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20172025
most citedThe Fourteenth Data Release of the Sloan Digital Sky Survey: First Spectroscopic Data from the extended Baryon Oscillation Spectroscopic Survey and from the second phase of the Apache Point Observatory Galactic Evolution Experiment

681 citations · 3.5k across the 36 of their papers we have counts for

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36 papers

astro-ph.GA2025★ 6 cited

A Galactic Self-Portrait: Density Structure and Integrated Properties of the Milky Way Disk

Julie Imig, Jon A. Holtzman, Gail Zasowski +23

The evolution history of the Milky Way disk is imprinted in the ages, positions, and chemical compositions of individual stars. In this study, we derive the intrinsic density distr…

astro-ph.GA2024

SF-R You Sure? The Conflicting Role of Star Formation Rates in Constraining the Evolution of Milky Way Analogues in Cosmological Simulations

Alicia M. Savelli, Joshua S. Speagle, J. Ted Mackereth +2

Milky Way analogues (MWAs) have long been studied by astronomers to place our Galaxy within an extragalactic context. With the power of cosmological simulations, we are now able to…

astro-ph.EP2023★ 16 cited

The Galactic Interstellar Object Population: A Framework for Prediction and Inference

Matthew J. Hopkins, Chris Lintott, Michele T. Bannister +2

The Milky Way is thought to host a huge population of interstellar objects (ISOs), numbering approximately around the Sun, which are formed and shaped by…

astro-ph.GA2023★ 31 cited

The evolution of the Milky Way's thin disc radial metallicity gradient with K2 asteroseismic ages

Emma Willett, Andrea Miglio, J. Ted Mackereth +8

The radial metallicity distribution of the Milky Way's disc is an important observational constraint for models of the formation and evolution of our Galaxy. It informs our underst…

astro-ph.GA2023

Disentangling Stellar Age Estimates from Galactic Chemodynamical Evolution

Jeff Shen, Joshua S. Speagle, J. Ted Mackereth +2

Stellar ages are key for determining the formation history of the Milky Way, but are difficult to measure precisely. Furthermore, methods that use chemical abundances to infer ages…

astro-ph.GA2023★ 37 cited

A variational encoder-decoder approach to precise spectroscopic age estimation for large Galactic surveys

Henry W. Leung, Jo Bovy, J. Ted Mackereth +1

Constraints on the formation and evolution of the Milky Way Galaxy require multi-dimensional measurements of kinematics, abundances, and ages for a large population of stars. Ages…