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most citedCosmology with the SPHEREX All-Sky Spectral Survey

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36 papers

astro-ph.GA2025

Circum-nuclear eccentric gas flow in the Galactic Center revealed by ALMA CMZ Exploration Survey (ACES)

Yoshiaki Sofue, Tomoharu Oka, Steven N. Longmore +41

We analyze the CS (J=2-1) line cube from the internal data release obtained by the large-scale program "ALMA CMZ Exploration Survey (ACES)" to investigate the kinematic structure o…

astro-ph.GA2025

The Galactic-Centre Arms inferred from ACES (ALMA CMZ Exploration Survey)

Y. Sofue, Tomo. Oka, S. N. Longmore +44

Analyzing longitude-velocity diagrams (LVDs) in the CS(J=2-1) and H13CN(J=1-0) molecular lines from the internal release data of the ALMA Central-Molecular-Zone Exploration Survey…

astro-ph.GA2025★ 8 cited

The SPHEREx Target List of Ice Sources (SPLICES)

Matthew L. N. Ashby, Joseph L. Hora, Kiran Lakshmipathaiah +16

One of the primary objectives of the SPHEREx mission is to understand the origin of molecules such as H2O, CO2, and other volatile compounds at the early stages of planetary system…

astro-ph.IM2024★ 58 cited

SPHEREx: NASA's Near-Infrared Spectrophotmetric All-Sky Survey

Brendan P. Crill, Michael Werner, Rachel Akeson +51

SPHEREx, the Spectro-Photometer for the History of the Universe, Epoch of Reionization, and ices Explorer, is a NASA MIDEX mission planned for launch in 2024. SPHEREx will carry ou…

astro-ph.IM2023★ 2 cited

NANCY: Next-generation All-sky Near-infrared Community surveY

Jiwon Jesse Han, Arjun Dey, Adrian M. Price-Whelan +206

The Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope is capable of delivering an unprecedented all-sky, high-spatial resolution, multi-epoch infrared map to the astronomical community. This oppor…

astro-ph.EP2023★ 6 cited

Improved companion mass limits for Sirius A with thermal infrared coronagraphy using a vector-apodizing phase plate and time-domain starlight-subtraction techniques

Joseph D. Long, Jared R. Males, Sebastiaan Y. Haffert +12

We use observations with the infrared-optimized MagAO system and Clio camera in 3.9 m light to place stringent mass constraints on possible undetected companions to Sirius A. We…

astro-ph.GA2023★ 7 cited

CMZoom III: Spectral Line Data Release

Daniel Callanan, Steven N. Longmore, Cara Battersby +21

We present an overview and data release of the spectral line component of the SMA Large Program, \textit{CMZoom}. \textit{CMZoom} observed CO(2-1), CO(2-1) and C$^{18…

astro-ph.IM2020

Applications of Machine Learning Algorithms In Processing Terahertz Spectroscopic Data

Young Min Seo, Paul F. Goldsmith, Volker Tolls +5

We present the data reduction software and the distribution of Level 1 and Level 2 products of the Stratospheric Terahertz Observatory 2 (STO2). STO2, a balloon-borne Terahertz tel…

astro-ph.GA2020★ 27 cited

CMZoom II: Catalog of Compact Submillimeter Dust Continuum Sources in the Milky Way's Central Molecular Zone

H Perry Hatchfield, Cara Battersby, Eric Keto +19

In this paper we present the CMZoom Survey's catalog of compact sources (< 10'', ~0.4pc) within the Central Molecular Zone (CMZ). CMZoom is a Submillimeter Array (SMA) large progra…

astro-ph.GA2020★ 58 cited

CMZoom: Survey Overview and First Data Release

Cara Battersby, Eric Keto, Daniel Walker +19

We present an overview of the CMZoom survey and its first data release. CMZoom is the first blind, high-resolution survey of the Central Molecular Zone (CMZ; the inner 500 pc of th…

astro-ph.GA2020★ 22 cited

A Census of Star Formation in the Outer Galaxy II: The GLIMPSE360 Field

Elaine Winston, Joseph Hora, Volker Tolls

We have conducted a study of star formation in the outer Galaxy from 65\degr265\degr~in the region observed by the GLIMPSE360 program. This {\it Spitzer} warm mission progra…

astro-ph.GA2020★ 8 cited

Distribution of Water Vapor in Molecular Clouds. II

Gary J. Melnick, Volker Tolls, Ronald L. Snell +8

The depth-dependent abundance of both gas-phase and solid-state water within dense, quiescent, molecular clouds is important to both the cloud chemistry and gas cooling. Where wate…

astro-ph.GA2019★ 11 cited

A Census of Star Formation in the Outer Galaxy: the SMOG field

Elaine Winston, Joseph Hora, Robert Gutermuth +1

In this paper we undertake a study of the 21 square degree SMOG field, a Spitzer cryogenic mission Legacy program to map a region of the outer Milky Way towards the Perseus and Out…

astro-ph.GA2019

Increasing the Discovery Space in Astrophysics - A Collation of Six Submitted White Papers

