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astro-ph.GA2026★ 1 cited

Galactic Archaeology with the Subaru `Ōnohi`ula Prime Focus Spectrograph Strategic Program

Masashi Chiba, Rosemary F. G. Wyse, Evan N. Kirby +48

The recently commissioned Subaru `Ōnohi`ula Prime Focus Spectrograph (PFS) will obtain spectra from nearly 2,400 fibers that cover 1.24 square degrees. The 360 night Subaru Strateg…

cond-mat.quant-gas2026

Extreme (Rogue) Waves: From Theory to Experiments in Ultracold Gases and Beyond

A. Chabchoub, P. Engels, P. G. Kevrekidis +4

In this Chapter, we review key theoretical and experimental advances in the study of extreme nonlinear wave events, called rogue waves (RWs), in both single-component attractively…

astro-ph.GA2026

A Chemodynamical Census of the Milky Way's Ultra-Faint Compact Satellites. I. A First Population-Level Look at the Internal Kinematics and Metallicities of 19 Extremely-Low-Mass Halo Stellar Systems

William Cerny, Ting S. Li, Andrew B. Pace +13

Deep, wide-area photometric surveys have uncovered a population of compact ( 1-15 pc), extremely-low-mass ( 20-4000 ) stellar systems in th…

astro-ph.IM2025

Why the Northern Hemisphere Needs a 30-40 m Telescope and the Science at Stake: Resolved Stellar Populations Studies in M31 and its Satellites

C. Gallart, E. Fernández-Alvar, A. B. A. Queiroz +48

A 30 m class optical/near-IR telescope in the Northern Hemisphere, equipped for diffraction-limited imaging and high-resolution, multi-object spectroscopy of faint stars, would ena…

astro-ph.GA2025★ 1 cited

The M31-M33 Interaction: Impact on M31's Center of Mass Motion and Satellite Orbits

Ekta Patel, Nicolas Garavito-Camargo, Ivanna Escala

Inspired by recent studies of the Milky Way--LMC interaction and its implications for the Milky Way's global dynamical history, we investigate how the massive satellite galaxy M33…

astro-ph.GA2025

Kinematical Modeling of the Resolved Stellar Outskirts of M32: Constraints on Tidal Stripping Scenarios

Ivanna Escala, Douglas Grion Filho, Puragra Guhathakurta +8

As the only compact elliptical close enough to resolve into individual stars, the satellite dwarf galaxy M32 provides a unique opportunity for exploring the origins of such rare ga…

astro-ph.GA2024★ 3 cited

IFUM Integrated Field Spectroscopy of Ten M104 Satellite Galaxy Candidates

Ethan Crosby, Mario Mateo, Ivanna Escala +3

We report the spectroscopic analysis of ten satellite galaxy candidates in the sphere of influence of the Sombrero galaxy (M104, NGC4594), based on data obtained with IFUM (Integra…

astro-ph.GA2024

Eridanus III and DELVE 1: Carbon-rich Primordial Star Clusters or the Smallest Dwarf Galaxies?

Joshua D. Simon, Ting S. Li, Alexander P. Ji +8

We present spectroscopy of the ultra-faint Milky Way satellites Eridanus III (Eri III) and DELVE 1. We identify eight member stars in each satellite and place non-constraining uppe…

astro-ph.GA2024

Elemental Abundances in And XIX From Coadded Spectra

L. R. Cullinane, Karoline M. Gilbert, Ivanna Escala +6

With a luminosity similar to that of Milky Way dwarf spheroidal (dSph) systems like Sextans, but a spatial extent similar to that of ultradiffuse galaxies (UDGs), Andromeda (And) X…

astro-ph.GA2024

The structure of the stellar halo of the Andromeda galaxy explored with the NB515 for Subaru/HSC. I.: New Insights on the stellar halo up to 120 kpc

Itsuki Ogami, Mikito Tanaka, Yutaka Komiyama +16

We analyse the M31 halo and its substructure within a projected radius of 120 kpc using a combination of Subaru/HSC and CFHT/MegaCam - \& -…

astro-ph.GA2023

TREX: Kinematic Characterisation of a High-Dispersion Intermediate-Age Stellar Component in M33

