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The Open Cluster Chemical Abundances and Mapping Survey XI. First Gradients from SDSS/MWM BOSS Determined Clusters
Jonah M. Otto, Peter M. Frinchaboy, John Donor +13
The Milky Way Mapper program in the fifth generation of the Sloan Digital Sky Survey (SDSS-V/MWM) has observed millions of stars, thousands of them in open clusters. The Open Clust…
The Twentieth Data Release of the Sloan Digital Sky Survey: First All-Sky BOSS Spectra, eROSITA-SDSS-V Mapper Coordinated Observations, and a Preview of the Local Volume Mapper
SDSS Collaboration, Mojgan Aghakhanloo, David Aguilar +273
This paper presents the twentieth data release (DR20) from the Sloan Digital Sky Survey, the third data release of its fifth generation (SDSS-V). SDSS-V is a panoptic spectroscopy…
A Test of FeH Line Parameters using DR19 APOGEE spectra of Benchmark M Dwarfs
Anderson Silva-Andrade, Diogo Souto, Katia Cunha +9
Recent studies have suggested a mismatch of up to 0.20 dex between iron abundances derived from Fe I and FeH lines in the H-band spectra of M dwarfs, and in this work we investigat…
A Probabilistic Framework for Population Studies of the Solar Neighborhood: Application to SDSS-V and Gaia
Ilija Medan, Keivan G. Stassun, Zachary Way +8
Studies of the Solar Neighborhood require spectroscopic follow-up of stars identified in astrometric surveys to fully characterize their physical properties. The SDSS-V Solar Neigh…
BOSS-CLAM: Utilizing a Constrained Linear Absorption Model to Infer Stellar Parameters from BOSS Spectra
Ilija Medan, Andrew R. Casey, Alexander P. Ji +13
Large spectroscopic surveys require robust pipelines capable of inferring stellar parameters over a wide range of the Hertzsprung-Russell (HR) diagram from data of varying quality.…
Probabilistic neural network approach to determining parameters of eclipsing binaries
Marina Kounkel, Logan Sizemore, Hidemi Mitani Shen +7
Eclipsing binaries provide one of the most direct mechanisms for measuring stellar properties such as mass and radius, but historically, determining these properties has been non-t…
21,864 Unresolved, Low-mass Binaries Identified via their Overluminosity in \textit{Gaia} DR3 and a Catalog of 347,440 Systems within 100 pc of the Sun
Zachary Way, Sébastien Lépine, Jonathan Gagné +1
The fundamental parameters of a low-mass star can potentially be determined from its photometry and astrometry. This is complicated by the fact that 10-20 percent of low-mass stars…
Variations in the Milky Way's Stellar Mass Function at [Fe/H] < -1
Jiadong Li, Hans-Walter Rix, Yuan-Sen Ting +14
We present the first determination of the Galactic stellar mass function (MF) for low-mass stars (0.2-0.5 M_sun) at metallicities [Fe/H] < -1. A sample of ~53,000 stars was selecte…
Stellar Parameters of BOSS M dwarfs in SDSS-V DR19
Dan Qiu, Jennifer A. Johnson, Chao Liu +15
We utilized the Stellar LAbel Machine (SLAM), a data-driven model based on Support Vector Regression, to derive stellar parameters ([Fe/H], , and ) for SDSS-V…
The Importance of Standardizing Spectra in the Era of Large Spectroscopic Surveys: A Case Study of M Dwarfs in SDSS-V
Ilija Medan, Zachary Way, Bárbara Rojas-Ayala +8
SDSS-V will obtain 100,000s of medium-resolution, optical spectra of M dwarfs with the BOSS instrument. M dwarfs have complex atmospheres, and their spectra contain many wide and d…
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…
The Nineteenth Data Release of the Sloan Digital Sky Survey
SDSS Collaboration, Gautham Adamane Pallathadka, Mojgan Aghakhanloo +210
Mapping the local and distant Universe is key to our understanding of it. For decades, the Sloan Digital Sky Survey (SDSS) has made a concerted effort to map millions of celestial…
Sloan Digital Sky Survey-V: Pioneering Panoptic Spectroscopy
Juna A. Kollmeier, Hans-Walter Rix, Conny Aerts +217
