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9 papers

astro-ph.GA2026

A Broken Clock Is Right Twice a Day: [Ce/Mg] Is Not a Universal Chemical Clock

Liam O. Dubay, Jennifer A. Johnson, James W. Johnson +14

The ratio of -process to -element enrichment () has been proposed as a ``chemical clock,'' or a means to estimate stellar ages. However, the age-- relation vari…

astro-ph.SR2026

They Won't Be Giants: Missing Metal-Rich RGB Stars in Gaia Data Indicate Truncated Stellar Evolution

Yuxi Lu, Madeline Howell, Marc H. Pinsonneault +3

We investigate the population of luminous red giant branch stars as a function of metallicity using Gaia XP metallicity combined with SDSS-V, GALAH, and LAMOST. After applying unif…

astro-ph.SR2026

A Galactic intermediate-mass stripped star with a Wolf-Rayet-like wind

Johanna Müller-Horn, Kareem El-Badry, Andreas A. C. Sander +17

Binary interaction in massive stars is expected to produce a large population of intermediate-mass (- M) envelope-stripped stars, yet such objects have remained elusi…

astro-ph.GA2026

The Open Cluster Chemical Abundances and Mapping Survey XI. First Gradients from SDSS/MWM BOSS Determined Clusters

Jonah M. Otto, Peter M. Frinchaboy, John Donor +13

The Milky Way Mapper program in the fifth generation of the Sloan Digital Sky Survey (SDSS-V/MWM) has observed millions of stars, thousands of them in open clusters. The Open Clust…

astro-ph.SR2026

Payne4GAIN: NLTE Corrections for Red Giants in Milky Way Mapper using H-Band Neural Network Emulators

Pierre Thibodeaux, Alexander P. Ji, Nicholas Storm +12

The majority of spectroscopic surveys assume local thermodynamic equilibrium (LTE) during the modeling of stellar spectra. This assumption begins to break down for luminous stars,…

astro-ph.SR2026

A Probabilistic Framework for Population Studies of the Solar Neighborhood: Application to SDSS-V and Gaia

Ilija Medan, Keivan G. Stassun, Zachary Way +8

Studies of the Solar Neighborhood require spectroscopic follow-up of stars identified in astrometric surveys to fully characterize their physical properties. The SDSS-V Solar Neigh…