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20072026
most citedA MaxBCG Catalog of 13,823 Galaxy Clusters from the Sloan Digital Sky Survey

582 citations · 1.6k across the 31 of their papers we have counts for

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33 papers

astro-ph.GA2026

Population III Host Candidates at : Strong He II and Absent UV Metal Lines in HETDEX Ly Emitters

Mahan Mirza Khanlari, Dustin Davis, Karl Gebhardt +15

Population III (Pop III) stars are expected to produce extremely hard ionizing spectra, yet direct evidence for their signature--strong narrow He II emission with wea…

astro-ph.HE2026

Spectroscopic Analysis of Fermi-detected Blazars using SDSS-V

Mohammed Iddrisu Nlowie, James Aird, Eli Kasai +17

The automated spectroscopic pipeline of the Sloan Digital Sky Survey (SDSS) systematically assigns Galactic star, galaxy, or typical quasar classifications to jet-dominated blazars…

astro-ph.GA2026

HETDEX: Star Formation Stochasticity Diagram of Lyman Alpha Emitting Galaxies at Cosmic Noon Confirms Three Archetypes

Nicole Firestone, Eric Gawiser, Kartheik G. Iyer +14

In this work, we aim to measure the star formation stochasticity of Lyman Alpha Emitting Galaxies (LAEs) at Cosmic Noon. We identify 270 LAEs from the HETDEX Survey in the COSMOS f…

astro-ph.GA2026

Radio-detected Lya emitters at 1.88 < z < 3.52: AGN fraction and Lya emission

Sai Zhai, Huub Röttgering, Anniek J. Gloudemans +10

Lya emitters (LAEs) are galaxies with strong Lya emission, tracing early star formation and ionizing radiation. Their connection to active galactic nuclei (AGNs) is key to understa…

astro-ph.CO2026

HETDEX [OII] galaxies at : Volume-limited samples and their power spectra

Jeongin Moon, Eiichiro Komatsu, Robin Ciardullo +15

The catalog from the Hobby-Eberly Telescope Dark Energy Experiment (HETDEX) Public Data Release 1 (PDR1) contains half a million emission-line-selected [OII] galaxies spread across…

astro-ph.GA2026

There is no single density: star-forming regions and galaxies hold more dense ionized gas than long assumed

J. Eduardo Méndez-Delgado, Christophe Morisset, William J. Henney +29

Ionized gas fills star-forming regions and galaxies, and nearly everything we know about its temperature, pressure, mass, and composition is inferred from its emission lines [1-3].…

astro-ph.GA2026★ 1 cited

A New Member of the Fast and Furious Family: A Relativistic and Time-Variable UV Outflow in a Luminous Quasar

Lucas M. Seaton, Patrick B. Hall, Liliana Flores +20

We report the fastest quasar outflow first detected in the ultraviolet, via variable C IV and Si IV absorption at outflow velocities km s to at least km…

astro-ph.GA2026★ 1 cited

HETDEX Public Data Release 1: Source Catalog 2 and Data Cubes from ~90 sq deg of Integral-Field Optical Spectroscopy

Erin Mentuch Cooper, Karl Gebhardt, Dustin Davis +36

The Hobby-Eberly Telescope Dark Energy Experiment (HETDEX) is a wide-field, integral-field spectroscopic survey designed to map the large-scale distribution of Lyman-alpha emitting…

astro-ph.GA2026

Enhancing Lyα Emitter Identification in HETDEX with a Convolutional Neural Network

Shiro Mukae, Erin Mentuch Cooper, Karl Gebhardt +9

We present a deep learning framework to enhance the identification of Ly emitters (LAEs) in the Hobby-Eberly Telescope Dark Energy Experiment (HETDEX), an untargeted spectroscop…

astro-ph.GA2026

Emission-line Variable Active Galactic Nuclei at Cosmic Noon from HETDEX

Chenxu Liu, Fanchuan Kong, Erin Mentuch Cooper +11

We present the first statistical census of emission-line variable active galactic nuclei (EVA) at cosmic noon by combining untargeted and deep HETDEX spectroscopy with multi-epoch…

astro-ph.GA2026★ 3 cited

Lyα Nebulae in HETDEX: The Largest Statistical Census Bridging Lyα Halos and Blobs across Cosmic Noon

