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21 papers

astro-ph.IM2026

The SDSS-V Local Volume Mapper (LVM): Technical Overview

Guillermo A. Blanc, Niv Drory, Sebastián F. Sánchez +59

The Sloan Digital Sky Survey V (SDSS-V) Local Volume Mapper (LVM) is an ultra-wide integral field spectroscopic survey of the Milky Way, the Magellanic Clouds, and a sample of gala…

astro-ph.GA2026

SDSS-V Local Volume Mapper (LVM): The Integrated Light and Internal Rotation of Omega Centauri

Maximilian Häberle, Dmitry Bizyaev, Alina Boecker +34

The SDSS-V Local Volume Mapper (LVM) is a wide-field integral field spectroscopic survey of the Southern Milky Way plane, the Magellanic Clouds, and nearby Local Group galaxies. We…

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.IM2026

Robust Heteroskedastic Matrix Factorization: A Generalization of PCA that Flags Outliers and Handles Missing Data

Thomas Hilder, David W. Hogg, Andrew R. Casey +1

We present Robust Heteroskedastic Matrix Factorization (RHMF), a generalization of Principal Component Analysis (PCA) that is robust to outliers, handles per-feature uncertainties…

astro-ph.GA2026

There is no single density: star-forming regions and galaxies hold more dense ionized gas than long assumed

J. Eduardo Méndez-Delgado, Christophe Morisset, William J. Henney +29

Ionized gas fills star-forming regions and galaxies, and nearly everything we know about its temperature, pressure, mass, and composition is inferred from its emission lines [1-3].…

astro-ph.EP2026★ 1 cited

exoALMA XXIII. Estimating Disk and Planet Properties from Dust Morphologies with DBNets2.0

Alessandro Ruzza, Giuseppe Lodato, Giovanni Rosotti +21

The exoALMA large program provided an unprecedented view of the morphology and kinematics of 15 circumstellar disks, offering a biased but homogenous and well-characterized sample…

astro-ph.EP2026★ 3 cited

exoALMA XIX: Confirmation of Non-thermal Line Broadening in the DM Tau Protoplanetary Disk

Caitlyn Hardiman, Christophe Pinte, Daniel J. Price +38

Turbulence is expected to transport angular momentum and drive mass accretion in protoplanetary disks. One way to directly measure turbulent motion in disks is through molecular li…

astro-ph.GA2025

Unified Spectrospatial Forward Models: Spatially Continuous Maps of Weak Emission Lines in the Rosette Nebula with SDSS-V LVM

Thomas Hilder, Andrew R. Casey, Julianne J. Dalcanton +14

Analyses of IFU data are typically performed on a per-spaxel basis, with each spectrum modelled independently. For low signal-to-noise (S/N) features such as weak emission lines, e…

astro-ph.EP2025

exoALMA. XVIII. Interpreting large scale kinematic structures as moderate warping

Andrew J. Winter, Myriam Benisty, Andrés F. Izquierdo +28

The exoALMA program gave an unprecedented view of the complex kinematics of protoplanetary disks, revealing diverse structures that remain poorly understood. We show that moderate…

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.EP2025★ 25 cited

exoALMA. VI. Rotating under Pressure: Rotation curves, azimuthal velocity substructures, and pressure variations

Jochen Stadler, Myriam Benisty, Andrew J. Winter +36

The bulk motion of the gas in protoplanetary disks around newborn stars is nearly Keplerian. By leveraging the high angular and spectral resolution of ALMA, we can detect small-sca…

astro-ph.EP2025★ 37 cited

exoALMA III: Line-intensity Modeling and System Property Extraction from Protoplanetary Disks

Andrés F. Izquierdo, Jochen Stadler, Maria Galloway-Sprietsma +37

The ALMA large program exoALMA offers a unique window into the three-dimensional physical and dynamical properties of 15 circumstellar disks where planets may be actively forming.…

astro-ph.EP2025★ 10 cited

exoALMA. VIII. Probabilistic Moment Maps and Data Products using Non-parametric Linear Models

Thomas Hilder, Andrew R. Casey, Daniel J. Price +33

Extracting robust inferences on physical quantities from disk kinematics measured from Doppler-shifted molecular line emission is challenging due to the data's size and complexity.…

astro-ph.EP2025

exoALMA IX: Regularized Maximum Likelihood Imaging of Non-Keplerian Features

Brianna Zawadzki, Ian Czekala, Maria Galloway-Sprietsma +32

The planet-hunting ALMA large program exoALMA observed 15 protoplanetary disks at ~0.15" angular resolution and ~100 m/s spectral resolution, characterizing disk structures and kin…

astro-ph.EP2025★ 36 cited

exoALMA XII: Weighing and sizing exoALMA disks with rotation curve modelling

Cristiano Longarini, Giuseppe Lodato, Giovanni Rosotti +38

The exoALMA large program offers a unique opportunity to investigate the fundamental properties of protoplanetary disks, such as their masses and sizes, providing important insight…

astro-ph.EP2025

exoALMA. X. channel maps reveal complex CO abundance distributions and a variety of kinematic structures with evidence for embedded planets

Christophe Pinte, John D. Ilee, Jane Huang +34

We analyze the CO data cubes of the disks in the exoALMA program. 13/15 disks reveal a variety of kinematic substructures in individual channels: large-scale arcs or…

astro-ph.EP2025★ 1 cited

exoALMA I. Science Goals, Project Design and Data Products

Richard Teague, Myriam Benisty, Stefano Facchini +40

Planet formation is a hugely dynamic process requiring the transport, concentration and assimilation of gas and dust to form the first planetesimals and cores. With access to extre…

astro-ph.EP2024

Anatomy of a Fall: Stationary and super-Keplerian spiral arms generated by accretion streamers in protostellar discs

Josh Calcino, Daniel J. Price, Thomas Hilder +3

Late-stage infall onto evolved protoplanetary discs is an important source of material and angular momentum replenishment, and disc substructures. In this paper we used 3D smoothed…

astro-ph.EP2024★ 1 cited

Observational Signatures of Circumbinary Discs II: Kinematic Signatures in Velocity Residuals

Josh Calcino, Brodie Norfolk, Daniel J. Price +7

Kinematic studies of protoplanetary discs are a valuable method for uncovering hidden companions. In the first paper of this series, we presented five morphological and kinematic c…

astro-ph.EP2024★ 4 cited

Planet-driven spirals in protoplanetary discs: limitations of the semi-analytical theory for observations

D. Fasano, A. J. Winter, M. Benisty +7

Detecting protoplanets during their formation stage is an important but elusive goal of modern astronomy. Kinematic detections via the spiral wakes in the gaseous disc are a promis…

astro-ph.HE2024★ 2 cited

Inferring system parameters from the bursts of the accretion-powered pulsar IGR J17498-2921

D. K. Galloway, A. J. Goodwin, T. Hilder +2

Thermonuclear (type-I) bursts exhibit properties that depend both on the local surface conditions of the neutron stars on which they ignite, as well as the physical parameters of t…