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Spatially-Resolved Spectra of Diffuse Galactic Light using 10.8 M DESI Sky Fibers
Andrew K. Saydjari, Bruce T. Draine, Timothy D. Brandt +49
Using 10.8 million ``blank'' sky spectra from the DESI Year 3 dataset, we measure the diffuse galactic light (DGL) spectrum in the optical at spectral resolution by c…
The Twentieth Data Release of the Sloan Digital Sky Survey: First All-Sky BOSS Spectra, eROSITA-SDSS-V Mapper Coordinated Observations, and a Preview of the Local Volume Mapper
SDSS Collaboration, Mojgan Aghakhanloo, David Aguilar +273
This paper presents the twentieth data release (DR20) from the Sloan Digital Sky Survey, the third data release of its fifth generation (SDSS-V). SDSS-V is a panoptic spectroscopy…
Payne4GAIN: NLTE Corrections for Red Giants in Milky Way Mapper using H-Band Neural Network Emulators
Pierre Thibodeaux, Alexander P. Ji, Nicholas Storm +12
The majority of spectroscopic surveys assume local thermodynamic equilibrium (LTE) during the modeling of stellar spectra. This assumption begins to break down for luminous stars,…
Deep Learning for Astrophysics: An Open Textbook from the NASA Cosmic Origins AI/ML Science and Technology Interest Group
Yuan-Sen Ting, Digvijay Wadekar, Phill Cargile +21
Recent community assessments identify education as a principal barrier to adopting modern machine learning in astronomy. We present Deep Learning for Astrophysics, a freely availab…
Interleaved Noise Injection Improves Clean, Corrupted, and OOD Performance
Matt L. Wiemann, Peter Melchior, Andrew K. Saydjari
Noise injection is a well-known technique in stochastic optimization. We report its surprising effectiveness with an interleaved (on-off-on-off...) rather than the usual monotonic…
The 3D Structure and Kinematics of the Local Disk-Halo Interface: Intermediate-velocity Clouds are the Minority of High-altitude Clouds in the Solar Neighborhood
Theo J. O'Neill, Andrew K. Saydjari, Catherine Zucker +4
Studies of the Milky Way's disk-halo interface have historically identified inflowing and outflowing gas incompatible with disk rotation on the basis of radial velocity, leading to…
Summary of Discussion Sessions from "The Dusty Universe 2025: The Fifth Pandust Conference"
Marjorie Decleir, Karl D. Gordon, Annalisa De Cia +16
"The Dusty Universe: The Fifth Pandust Conference" took place in Tucson (AZ, USA) from November 10 until 14, 2025. The goal of this meeting was to get the dust community together t…
The radial component of the local Galactic magnetic field in 3D
Lewis McCallum, Philipp Frank, Sebastian Hutschenreuter +9
We present a distance-resolved reconstruction of the local line-of-sight Galactic magnetic field, , by combining a 3D electron density () map derived from dust map-i…
A Path to an All-Sky Survey with Roman
Jiwon Jesse Han, Anirudh Chiti, Kai-Feng Chen +93
A deep, space-based, all-sky near-infrared survey carried out with the Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope would constitute a foundational astronomical infrastructure for decades to…
A constrained linear model for continuum normalization of stellar spectra
Andrew R. Casey, Adam Wheeler, Megan Bedell +3
Inferring stellar parameters and chemical abundances by forward modeling stellar spectra usually requires a spectral synthesis code, or an emulator constructed from a curated train…
Optimal and Unbiased Fluxes from Up-the-Ramp Detectors under Variable Illumination
Bowen Li, Kevin A. McKinnon, Andrew K. Saydjari +6
Near-infrared (NIR) detectors -- which use non-destructive readouts to measure time-series counts-per-pixel -- play a crucial role in modern astrophysics. Standard NIR flux extract…
The MDW Hα Sky Survey: Data Release 1
Noor Aftab, Xunhe, Zhang +7
The Mittelman-di Cicco-Walker (MDW) H Sky Survey is an autonomously-operated all-sky narrow-band (3nm) H imaging survey. The survey was founded by amateur astronomers and the…
