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most citedA trail of dark matter-free galaxies from a bullet dwarf collision

97 citations · 469 across the 26 of their papers we have counts for

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26 papers

astro-ph.GA2026

A Third Galaxy Missing Dark Matter along a Trail of Galaxies in the NGC 1052 Field

Michael A. Keim, Pieter van Dokkum, Zili Shen +2

While most dwarf galaxies are strongly dark matter dominated, two remarkable objects in the NGC 1052 field, DF2 and DF4, appear to lack dark matter. DF2 and DF4 were recently found…

astro-ph.GA2025★ 1 cited

Quantitative Morphology of Galactic Cirrus in Deep Optical Imaging

Qing Liu, Peter Martin, Roberto Abraham +9

Imaging of optical Galactic cirrus, the spatially resolved form of diffuse Galactic light, provides important insights into the properties of the diffuse interstellar medium (ISM)…

astro-ph.GA2025★ 1 cited

Kinematic Confirmation of a Remarkable Linear Trail of Galaxies in the NGC 1052 Field, Consistent with Formation in a High-Speed Bullet Dwarf Collision

Michael A. Keim, Pieter van Dokkum, Zili Shen +6

A unique linear trail of diffuse galaxies was recently identified in the NGC 1052 field. This trail includes the remarkable, ultra-diffuse galaxies DF2 and DF4 which lack dark matt…

astro-ph.GA2025★ 1 cited

Investigating the Ultra-diffuse Galaxy NGC5846_UDG1 through the Kinematics of its Rich Globular Cluster System

Lydia Haacke, Duncan A. Forbes, Jonah S. Gannon +8

Recent studies of ultra-diffuse galaxies (UDGs) have shown their globular cluster (GC) systems to be central in unveiling their remarkable properties and halo masses. Deep HST imag…

astro-ph.GA2024

Fuzzy Galaxies or Cirrus? Decomposition of Galactic Cirrus in Deep Wide-Field Images

Qing Liu, Roberto Abraham, Peter G. Martin +12

Diffuse Galactic cirrus, or Diffuse Galactic Light (DGL), can be a prominent component in the background of deep wide-field imaging surveys. The DGL provides unique insights into t…

astro-ph.GA2024

Testing the Bullet Dwarf Collision Scenario in the NGC 1052 Group Through Morphologies and Stellar Populations

Yimeng Tang, Aaron J. Romanowsky, Pieter G. van Dokkum +8

NGC 1052-DF2 and -DF4 are two ultra-diffuse galaxies that have been reported as deficient in dark matter and associated with the same galaxy group. Recent findings suggest that DF2…

astro-ph.GA2024

First Results from the Dragonfly Ultrawide Survey: the Largest Eleven Quenched Diffuse Dwarf Galaxies in 3100 deg with Spectroscopic Confirmation

Zili Shen, William P. Bowman, Pieter van Dokkum +7

The Dragonfly Telephoto Array employs a unique design to detect very large and diffuse galaxies, which might be missed with conventional telescopes. The Dragonfly Ultrawide Survey…

astro-ph.IM2024

Realizing the potential of the Dragonfly Spectral Line Mapper: Calibration methods and on-sky performance

Deborah M. Lokhorst, Seery Chen, Imad Pasha +8

The Dragonfly Spectral Line Mapper is an innovative all-refracting telescope designed to carry out ultra-low surface brightness wide-field mapping of visible wavelength line emissi…

astro-ph.IM2024

Software infrastructure for the highly-distributed semi-autonomous Dragonfly Spectral Line Mapper

Imad Pasha, Seery Chen, Deborah Lokhorst +6

The Dragonfly Spectral Line Mapper (DSLM) is a semi-autonomous, distributed-aperture based telescope design, featuring a modular setup of 120 Canon telephoto lenses, and equal numb…

astro-ph.IM2024

The Dragonfly Spectral Line Mapper: Completion of the 120-lens array

Seery Chen, Deborah M. Lokhorst, Imad Pasha +7

The Dragonfly Spectral Line Mapper is a mosaic telescope comprising 120 Canon telephoto lenses, based on the design of the Dragonfly Telephoto Array. With a wide field of view, and…

astro-ph.GA2024

Analysis of Galaxies at the Extremes: A Kinematic Analysis of the Virgo Cluster Dwarfs VCC 9 and VCC 1448 using the Keck Cosmic Web Imager

Jonah S. Gannon, Duncan A. Forbes, Aaron J. Romanowsky +8

We present spatially resolved Keck Cosmic Web Imager stellar spectroscopy of the Virgo cluster dwarf galaxies VCC 9 and VCC 1448. These galaxies have similar stellar masses and lar…

astro-ph.GA2023

Confirmation of an anomalously low dark matter content for the galaxy NGC1052-DF4 from deep, high resolution continuum spectroscopy

