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astro-ph.GA2026★ 1 cited

The environmental imprint on molecular layering in the dusty streamer of M512

M. De Simone, L. Cacciapuoti, D. Capela +7

Protostellar streamers are elongated structures that channel material from larger scale onto disks, influencing their physical and chemical evolution. The M512 protostar in Orion/L…

astro-ph.GA2026

Full-polarization millimeter wavelength variability of Sagittarius A* during the 2018 EHT campaign

Ezequiel Albentosa-Ruiz, Jasmin E. Washington, Nicola Marchili +272

Sagittarius A* (Srg A*), the supermassive black hole at the center of the Milky Way, provides a unique laboratory to study accretion dynamics and plasma processes near the event ho…

astro-ph.GA2026

PAC in DESI. II. Galaxy-halo connection into the frontier

Kun Xu, Carlos S. Frenk, Y. P. Jing +37

Understanding dwarf galaxy formation is crucial for testing dark matter models and reionization physics. However, constructing stellar-mass complete spectroscopic samples at low ma…

astro-ph.GA2025

The DESI Single Fiber Lens Search. I. Four Thousand Spectroscopically Selected Galaxy-Galaxy Gravitational Lens Candidates

Juliana S. M. Karp, David J. Schlegel, Xiaosheng Huang +47

We present 4,110 strong gravitational lens candidates, 3,887 of which are new discoveries, selected from a sample of 5,837,154 luminous red galaxies (LRGs) observed with the Dark E…

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★ 6 cited

Mapping the Distant and Metal-Poor Milky Way with SDSS-V

Vedant Chandra, Phillip A. Cargile, Alexander P. Ji +28

The fifth-generation Sloan Digital Sky Survey (SDSS-V) is conducting the first all-sky low-resolution spectroscopic survey of the Milky Way's stellar halo. We describe the stellar…

astro-ph.GA2025★ 5 cited

Nearby stellar substructures in the Galactic halo from DESI Milky Way Survey Year 1 Data Release

Bokyoung Kim, Sergey E. Koposov, Ting S. Li +41

We report five nearby ( kpc) stellar substructures in the Galactic halo from a subset of 138,661 stars in the Dark Energy Spectroscopic Instrument (DESI) Mi…

astro-ph.GA2025★ 2 cited

DESI Emission-line Galaxies: Clustering Dependence on Stellar Mass and [OII] Luminosity

T. Hagen, K. S. Dawson, Z. Zheng +49

We measure the projected two-point correlation functions of emission-line galaxies (ELGs) from the Dark Energy Spectroscopic Instrument (DESI) One-Percent Survey and model their de…

astro-ph.GA2025★ 4 cited

Polarization Studies in Different Blazar Types. Part I: Correlation between Optical Brightness and Polarization Degree

E. A. Shkodkina, S. S. Savchenko, D. A. Morozova +11

We present an analysis of the cross-correlation between optical brightness and polarization degree in different types of blazars. The aim is to identify objects with simultaneous a…

astro-ph.GA2025★ 1 cited

The Cocytos Stream: A Disrupted Globular Cluster from our Last Major Merger?

Christian Aganze, Vedant Chandra, Risa H. Wechsler +48

The census of stellar streams and dwarf galaxies in the Milky Way provides direct constraints on galaxy formation models and the nature of dark matter. The DESI Milky Way survey --…

astro-ph.GA2025★ 1 cited

The DESI Y1 RR Lyrae catalog I: Empirical modeling of the cyclic variation of spectroscopic properties and a chemodynamical analysis of the outer halo

Gustavo E. Medina, Ting S. Li, Sergey E. Koposov +44

We present the catalog of RR Lyrae stars (RRLs) observed in the first year of operations of the Dark Energy Spectroscopic Instrument (DESI) survey. This catalog contains 6,240 RRLs…

astro-ph.GA2025★ 3 cited

HST Grism Observations of a z~1.8 Cluster Candidate from the Clusters Occupied by Bent Radio AGN (COBRA) Survey