The Sloan Digital Sky Survey-V (SDSS-V) is pioneering panoptic spectroscopy: it is the first all-sky, multi-epoch, optical-to-infrared spectroscopic survey. SDSS-V is mapping the s…
Resolving the Unresolved: Using NESSI to Search for Unresolved Companions in Low-mass Disk Wide Binaries
Zachary D. Hartman, Gerard van Belle, Sébastien Lépine +2
Stellar systems consisting of three or more stars are not an uncommon occurrence in the Galaxy. Nearly 50% of solar-type wide binaries with separations >1000 au are actually higher…
Procedures for Constraining Robotic Fiber Positioning for Highly Multiplexed Spectroscopic Surveys: The Case of FPS for SDSS-V
Ilija Medan, Tom Dwelly, Kevin R. Covey +12
One crucial aspect of planning any large scale astronomical survey is constructing an observing strategy that maximizes reduced data quality. This is especially important for surve…
robostrategy: Field and Target Assignment Optimization in the Sloan Digital Sky Survey V
Michael R. Blanton, Joleen K. Carlberg, Tom Dwelly +12
We present an algorithmic method for efficiently planning a long-term, large-scale multi-object spectroscopy program. The Sloan Digital Sky Survey V (SDSS-V) Focal Plane System per…
Detecting New Visual Binaries in Gaia DR3 with Gaia and Two Micron All Sky Survey (2MASS) Photometry II. Speckle Observations of 16 Low-Separation Systems
Ilija Medan, Sébastien Lépine, Zachary Hartman +1
Here we present speckle observations of 16 low-separation ( AU) high probability candidate binaries from the catalog by Medan et al., where secondaries typically lack astrome…
Detecting New Visual Binaries in Gaia DR3 with Gaia and 2MASS Photometry I. New Candidate Binaries Within 200 pc of the Sun
Ilija Medan, Sébastien Lépine
We present a method to identify likely visual binaries in Gaia eDR3 that does not rely on parallax or proper motion. This method utilizes the various PSF sizes of 2MASS/Gaia, where…
The Eighteenth Data Release of the Sloan Digital Sky Surveys: Targeting and First Spectra from SDSS-V
Andrés Almeida, Scott F. Anderson, Maria Argudo-Fernández +151
The eighteenth data release of the Sloan Digital Sky Surveys (SDSS) is the first one for SDSS-V, the fifth generation of the survey. SDSS-V comprises three primary scientific progr…
Chemodynamical Ages of Small-Scale Kinematic Structures of the Galactic Disc in the Solar Neighborhood from ~250,000 K and M Dwarfs
Ilija Medan, Sébastien Lépine
We combine photometric metallicities with astrometry from Gaia DR3 to examine the chemodynamic structure of ~250,000 K dwarfs in the Solar Neighborhood (SN). In kinematics, we obse…
From Data to Software to Science with the Rubin Observatory LSST
Katelyn Breivik, Andrew J. Connolly, K. E. Saavik Ford +97
The Vera C. Rubin Observatory Legacy Survey of Space and Time (LSST) dataset will dramatically alter our understanding of the Universe, from the origins of the Solar System to the…
Vetting the Lobster Diagram: Searching for Unseen Companions in Wide Binaries using NASA Space Exoplanet Missions
Zachary Hartman, Sébastien Lépine, Ilija Medan
Over the past decade, the number of known wide binary systems has exponentially expanded thanks to the release of data from the Gaia Mission. Some of these wide binary systems are…
Bayesian Cross-Matching of High Proper Motion Stars in Gaia DR2 and Photometric Metallicities for 1.7 million K and M Dwarfs
Ilija Medan, Sébastien Lépine, Zachary Hartman
We present a Bayesian method to cross-match 5,827,988 high proper motion Gaia sources () to various photometric surveys: 2MASS, AllWISE, GALEX, RAVE, SDSS and…
A Catalog of 531 White Dwarf Candidates in the Local Galactic Halo from Gaia Data Release 2
Bokyoung Kim, Sebastien Lépine, Ilija Medan
We present a catalog of 531 white dwarf candidates that have large apparent transverse motions relative to the Sun ( km s), thus making them likely members of t…