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astro-ph.GA2026

GLOW II: A Census of Oxygen in Low-Mass Galaxies

Kristen B. W. McQuinn, O. Grace Telford, Andrey V. Kravtsov +12

Oxygen is forged by stars and redistributed through galaxies by feedback-driven outflows, leaving a record of star formation and the baryon cycle imprinted on its present-day abund…

astro-ph.GA2026

Radial Stellar Age Gradients in 42 Local Volume Dwarf Galaxies

Roger E. Cohen, Kristen B. W. McQuinn, O. Grace Telford +4

We present radial stellar age gradients measured from star formation histories (SFHs) fit to resolved color-magnitude diagrams (CMDs) of 42 Local Volume dwarfs (6Log M$_{…

astro-ph.GA2026

GLOW I: Comprehensive Measurements of Gas-Rich, Star-Forming, Low-Mass Galaxies in the Nearby Universe

Kristen B. W. McQuinn, O. Grace Telford, Roger Cohen +12

Gas-rich, star-forming, low-mass galaxies in the nearby universe are powerful laboratories for studying baryonic physics in detail including: stellar mass assembly, stellar feedbac…

astro-ph.GA2026

The First Empirical Calibration of the MIR Abundance Diagnostic Ne with JWST

Noah S. J. Rogers, Evan D. Skillman, Danielle A. Berg +10

Large surveys of galaxies in the local and high-redshift Universe have, traditionally, relied on the intensity of rest-optical emission lines from metal ions in the Interstellar Me…

astro-ph.GA2025

Growth of Aromatic Hydrocarbon Dust Particles in the Extremely Metal-poor Galaxy Sextans A

Elizabeth J. Tarantino, Julia Roman-Duval, Karin M. Sandstrom +17

The mid-infrared spectrum of star-forming, high metallicity galaxies is dominated by emission features from aromatic and aliphatic bonds in small carbonaceous dust grains, often re…

astro-ph.GA2025

Searching for Stellar-Feedback-Driven Outflow Signatures: A Deep Dive into NGC 3741

Lexi N. Gault, Liese van Zee, Elizabeth A. K. Adams +5

Stellar feedback drives winds and outflows critical to the baryon cycles of low-mass galaxies whose shallow gravitational potential wells make them particularly susceptible to mass…

astro-ph.GA2025★ 3 cited

Leonessa: An Extremely Metal-poor Galaxy Undergoing Secular Chemical Evolution

Joseph A. Breneman, Kristen B. W. McQuinn, Alexander Menchaca +5

Extremely metal-poor (XMP) galaxies are systems with gas-phase oxygen abundances below 5% Solar metallicity (12+log(O/H)7.35). These galaxies populate the metal-poor end…

astro-ph.GA2025★ 2 cited

Counting Little Red Dots at with Ground-based Surveys and Spectroscopic Follow-up

Yilun Ma, Jenny E. Greene, David J. Setton +13

Little red dots (LRDs) are a population of red, compact objects discovered by JWST at . At , they are roughly 100 times more abundant than UV-selected quasars. However,…

astro-ph.GA2024

Molecular Hydrogen in the Extremely Metal-Poor, Star-Forming Galaxy Leo P

O. Grace Telford, Karin M. Sandstrom, Kristen B. W. McQuinn +4

The James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) has revealed unexpectedly rapid galaxy assembly in the early universe, in tension with models of star and galaxy formation. In the gas conditi…

astro-ph.GA2024

Scylla III. The Outside-In Radial Age Gradient in the Small Magellanic Cloud and the Star Formation Histories of the Main Body, Wing and Outer Regions

Roger E. Cohen, Kristen B. W. McQuinn, Claire E. Murray +13

The proximity of the Large and Small Magellanic Clouds (LMC and SMC) provides the opportunity to study the impact of dwarf-dwarf interactions on their mass assembly with a unique l…

astro-ph.GA2024

Scylla II. The Spatially Resolved Star Formation History of the Large Magellanic Cloud Reveals an Inverted Radial Age Gradient

Roger E. Cohen, Kristen B. W. McQuinn, Claire E. Murray +11

The proximity of the Magellanic Clouds provides the opportunity to study interacting dwarf galaxies near a massive host, and spatial trends in their stellar population properties i…

astro-ph.GA2024★ 1 cited

The Ancient Star Formation History of the Extremely Low-Mass Galaxy Leo P: An Emerging Trend of a Post-Reionization Pause in Star Formation

