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most citedThe Sloan Digital Sky Survey: Technical Summary

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astro-ph.CO2025★ 2 cited

The Spectroscopic Stage-5 Experiment

Robert Besuner, Arjun Dey, Alex Drlica-Wagner +106

The existence, properties, and dynamics of the dark sectors of our universe pose fundamental challenges to our current model of physics, and large-scale astronomical surveys may be…

astro-ph.EP2024

The frequency of metal-enrichment of cool helium-atmosphere white dwarfs using the DESI Early Data Release

Christopher J. Manser, Boris T. Gänsicke, Paula Izquierdo +35

There is overwhelming evidence that white dwarfs host planetary systems; revealed by the presence, disruption, and accretion of planetary bodies. A lower limit on the frequency of…

astro-ph.GA2023

BP3M: Bayesian Positions, Parallaxes, and Proper Motions derived from the Hubble Space Telescope and Gaia data

Kevin A. McKinnon, Andrés del Pino, Constance M. Rockosi +9

We present a hierarchical Bayesian pipeline, BP3M, that measures positions, parallaxes, and proper motions (PMs) for cross-matched sources between Hubble~Space~Telescope (HST) imag…

astro-ph.GA2023

Data-driven Discovery of Diffuse Interstellar Bands with APOGEE Spectra

Kevin A. McKinnon, Melissa K. Ness, Constance M. Rockosi +1

Data-driven models of stellar spectra are useful tools to study non-stellar information, such as the Diffuse Interstellar Bands (DIBs) caused by intervening interstellar material.…

astro-ph.IM2023★ 2 cited

NANCY: Next-generation All-sky Near-infrared Community surveY

Jiwon Jesse Han, Arjun Dey, Adrian M. Price-Whelan +206

The Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope is capable of delivering an unprecedented all-sky, high-spatial resolution, multi-epoch infrared map to the astronomical community. This oppor…

astro-ph.CO2023★ 13 cited

Survey Operations for the Dark Energy Spectroscopic Instrument

E. F. Schlafly, D. Kirkby, D. J. Schlegel +47

The Dark Energy Spectroscopic Instrument (DESI) survey is a spectroscopic survey of tens of millions of galaxies at covering 14,000 square degrees of the sky. In its…