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Forecasting the Resolvability of Stellar Velocity Dispersions in Ultra-faint Dwarf Galaxies
Pierre Thibodeaux, Alex Drlica-Wagner, Alexander P. Ji +4
Ultra-faint dwarf galaxies (UFDs)---the smallest and most dark-matter dominated galactic systems---push the boundaries of our understanding of galaxy formation in the cold dark mat…
A Deep Look at the Ultra-Faint Milky Way Satellite Virgo III with Rubin Observatory Data Preview 2
Aashay Pai, Alex Drlica-Wagner, Peter S. Ferguson +10
We analyze the ultra-faint Milky Way satellite Virgo III using data from the Vera C. Rubin Observatory Data Preview 2 (DP2). Virgo III was observed in the Rubin "Cosmic Treasure Ch…
Discovery of the Distant, Ultra-Faint Milky Way Satellite Aquarius IV with the Vera C. Rubin Observatory Early Data Preview 2
William Cerny, Aashay Pai, Alex Drlica-Wagner +16
We present the discovery of Aquarius IV (Rubin J22010234) -- the first ultra-faint Milky Way satellite to be identified using data from the Vera C. Rubin Observatory. This syste…
Do Vision-Language Models See Dwarf Galaxies the Way We Do?
Dimitrios Tanoglidis, Chin Yi Tan, Kate Overdeck +1
With the advent of powerful, general-purpose vision-language models (VLMs), there has been growing interest in their potential to assist astronomical discovery, a field characteriz…