Unified Spectrospatial Forward Models: Spatially Continuous Maps of Weak Emission Lines in the Rosette Nebula with SDSS-V LVM
Thomas Hilder, Andrew R. Casey, Julianne J. Dalcanton +14
Analyses of IFU data are typically performed on a per-spaxel basis, with each spectrum modelled independently. For low signal-to-noise (S/N) features such as weak emission lines, e…
The Importance of Standardizing Spectra in the Era of Large Spectroscopic Surveys: A Case Study of M Dwarfs in SDSS-V
Ilija Medan, Zachary Way, Bárbara Rojas-Ayala +8
SDSS-V will obtain 100,000s of medium-resolution, optical spectra of M dwarfs with the BOSS instrument. M dwarfs have complex atmospheres, and their spectra contain many wide and d…
The large-scale kinematics of young stars in the Milky Way disc: first results from SDSS-V
Eleonora Zari, Jaime Villaseñor, Marina Kounkel +17
We present a first large-scale kinematic map of 50,000 young OB stars ( K), based on BOSS spectroscopy from the Milky Way Mapper OB program in the on…
An SDSS-V 3D Tomographic Na I Map of the ISM: An Initial Study Towards the Smith Cloud
Timothy McQuaid, Joseph N. Burchett, Kate H. R. Rubin +7
High velocity clouds supply the Milky Way with gas that sustains star formation over cosmic timescales. Precise distance measurements are therefore essential to quantify their mass…
Mapping the Distant and Metal-Poor Milky Way with SDSS-V
Vedant Chandra, Phillip A. Cargile, Alexander P. Ji +28
The fifth-generation Sloan Digital Sky Survey (SDSS-V) is conducting the first all-sky low-resolution spectroscopic survey of the Milky Way's stellar halo. We describe the stellar…
The Open Cluster Chemical Abundances and Mapping Survey: VIII. Galactic Chemical Gradient and Azimuthal Analysis from SDSS/MWM DR19
Jonah M. Otto, Peter M Frinchaboy, Natalie R. Myers +16
The Open Cluster Chemical Abundances and Mapping (OCCAM) survey seeks to curate a large, comprehensive, uniform dataset of open clusters and member stars to constrain key Galactic…
Correlations between Dust Extinction Features across All Wavelength Scales: From Diffuse Interstellar Bands to R(V)
Andrew K. Saydjari, Gregory M. Green
Understanding variations in the dust extinction curve is imperative for using dust as a tracer of local structure in the interstellar medium, understanding dust chemistry, and obse…
The Nineteenth Data Release of the Sloan Digital Sky Survey
SDSS Collaboration, Gautham Adamane Pallathadka, Mojgan Aghakhanloo +210
Mapping the local and distant Universe is key to our understanding of it. For decades, the Sloan Digital Sky Survey (SDSS) has made a concerted effort to map millions of celestial…
Sloan Digital Sky Survey-V: Pioneering Panoptic Spectroscopy
Juna A. Kollmeier, Hans-Walter Rix, Conny Aerts +217
The Sloan Digital Sky Survey-V (SDSS-V) is pioneering panoptic spectroscopy: it is the first all-sky, multi-epoch, optical-to-infrared spectroscopic survey. SDSS-V is mapping the s…
SDSS-V Milky Way Mapper (MWM): ASPCAP Stellar Parameters and Abundances in SDSS-V Data Release 19
Szabolcs Mészáros, Paula Jofré, Jennifer A. Johnson +25
The goal of this paper is to describe the science verification of Milky Way Mapper (MWM) APOGEE Stellar Parameter and Chemical Abundances Pipeline (ASPCAP) data products published…
Bayesian Component Separation for DESI LAE Automated Spectroscopic Redshifts and Photometric Targeting
Ana Sofía M. Uzsoy, Andrew K. Saydjari, Arjun Dey +37
Lyman Alpha Emitters (LAEs) are valuable high-redshift cosmological probes traditionally identified using specialized narrow-band photometric surveys. In ground-based spectroscopy,…
Deriving Stellar Properties, Distances, and Reddenings using Photometry and Astrometry with BRUTUS
Joshua S. Speagle, Catherine Zucker, Angus Beane +18
We present brutus, an open source Python package for quickly deriving stellar properties, distances, and reddenings to stars based on grids of stellar models constrained by photome…