Kristen B. W. McQuinn, Max J. B. Newman, Evan D. Skillman +12

Isolated, low-mass galaxies provide the opportunity to assess the impact of reionization on their star formation histories (SFHs) without the ambiguity of environmental processes a…

astro-ph.GA2024★ 18 cited

An Empirical Calibration of the Tip of the Red Giant Branch Distance Method in the Near Infrared. I. HST WFC3/IR F110W and F160W Filters

Max J. B. Newman, Kristen B. W. McQuinn, Evan D. Skillman +4

The Tip of the Red Giant Branch (TRGB)-based distance method in the I band is one of the most efficient and precise techniques for measuring distances to nearby galaxies (D <= 15 M…

astro-ph.GA2023

Spatially-Resolved Recent Star Formation History in NGC 6946

Debby Tran, Benjamin Williams, Emily Levesque +6

The nearby face-on star forming spiral galaxy NGC 6946 is known as the Fireworks Galaxy due to its hosting an unusually large number of supernova. We analyze its resolved near-ultr…

astro-ph.GA2023★ 2 cited

The Scatter Matters: Circumgalactic Metal Content in the Context of the Relation

N. Nicole Sanchez, Jessica K. Werk, Charlotte Christensen +6

The interaction between supermassive black hole (SMBH) feedback and the circumgalactic medium (CGM) continues to be an open question in galaxy evolution. In our study, we use SPH s…

astro-ph.GA2023

A Comprehensive Investigation of Metals in the Circumgalactic Medium of Nearby Dwarf Galaxies

Yong Zheng, Yakov Faerman, Benjamin D. Oppenheimer +7

Dwarf galaxies are found to have lost most of their metals via feedback processes; however, there still lacks consistent assessment on the retention rate of metals in their circumg…

astro-ph.GA2022

The Panchromatic Hubble Andromeda Treasury: Triangulum Extended Region (PHATTER) II. The Spatially Resolved Recent Star Formation History of M33

Margaret Lazzarini, Benjamin F. Williams, Meredith J. Durbin +11

We measure the spatially resolved recent star formation history (SFH) of M33 using optical images taken with the Hubble Space Telescope as part of the Panchromatic Hubble Andromeda…

astro-ph.GA2020★ 18 cited

Mass-to-Light Ratios of Spatially Resolved Stellar Populations in M31

O. Grace Telford, Julianne J. Dalcanton, Benjamin F. Williams +4

A galaxy's stellar mass-to-light ratio () is a useful tool for converting luminosity to stellar mass (). However, the practical utility of inferred…

astro-ph.GA2018★ 25 cited

Spatially Resolved Metal Loss from M31

O. Grace Telford, Jessica K. Werk, Julianne J. Dalcanton +1

As galaxies evolve, they must enrich and exchange gas with the surrounding medium, but the timing of these processes and how much gas is involved remain poorly understood. In this…

astro-ph.GA2016★ 56 cited

Exploring Systematic Effects in the Relation Between Stellar Mass, Gas Phase Metallicity, and Star Formation Rate

O. Grace Telford, Julianne J. Dalcanton, Evan D. Skillman +1

There is evidence that the well-established mass-metallicity relation in galaxies is correlated with a third parameter: star formation rate (SFR). The strength of this correlation…

astro-ph.GA2014★ 74 cited

The host galaxies of X-ray selected Active Galactic Nuclei to z=2.5: Structure, star-formation and their relationships from CANDELS and Herschel/PACS

D. J. Rosario, D. H. McIntosh, A. van der Wel +60

We study the relationship between the structure and star-formation rate (SFR) of X-ray selected low and moderate luminosity active galactic nuclei (AGNs) in the two Chandra Deep Fi…

astro-ph.GA2014★ 151 cited

CANDELS Visual Classifications: Scheme, Data Release, and First Results

Jeyhan S. Kartaltepe, Mark Mozena, Dale Kocevski +49

We have undertaken an ambitious program to visually classify all galaxies in the five CANDELS fields down to H<24.5 involving the dedicated efforts of 65 individual classifiers. On…