G. Fabbiano, M. Elvis, A. Accomazzi +46

We write in response to the call from the 2020 Decadal Survey to submit white papers illustrating the most pressing scientific questions in astrophysics for the coming decade. We p…

astro-ph.GA2019★ 21 cited

Probing ISM Structure in Trumpler 14 & Carina I Using The Stratospheric Terahertz Observatory 2

Young Min Seo, Paul F. Goldsmith, Chris Walker +26

We present observations of the Trumpler 14/Carina I region carried out using the Stratospheric Terahertz Observatory 2 (STO2). The Trumpler 14/Carina I region is in the west part o…

astro-ph.IM2018

The hunt for Sirius Ab: Comparison of algorithmic sky and PSF estimation performance in deep coronagraphic thermal-IR high contrast imaging

Joseph D. Long, Jared R. Males, Katie M. Morzinski +7

Despite promising astrometric signals, to date there has been no success in direct imaging of a hypothesized third member of the Sirius system. Using the Clio instrument and MagAO…

astro-ph.IM2018★ 47 cited

Science Impacts of the SPHEREx All-Sky Optical to Near-Infrared Spectral Survey II: Report of a Community Workshop on the Scientific Synergies Between the SPHEREx Survey and Other Astronomy Observatories

Olivier Doré, Michael W. Werner, Matthew L. N. Ashby +60

SPHEREx is a proposed NASA MIDEX mission selected for Phase A study. SPHEREx would carry out the first all-sky spectral survey in the near infrared. At the end of its two-year miss…

astro-ph.GA2017★ 133 cited

Molecular Line Emission as a Tool for Galaxy Observations (LEGO). I. HCN as a tracer of moderate gas densities in molecular clouds and galaxies

Jens Kauffmann, Paul F. Goldsmith, Gary Melnick +3

Trends observed in galaxies, such as the Gao \& Solomon relation, suggest a linear relation between the star formation rate and the mass of dense gas available for star formation.…

astro-ph.CO2016★ 41 cited

Science Impacts of the SPHEREx All-Sky Optical to Near-Infrared Spectral Survey: Report of a Community Workshop Examining Extragalactic, Galactic, Stellar and Planetary Science

Olivier Doré, Michael W. Werner, Matt Ashby +65

SPHEREx is a proposed SMEX mission selected for Phase A. SPHEREx will carry out the first all-sky spectral survey and provide for every 6.2" pixel a spectra between 0.75 and 4.18 $…

astro-ph.CO2014★ 192 cited

Cosmology with the SPHEREX All-Sky Spectral Survey

Olivier Doré, Jamie Bock, Matthew Ashby +30

SPHEREx (Spectro-Photometer for the History of the Universe, Epoch of Reionization, and Ices Explorer) ( http://spherex.caltech.edu ) is a proposed all-sky spectroscopic survey sat…

astro-ph.IM2014★ 10 cited

Direct imaging of exoplanets in the habitable zone with adaptive optics

Jared R. Males, Laird M. Close, Olivier Guyon +16

One of the primary goals of exoplanet science is to find and characterize habitable planets, and direct imaging will play a key role in this effort. Though imaging a true Earth ana…

astro-ph.GA2013★ 13 cited

Herschel/HIFI observations of a new interstellar water maser: the 5(32)-4(41) transition at 620.701 GHz

David A. Neufeld, Yuanwei Wu, Alex Kraus +4

Using the Herschel Space Observatory's Heterodyne Instrument for the Far-Infrared (HIFI), we have performed mapping observations of the 620.701 GHz 5(32)-4(41) transition of ortho-…

astro-ph.GA2013★ 7 cited

Herschel/HIFI search for H2-17O and H2-18O in IRC+10216: constraints on models for the origin of water vapor

David A. Neufeld, Volker Tolls, Marcelino Agúndez +7

We report the results of a sensitive search for the minor isotopologues of water, H2-17O and H2-18O, toward the carbon-rich AGB star IRC+10216 (a.k.a. CW Leonis) using the HIFI ins…

astro-ph.GA2012★ 40 cited

Herschel Search for O2 Toward the Orion Bar

Gary J. Melnick, Volker Tolls, Paul F. Goldsmith +15

We report the results of a search for molecular oxygen (O2) toward the Orion Bar, a prominent photodissociation region at the southern edge of the HII region created by the luminou…