L. R. Cullinane, Karoline M. Gilbert, Puragra Guhathakurta +7

The dwarf galaxy Triangulum (M33) presents an interesting testbed for studying stellar halo formation: it is sufficiently massive so as to have likely accreted smaller satellites,…

astro-ph.GA2023★ 1 cited

Chemical Cartography of the Sagittarius Stream with Gaia

Emily C. Cunningham, Jason A. S. Hunt, Adrian M. Price-Whelan +5

The stellar stream connected to the Sagittarius (Sgr) dwarf galaxy is the most massive tidal stream that has been mapped in the Galaxy, and is the dominant contributor to the outer…

astro-ph.GA2023★ 1 cited

RomAndromeda: The Roman Survey of the Andromeda Halo

Arjun Dey, Joan Najita, Carrie Filion +50

As our nearest large neighbor, the Andromeda Galaxy provides a unique laboratory for investigating galaxy formation and the distribution and substructure properties of dark matter…

astro-ph.IM2023★ 2 cited

NANCY: Next-generation All-sky Near-infrared Community surveY

Jiwon Jesse Han, Arjun Dey, Adrian M. Price-Whelan +206

The Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope is capable of delivering an unprecedented all-sky, high-spatial resolution, multi-epoch infrared map to the astronomical community. This oppor…

astro-ph.GA2023★ 2 cited

Optimizing Roman's High Latitude Wide Area Survey for Low Surface Brightness Astronomy

Mireia Montes, Francesca Annibali, Michele Bellazzini +20

One of the last remaining frontiers in optical/near-infrared observational astronomy is the low surface brightness regime (LSB, V-band surface brightness, 27 AB mag/arcsec$^…

astro-ph.GA2023★ 1 cited

The Prevalence of the -bimodality: First JWST -abundance Results in M31

David L. Nidever, Karoline Gilbert, Erik Tollerud +8

We present initial results from our JWST NIRSpec program to study the -abundances in the M31 disk. The Milky Way has two chemically-defined disks, the low- and high- disks…

astro-ph.GA2023★ 6 cited

HALO7D III: Chemical Abundances of Milky Way Halo Stars from Medium Resolution Spectra

Kevin A. McKinnon, Emily C. Cunningham, Constance M. Rockosi +4

The Halo Assembly in Lambda Cold Dark Matter: Observations in 7 Dimensions (HALO7D) survey measures the kinematics and chemical properties of stars in the Milky Way (MW) stellar ha…

astro-ph.GA2022★ 13 cited

Elemental abundances in M31: Individual and Coadded Spectroscopic [Fe/H] and [α/Fe] throughout the M31 Halo with SPLASH

J. Leigh Wojno, Karoline M. Gilbert, Evan N. Kirby +6

We present spectroscopic chemical abundances of red giant branch (RGB) stars in Andromeda (M31), using medium resolution () spectra obtained via the Spectroscopic and Ph…

astro-ph.GA2022★ 25 cited

Spiral Arms are Metal Freeways: Azimuthal Gas-Phase Metallicity Variations in Simulated Cosmological Zoom-in Flocculent Disks

Matthew E. Orr, Blakesley Burkhart, Andrew Wetzel +7

We examine the azimuthal variations in gas-phase metallicity profiles in simulated Milky Way mass disk galaxies from the Feedback in Realistic Environments (FIRE-2) cosmological zo…

astro-ph.GA2022★ 7 cited

Resolved SPLASH Chemodynamics in Andromeda's PHAT Stellar Halo and Disk: On the Nature of the Inner Halo Along the Major Axis

Ivanna Escala, Amanda C. N. Quirk, Puragra Guhathakurta +5

Stellar kinematics and metallicity are key to exploring formation scenarios for galactic disks and halos. In this work, we characterized the relationship between kinematics and pho…

astro-ph.GA2022★ 11 cited

Kinematics and Metallicity of Red Giant Branch Stars in the Northeast Shelf of M31

Ivanna Escala, Karoline M. Gilbert, Mark Fardal +4

We obtained Keck/DEIMOS spectra of 556 individual red giant branch stars in 4 spectroscopic fields spanning projected kpc along the Northeast (NE) shelf of M31. We present…

astro-ph.GA2021★ 28 cited

Reading the CARDs: the Imprint of Accretion History in the Chemical Abundances of the Milky Way's Stellar Halo

Emily C. Cunningham, Robyn E. Sanderson, Kathryn V. Johnston +7

In the era of large-scale spectroscopic surveys in the Local Group (LG), we can explore using chemical abundances of halo stars to study the star formation and chemical enrichment…

astro-ph.GA2021★ 28 cited

Elemental Abundances in M31: Gradients in the Giant Stellar Stream

Ivanna Escala, Karoline M. Gilbert, Jennifer Wojno +2

We analyze existing measurements of [Fe/H] and [/Fe] for individual red giant branch (RGB) stars in the Giant Stellar Stream (GSS) of M31 to determine whether spatial abundance…

astro-ph.GA2021★ 65 cited

Gas infall and radial transport in cosmological simulations of Milky Way-mass disks

Cameron Trapp, Dusan Keres, T. K. Chan +7

Observations indicate that a continuous supply of gas is needed to maintain observed star formation rates in large, disky galaxies. To fuel star formation, gas must reach the inner…