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20192026
most citedThe Smallest Scale of Hierarchy Survey (SSH) III. Dwarf-dwarf satellite merging phenomena in the low-mass regime

6 citations · 12 across the 20 of their papers we have counts for

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22 papers

astro-ph.GA2026

Hidden in the Halo: New Diffuse Star Clusters in the M82 Starburst with JWST

Deepthi S. Prabhu, David J. Sand, Burcin Mutlu-Pakdil +12

Diffuse star clusters (DSCs) occupy a poorly explored region of the size-luminosity plane between classical globular clusters (GCs) and dwarf galaxies. Here we report the discovery…

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

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

Deep Imaging of Grus II and Horologium II: Structure and Extent of Two Ultra-Faint Milky Way Satellites

Deepthi S. Prabhu, David J. Sand, Anirudh Chiti +29

We present deep, wide-field Magellan/Megacam imaging of the ultra-faint Milky Way (MW) satellites Grus II (Gru II) and Horologium II (Hor II), with the aim of deriving improved con…

astro-ph.GA2026

ID-MAGE II: The Star Forming Satellites of Low-Mass Hosts

Laura Congreve Hunter, Burçin Mutlu-Pakdil, Michael B. Farnell +14

We present results from our ongoing campaign to follow up the satellite candidates from the Identifying Dwarfs of MC Analog GalaxiEs (ID-MAGE) survey. Previously, we published a li…

astro-ph.GA2025

SEAMLESS Survey: Four Faint Dwarf Galaxies Tracing Low-Mass Galaxy Evolution Across Environments

Catherine E. Fielder, Michael G. Jones, David J. Sand +11

We report on four Local Volume dwarf galaxies identified through our ongoing SEmi-Automated Machine LEarning Search for Semi-resolved galaxies (SEAMLESS): Hydrus A, LEDA 486718, Ce…

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

Hubble Space Telescope Imaging of Three Isolated Faint Dwarf Galaxies Beyond the Local Group: Pavo, Corvus A, and Kamino

Burçin Mutlu-Pakdil, Michael G. Jones, David J. Sand +14

We present new Hubble Space Telescope (HST) imaging of three recently discovered star-forming dwarf galaxies beyond the Local Group: Pavo, Corvus A, and Kamino. The discovery of Ka…

astro-ph.GA2025

The Orbits of Isolated Dwarfs in the Local Group from New 3D Kinematics: Constraints on First Infall, Backsplash, and Quenching Mechanisms

Paul Bennet, Ekta Patel, Sangmo Tony Sohn +8

It is commonly supposed that quenched field dwarfs near the edge of the Local Group (LG) are backsplash galaxies, having previously orbited within the Milky Way (MW) or M31's viria…

astro-ph.GA2025★ 1 cited

Star formation histories and gas content limits of three ultra-faint dwarfs on the periphery of M31

Michael G. Jones, David J. Sand, Paul Bennet +9

We present Hubble Space Telescope (HST) imaging of Pegasus V and Pisces VII, along with a re-analysis of the archival imaging of Pegasus W, and Jansky Very Large Array (VLA) neutra…

astro-ph.GA2025

Pavo: Stellar feedback in action in a low-mass dwarf galaxy

Michael G. Jones, Martin P. Rey, David J. Sand +13

MeerKAT observations of the recently discovered, extremely low mass galaxy, Pavo, have revealed a neutral gas (HI) reservoir that was undetected in archival HI single dish data. We…

astro-ph.GA2025

Observed Timescales of Stellar Feedback in Star-Forming, Low-Mass Galaxies

Laura C. Hunter, Liese van Zee, Roger E. Cohen +5

Understanding the timescales of atomic gas turbulence is crucial to understanding the interplay between star formation and the interstellar medium (ISM). To investigate the timesca…

astro-ph.GA2025★ 2 cited

GAMA 526784: the progenitor of a globular cluster-rich ultra-diffuse galaxy? II. Molecular gas, neutral gas and environment

Maria Luisa Buzzo, Anita Zanella, Michael Hilker +3

Aims. We investigate the gas reservoirs, star formation (SF) properties, and environment of the ultra-diffuse galaxy GAMA526784 to understand its formation history, the efficiency…

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

Identifying Dwarfs of MC Analog GalaxiEs (ID-MAGE): The Search for Satellites Around Low-Mass Hosts

Laura Congreve Hunter, Burçin Mutlu-Pakdil, David J. Sand +11

We present results from ID-MAGE (Identifying Dwarfs of MC Analog GalaxiEs), a survey aimed at identifying and characterizing unresolved satellite galaxies around 36~nearby LMC- and…

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.GA2024

Three Quenched, Faint Dwarf Galaxies in the Direction of NGC 300: New Probes of Reionization and Internal Feedback

D. J. Sand, B. Mutlu-Pakdil, M. G. Jones +18

We report the discovery of three faint and ultra-faint dwarf galaxies -- Sculptor A, Sculptor B and Sculptor C -- in the direction of NGC 300 (D=2.0 Mpc), a Large Magellanic Cloud-…

astro-ph.GA2024★ 6 cited

The Smallest Scale of Hierarchy Survey (SSH) III. Dwarf-dwarf satellite merging phenomena in the low-mass regime

Elena Sacchi, Michele Bellazzini, Francesca Annibali +13

We present new deep, wide-field Large Binocular Telescope (LBT) and imaging data from the Smallest Scale of Hierarchy Survey (SSH) revealing previously undetected tidal fea…

astro-ph.GA2023

Timescale of Stellar Feedback-Driven Turbulence in the ISM: A Deep Dive into UGC 4305

Laura Congreve Hunter, Liese van Zee, Kristen B. W. McQuinn +3

Understanding the interplay of stellar feedback and turbulence in the interstellar medium (ISM) is essential to modeling the evolution of galaxies. To determine the timescales over…

astro-ph.GA2019★ 3 cited

The Gemini/HST Galaxy Cluster Project: Environment Effects on the Stellar Populations in the Lynx Clusters at z=1.27

Inger Jorgensen, Laura C. Hunter, Conor R. O'Neill +4

Few detailed investigations of stellar populations in passive galaxies beyond z~1 are based on deep spectroscopic observations, due to the difficulty in obtaining such data. We pre…