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A near field guide to Roman's wide-area surveys
Robyn E. Sanderson, Kevin A. McKinnon, Adrien C. R. Thob +7
The Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope currently plans to survey nearly 6000 square degrees of the sky, mainly in the High-Latitude Wide-Area Survey (HLWAS) and Galactic Plane Surve…
The Star Formation History of WLM from Asymptotic Giant Branch Stars and The Discovery of a Candidate Accreted System in its Outer Disk
Abigail J. Lee, Daniel R. Weisz, Andrew E. Dolphin +1
We measure the star formation history (SFH) of Local Group dwarf galaxy WLM using wide-area ( half-light radii) ground-based near-infrared (NIR) imaging of bright ($M_{J}<-4…
The Chicago Carnegie Hubble Program: Improving the Calibration of SNe Ia with JWST Measurements of the Tip of the Red Giant Branch
Taylor J. Hoyt, In Sung Jang, Wendy L. Freedman +3
We present distances to ten supernova (SN) host galaxies determined via the red giant branch tip (TRGB) using JWST/NIRCAM and the F115W, F356W, and F444W bandpasses. Our analysis,…
Measuring Star Formation Histories from Asymptotic Giant Branch Stars I: A Demonstration in M31
Abigail J. Lee, Daniel R. Weisz, Yi Ren +2
We demonstrate how near-infrared (NIR) imaging of resolved luminous asymptotic giant branch (AGB) stars can be used to measure well-constrained star formation histories (SFHs) acro…
The Chicago-Carnegie Hubble Program: The JWST J-region Asymptotic Giant Branch (JAGB) Extragalactic Distance Scale
Abigail J. Lee, Wendy L. Freedman, Barry F. Madore +3
The J-region asymptotic giant branch (JAGB) method is a new standard candle based on the constant luminosities of carbon-rich asymptotic giant branch stars in the J band. The JAGB…
Coordinated JWST Imaging of Three Distance Indicators in a SN Host Galaxy and an Estimate of the TRGB Color Dependence
Taylor J. Hoyt, In Sung Jang, Wendy L. Freedman +3
Boasting a 6.5m mirror in space, JWST can increase by several times the number of supernovae (SNe) to which a redshift-independent distance has been measured with a precision dista…
Resolved Near-infrared Stellar Photometry from the Magellan Telescope for 13 Nearby Galaxies: JAGB Method Distances
Abigail J. Lee, Andrew J. Monson, Wendy L. Freedman +6
We present near-infrared JHK photometry for the resolved stellar populations in 13 nearby galaxies: NGC 6822, IC 1613, NGC 3109, Sextans B, Sextans A, NGC 300, NGC 55, NGC 7793, NG…
First JWST Observations of JAGB Stars in the SN Ia Host Galaxies: NGC 7250, NGC 4536, NGC 3972
Abigail J. Lee, Wendy L. Freedman, In Sung Jang +2
The J-region Asymptotic Giant Branch (JAGB) method is a standard candle that leverages the constant luminosities of color-selected, carbon-rich AGB stars, measured in the near infr…
Carbon Stars as Standard Candles: An Empirical Test for the Reddening, Metallicity, and Age Sensitivity of the J-region Asymptotic Giant Branch (JAGB) Method
Abigail J. Lee
The J-region Asymptotic Giant Branch (JAGB) method is a standard candle based on the intrinsic luminosities of carbon stars in the near infrared. We directly constrain the impact o…
Milky Way Zero-Point Calibration of the JAGB Method: Using Thermally Pulsing AGB Stars in Galactic Open Clusters
Barry F. Madore, Wendy L. Freedman, Abigail J. Lee +1
We present a new calibration of the J-band absolute magnitude of the JAGB method based on thermally pulsing AGB stars that are members of Milky Way open clusters, having distances…
The Astrophysical Distance Scale: V. A 2% Distance to the Local Group Spiral M33 via the JAGB Method, Tip of the Red Giant Branch, and Leavitt Law
Abigail J. Lee, Laurie Rousseau-Nepton, Wendy L. Freedman +6
The J-region asymptotic giant branch (JAGB) method is a new standard candle that is based on the stable intrinsic J-band magnitude of color-selected carbon stars, and has a precisi…
Current Challenges in Cepheid Distance Calibrations Using Gaia EDR3
Kayla A. Owens, Wendy L. Freedman, Barry F. Madore +1
Using parallaxes from Gaia Early Data Release 3 (EDR3), we determine multi-wavelength BVI, JHK, and [3.6] & [4.5] micron absolute magnitudes for 37 nearby Milky Way Cepheids, cover…
A Preliminary Calibration of the JAGB Method Using Gaia EDR3
Abigail J. Lee, Wendy L. Freedman, Barry F. Madore +2
The recently-developed J-region Asymptotic Giant Branch (JAGB) method has extraordinary potential as an extragalactic standard candle, capable of calibrating the absolute magnitude…