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20092026
most citedConstraining the Milky Way potential with a 6-D phase-space map of the GD-1 stellar stream

411 citations · 698 across the 13 of their papers we have counts for

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13 papers

astro-ph.GA2026

The Milky Way's circular velocity curve measured using element abundance gradients

Danny Horta, Adrian M. Price-Whelan, Sergey E. Koposov +4

Spectroscopic surveys now supply precise stellar label measurements such as element abundances for large samples of stars throughout the Milky Way. These element abundances are kno…

astro-ph.GA2025

Inferring Stellar Densities with Flexible Models I: The Distribution of RR Lyrae in the Milky Way with DR3

Madeline Lucey, Cecilia Mateu, Adrian Price-Whelan +3

Understanding the formation and evolutionary history of the Milky Way requires detailed mapping of its stellar components, which preserve fossil records of the Galaxy's assembly th…

astro-ph.GA2025

Active galactic nuclei do not exhibit strictly sinusoidal brightness variations

Kareem El-Badry, David W. Hogg, Hans-Walter Rix

Periodic variability in active galactic nuclei (AGN) light curves has been proposed as a signature of close supermassive black hole (SMBH) binaries. Recently, 181 candidate SMBH bi…

astro-ph.IM2025★ 3 cited

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…

astro-ph.SR2025

Identification of 30,000 White Dwarf-Main Sequence binaries candidates from Gaia DR3 BP/RP(XP) low-resolution spectra

Jiadong Li, Yuan-Sen Ting, Hans-Walter Rix +5

White dwarf-main sequence (WDMS) binary systems are essential probes for understanding binary stellar evolution and play a pivotal role in constraining theoretical models of variou…

astro-ph.EP2024★ 6 cited

Planet Hunters TESS V: a planetary system around a binary star, including a mini-Neptune in the habitable zone

Nora L. Eisner, Samuel K. Grunblatt, Oscar Barragán +61

We report on the discovery and validation of a transiting long-period mini-Neptune orbiting a bright (V = 9.0 mag) G dwarf (TOI 4633; R = 1.05 RSun, M = 1.10 MSun). The planet was…

astro-ph.CO2024★ 1 cited

Signal-preserving CMB component separation with machine learning

Fiona McCarthy, J. Colin Hill, William R. Coulton +1

Analysis of microwave sky signals, such as the cosmic microwave background, often requires component separation with multi-frequency methods, where different signals are isolated b…

astro-ph.SR2024★ 4 cited

zoomies: A tool to infer stellar age from vertical action in Gaia data

Sheila Sagear, Adrian M. Price-Whelan, Sarah Ballard +4

Stellar age measurements are fundamental to understanding a wide range of astronomical processes, including Galactic dynamics, stellar evolution, and planetary system formation. Ho…

astro-ph.GA2024★ 1 cited

Data-driven Dynamics with Orbital Torus Imaging: A Flexible Model of the Vertical Phase Space of the Galaxy

Adrian M. Price-Whelan, Jason A. S. Hunt, Danny Horta +4

The vertical kinematics of stars near the Sun can be used to measure the total mass distribution near the Galactic disk and to study out-of-equilibrium dynamics. With contemporary…

astro-ph.GA2023★ 1 cited

Orbital Torus Imaging: Acceleration, density, and dark matter in the Galactic disk measured with element abundance gradients

Danny Horta, Adrian M. Price-Whelan, David W. Hogg +5

Under the assumption of a simple and time-invariant gravitational potential, many Galactic dynamics techniques infer the Milky Way's mass and dark matter distribution from stellar…

astro-ph.SR2015★ 211 cited

Spectroscopic determination of masses (and implied ages) for red giants

M. Ness, David W. Hogg, H-W. Rix +3

The mass of a star is arguably its most fundamental parameter. For red giant stars, tracers luminous enough to be observed across the Galaxy, mass implies a stellar evolution age.…

astro-ph.GA2015★ 60 cited

Finding, characterizing and classifying variable sources in multi-epoch sky surveys: QSOs and RR Lyrae in PS1 3 data

Nina Hernitschek, Edward F. Schlafly, Branimir Sesar +14

In area and depth, the Pan-STARRS1 (PS1) 3 survey is unique among many-epoch, multi-band surveys and has enormous potential for all-sky identification of variable sources. PS1 h…

astro-ph.GA2009★ 411 cited

Constraining the Milky Way potential with a 6-D phase-space map of the GD-1 stellar stream

Sergey E. Koposov, Hans-Walter Rix, David W. Hogg

The narrow GD-1 stream of stars, spanning 60 deg on the sky at a distance of ~10 kpc from the Sun and ~15 kpc from the Galactic center, is presumed to be debris from a tidally disr…