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most citedThe DECam Local Volume Exploration Survey: Overview and First Data Release

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astro-ph.GA2026

Discovery, Characterization, and Potential Origins of a Stream in the Stellar Halo of Nearby LMC-Mass Galaxy NGC 55

Benjamin N. Velguth, Burçin Mutlu-Pakdil, Erik Tollerud +33

We present a previously undetected stellar stream in the halo of the LMC-mass dwarf galaxy NGC 55 (2 Mpc), as part of an ongoing effort to characterize the stellar halos of LMC/SMC…

astro-ph.GA2026★ 1 cited

Caught in the web: galaxy mergers along cosmic filaments

Carolina Dulcien, Yara L. Jaffe, Jacob P. Crossett +31

Galaxy clusters grow through the accretion of galaxies from groups, filaments, and other clusters. During this process, galaxies may undergo pre-processing in lower-density environ…

astro-ph.GA2025★ 5 cited

Targeting cluster galaxies for the 4MOST CHANCES Low-z sub-survey with photometric redshifts

Hugo Méndez-Hernández, Ciria Lima-Dias, Antonela Monachesi +54

The evolution of galaxies is shaped by both internal processes and their external environments. Galaxy clusters and their surroundings provide ideal laboratories to study these eff…

astro-ph.GA2025

The NGC3109 Satellite System: The First Systematic Resolved Search for Dwarf Galaxies Around a SMC-mass Host

Amandine Doliva-Dolinsky, Burçin Mutlu-Pakdil, Denija Crnojević +38

We report the results of the deepest search to date for dwarf galaxies around NGC3109, a barred spiral galaxy with a mass similar to that of the Small Magellanic Cloud (SMC), using…

astro-ph.GA2025★ 4 cited

DELVE-DEEP Survey: The Faint Satellite System of NGC 55

Jonah Medoff, Burçin Mutlu-Pakdil, Jeffrey L. Carlin +24

We report the first comprehensive census of the satellite dwarf galaxies around NGC 55 ( Mpc) as a part of the DECam Local Volume Exploration DEEP (DELVE-DEEP) survey. NGC 55…

astro-ph.GA2025

Streams, Shells, and Substructures in the Accretion-Built Stellar Halo of NGC 300

Catherine E. Fielder, David J. Sand, Michael G. Jones +27

We present deep optical observations of the stellar halo of NGC 300, an LMC-mass galaxy, acquired with the DEEP sub-component of the DECam Local Volume Exploration survey (DELVE) u…

astro-ph.GA2025

Deep Photometric Observations of Ultra-Faint Milky Way Satellites Centaurus I and Eridanus IV

Quinn O. Casey, Burçin Mutlu-Pakdil, David J. Sand +19

We present deep MagellanMegacam imaging of Centaurus I (Cen I) and Eridanus IV (Eri IV), two recently discovered Milky Way ultra-faint satellites. Our data reach magni…

astro-ph.GA2024★ 8 cited

Stellar atmospheric parameters and chemical abundances of about 5 million stars from S-PLUS multi-band photometry

C. E. Ferreira Lopes, L. A. Gutiérrez-Soto, V. S. Ferreira Alberice +30

Context. Spectroscopic surveys like APOGEE, GALAH, and LAMOST have significantly advanced our understanding of the Milky Way by providing extensive stellar parameters and chemical…

astro-ph.GA2024★ 12 cited

CHANCES, the Chilean Cluster Galaxy Evolution Survey: Selection and initial characterisation of clusters and superclusters

Cristóbal Sifón, Alexis Finoguenov, Christopher P. Haines +43

CHANCES, the CHileAN Cluster galaxy Evolution Survey, will study the evolution of galaxies in and around 100 massive galaxy clusters from the local Universe out to , and…

astro-ph.GA2024

Discovery and Spectroscopic Confirmation of Aquarius III: A Low-Mass Milky Way Satellite Galaxy

W. Cerny, A. Chiti, M. Geha +37

We present the discovery of Aquarius III, an ultra-faint Milky Way satellite galaxy identified in the second data release of the DECam Local Volume Exploration (DELVE) survey. Base…

astro-ph.GA2024★ 19 cited

A Pride of Satellites in the Constellation Leo? Discovery of the Leo VI Milky Way Satellite Galaxy with DELVE Early Data Release 3

C. Y. Tan, W. Cerny, A. Drlica-Wagner +32

We report the discovery and spectroscopic confirmation of an ultra-faint Milky Way (MW) satellite in the constellation of Leo. This system was discovered as a spatial overdensity o…

astro-ph.GA2024

The Fourth S-PLUS Data Release: 12-filter photometry covering square degrees in the southern hemisphere

