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most citedOn the Use of Field RR Lyrae as Galactic Probes -- VIII. Early Formation of the Galactic Spheroid

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astro-ph.GA2026

The Stellar Initial Mass Function down to 0.16M Towards the Small Magellanic Cloud

Roger E. Cohen, Mario Gennaro, Matteo Correnti +2

The presence (and nature) of variations in the stellar initial mass function (IMF) at substantially sub-solar masses and metallicities (0.5M, [M/H]1) r…

astro-ph.GA2026

The JWST Resolved Stellar Populations Early Release Science Program. IX. The RR Lyrae Population in WLM with HST and JWST

Catherine M. Slaughter, Evan D. Skillman, Alessandro Savino +16

RR Lyrae stars are a common, dependable Population II distance indicator, and provide an independent tracer of early star formation. Here, we utilize archival HST/ACS and JWST/NIRC…

astro-ph.GA2026★ 3 cited

On the Use of Field RR Lyrae as Galactic Probes -- VIII. Early Formation of the Galactic Spheroid

G. Bono, V. F. Braga, M. Fabrizio +54

We introduce a new photometric catalog of RR Lyrae variables (RRLs, 300,000) mainly based on data available in public datasets. We also present the largest and most homogeneo…

astro-ph.GA2025

The Proper Motion of Draco II with HST using Multiple Reference Frames and Methodologies

Jack T. Warfield, Kevin A. McKinnon, Sangmo Tony Sohn +13

We present proper motion (PM) measurements for Draco II, an ultra-faint dwarf satellite of the Milky Way. These PMs are measured using two epochs of Hubble Space Telescope Advanced…

astro-ph.GA2025

Wide binaries in an ultra-faint dwarf galaxy: discovery, population modeling, and a nail in the coffin of primordial black hole dark matter

Cheyanne Shariat, Kareem El-Badry, Mario Gennaro +24

We report the discovery and characterization of a wide binary population in the ultrafaint dwarf galaxy Boötes I using deep JWST/NIRCam imaging. Our sample consists of 52 candidate…

astro-ph.GA2025★ 1 cited

Strikingly high fraction of fast rotators in Magellanic Cloud star clusters

Greta Ettorre, Alessandro Mazzi, Leo Girardi +14

There has been growing evidence that the rich star clusters in the Magellanic Clouds contain significant fractions of rapidly rotating stars. In this work, we aim to constrain thes…

astro-ph.GA2025

The JWST Resolved Stellar Populations Early Release Science Program. VIII. The Spatially Resolved Star Formation History of WLM

Roger E. Cohen, Kristen B. W. McQuinn, Alessandro Savino +17

We measure radial stellar age gradients in the relatively isolated gas-rich dwarf irregular WLM, combining JWST NIRCam and NIRISS imaging with six archival Hubble fields over semi-…

astro-ph.SR2025

JWST photometry and astrometry of 47 Tucanae. Discontinuity in the stellar sequence at the star/brown dwarf transition

M. Scalco, R. Gerasimov, L. R. Bedin +10

Using JWST Near Infrared Camera (NIRCam) images of the globular cluster 47 Tucanae (or NGC 104), taken at two epochs just 7 months apart, we derived proper-motion membership down t…

astro-ph.SR2024★ 1 cited

A Low Metallicity Massive Contact Binary Star System Candidate in WLM identified by Hubble and James Webb Space Telescope imaging

Maude Gull, Daniel R. Weisz, Kareem El-Badry +15

We present archival HST and JWST ultraviolet through near infrared time series photometric observations of a massive minimal-contact binary candidate in the metal-poor galaxy WLM (…