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20152026
most citedAn Application of Deep Neural Networks in the Analysis of Stellar Spectra

129 citations · 702 across the 44 of their papers we have counts for

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47 papers

astro-ph.GA2026

Snapshots of r-process production in the Milky Way disk

Sarah G. Kane, Stephanie Monty, Madeleine McKenzie +9

Stars enhanced in heavy neutron capture elements like europium (Eu) provide a window into the rarest and most exotic nucleosynthetic events. Most Eu-enhanced stars discovered thus…

astro-ph.GA2026

The Ashes of Supermassive Stars: Globular Cluster-like Aluminum Enhancement in Little Red Dots

V. Kokorev, J. Chisholm, R. P. Naidu +16

The relative abundances of elements in galaxies serve as fossil records of the physical conditions and processes by which they were forged. While the Big Bang produced only the lig…

astro-ph.GA2026

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…

astro-ph.GA2026★ 5 cited

Magnesium isotope ratios in Milky Way and dwarf galaxy stars

M. McKenzie, S. Monty, D. Yong +8

Under the assumption of hierarchical galaxy formation, dwarf galaxies are the closest existing analogues to the high-redshift protogalaxies that merged to form the Milky Way. These…

astro-ph.GA2026★ 3 cited

The complex stellar system M 22: constraining the chemical enrichment from AGB stars using magnesium isotope ratios

M. McKenzie, D. Yong, A. I. Karakas +8

The complex star cluster M 22 (NGC 6656) provides a unique opportunity for studying slow neutron-capture (s-process) nucleosynthesis at low metallicity due to its two stellar group…

astro-ph.GA2026★ 30 cited

The complex stellar system M 22: confirming abundance variations with high precision differential measurements

M. McKenzie, D. Yong, A. F. Marino +8

M 22 (NGC 6656) is a chemically complex globular cluster-like system reported to harbour heavy element abundance variations. However, the extent of these variations and the origin…

astro-ph.GA2026

Globular cluster abundance patterns inherited from giant molecular clouds

William McClymont, Vasily Belokurov, Sandro Tacchella +16

Globular clusters exhibit large star-to-star variations and anticorrelations in their light element abundances that are commonly interpreted in terms of in-cluster self-enrichment,…

astro-ph.IM2026

HRMOS: A High-Resolution Multi-Object Spectrograph for the VLT

Laura Magrini, Thomas Bensby, Sofia Randich +174

This White Paper presents the scientific rationale and instrument concept for HRMOS (High-Resolution Multi-Object Spectrograph), a next-generation instrument proposed for the ESO V…

astro-ph.GA2025

A value-added catalogue of neural network-based europium abundances for GALAH DR4

Sarah G. Kane, Zofia Kaczmarek, Andrew Garner +3

The rapid neutron-capture (-process) element europium (Eu) is a valuable tracer of neutron star mergers and other rare nucleosynthetic events. The stellar spectroscopic survey G…

astro-ph.GA2025

Trading oxygen for iron II. Oxygen- versus iron-dependent cosmic star formation history

Martyna Chruślińska, Mirko Curti, Ruediger Pakmor +4

Due to their different nucleosynthetic origin, a stellar population produces oxygen (O) and iron (Fe) on different timescales and their relative abundance can deviate strongly from…

astro-ph.SR2025★ 3 cited

The R-Process Alliance: Exploring the cosmic scatter among ten r-process sites with stellar abundances

Mila Racca, Terese T. Hansen, Ian U. Roederer +11

The astrophysical origin of the rapid neutron-capture process (r-process), which produces about half of the elements heavier than iron, remains uncertain. The oldest, most metal-po…

astro-ph.GA2025

The chemodynamical memory of a major merger in a NIHAO-UHD Milky Way analogue -- II. Were Splash stars heated or already born hot?

