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most citedModules for Experiments in Stellar Astrophysics (MESA): Binaries, Pulsations, and Explosions

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astro-ph.GA2020★ 17 cited

Homogeneity in the early chemical evolution of the Sextans dwarf Spheroidal galaxy

R. Lucchesi, C. Lardo, F. Primas +10

We present the high-resolution spectroscopic analysis of two new extremely metal-poor stars (EMPS) candidates in the dwarf spheroidal galaxy Sextans. These targets were pre-selecte…

astro-ph.GA2019★ 32 cited

The chemical evolution of the dwarf Spheroidal galaxy Sextans

R. Theler, P. Jablonka, R. Lucchesi +11

We present the analysis of the FLAMES dataset targeting the central 25 arcmin region of the Sextans dSph. This dataset is the third major part of the high resolution spectroscopic…

astro-ph.GA2019★ 11 cited

The VIMOS Public Extragalactic Redshift Survey (VIPERS) -- Environment-size relation of massive passive galaxies at 0.5 < z < 0.8

A. Gargiulo, O. Cucciati, B. Garilli +36

We use the statistics of the VIPERS survey to investigate the relation between the surface mean stellar mass density Sigma=Mstar/(2*pi*Re^2) of massive passive galaxies (MPGs, Msta…

astro-ph.GA2018★ 5 cited

New constraints on sterile neutrino dark matter from the Galactic Center

R. Yunis, C. R. Argüelles, N. E. Mavromatos +4

We calculate the most stringent constraints up to date on the parameter space for sterile neutrino warm dark matter models possessing a radiative decay channel into X-rays. These c…

astro-ph.GA2018★ 61 cited

Galaxies flowing in the oriented saddle frame of the cosmic web

K. Kraljic, C. Pichon, Y. Dubois +12

The strikingly anisotropic large-scale distribution of matter made of an extended network of voids delimited by sheets, themselves segmented by filaments, within which matter flows…

astro-ph.GA2018★ 42 cited

The XXL Survey: XXVII. The 3XLSS point source catalogue

L. Chiappetti, S. Fotopoulou, C. Lidman +35

We present the version of the point source catalogue of the XXL Survey that was used, in part, in the first series of XXL papers. In this paper we release, in our database in Milan…

astro-ph.GA2018★ 83 cited

Pristine Dwarf-Galaxy Survey I: A detailed photometric and spectroscopic study of the very metal-poor Draco II satellite

Nicolas Longeard, Nicolas Martin, Else Starkenburg +17

We present a detailed study of the faint Milky Way satellite Draco II (Dra II) from deep CFHT/MegaCam broadband and photometry and narrow-band metallicity-sensitive CaHK ob…

astro-ph.GA2018★ 54 cited

The Gaia-ESO Survey: the origin and evolution of s-process elements

L. Magrini, L. Spina, S. Randich +45

Several works have found an increase of the abundances of the s-process neutron-capture elements in the youngest Galactic stellar populations, giving important constraints to stell…

astro-ph.GA2018★ 11 cited

The XXL Survey: XXX. Characterisation of the XLSSsC N01 supercluster and analysis of the galaxy stellar populations

V. Guglielmo, B. M. Poggianti, B. Vulcani +34

Superclusters form from the largest enhancements in the primordial density perturbation field and extend for tens of Mpc, tracing the large-scale structure of the Universe. We char…

astro-ph.GA2018★ 1 cited

The VIMOS Public Extragalactic Redshift Survey (VIPERS). The complexity of galaxy populations at 0.4< z<1.3 revealed with unsupervised machine-learning algorithms

M. Siudek, K. Małek, A. Pollo +37

Various galaxy classification schemes have been developed so far to constrain the main physical processes regulating evolution of different galaxy types. In the era of a deluge of…

astro-ph.GA2018★ 148 cited

Gaia Data Release 2: Processing the spectroscopic data

P. Sartoretti, D. Katz, M. Cropper +50

The Gaia Data Release 2 contains the 1st release of radial velocities complementing the kinematic data of a sample of about 7 million relatively bright, late-type stars. Aims: This…

astro-ph.GA2018★ 21 cited

The chemical connection between damped Lyman-α systems and Local Group dwarf galaxies

Ása Skúladóttir, Stefania Salvadori, Max Pettini +2

Abundances of the volatile elements S and Zn have now been measured in around 80 individual stars in the Sculptor dwarf spheroidal galaxy, covering the metallicity range $-2.4\leq\…

astro-ph.GA2017★ 28 cited

The VIMOS Public Extragalactic Redshift Survey (VIPERS). AGN feedback in [NeV] emitters

