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most citedThe Eleventh and Twelfth Data Releases of the Sloan Digital Sky Survey: Final Data from SDSS-III

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57 papers

astro-ph.SR2024★ 8 cited

Chemodynamic evolution of Sun-like stars in nearby moving groups

Christian Lehmann, Michael T. Murphy, Fan Liu +1

Sun-like stars are well represented in the solar neighbourhood but are currently under-utilised, with many studies of chemical and kinematic evolution focusing on red giants (which…

astro-ph.GA2024★ 20 cited

The GALAH survey: Tracing the Milky Way's formation and evolution through RR Lyrae stars

Valentina D'Orazi, Nicholas Storm, Andrew R. Casey +39

Stellar mergers and accretion events have been crucial in shaping the evolution of the Milky Way (MW). These events have been dynamically identified and chemically characterised us…

astro-ph.GA2024★ 8 cited

Probing the strength of radial migration via churning by using metal-rich red giant stars from APOGEE

Christian Lehmann, Sofia Feltzing, Diane Feuillet +1

Making use of the APOGEE DR17 catalogue with high quality data for 143,509 red giant branch stars we explore the strength of different mechanisms that causes a star to radially mig…

astro-ph.SR2024

The Gaia-ESO Survey: The DR5 analysis of the medium-resolution GIRAFFE and high-resolution UVES spectra of FGK-type stars

C. C. Worley, R. Smiljanic, L. Magrini +42

The Gaia-ESO Survey is an European Southern Observatory (ESO) public spectroscopic survey that targeted stars in the Milky Way covering the major populations of the disk, bu…

astro-ph.IM2023

SDSS-IV from 2014 to 2016: A Detailed Demographic Comparison over Three Years

Amy M. Jones, Rachael L. Beaton, Brian A. Cherinka +24

The Sloan Digital Sky Survey (SDSS) is one of the largest international astronomy organizations. We present demographic data based on surveys of its members from 2014, 2015 and 201…

astro-ph.GA2023★ 72 cited

A Tale of Two Disks: Mapping the Milky Way with the Final Data Release of APOGEE

Julie Imig, Cathryn Price, Jon A. Holtzman +24

We present new maps of the Milky Way disk showing the distribution of metallicity ([Fe/H]), -element abundances ([Mg/Fe]), and stellar age, using a sample of 66,496 red giant st…

astro-ph.SR2023★ 50 cited

The Gaia-ESO Survey: homogenisation of stellar parameters and elemental abundances

A. Hourihane, P. Francois, C. C. Worley +59

The Gaia-ESO Survey is a public spectroscopic survey that has targeted stars covering all major components of the Milky Way from the end of 2011 to 2018, delivering i…

astro-ph.GA2023

The metal-weak Milky Way stellar disk hidden in the Gaia-Sausage-Enceladus debris: the APOGEE DR17 view

Sofia Feltzing, Diane Feuillet

We have for the first time identified the early stellar disk in the Milky Way by using a combination of elemental abundances and kinematics. Using data from APOGEE DR17 and Gaia we…

astro-ph.GA2023★ 38 cited

A Comparative Analysis of the Chemical Compositions of Gaia-Enceladus/Sausage and Milky Way Satellites using APOGEE

Laura Fernandes, Andrew C. Mason, Danny Horta +11

We use data from the 17th data release of the Apache Point Observatory Galactic Evolution Experiment (APOGEE 2) to contrast the chemical composition of the recently discovered Gaia…

astro-ph.IM2022★ 211 cited

The wide-field, multiplexed, spectroscopic facility WEAVE: Survey design, overview, and simulated implementation

Shoko Jin, Scott C. Trager, Gavin B. Dalton +212

WEAVE, the new wide-field, massively multiplexed spectroscopic survey facility for the William Herschel Telescope, will see first light in late 2022. WEAVE comprises a new 2-degree…

astro-ph.SR2022★ 39 cited

Comparative analysis of atmospheric parameters from high-resolution spectroscopic sky surveys: APOGEE, GALAH, Gaia-ESO

Viola Hegedűs, Szabolcs Mészáros, Paula Jofré +5

SDSS-IV APOGEE-2, GALAH and Gaia-ESO are high resolution, ground-based, multi-object spectroscopic surveys providing fundamental stellar atmospheric parameters and multiple element…

astro-ph.GA2022★ 28 cited

VINTERGATAN-GM: The cosmological imprints of early mergers on Milky-Way-mass galaxies

