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astro-ph.GA2026

The Delegate Survey: KOALA/AAOmega-IFU spectroscopy of three nearby dwarf galaxies

Kyungdo Ko, Helmut Jerjen, Sarah M. Sweet +6

Assessing the cosmological typicality of the Local Group is crucial for establishing whether its dwarf galaxy population is representative. To this end, the Delegate Survey targets…

astro-ph.GA2026

The initial conditions and initial mass functions of Alpha Persei, Pleiades and Praesepe

L. Hobart, H. Baumgardt, S. Sweet

We have determined the initial mass function (IMF) and structural properties of the open clusters Alpha Persei, Pleiades and Praesepe using Gaia DR3 astrometry and photometry. Clus…

astro-ph.GA2026★ 1 cited

Euclid: Early Release Observations -- Internal kinematics and the convective-transition gap of NGC 6397

M. Griggio, M. Libralato, R. Gerasimov +130

We present a 'multiple-pass' data-reduction tool designed for Euclid, based on software developed for the Hubble Space Telescope (HST), which improves the astrometric and photometr…

astro-ph.GA2026

Multi-band Reconstruction of Sixteen Gravitational Lens Systems using PISCO data

Huimin Qu, Daniel J. Ballard, Geraint F. Lewis +12

Next-generation surveys such as the Euclid survey, the Legacy Survey of Space and Time (LSST), and the China Space Station Telescope (CSST) survey are expected to discover ~10^5 ga…

astro-ph.GA2025

The MAGPI Survey: forward modelled gas-phase metallicity gradients in galaxies at

Yifan Mai, Scott M. Croom, Emily Wisnioski +19

We measure the seeing-deconvolved gas-phase metallicity gradients of 70 star-forming galaxies at from the MAGPI survey and investigate their relationship with galaxy pr…

astro-ph.GA2025★ 3 cited

The Hubble Missing Globular Cluster Survey. II. Survey membership tools and kinematic analysis of NGC 6749

L. Rosignoli, M. Libralato, R. Pascale +15

The Hubble Missing Globular Cluster Survey has secured high quality astro photometric data in two bands for 34 clusters never observed with HST. When combined with Gaia positional…

astro-ph.GA2025★ 2 cited

OzDES Reverberation Mapping of Active Galactic Nuclei: Final Data Release, Black-Hole Mass Results, & Scaling Relations

H. McDougall, T. M. Davis, Z. Yu +53

Over the last decade, the Australian Dark Energy (OzDES) collaboration has used Reverberation Mapping to measure the masses of high redshift supermassive black holes. Here we prese…

astro-ph.GA2025

OzDES Reverberation Mapping Program: CIV lags from six years of data

A. Penton, H. McDougall, T. M. Davis +52

We present 29 successfully recovered CIV time lags in Active Galactic Nuclei from the complete Dark Energy Survey Reverberation Mapping campaign. The AGN in this sample span a reds…

astro-ph.GA2025★ 3 cited

Ultra-Faint Milky Way Satellites Discovered in Carina, Phoenix, and Telescopium with DELVE Data Release 3

C. Y. Tan, W. Cerny, A. B. Pace +76

We report the discovery of three Milky Way satellite candidates: Carina IV, Phoenix III, and DELVE 7, in the third data release of the DECam Local Volume Exploration survey (DELVE)…

astro-ph.GA2025★ 4 cited

Hector Galaxy Survey: Data Processing, Quality Control and Early Science

S. Oh, M. L. P. Gunawardhana, S. M. Croom +52

The Hector Galaxy Survey is a new optical integral field spectroscopy (IFS) survey currently using the AAT to observe up to 15,000 galaxies at low redshift (). The Hector…

astro-ph.GA2025★ 1 cited

On the connection between nitrogen-enhanced field stars and the Galactic globular clusters

Sarah G. Kane, Vasily Belokurov, Stephanie Monty +6

As sites of some of the most efficient star formation in the Universe, globular clusters (GCs) have long been hypothesized to be the building blocks of young galaxies. Within the M…

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★ 2 cited

Origin of High Dark Remnant Fractions in Milky Way Globular Clusters: The Crucial Role of Initial Black Hole Retention

