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most citedDiscovery of an Ultra-Faint Stellar System near the Magellanic Clouds with the DECam Local Volume Exploration (DELVE) Survey

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Spectroscopic Confirmation of the Milky Way Satellites Boötes V and Leo Minor I and the LMC Satellite DELVE 2: Three Small Ultra-Faint Dwarf Galaxies

W. Cerny, M. Geha, J. D. Simon +22

We present the first multi-object spectroscopy of Boötes V, Leo Minor I, and DELVE 2 -- three small (20 pc 26 pc), ultra-faint () stellar syste…

astro-ph.HE2026

First Results from the LSST Shadow Survey: The Restless Luminous Blue Variable AT2017des in the Virgo-Cluster Galaxy, NGC4532

Conor L. Ransome, Bhagya M. Subrayan, David J. Sand +66

The Legacy Survey of Space and Time (LSST) will start in late-summer 2026, revolutionizing transient astronomy. Here, we present the Dark Energy Camera (DECam) Shadow Survey, which…

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Discovery and Spectroscopic Characterization of a Distant, Compact Milky Way Satellite in Gemini

K. Overdeck, W. Cerny, C. Y. Tan +27

We present the discovery of a compact Milky Way satellite in the constellation of Gemini. This system was discovered by cross-matching detections from two independent search algori…

astro-ph.GA2026

The DECam MAGIC Survey Mapping the Ancient Galaxy in CaHK: Overview and Summary of Early Science

A. Chiti, A. Drlica-Wagner, A. B. Pace +42

We present the DECam Mapping the Ancient Galaxy in CaHK (MAGIC) survey, a 54-night NOIRLab Survey Program to image 5,000deg of the southern hemisphere using a meta…

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The DECam MAGIC Survey: Uncovering the Tidal Tails of the Crater II Dwarf Galaxy

Kaia R. Atzberger, Andrew B. Pace, Nitya Kallivayalil +27

Crater II (CraII), a large and low-density dwarf spheroidal galaxy, has unusual observed properties that are difficult to reproduce in cold dark matter simulations. Ongoing tidal d…

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On the Use of Field RR Lyrae as Galactic Probes -- VIII. Early Formation of the Galactic Spheroid

G. Bono, V. F. Braga, M. Fabrizio +54

We introduce a new photometric catalog of RR Lyrae variables (RRLs, 300,000) mainly based on data available in public datasets. We also present the largest and most homogeneo…