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most citedAccurate distances to Galactic globular clusters through a combination of Gaia EDR3, HST and literature data

372 citations · 910 across the 31 of their papers we have counts for

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32 papers

astro-ph.GA2026

The Delegate Survey: KOALA/AAOmega-IFU spectroscopy of three nearby dwarf galaxies

Kyungdo Ko, Helmut Jerjen, Sarah M. Sweet +6

Assessing the cosmological typicality of the Local Group is crucial for establishing whether its dwarf galaxy population is representative. To this end, the Delegate Survey targets…

astro-ph.GA2026

The initial conditions and initial mass functions of Alpha Persei, Pleiades and Praesepe

L. Hobart, H. Baumgardt, S. Sweet

We have determined the initial mass function (IMF) and structural properties of the open clusters Alpha Persei, Pleiades and Praesepe using Gaia DR3 astrometry and photometry. Clus…

astro-ph.IM2026

HRMOS: A High-Resolution Multi-Object Spectrograph for the VLT

Laura Magrini, Thomas Bensby, Sofia Randich +174

This White Paper presents the scientific rationale and instrument concept for HRMOS (High-Resolution Multi-Object Spectrograph), a next-generation instrument proposed for the ESO V…

astro-ph.GA2025

JWST Observations of the Double Nucleus in NGC 4486B: Possible Evidence for a Recent Binary SMBH Merger and Recoil

Behzad Tahmasebzadeh, Monica Valluri, Shashank Dattathri +19

A recent study of the compact elliptical galaxy NGC 4486B using JWST-NIRSpec IFU kinematics confirmed a supermassive black hole (SMBH) of mass (~8% of…

astro-ph.GA2025

Insights into spatial mixing of multiple populations in dynamically-young globular clusters

Václav Pavlík, Melvyn B. Davies, Ellen I. Leitinger +5

Many galactic globular clusters (GCs) contain at least two stellar populations. Recent observational studies found that the radial distributions of the first (P1) and second popula…

astro-ph.GA2025★ 2 cited

Origin of High Dark Remnant Fractions in Milky Way Globular Clusters: The Crucial Role of Initial Black Hole Retention

Ali Rostami-Shirazi, Holger Baumgardt, Akram Hasani Zonoozi +2

Comparing the dynamical and stellar masses of Milky Way (MW) globular clusters (GCs) reveals a discrepancy exceeding a factor of two. Since this substantial invisible mass is conce…

astro-ph.GA2025★ 2 cited

Spatial mixing of stellar populations in globular clusters via binary-single star scattering

Václav Pavlík, Melvyn B. Davies, Ellen I. Leitinger +5

The majority of Galactic globular star clusters (GCs) have been reported to contain at least two populations of stars (we use P1 for the primordial and P2 for the chemically-enrich…

astro-ph.GA2025

The coherent satellite velocity field around the interacting spiral galaxy pair NGC5713/19: signature of two galaxy groups merging

Helmut Jerjen, Simon Deeley, Holger Baumgardt +1

The luminous spirals NGC5713 and NGC5719 form an interacting galaxy pair 94 kpc apart and are connected by a straight, elongated neutral hydrogen structure extending over 200 kpc.…

astro-ph.SR2025★ 4 cited

The internal kinematics of NGC 2808 and its multiple populations

M. Griggio, A. Bellini, F. I. Aros +10

We use new HST observations coupled with archival data spanning a total temporal baseline of 17 years to study the internal kinematics of the multiple populations in the globular c…

astro-ph.GA2025

A JWST View of the Overmassive Black Hole in NGC 4486B

Behzad Tahmasebzadeh, Matthew A. Taylor, Monica Valluri +19

We present a new stellar dynamical measurement of the supermassive black hole (SMBH) in the compact elliptical galaxy NGC 4486B, based on integral field spectroscopy with JWST/NIRS…

astro-ph.GA2025

Reevaluating UMa3/U1: star cluster or the smallest known galaxy?