Martin P. Rey, Oscar Agertz, Tjitske K. Starkenburg +6

We present a new suite of cosmological zoom-in hydrodynamical ( spatial resolution) simulations of Milky-Way mass galaxies to study how a varying mass rat…

astro-ph.SR2022★ 22 cited

The Gaia-ESO Survey: Lithium measurements and new curves of growth

E. Franciosini, S. Randich, P. de Laverny +37

The Gaia-ESO Survey (GES) is a large public spectroscopic survey that was carried out using the multi-object FLAMES spectrograph at the Very Large Telescope. The survey provides ac…

astro-ph.SR2022★ 133 cited

The Gaia-ESO Public Spectroscopic Survey: Motivation, implementation, GIRAFFE data processing, analysis, and final data products

G. Gilmore, S. Randich, C. C. Worley +165

The Gaia-ESO Public Spectroscopic Survey is an ambitious project designed to obtain astrophysical parameters and elemental abundances for 100,000 stars, including large representat…

astro-ph.GA2022★ 18 cited

An old, metal-rich accreted stellar component in the Milky Way stellar disk

Diane K. Feuillet, Sofia Feltzing, Christian Sahlholdt +1

We study the possibility that the Milky Way's cool stellar disc includes mergers with ancient stars. Galaxies are understood to form in a hierarchical manner, where smaller (proto-…

astro-ph.GA2022★ 188 cited

The Gaia-ESO Public Spectroscopic Survey: Implementation, data products, open cluster survey, science, and legacy

S. Randich, G. Gilmore, L. Magrini +161

In the last 15 years different ground-based spectroscopic surveys have been started (and completed) with the general aim of delivering stellar parameters and elemental abundances f…

astro-ph.GA2022★ 143 cited

The chemical characterisation of halo substructure in the Milky Way based on APOGEE

Danny Horta, Ricardo P. Schiavon, J. Ted Mackereth +21

Galactic haloes in a -CDM universe are predicted to host today a swarm of debris resulting from cannibalised dwarf galaxies. The chemo-dynamical information recorded in their st…

astro-ph.GA2022★ 5 cited

The Seventeenth Data Release of the Sloan Digital Sky Surveys: Complete Release of MaNGA, MaStar and APOGEE-2 Data

Abdurro'uf, Katherine Accetta, Conny Aerts +337

This paper documents the seventeenth data release (DR17) from the Sloan Digital Sky Surveys; the fifth and final release from the fourth phase (SDSS-IV). DR17 contains the complete…

astro-ph.GA2021★ 55 cited

Characterizing epochs of star formation across the Milky Way disc using age-metallicity distributions of GALAH stars

Christian L. Sahlholdt, Sofia Feltzing, Diane K. Feuillet

We provide a detailed map of the ages and metallicities of turnoff stars in the Milky Way disc based on data from GALAH DR3 and Gaia EDR3. From this map, we identify previously und…

astro-ph.GA2021★ 152 cited

APOGEE Chemical Abundance Patterns of the Massive Milky Way Satellites

Sten Hasselquist, Christian R. Hayes, Jianhui Lian +42

The SDSS-IV Apache Point Observatory Galactic Evolution Experiment (APOGEE) survey has obtained high-resolution spectra for thousands of red giant stars distributed among the massi…

astro-ph.GA2021★ 93 cited

The GALAH Survey: Chemical tagging and chrono-chemodynamics of accreted halo stars with GALAH+ DR3 and eDR3

Sven Buder, Karin Lind, Melissa K. Ness +27

Since the advent of astrometry, it is possible to identify massive accreted systems within the Galaxy through their unique dynamical signatures. One such system, -Saus…

astro-ph.GA2021★ 99 cited

Final Targeting Strategy for the SDSS-IV APOGEE-2N Survey

Rachael L. Beaton, Ryan J. Oelkers, Christian R. Hayes +57

APOGEE-2 is a dual-hemisphere, near-infrared (NIR), spectroscopic survey with the goal of producing a chemo-dynamical mapping of the Milky Way Galaxy. The targeting for APOGEE-2 is…

astro-ph.GA2021★ 103 cited

Selecting accreted populations: metallicity, elemental abundances, and ages of the Gaia-Sausage-Enceladus and Sequoia populations

Diane K. Feuillet, Christian L. Sahlholdt, Sofia Feltzing +1

Identifying stars found in the Milky Way as having formed in situ or accreted can be a complex and uncertain undertaking. We use Gaia kinematics and APOGEE elemental abundances to…

astro-ph.GA2020★ 38 cited

The GALAH Survey: Chemical Clocks

Michael R. Hayden, Sanjib Sharma, Joss Bland-Hawthorn +27

Previous studies have found that the elemental abundances of a star correlate directly with its age and metallicity. Using this knowledge, we derive ages for a sample of 250,000 st…