Zili Shen, Pieter van Dokkum, Shany Danieli

NGC1052-DF4 was found to be the second "galaxy lacking dark matter" in the NGC1052 group, based on its velocity dispersion of km/s as measured from t…

astro-ph.IM2023★ 11 cited

A Recipe for Unbiased Background Modeling in Deep Wide-Field Astronomical Images

Qing Liu, Roberto G. Abraham, Peter G. Martin +9

Unbiased sky background modeling is crucial for the analysis of deep wide-field images, but it remains a major challenge in low surface brightness astronomy. Traditional image proc…

astro-ph.GA2023★ 34 cited

A candidate runaway supermassive black hole identified by shocks and star formation in its wake

Pieter van Dokkum, Imad Pasha, Maria Luisa Buzzo +13

The interaction of a runaway supermassive black hole (SMBH) with the circumgalactic medium (CGM) can lead to the formation of a wake of shocked gas and young stars behind it. Here…

astro-ph.IM2022

A Standardized Framework for Collecting Graduate Student Input in Faculty Searches

Yasmeen Asali, Konstantin Gerbig, Aritra Ghosh +3

We present a procedure designed to standardize input received during faculty searches with the goal of amplifying student voices. The framework was originally used to collect feedb…

astro-ph.GA2022★ 29 cited

Monochromatic globular clusters as a critical test of formation models for the dark matter deficient galaxies NGC1052-DF2 and NGC1052-DF4

Pieter van Dokkum, Zili Shen, Aaron J. Romanowsky +8

It was recently proposed that the dark matter-deficient ultra-diffuse galaxies DF2 and DF4 in the NGC1052 group could be the products of a "bullet dwarf" collision between two gas-…

astro-ph.GA2022★ 97 cited

A trail of dark matter-free galaxies from a bullet dwarf collision

Pieter van Dokkum, Zili Shen, Michael A. Keim +8

The ultra-diffuse galaxies DF2 and DF4 in the NGC1052 group share several unusual properties: they both have large sizes, rich populations of overluminous and large globular cluste…

astro-ph.GA2021★ 13 cited

A Nascent Tidal Dwarf Galaxy Forming within the Northern HI Streamer of M82

Imad Pasha, Deborah Lokhorst, Pieter G. van Dokkum +12

We identify a 600 pc-wide region of active star formation located within a tidal streamer of M82 via emission ( erg s cm), us…

astro-ph.GA2021★ 68 cited

NGC5846-UDG1: A galaxy formed mostly by star formation in massive, extremely dense clumps of gas

Shany Danieli, Pieter van Dokkum, Sebastian Trujillo-Gomez +10

It has been shown that ultra-diffuse galaxies (UDGs) have higher specific frequencies of globular clusters on average than other dwarf galaxies with similar luminosities. The UDG N…

astro-ph.IM2021★ 20 cited

A Method To Characterize the Wide-Angle Point Spread Function of Astronomical Images

Qing Liu, Roberto Abraham, Colleen Gilhuly +14

Uncertainty in the wide-angle Point Spread Function (PSF) at large angles (tens of arcseconds and beyond) is one of the dominant sources of error in a number of important quantitie…

astro-ph.GA2021★ 38 cited

Tidal Distortions in NGC1052-DF2 and NGC1052-DF4: Independent Evidence for a Lack of Dark Matter

Michael A. Keim, Pieter van Dokkum, Shany Danieli +11

Two ultra diffuse galaxies in the same group, NGC1052-DF2 and NGC1052-DF4, have been found to have little or no dark matter and to host unusually luminous globular cluster populati…

astro-ph.GA2021★ 69 cited

A Tip of the Red Giant Branch Distance of Mpc to the Dark Matter Deficient Galaxy NGC1052-DF2 from 40 Orbits of Hubble Space Telescope Imaging

Zili Shen, Shany Danieli, Pieter van Dokkum +7

The large and diffuse galaxies NGC1052-DF2 and NGC1052-DF4 have been found to have very low dark matter content and a population of luminous globular clusters. Accurate distance me…

astro-ph.GA2020★ 46 cited

A Complex Luminosity Function for the Anomalous Globular Clusters in NGC1052-DF2 and NGC1052-DF4

Zili Shen, Pieter van Dokkum, Shany Danieli

NGC1052-DF2 and NGC1052-DF4 are ultra-diffuse galaxies (UDGs) that were found to have extremely low velocity dispersions, indicating that they have little or no dark matter. Both g…

astro-ph.EP2019★ 27 cited

Radial Velocity Discovery of an Eccentric Jovian World Orbiting at 18 au

Sarah Blunt, Michael Endl, Lauren M. Weiss +25

Based on two decades of radial velocity (RV) observations using Keck/HIRES and McDonald/Tull, and more recent observations using the Automated Planet Finder, we found that the near…