Fabio R. Herpich, Felipe Almeida-Fernandes, Gustavo B. Oliveira Schwarz +68

The Southern Photometric Local Universe Survey (S-PLUS) is a project to map sq deg of the sky using twelve bands (seven narrow and five broadbands). Observations are per…

astro-ph.GA2023

Bulge-disc decomposition of the Hydra cluster galaxies in 12 bands

Ciria Lima-Dias, Antonela Monachesi, Sergio Torres-Flores +15

When a galaxy falls into a cluster, its outermost parts are the most affected by the environment. In this paper, we are interested in studying the influence of a dense environment…

astro-ph.GA2023

A search for faint resolved galaxies beyond the Milky Way in DES Year 6: A new faint, diffuse dwarf satellite of NGC 55

M. McNanna, K. Bechtol, S. Mau +63

We report results from a systematic wide-area search for faint dwarf galaxies at heliocentric distances from 0.3 to 2 Mpc using the full six years of data from the Dark Energy Surv…

astro-ph.GA2023★ 1 cited

Reading Between the (Spectral) Lines: Magellan/IMACS spectroscopy of the Ultra-faint Dwarf Galaxies Eridanus IV and Centaurus I

M. E. Heiger, T. S. Li, A. B. Pace +17

We present a spectroscopic analysis of Eridanus IV (Eri IV) and Centaurus I (Cen I), two ultra-faint dwarf galaxies of the Milky Way. Using IMACS/Magellan spectroscopy, we identify…

astro-ph.GA2023★ 2 cited

An Extended Catalogue of galaxy morphology using Deep Learning in Southern Photometric Local Universe Survey Data Release 3

C. R. Bom, A. Cortesi, U. Ribeiro +22

The morphological diversity of galaxies is a relevant probe of galaxy evolution and cosmological structure formation. However, in large sky surveys, even the morphological classifi…

astro-ph.GA2022★ 20 cited

S-PLUS DR1 galaxy clusters and groups catalogue using PzWav

S. V. Werner, E. S. Cypriano, A. H. Gonzalez +16

We present a catalogue of 4499 groups and clusters of galaxies from the first data release of the multi-filter (5 broad, 7 narrow) Southern Photometric Local Universe Survey (S-PLU…

astro-ph.GA2022★ 19 cited

Identification of Galaxy-Galaxy Strong Lens Candidates in the DECam Local Volume Exploration Survey Using Machine Learning

E. A. Zaborowski, A. Drlica-Wagner, F. Ashmead +88

We perform a search for galaxy-galaxy strong lens systems using a convolutional neural network (CNN) applied to imaging data from the first public data release of the DECam Local V…

astro-ph.GA2022★ 62 cited

Six More Ultra-Faint Milky Way Companions Discovered in the DECam Local Volume Exploration Survey

W. Cerny, C. E. Martínez-Vázquez, A. Drlica-Wagner +28

We report the discovery of six ultra-faint Milky Way satellites discovered through matched-filter searches conducted using Dark Energy Camera (DECam) data processed as part of the…

astro-ph.GA2022★ 48 cited

Pegasus IV: Discovery and Spectroscopic Confirmation of an Ultra-Faint Dwarf Galaxy in the Constellation Pegasus

W. Cerny, J. D. Simon, T. S. Li +29

We report the discovery of Pegasus IV, an ultra-faint dwarf galaxy found in archival data from the Dark Energy Camera processed by the DECam Local Volume Exploration Survey. Pegasu…

astro-ph.GA2022★ 9 cited

Developing a Victorious Strategy to the Second Strong Gravitational Lensing Data Challenge

C. R. Bom, B. M. O. Fraga, L. O. Dias +7

Strong Lensing is a powerful probe of the matter distribution in galaxies and clusters and a relevant tool for cosmography. Analyses of strong gravitational lenses with Deep Learni…

astro-ph.GA2021

A new method to detect globular clusters with the S-PLUS survey

Maria Luísa Buzzo, Arianna Cortesi, Duncan A. Forbes +17

In this paper, we describe a new method to select globular cluster (GC) candidates, including galaxy subtraction with unsharp masking, template fitting techniques and the inclusion…

astro-ph.GA2021

Photometric redshifts for the S-PLUS Survey: is machine learning up to the task?

E. V. R. Lima, L. Sodré, C. R. Bom +14

The Southern Photometric Local Universe Survey (S-PLUS) is a novel project that aims to map the Southern Hemisphere using a twelve filter system, comprising five broad-band SDSS-li…

astro-ph.GA2021★ 1 cited

Morphological Classification of Galaxies in S-PLUS using an Ensemble of Convolutional Networks

N. M. Cardoso, G. B. O. Schwarz, L. O. Dias +3

The universe is composed of galaxies that have diverse shapes. Once the structure of a galaxy is determined, it is possible to obtain important information about its formation and…