Ali Rostami-Shirazi, Holger Baumgardt, Akram Hasani Zonoozi +2

Comparing the dynamical and stellar masses of Milky Way (MW) globular clusters (GCs) reveals a discrepancy exceeding a factor of two. Since this substantial invisible mass is conce…

astro-ph.GA2025★ 2 cited

Spatial mixing of stellar populations in globular clusters via binary-single star scattering

Václav Pavlík, Melvyn B. Davies, Ellen I. Leitinger +5

The majority of Galactic globular star clusters (GCs) have been reported to contain at least two populations of stars (we use P1 for the primordial and P2 for the chemically-enrich…

astro-ph.GA2025

LITMUS: Bayesian Lag Recovery in Reverberation Mapping with Fast Differentiable Models

Hugh McDougall, Tamara M. Davis, Benjamin J. S. Pope

Reverberation mapping is a technique in which the mass of a Seyfert I galaxy's central supermassive black hole is estimated, along with the system's physical scale, from the timesc…

astro-ph.GA2025★ 4 cited

Direct N-body simulations of NGC 6397 and its tidal tails

Anthony D. Arnold, Holger Baumgardt

We have performed a series of direct N-body simulations that study the evolution of the Galactic globular cluster NGC 6397 under the combined influence of two-body relaxation, stel…

astro-ph.GA2025★ 1 cited

The MAGPI Survey: the subtle role of environment and not-so-subtle impact of generations of stars on galaxy dynamics

Caroline Foster, Sabine Bellstedt, Francesco DEugenio +23

The stellar age and mass of galaxies have been suggested as the primary determinants for the dynamical state of galaxies, with environment seemingly playing no or only a very minor…

astro-ph.GA2024★ 3 cited

A Shallow Slope for the Stellar Mass--Angular Momentum Relation of Star-Forming Galaxies at

Juan M. Espejo Salcedo, Karl Glazebrook, Deanne B. Fisher +3

We present measurements of the specific angular momentum of 41 star-forming galaxies at . These measurements are based on radial profiles inferred from near-IR…

astro-ph.GA2024★ 4 cited

Detection of an orthogonal alignment between parsec scale AGN jets and their host galaxies

D. Fernández Gil, J. A. Hodgson, B. L'Huillier +6

The relationship between galaxies and their supermassive black holes (SMBHs) is an area of active research. One way to investigate this is to compare parsec-scale jets formed by SM…

astro-ph.GA2024★ 5 cited

RR Lyrae Stars in Intermediate-age Magellanic Clusters: Membership Probabilities and Delay Time Distribution

Bolivia Cuevas-Otahola, Cecilia Mateu, Ivan Cabrera-Ziri +4

Recent works have challenged our canonical view of RR Lyrae (RRL) stars as tracers of exclusively old populations (~Gyr) by proposing a fraction of these stars to be of…

astro-ph.GA2024★ 13 cited

The Kinematics of 30 Milky Way Globular Clusters and the Multiple Stellar Populations within

Ellen Leitinger, Holger Baumgardt, Ivan Cabrera-Ziri +5

The spectroscopic and photometric classification of multiple stellar populations (MPs) in Galactic globular clusters (GCs) has enabled comparisons between contemporary observations…

astro-ph.GA2024★ 3 cited

Probing populations of dark stellar remnants in the globular clusters 47 Tuc and Terzan 5 using pulsar timing

Peter J. Smith, Vincent Hénault-Brunet, Nolan Dickson +2

We present a new method to combine multimass equilibrium dynamical models and pulsar timing data to constrain the mass distribution and remnant populations of Milky Way globular cl…

astro-ph.GA2024★ 6 cited

The MAGPI survey: The interdependence of the mass, star formation rate, and metallicity in galaxies at z~0.3

M. Koller, B. Ziegler, B. I. Ciocan +16

Star formation rates (SFRs), gas-phase metallicities, and stellar masses are crucial for studying galaxy evolution. The different relations resulting from these properties give ins…

astro-ph.GA2024★ 4 cited

The hyperplane of early-type galaxies: using stellar population properties to increase the precision and accuracy of the fundamental plane as a distance indicator

Francesco D'Eugenio, Matthew Colless, Arjen van der Wel +10

We use deep spectroscopy from the SAMI Galaxy Survey to explore the precision of the fundamental plane of early-type galaxies (FP) as a distance indicator for future single-fibre s…