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most citedThe Similarity of Abundance Ratio Trends and Nucleosynthetic Patterns in the Milky Way Disk and Bulge

54 citations · 161 across the 17 of their papers we have counts for

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17 papers

astro-ph.GA2026

A Broken Clock Is Right Twice a Day: [Ce/Mg] Is Not a Universal Chemical Clock

Liam O. Dubay, Jennifer A. Johnson, James W. Johnson +14

The ratio of -process to -element enrichment () has been proposed as a ``chemical clock,'' or a means to estimate stellar ages. However, the age-- relation vari…

astro-ph.CO2026

Towards a measurement of the primordial helium isotope ratio

Ryan J. Cooke, James W. Johnson, Pasquier Noterdaeme +4

We report the discovery of two metastable neutral helium (He I*) absorbers in the Milky Way, and use the upgraded CRyogenic InfraRed Echelle Spectrograph on the Very Large Telescop…

cond-mat.quant-gas2026

Extreme (Rogue) Waves: From Theory to Experiments in Ultracold Gases and Beyond

A. Chabchoub, P. Engels, P. G. Kevrekidis +4

In this Chapter, we review key theoretical and experimental advances in the study of extreme nonlinear wave events, called rogue waves (RWs), in both single-component attractively…

astro-ph.GA2025

The galactic chemical evolution of carbon: Implications for stellar nucleosynthesis

Daniel A. Boyea, James W. Johnson, David H. Weinberg

Carbon (C) is thought to be produced by both core collapse supernovae (CCSN) and asymptotic giant branch (AGB) stars, but the relative contributions of these two sources are uncert…

astro-ph.GA2025★ 1 cited

Metals versus Non-metals: Chemical Evolution of Hydrogen and Helium Isotopes in the Milky Way

James W. Johnson, Miqaela K. Weller, Ryan J. Cooke

Star formation drives changes in the compositions of galaxies, fusing H and He into heavier nuclei. This paper investigates the differences in abundance evolution between metal and…

astro-ph.GA2025★ 1 cited

Constraints on Radial Gas Flows in the Milky Way Disk Revealed by Large Stellar Age Catalogs

James W. Johnson

Disk galaxies like the Milky Way are expected to experience gas flows carrying matter toward their centers. This paper investigates the role of these radial gas flows in models of…

astro-ph.GA2025★ 1 cited

Challenges to the Two-Infall Scenario by Large Stellar Age Catalogs

Liam O. Dubay, Jennifer A. Johnson, James W. Johnson +1

Stars in the Milky Way disk exhibit a clear separation into two chemically distinct populations based on their [/Fe] ratios. This -bimodality is not a universal feature of si…

astro-ph.GA2024

Many elements matter: Detailed abundance patterns reveal star-formation and enrichment differences among Milky Way structural components

Emily J. Griffith, David W. Hogg, Sten Hasselquist +5

Many nucleosynthetic channels create the elements, but two-parameter models characterized by and Fe nonetheless predict stellar abundances in the Galactic disk to accuracies of…

astro-ph.GA2024★ 1 cited

The Milky Way Radial Metallicity Gradient as an Equilibrium Phenomenon: Why Old Stars are Metal-Rich

James W. Johnson, David H. Weinberg, Guillermo A. Blanc +12

Metallicities of both gas and stars decline toward large radii in spiral galaxies, a trend known as the radial metallicity gradient. We quantify the evolution of the metallicity gr…

astro-ph.GA2024★ 1 cited

Rising from the Ashes II: The Bar-driven Abundance Bimodality of the Milky Way

Angus Beane, James Johnson, Vadim Semenov +3

The Milky Way hosts at least two modes in its present day distribution of Fe and alpha-elements. The exact cause of this bimodality is disputed, but one class of explanations invol…

astro-ph.GA2024★ 21 cited

The APO-K2 Catalog. II. Accurate Stellar Ages for Red Giant Branch Stars across the Milky Way

Jack T. Warfield, Joel C. Zinn, Jessica Schonhut-Stasik +11

We present stellar age determinations for 4661 red giant branch stars in the APO-K2 catalog, derived using mass estimates from K2 asteroseismology from the K2 Galactic Archaeology…

astro-ph.GA2024

Modeling the Galactic Chemical Evolution of Helium

Miqaela K. Weller, David H. Weinberg, James W. Johnson

We examine the galactic chemical evolution (GCE) of He in one-zone and multi-zone models, with particular attention to theoretical predictions and empirical constraints on IMF-…

astro-ph.GA2024★ 16 cited

Galactic Chemical Evolution Models Favor an Extended Type Ia Supernova Delay-Time Distribution

Liam O. Dubay, Jennifer A. Johnson, James W. Johnson

Type Ia supernovae (SNe Ia) produce most of the Fe-peak elements in the Universe and therefore are a crucial ingredient in galactic chemical evolution models. SNe Ia do not explode…

astro-ph.SR2024★ 23 cited

Nature vs. Nurture: Distinguishing Effects from Stellar Processing and Chemical Evolution on Carbon and Nitrogen in Red Giant Stars

John D. Roberts, Marc H. Pinsonneault, Jennifer A. Johnson +16

The surface [C/N] ratios of evolved giants are strongly affected by the first dredge-up (FDU) of nuclear-processed material from stellar cores. C and N also have distinct nucleosyn…

astro-ph.GA2023★ 4 cited

The Scale of Stellar Yields: Implications of the Measured Mean Iron Yield of Core Collapse Supernovae

David H. Weinberg, Emily J. Griffith, James W. Johnson +1

The scale of alpha-element yields is difficult to predict from theory because of uncertainties in massive star evolution, supernova physics, and black hole formation, and it is dif…

astro-ph.SR2020★ 54 cited

The Similarity of Abundance Ratio Trends and Nucleosynthetic Patterns in the Milky Way Disk and Bulge

Emily Griffith, David H. Weinberg, Jennifer A. Johnson +9

We compare abundance ratio trends in a sample of Milky Way bulge stars ( kpc) from the Apache Point Observatory Galactic Evolution Experiment (APOGEE)…

astro-ph.CO2018★ 38 cited

The Secondary Spin Bias of Dark Matter Haloes

James W. Johnson, Ariyeh H. Maller, Andreas A. Berlind +2

We investigate the role of angular momentum in the clustering of dark matter haloes. We make use of data from two high-resolution N-body simulations spanning over four orders of ma…