6 papers
Sr and Ba yields of the First Generation(s) of stars: Constraints from metal-poor stars
Sarah Hughes, Anna Frebel, Xiaowei Ou +6
We present our chemical abundance analysis of ten new extremely metal-poor stars with $-4.05\leq\mbox{[Fe/H]}\leq-2.33$, based on high-resolution (R ) Magellan/MIKE spe…
Carbon Abundances in Metal-Poor Stars Reveal Distinct Galaxy and Star Formation Pathways in the Early Universe
Alexander Yelland, Anna Frebel, Xiaowei Ou +2
Carbon-enhanced metal-poor (CEMP; with and ) stars preserve information about early chemical enrichment, low-mass star formation, and th…
Hubble Astrometry for the Local Group and Beyond in the 2030s
S. Tony Sohn, Paul Bennet, Kevin Andrew McKinnon +23
Hubble's long, stable astrometric baseline creates a rare opportunity for discovery in the Local Group and beyond. Many nearby galaxies, streams, and star clusters already have arc…
The DREAMS Project: Disentangling the Impact of Halo-to-Halo Variance and Baryonic Feedback on Milky Way Dark Matter Density Profiles
Alex M. Garcia, Jonah C. Rose, Paul Torrey +23
In this work, we utilize a new suite of Milky Way-mass halos from the DREAMS Project, simulated with Cold Dark Matter (CDM), to quantify the influence of baryon feedback and intrin…
The abundance and properties of the lowest luminosity dwarf galaxies around the Milky Way: Insights from Semi-Analytic Models
Niusha Ahvazi, Andrew B. Pace, Christopher T. Garling +11
We investigate the formation and observable properties of faint satellite galaxies (M$_\rm V > -3$) in Milky Way-like halos using the semi-analytic galaxy formation model Galacticu…
Improving neural network performance for solving quantum sign structure
Xiaowei Ou, Tianshu Huang, Vidvuds Ozolins
Neural quantum states have emerged as a widely used approach to the numerical study of the ground states of non-stoquastic Hamiltonians. However, existing approaches often rely on…