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most citedGalactic Doppelganger: The chemical similarity among field stars and among stars with a common birth origin

91 citations · 103 across the 8 of their papers we have counts for

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8 papers

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.SR2025★ 1 cited

Evolved stars with inconsistent age estimates: Abundance outliers or mass transfer products?

Polly Frazer, Emily J. Griffith, David W. Hogg +2

In the Milky Way disk there is a strong trend linking stellar age to surface element abundances. Here we explore this relationship with a dataset of 8,803 red-giant and red-clump s…

astro-ph.SR2025★ 1 cited

Optical Spectroscopy Reveals Hidden Neutron-capture Elemental Abundance Differences among APOGEE-identified Chemical Doppelgängers

Catherine Manea, Melissa Ness, Keith Hawkins +9

Grouping stars by chemical similarity has the potential to reveal the Milky Way's evolutionary history. The APOGEE stellar spectroscopic survey has the resolution and sensitivity f…

astro-ph.GA2025★ 8 cited

The Nineteenth Data Release of the Sloan Digital Sky Survey

SDSS Collaboration, Gautham Adamane Pallathadka, Mojgan Aghakhanloo +210

Mapping the local and distant Universe is key to our understanding of it. For decades, the Sloan Digital Sky Survey (SDSS) has made a concerted effort to map millions of celestial…

astro-ph.GA2024

Many elements matter: Detailed abundance patterns reveal star-formation and enrichment differences among Milky Way structural components

Emily J. Griffith, David W. Hogg, Sten Hasselquist +5

Many nucleosynthetic channels create the elements, but two-parameter models characterized by and Fe nonetheless predict stellar abundances in the Galactic disk to accuracies of…

astro-ph.GA2024★ 2 cited

Iron Snails: non-equilibrium dynamics and spiral abundance patterns

Neige Frankel, David W. Hogg, Scott Tremaine +2

Galaxies are not in a dynamical steady state. They continually undergo perturbations, e.g., from infalling dwarf galaxies and dark-matter substructure. After a dynamical perturbati…

astro-ph.SR2017★ 91 cited

Galactic Doppelganger: The chemical similarity among field stars and among stars with a common birth origin

M. Ness, H-W. Rix, David W. Hogg +9

We explore to which extent stars within Galactic disk open clusters resemble each other in the high-dimensional space of their photospheric element abundances, and contrast this wi…