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most citedSloan Digital Sky Survey IV: Mapping the Milky Way, Nearby Galaxies, and the Distant Universe

1.6k citations

95 papers

astro-ph.GA2024★ 1 cited

Recovering the properties of the interstellar medium through integrated spectroscopy: application to the z~0 ECO volume-limited star-forming galaxy sample

V. Lebouteiller, C. T. Richardson, M. S. Polimera +7

Deriving physical parameters from integrated galaxy spectra is paramount to interpret the cosmic evolution of star formation, chemical enrichment, and energetic sources. We develop…

astro-ph.CO2023★ 6 cited

Aliasing from Galactic Plane Setting in Widefield Radio Interferometry

N. Barry, J. L. B. Line, C. R. Lynch +2

Measurements with widefield radio interferometers often include the near-infinite gradient between the sky and the horizon. This causes aliasing inherent to the measurement itself,…

astro-ph.GA2023★ 17 cited

Dust attenuation, dust content and geometry of star-forming galaxies

Junkai Zhang, Stijn Wuyts, Sam E. Cutler +11

We analyse the joint distribution of dust attenuation and projected axis ratios, together with galaxy size and surface brightness profile information, to infer lessons on the dust…

cond-mat.stat-mech2023★ 18 cited

Exact microcanonical statistical analysis of transition behavior in Ising chains and strips

Kedkanok Sitarachu, Royce K. P. Zia, Michael Bachmann

Recent analyses of least-sensitive inflection points in derivatives of the microcanonical entropy for the two-dimensional Ising model revealed higher-order transition signals in ad…

astro-ph.GA2022★ 5 cited

The H luminosity and stellar mass dependent clustering of star-forming galaxies at with 3D-HST

Callie Clontz, David Wake, Zheng Zheng

We present measurements of the dependence of the clustering amplitude of galaxies on their star formation rate (SFR) and stellar mass () at to assess the exten…

astro-ph.GA2022★ 12 cited

3D-DASH: The Widest Near-Infrared Hubble Space Telescope Survey

Lamiya A. Mowla, Sam E. Cutler, Gabriel B. Brammer +15

The 3D-Drift And SHift (3D-DASH) program is a \textit{Hubble Space Telescope} WFC3 F160W imaging and G141 grism survey of the equatorial COSMOS field. 3D-DASH extends the legacy of…

astro-ph.GA2022

SDSS-IV MaNGA: How the stellar populations of passive central galaxies depend on stellar and halo mass

Grecco A. Oyarzun, Kevin Bundy, Kyle B. Westfall +23

We analyze spatially resolved and co-added SDSS-IV MaNGA spectra with signal-to-noise ~100 from 2200 passive central galaxies (z~0.05) to understand how central galaxy assembly dep…

cs.IT2021

Notes on Generalizing the Maximum Entropy Principle to Uncertain Data

Kenneth Bogert

The principle of maximum entropy is a broadly applicable technique for computing a distribution with the least amount of information possible constrained to match empirical data, f…

cs.LG2021★ 1 cited

A Hierarchical Bayesian model for Inverse RL in Partially-Controlled Environments

Kenneth Bogert, Prashant Doshi

Robots learning from observations in the real world using inverse reinforcement learning (IRL) may encounter objects or agents in the environment, other than the expert, that cause…

cond-mat.stat-mech2021★ 7 cited

How does homophily shape the topology of a dynamic network?

Xiang Li, Mauro Mobilia, Alastair M. Rucklidge +1

We consider a dynamic network of individuals that may hold one of two different opinions in a two-party society. As a dynamical model, agents can endlessly create and delete links…

astro-ph.GA2021★ 33 cited

The Geometry of Cold, Metal-Enriched Gas Around Galaxies at

Britt F. Lundgren, Samantha Creech, Gabriel Brammer +10

We present the first results from a Hubble Space Telescope WFC3/IR program, which obtained direct imaging and grism observations of galaxies near quasar sightlines with a high freq…

cs.CY2021★ 27 cited

Toward a Rational and Ethical Sociotechnical System of Autonomous Vehicles: A Novel Application of Multi-Criteria Decision Analysis

Veljko Dubljević, George F. List, Jovan Milojevich +12

The expansion of artificial intelligence (AI) and autonomous systems has shown the potential to generate enormous social good while also raising serious ethical and safety concerns…

cond-mat.mtrl-sci2020★ 14 cited

Helical magnetic order and Fermi surface nesting in non-centrosymmetric ScFeGe

Sunil K. Karna, D. Tristant, J. K. Hebert +25

An investigation of the structural, magnetic, thermodynamic, and charge transport properties of non-centrosymmetric hexagonal ScFeGe reveals it to be an anisotropic metal with a tr…

astro-ph.HE2020★ 39 cited

The Chandra Deep Wide-Field Survey: A New Chandra Legacy Survey in the Boötes Field I. X-ray Point Source Catalog, Number Counts and Multi-Wavelength Counterparts