Sven Buder, Tobias Buck, Ása Skúladóttir +3

One of the most debated consequences of the Milky Way's last major merger is the so-called : stars with disc-like chemistry but halo-like kinematics, often interpreted as e…

astro-ph.GA2025

The chemodynamical memory of a major merger in a NIHAO-UHD Milky Way analogue -- I. A golden thread through time and space

Sven Buder, Tobias Buck, Ása Skúladóttir +3

Understanding how past major mergers shaped the Milky Way's present-day structure is a key goal of Galactic archaeology. The Galaxy's chemical and dynamical structure retains the i…

astro-ph.GA2025★ 1 cited

On the connection between nitrogen-enhanced field stars and the Galactic globular clusters

Sarah G. Kane, Vasily Belokurov, Stephanie Monty +6

As sites of some of the most efficient star formation in the Universe, globular clusters (GCs) have long been hypothesized to be the building blocks of young galaxies. Within the M…

astro-ph.GA2025★ 2 cited

JADES: the chemical enrichment pattern of distant galaxies -- enhancement, silicon depletion, and iron enhancement

Yuki Isobe, Roberto Maiolino, Xihan Ji +26

We present gas-phase abundances of carbon (C), -elements (O, Ne, Si, and Ar) and iron (Fe) obtained from stacked spectra of high- star-forming galaxies with the deep Near Inf…

astro-ph.GA2025★ 17 cited

A direct black hole mass measurement in a Little Red Dot at the Epoch of Reionization

Ignas Juodžbalis, Cosimo Marconcini, Francesco D'Eugenio +37

Recent discoveries of faint active galactic nuclei (AGN) at the redshift frontier have revealed a plethora of broad \Halpha emitters with optically red continua, named Little Red D…

astro-ph.GA2025

ChemZz I: Comparing Oxygen and Iron Abundance Patterns in the Milky Way, the Local Group and Cosmic Noon

Stephanie Monty, Allison L. Strom, Thomas M. Stanton +7

Our understanding of the chemical evolution of galaxies has advanced through measurements from both distant galaxies across redshift, and our own Milky Way (MW). To form a comprehe…

astro-ph.GA2025★ 5 cited

The THESAN-ZOOM project: Mystery N/O more -- uncovering the origin of peculiar chemical abundances and a not-so-fundamental metallicity relation at

William McClymont, Sandro Tacchella, Aaron Smith +15

We present an analysis of metallicities and chemical abundances at in the THESAN-ZOOM simulations. We find that smoothly curved gas-phase and stellar mass-metallicity rela…

astro-ph.GA2025★ 2 cited

Connecting JWST discovered N/O-enhanced galaxies to globular clusters: Evidence from chemical imprints

Xihan Ji, Vasily Belokurov, Roberto Maiolino +5

Recent JWST observations have revealed a growing population of galaxies at with elevated nitrogen-to-oxygen ratios. These "N/O-enhanced" galaxies (NOEGs) exhibit near- to sup…

astro-ph.IM2024

MAVIS: Enabling High-Precision Ground-Based Astrometry in the Visible Spectrum

Mojtaba Taheri, Jesse Cranney, Antonino Marasco +9

MAVIS (the MCAO-Assisted Visible Imager and Spectrograph), planned for the VLT Adaptive Optics Facility, represents an innovative step in Multi-Conjugate Adaptive Optics (MCAO) sys…

astro-ph.GA2024★ 1 cited

Blind source separation of the stellar halo

Elliot Y. Davies, Vasily Belokurov, Andrey Kravtsov +4

The stellar halo of the Milky Way comprises an abundance of chemical signatures from accretion events and \textit{in-situ} evolution, that form an interweaving tapestry in kinemati…

astro-ph.SR2024★ 15 cited

Predicting metallicities and carbon abundances from Gaia XP spectra for (carbon-enhanced) metal-poor stars

Anke Ardern-Arentsen, Sarah G. Kane, Vasily Belokurov +4

Carbon-rich (C-rich) stars can be found at all metallicities and evolutionary stages. They are often the result of mass-transfer from a companion, but some of the most metal-poor C…

astro-ph.GA2024★ 7 cited

The ones that got away: chemical tagging of globular cluster-origin stars with Gaia BP/RP spectra

Sarah G. Kane, Vasily Belokurov, Miles Cranmer +4

Globular clusters (GCs) are sites of extremely efficient star formation, and recent studies suggest they significantly contributed to the early Milky Way's stellar mass build-up. A…

astro-ph.GA2024★ 8 cited

Trojan globular clusters: radial migration via trapping in bar resonances

Adam M. Dillamore, Stephanie Monty, Vasily Belokurov +1

We search for globular clusters (GCs) trapped in resonances with the bar of the Milky Way. By integrating their orbits in a potential with a decelerating bar, we select 10 whose or…