D. Vergani, B. Garilli, M. Polletta +36

Using an unconventional single line diagnostic that unambiguously identifies AGNs in composite galaxies we report statistical differences in the properties (stellar age, [OII] lumi…

astro-ph.GA2017★ 15 cited

The XXL Survey: XXII. The XXL-North spectrophotometric sample and galaxy stellar mass function in X-ray detected groups and clusters

V. Guglielmo, B. M. Poggianti, B. Vulcani +42

The fraction of galaxies bound in groups in the nearby Universe is high (50% at z~0). Systematic studies of galaxy properties in groups are important in order to improve our unders…

astro-ph.GA2016★ 63 cited

The VIMOS Public Extragalactic Redshift Survey (VIPERS): Downsizing of the blue cloud and the influence of galaxy size on mass quenching over the last eight billion years

C. P. Haines, A. Iovino, J. Krywult +37

We use the full VIPERS redshift survey in combination with SDSS-DR7 to explore the relationships between star-formation history (using d4000), stellar mass and galaxy structure, an…

astro-ph.GA2016★ 231 cited

The VIMOS Public Extragalactic Redshift Survey (VIPERS). Full spectroscopic data and auxiliary information release (PDR-2)

M. Scodeggio, L. Guzzo, B. Garilli +42

We present the full public data release (PDR-2) of the VIMOS Public Extragalactic Redshift Survey (VIPERS), performed at the ESO VLT. We release redshifts, spectra, CFHTLS magnitud…

astro-ph.GA2016★ 28 cited

VIMOS Public Extragalactic Redshift Survey (VIPERS). The distinct build-up of dense and normal massive passive galaxies

A. Gargiulo, M. Bolzonella, M. Scodeggio +36

We use the final data from the VIPERS redshift survey to extract an unparalleled sample of more than 2000 massive M > 10^11 M_sun passive galaxies (MPGs) at redshift 0.5 < z < 1.0,…

astro-ph.GA2016★ 44 cited

The VIMOS Public Extragalactic Redshift Survey (VIPERS). The decline of cosmic star formation: quenching, mass, and environment connections

O. Cucciati, I. Davidzon, M. Bolzonella +37

[Abridged] We use the final data of the VIMOS Public Extragalactic Redshift Survey (VIPERS) to investigate the effect of environment on the evolution of galaxies between an…

astro-ph.GA2016★ 10 cited

The Chemical Abundance Structure of the Inner Milky Way: A Signature of "Upside-Down" Disk Formation?

Jenna K. C. Freudenburg, David H. Weinberg, Michael R. Hayden +1

We present a model for the [alpha/Fe]-[Fe/H] distribution of stars in the inner Galaxy, R=3-5 kpc, measured as a function of vertical distance |z| from the midplane by Hayden et al…

astro-ph.GA2016★ 205 cited

Chemical tagging with APOGEE: Discovery of a large population of N-rich stars in the inner Galaxy

Ricardo P. Schiavon, Olga Zamora, Ricardo Carrera +42

Formation of globular clusters (GCs), the Galactic bulge, or galaxy bulges in general, are important unsolved problems in Galactic astronomy. Homogeneous infrared observations of l…

astro-ph.GA2016★ 51 cited

Novel constraints on fermionic dark matter from galactic observables I: The Milky Way

C. R. Argüelles, A. Krut, J. A. Rueda +1

We have recently introduced a new model for the distribution of dark matter (DM) in galaxies based on a self-gravitating system of massive fermions at finite temperatures, the Ruff…

astro-ph.GA2016★ 78 cited

The Gaia-ESO Survey: Probes of the inner disk abundance gradient

H. R. Jacobson, E. D. Friel, L. Jilkova +41

The nature of the metallicity gradient inside the solar circle (R_GC < 8 kpc) is poorly understood, but studies of Cepheids and a small sample of open clusters suggest that it stee…

astro-ph.GA2016★ 20 cited

The VIMOS Public Extragalactic Redshift Survey (VIPERS). Star formation history of passive galaxies

M. Siudek, K. Małek, M. Scodeggio +36

We trace the evolution and the star formation history of passive galaxies, using a subset of the VIMOS Public Extragalactic Redshift Survey (VIPERS). We extracted from the VIPERS s…

astro-ph.GA2016★ 63 cited

Discovery of a Metal-Poor Field Giant with a Globular Cluster Second-Generation Abundance Pattern

J. G. Fernández-Trincado, A. C. Robin, E. Moreno +31

We report on detection, from observations obtained with the APOGEE spectroscopic survey, of a metal-poor ([Fe/H] dex) field giant star with an extreme Mg-Al abundance rati…