A. Masini, R. C. Hickox, C. M. Carroll +30

We present a new, ambitious survey performed with the Chandra X-ray Observatory of the 9.3 deg Boötes field of the NOAO Deep Wide-Field Survey. The wide field probes a statisti…

astro-ph.GA2020★ 46 cited

SDSS-IV MaNGA: the indispensable role of bars in enhancing the central star formation of low- galaxies

Lin Lin, Cheng Li, Cheng Du +8

We analyse two-dimensional maps and radial profiles of EW(H), EW(H), and D(4000) of low-redshift galaxies using integral field spectroscopy from the MaNGA survey. Out o…

astro-ph.GA2019★ 1.5k cited

The Sixteenth Data Release of the Sloan Digital Sky Surveys: First Release from the APOGEE-2 Southern Survey and Full Release of eBOSS Spectra

Romina Ahumada, Carlos Allende Prieto, Andres Almeida +310

This paper documents the sixteenth data release (DR16) from the Sloan Digital Sky Surveys; the fourth and penultimate from the fourth phase (SDSS-IV). This is the first release of…

astro-ph.IM2019★ 1 cited

The Growing Importance of a Tech Savvy Astronomy and Astrophysics Workforce

Dara Norman, Kelle Cruz, Vandana Desai +26

Fundamental coding and software development skills are increasingly necessary for success in nearly every aspect of astronomical and astrophysical research as large surveys and hig…

physics.ao-ph2019★ 17 cited

Nonequilibrium oscillations, probability angular momentum, and the climate system

Jeffrey B. Weiss, Baylor Fox-Kemper, Dibyendu Mandal +2

Though the Boltzmann-Gibbs framework of equilibrium statistical mechanics has been successful in many arenas, it is clearly inadequate for describing many interesting natural pheno…

astro-ph.GA2019★ 25 cited

SDSS-IV MaNGA: Evidence for enriched accretion onto satellite galaxies in dense environments

Adam L. Schaefer, Christy Tremonti, Zachary Pace +9

We investigate the environmental dependence of the local gas-phase metallicity in a sample of star-forming galaxies from the MaNGA survey. Satellite galaxies with stellar masses in…

astro-ph.GA2019★ 19 cited

Resolved and Integrated Stellar Masses in the SDSS-IV/MaNGA Survey, Paper II: Applications of PCA-based stellar mass estimates

Zachary J. Pace, Christy Tremonti, Yanmei Chen +9

A galaxy's stellar mass is one of its most fundamental properties, but it remains challenging to measure reliably. With the advent of very large optical spectroscopic surveys, effi…

astro-ph.GA2019★ 14 cited

Resolved and Integrated Stellar Masses in the SDSS-IV/MaNGA Survey, Paper I: PCA spectral fitting & stellar mass-to-light ratio estimates

Zachary J. Pace, Christy Tremonti, Yanmei Chen +9

We present a method of fitting optical spectra of galaxies using a basis set of six vectors obtained from principal component analysis (PCA) of a library of synthetic spectra of 40…

astro-ph.SR2019★ 38 cited

Characterizing K2 Candidate Planetary Systems Orbiting Low-Mass Stars IV: Updated Properties for 86 Cool Dwarfs Observed During Campaigns 1-17

Courtney D. Dressing, Kevin Hardegree-Ullman, Joshua E. Schlieder +15

We present revised stellar properties for 172 K2 target stars that were identified as possible hosts of transiting planets during Campaigns 1-17. Using medium-resolution near-infra…

astro-ph.EP2019★ 18 cited

K2-291 b: A rocky super-Earth in a 2.2 day orbit

Molly R. Kosiarek, Sarah Blunt, Mercedes Lopez-Morales +43

K2-291 (EPIC 247418783) is a solar-type star with a radius of R_star = 0.899 0.034 R_sun and mass of M_star=0.934 0.038 M_sun. From K2 C13 data, we found one super-Eart…

astro-ph.EP2019★ 21 cited

K2-288Bb: A Small Temperate Planet in a Low-mass Binary System Discovered by Citizen Scientists

Adina D. Feinstein, Joshua E. Schlieder, John H. Livingston +23

Observations from the Kepler and K2 missions have provided the astronomical community with unprecedented amounts of data to search for transiting exoplanets and other astrophysical…