Courtney B. Watson, Elizabeth L. Blanton, Emmet Golden-Marx +4

We present new Hubble Space Telescope/Wide Field Camera 3 G141 grism observations for COBRA1411+3415, originally identified as a high-redshift cluster candidate in the Clusters Occ…

astro-ph.GA2025

Measuring Scaling Relationships: Fitting Technique Matters

Bryanne McDonough, Olivia Curtis, Tereasa Brainerd

Scaling relationships, both integrated and spatially resolved, arise due to the physical processes that govern galaxy evolution and are frequently measured in both observed and sim…

astro-ph.GA2025★ 8 cited

PAC in DESI. I. Galaxy Stellar Mass Function into the Frontier

Kun Xu, Y. P. Jing, Shaun Cole +34

The Photometric Objects Around Cosmic Webs (PAC) method integrates cosmological photometric and spectroscopic surveys, offering valuable insights into galaxy formation. PAC measure…

astro-ph.GA2025★ 7 cited

The Solar System's passage through the Radcliffe wave during the middle Miocene

E. Maconi, J. Alves, C. Swiggum +14

Context. As the Solar System orbits the Milky Way, it encounters various Galactic environments, including dense regions of the interstellar medium (ISM). These encounters can compr…

astro-ph.GA2024★ 2 cited

Kilogauss magnetic field and jet dynamics in the quasar NRAO 530

Mikhail Lisakov, Svetlana Jorstad, Maciek Wielgus +12

The advancement of the Event Horizon Telescope has enabled the study of relativistic jets in active galactic nuclei down to sub-parsec linear scales even at high redshift. Quasi-si…

astro-ph.GA2024★ 18 cited

Exploring the interaction between the MW and LMC with a large sample of blue horizontal branch stars from the DESI survey

Amanda Byström, Sergey E. Koposov, Sophia Lilleengen +42

The Large Magellanic Cloud (LMC) is a Milky Way (MW) satellite that is massive enough to gravitationally attract the MW disc and inner halo, causing significant motion of the inner…

astro-ph.GA2024

Discovery and Spectroscopic Confirmation of Aquarius III: A Low-Mass Milky Way Satellite Galaxy

W. Cerny, A. Chiti, M. Geha +37

We present the discovery of Aquarius III, an ultra-faint Milky Way satellite galaxy identified in the second data release of the DECam Local Volume Exploration (DELVE) survey. Base…

astro-ph.GA2024★ 9 cited

Stellar reddening map from DESI imaging and spectroscopy

Rongpu Zhou, Julien Guy, Sergey E. Koposov +54

We present new Galactic dust reddening maps of the high Galactic latitude sky using DESI imaging and spectroscopy. We directly measure the reddening of 2.6 million stars by compari…

astro-ph.GA2024★ 3 cited

Changing-look Active Galactic Nuclei from the Dark Energy Spectroscopic Instrument. II. Statistical Properties from the First Data Release

Wei-Jian Guo, Hu Zou, Claire L. Greenwell +33

We present the identification of changing-look active galactic nuclei (CL-AGNs) from the Dark Energy Spectroscopic Instrument First Data Release and Sloan Digital Sky Survey Data R…

astro-ph.GA2024★ 31 cited

DESI Early Data Release Milky Way Survey Value-Added Catalogue

Sergey E. Koposov, C. Allende-Prieto, A. P. Cooper +40

We present the stellar value-added catalogue based on the Dark Energy Spectroscopic Instrument (DESI) Early Data Release. The catalogue contains radial velocity and stellar paramet…

astro-ph.GA2024★ 5 cited

AuriDESI: Mock Catalogues for the DESI Milky Way Survey

Namitha Kizhuprakkat, Andrew P. Cooper, Alexander H. Riley +31

The Dark Energy Spectroscopic Instrument Milky Way Survey (DESI MWS) will explore the assembly history of the Milky Way by characterising remnants of ancient dwarf galaxy accretion…

astro-ph.GA2024★ 6 cited

The magnetic field of the Radcliffe Wave: starlight polarization at nearest approach to the Sun

G. V. Panopoulou, C. Zucker, D. Clemens +6

We investigate the geometry of the magnetic field towards the Radcliffe Wave, a coherent 3-kpc-long part of the nearby Local Arm recently discovered via three-dimensional dust mapp…

astro-ph.GA2024★ 6 cited

Emission Line Predictions for Mock Galaxy Catalogues: a New Differentiable and Empirical Mapping from DESI

Ashod Khederlarian, Jeffrey A. Newman, Brett H. Andrews +43

We present a simple, differentiable method for predicting emission line strengths from rest-frame optical continua using an empirically-determined mapping. Extensive work has been…