Scot Devlin, Holger Baumgardt, Sarah M. Sweet

Ursa Major III/UNIONS 1 (UMa3/U1) is the faintest Milky Way satellite discovered to date, exhibiting a half-light radius of 3 1 pc and an absolute V-band magnitude of +2.2 $\…

astro-ph.GA2025★ 12 cited

oMEGACat. VI. Analysis of the overall kinematics of Omega Centauri in 3D: velocity dispersion, kinematic distance, anisotropy, and energy equipartition

Maximilian Häberle, Nadine Neumayer, Callie Clontz +15

Omega Centauri ( Cen) is the Milky Way's most massive globular cluster and is likely the stripped nucleus of an accreted dwarf galaxy. In this paper, we analyze Cen's kinema…

astro-ph.GA2025

A Supermassive Black Hole in a Diminutive Ultra-compact Dwarf Galaxy Discovered with JWST/NIRSpec+IFU

Matthew A. Taylor, Behzad Tahmasebzadeh, Solveig Thompson +18

The integral-field unit mode of the Near-Infrared Spectrograph (NIRSpec+IFU) mounted on the James Webb Space Telescope has now enabled kinematic studies of smaller and less massive…

astro-ph.GA2025

Multiple stellar populations at less evolved stages. IV. evidence of helium enrichments in four Magellanic globular clusters

Chengyuan Li, Li Wang, Xin Ji +1

Most globular clusters in the local group show multiple stellar populations, a pattern defined by variations of several light elements, with some also displaying dispersions in hea…

astro-ph.GA2024★ 5 cited

RR Lyrae Stars in Intermediate-age Magellanic Clusters: Membership Probabilities and Delay Time Distribution

Bolivia Cuevas-Otahola, Cecilia Mateu, Ivan Cabrera-Ziri +4

Recent works have challenged our canonical view of RR Lyrae (RRL) stars as tracers of exclusively old populations (~Gyr) by proposing a fraction of these stars to be of…

astro-ph.GA2024★ 13 cited

The Kinematics of 30 Milky Way Globular Clusters and the Multiple Stellar Populations within

Ellen Leitinger, Holger Baumgardt, Ivan Cabrera-Ziri +5

The spectroscopic and photometric classification of multiple stellar populations (MPs) in Galactic globular clusters (GCs) has enabled comparisons between contemporary observations…

astro-ph.GA2024★ 3 cited

Probing populations of dark stellar remnants in the globular clusters 47 Tuc and Terzan 5 using pulsar timing

Peter J. Smith, Vincent Hénault-Brunet, Nolan Dickson +2

We present a new method to combine multimass equilibrium dynamical models and pulsar timing data to constrain the mass distribution and remnant populations of Milky Way globular cl…

astro-ph.GA2024★ 99 cited

Fast-moving stars around an intermediate-mass black hole in Omega Centauri

Maximilian Häberle, Nadine Neumayer, Anil Seth +15

Black holes have been found over a wide range of masses, from stellar remnants with masses of 5-150 solar masses (Msun), to those found at the centers of galaxies with Msu…

astro-ph.GA2024★ 7 cited

Driving factors behind multiple populations

Ruoyun Huang, Baitian Tang, Chengyuan Li +9

Star clusters were historically considered simple stellar populations, with all stars sharing the same age and initial chemical composition. However, the presence of chemical anoma…

astro-ph.IM2023★ 1 cited

HRMOS White Paper: Science Motivation

Laura Magrini, Thomas Bensby, Anna Brucalassi +52

The High-Resolution Multi-Object Spectrograph (HRMOS) is a facility instrument that we plan to propose for the Very Large Telescope (VLT) of the European Southern Observatory (ESO)…

astro-ph.GA2023★ 1 cited

Supermassive black holes in a mass-limited galaxy sample

Zachary Byrne, Michael J. Drinkwater, Holger Baumgardt +8

The observed scaling relations between supermassive black hole masses and their host galaxy properties indicate that supermassive black holes influence the evolution of galaxies. H…

astro-ph.GA2023★ 59 cited

Evidence for a bottom-light initial mass function in massive star clusters

Holger Baumgardt, Vincent Henault-Brunet, Nolan Dickson +1

We have determined stellar mass functions of 120 Milky Way globular clusters and massive LMC/SMC star clusters based on a comparison of archival Hubble Space Telescope photometry w…

astro-ph.GA2021★ 372 cited

Accurate distances to Galactic globular clusters through a combination of Gaia EDR3, HST and literature data

Holger Baumgardt, Eugene Vasiliev

We have derived accurate distances to Galactic globular clusters by combining data from the Gaia Early Data Release 3 with distances based on Hubble Space telescope HST data and li…

astro-ph.GA2020★ 64 cited

Absolute V-band magnitudes and mass-to-light ratios of Galactic globular clusters

H. Baumgardt, A. Sollima, M. Hilker

We have used HST and ground-based photometry to determine total -band magnitudes and mass-to-light ratios of more than 150 Galactic globular clusters. We do this by summing up t…