies related to the internet, virtual and augmented reality, and other domains toward smart interfaces that are hyper-connected, immersive, and en…

astro-ph.GA2023★ 11 cited

Arp 220: A Post-Starburst Galaxy With Little Star Formation Outside of It's Nuclear Disks

R. Chandar, M. Caputo, S. Linden +8

The ultra-luminous infrared galaxy Arp2 20 is a late-stage merger with several tidal structures in the outskirts and two very compact, dusty nuclei that show evidence for extreme s…

astro-ph.GA2023★ 27 cited

Improving Star Cluster Age Estimates in PHANGS-HST Galaxies and the Impact on Cluster Demographics in NGC 628

Bradley C. Whitmore, Rupali Chandar, Janice C. Lee +29

A long-standing problem when deriving the physical properties of stellar populations is the degeneracy between age, reddening, and metallicity. When a single metallicity is used fo…

astro-ph.GA2022★ 48 cited

PHANGS-JWST First Results: Massive Young Star Clusters and New Insights from JWST Observations of NGC 1365

Bradley C. Whitmore, Rupali Chandar, M. Jimena Rodríguez +28

A primary new capability of JWST is the ability to penetrate the dust in star forming galaxies to identify and study the properties of young star clusters that remain embedded in d…

astro-ph.HE2022★ 6 cited

Calibrating X-ray binary luminosity functions via optical reconnaissance II. The high-mass XLF and globular cluster population of X-ray binaries in the low star-forming spiral M81

Qiana Hunt, Elena Gallo, Rupali Chandar +2

We characterize the optical counterparts to the compact X-ray source population within the nearby spiral galaxy M81 using multi-band Hubble Space Telescope (HST) imaging data. By c…

astro-ph.GA2022★ 3 cited

The Ancient Globular Clusters of NGC 1291

Kyle Hixenbaugh, Rupali Chandar, Angus Mok

We present a new catalog of 81 ancient globular clusters (GCs) in the early-type spiral (SB0/a) galaxy NGC 1291. Candidates have been selected from B,V, and I band images taken wit…

cs.LG2021★ 2 cited

BIKED: A Dataset for Computational Bicycle Design with Machine Learning Benchmarks

Lyle Regenwetter, Brent Curry, Faez Ahmed

In this paper, we present "BIKED," a dataset comprised of 4500 individually designed bicycle models sourced from hundreds of designers. We expect BIKED to enable a variety of data-…

cs.CY2020★ 1 cited

Towards a Policy-as-a-Service Framework to Enable Compliant, Trustworthy AI and HRI Systems in the Wild

Alexis Morris, Hallie Siegel, Jonathan Kelly

Building trustworthy autonomous systems is challenging for many reasons beyond simply trying to engineer agents that 'always do the right thing.' There is a broader context that is…

cs.CY2020★ 1 cited

The State of AI Ethics Report (June 2020)

Abhishek Gupta, Camylle Lanteigne, Victoria Heath +6

These past few months have been especially challenging, and the deployment of technology in ways hitherto untested at an unrivalled pace has left the internet and technology watche…

cs.CY2020★ 1 cited

Participatory Design to build better contact- and proximity-tracing apps

Abhishek Gupta, Tania De Gasperis

With the push for contact- and proximity-tracing solutions as a means to manage the spread of the pandemic, there is a distrust between the citizens and authorities that are deploy…