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most citedThe DESI Experiment Part I: Science,Targeting, and Survey Design

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astro-ph.IM2025★ 12 cited

The Mini-SiTian Array: first-two-year operation

Min He, Hong Wu, Liang Ge +70

The SiTian project, designed to utilize 60 telescopes distributed across multiple sites in China, is a next-generation time-domain survey initiative. As a pathfinder for the SiTian…

astro-ph.GA2023★ 4 cited

Discovery of the shell structure via break radii in the outer halo of the Milky Way

Dashuang Ye, Cuihua Du, Jianrong Shi +1

Based on the \textit{Gaia} DR3 RR Lyrae catalog, we use two methods to fit the density profiles with an improved broken power law, and find that there are two break radii coincidin…

astro-ph.IM2023★ 3 cited

Astrometric Calibration of the BeijingArizona Sky Survey

Xiyan Peng, Zhaoxiang Qi, Tianmeng Zhang +13

We present the astrometric calibration of the Beijing-Arizona Sky Survey (BASS). The BASS astrometry was tied to the International Celestial Reference Frame via the \emph{Gaia} Dat…

astro-ph.HE2023★ 6 cited

SN 2016ije: An SN 2002es-like Type Ia Supernova Exploded in a Metal-poor and Low-surface Brightness Galaxy

Zhitong Li, Tianmeng Zhang, Xiaofeng Wang +28

We have conducted photometric and spectroscopic observations of the peculiar Type Ia supernova (SN Ia) 2016ije that was discovered through the Tsinghua-NAOC Transient Survey. This…

astro-ph.GA2022★ 17 cited

60 candidate high-velocity stars originating from the Sagittarius dwarf spheroidal galaxy in Gaia EDR3

Hefan Li, Cuihua Du, Jun Ma +3

Using proper motions from Gaia Early Data Release 3 (Gaia EDR 3) and radial velocities from several surveys, we identify 60 candidate high-velocity stars with total velocity greate…

astro-ph.GA2022★ 8 cited

Searching Extra-tidal Features around the Globular Cluster Whiting 1

Jundan Nie, Hao Tian, Jing Li +14

Whiting 1 is a faint and young globular cluster in the halo of the Milky Way, and was suggested to have originated in the Sagittarius spherical dwarf galaxy (Sgr dSph). In this pap…