Erin Mentuch Cooper, Karl Gebhardt, Dustin Davis +20

The Hobby-Eberly Dark Energy Experiment (HETDEX) is an untargeted ~540 deg^2 spectroscopic survey of Lyα emission in the 1.9 < z < 3.5 Universe. In surface brightness, this survey…

astro-ph.CO2025

Golden and Silver Dark Sirens for precise H0 measurement with HETDEX

Yixuan Dang, Ish Gupta, Robin Ciardullo +12

Gravitational waves (GWs) from compact binary coalescences are standard sirens that provide a direct measure of the source's luminosity distance, enabling an independent measuremen…

astro-ph.CO2025★ 2 cited

Lyα Intensity Mapping in HETDEX: Galaxy-Lyα Intensity Cross-Power Spectrum

Maja Lujan Niemeyer, Eiichiro Komatsu, José Luis Bernal +18

We present a measurement of the Lyman- (Ly) intensity mapping power spectrum from the Hobby-Eberly Telescope Dark Energy Experiment (HETDEX). We measure the cross-power spect…

astro-ph.SR2025★ 2 cited

A nearly pristine star from the Large Magellanic Cloud

Alexander P. Ji, Vedant Chandra, Selenna Mejias-Torres +28

The first stars formed out of pristine gas, causing them to be so massive that none are expected to have survived until today. If their direct descendants were sufficiently low-mas…

astro-ph.GA2025★ 4 cited

Using Lyman Alpha Absorption to Measure the Intensity and Variability of Ultraviolet Background Light

Laurel H. Weiss, Karl Gebhardt, Dustin Davis +11

We present measurements of ultraviolet background light using Lya absorption from galaxies at in the Hobby-Eberly Telescope Dark Energy Experiment (HETDEX…

astro-ph.CO2025★ 3 cited

DESI Spectroscopy of HETDEX Emission-line Candidates I: Line Discrimination Validation

Martin Landriau, Erin Mentuch Cooper, Dustin Davis +50

The Hobby-Eberly Dark Energy Experiment (HETDEX) is an untargeted spectroscopic galaxy survey that uses Ly emitting galaxies (LAEs) as tracers of 1.9 < z < 3.5 large scale struc…

astro-ph.GA2024

The Hobby-Eberly Telescope Dark Energy Experiment Survey (HETDEX) Active Galactic Nuclei Catalog: the Fourth Data Release

Chenxu Liu, Karl Gebhardt, Erin Mentuch Cooper +7

We present the Active Galactic Nuclei (AGN) catalog from the fourth data release (HDR4) of the Hobby-Eberly Telescope Dark Energy Experiment Survey (HETDEX). HETDEX is an untargete…

astro-ph.GA2024

HETDEX-LOFAR Spectroscopic Redshift Catalog

Maya H. Debski, Gregory R. Zeimann, Gary J. Hill +8

We combine the power of blind integral field spectroscopy from the Hobby-Eberly Telescope (HET) Dark Energy Experiment (HETDEX) with sources detected by the Low Frequency Array (LO…

astro-ph.IM2024★ 3 cited

Participatory Science and Machine Learning Applied to Millions of Sources in the Hobby-Eberly Telescope Dark Energy Experiment

Lindsay R. House, Karl Gebhardt, Keely Finkelstein +4

We are merging a large participatory science effort with machine learning to enhance the Hobby-Eberly Telescope Dark Energy Experiment (HETDEX). Our overall goal is to remove false…

astro-ph.GA2024

The SDSS-V Black Hole Mapper Reverberation Mapping Project: Multi-Line Dynamical Modeling of a Highly Variable Active Galactic Nucleus with Decade-long Light Curves

Zachary Stone, Yue Shen, Scott F. Anderson +15

We present dynamical modeling of the broad-line region (BLR) for the highly variable AGN SDSS J141041.25+531849.0 () using photometric and spectroscopic monitoring data…

astro-ph.IM2024★ 7 cited

The Hobby-Eberly Telescope VIRUS Parallel Survey (HETVIPS)

Gregory R. Zeimann, Maya H. Debski, Donald P. Schneider +6

The Hobby-Eberly Telescope (HET) VIRUS Parallel Survey (HETVIPS) is a blind spectroscopic program that sparsely covers approximately two-thirds of the celestial sphere and consists…

astro-ph.GA2024

Absorption Troughs of Lyman Alpha Emitters in HETDEX

Laurel H. Weiss, Dustin Davis, Karl Gebhardt +21

The Hobby-Eberly Telescope Dark Energy Experiment (HETDEX) is designed to detect and measure the redshifts of more than one million Ly emitting galaxies (LAEs) between $1.88 < z…

astro-ph.GA2019★ 70 cited

The Sloan Digital Sky Survey Reverberation Mapping Project: The H Radius-Luminosity Relation

Gloria Fonseca Alvarez, Jonathan R. Trump, Yasaman Homayouni +8

Results from a few decades of reverberation mapping (RM) studies have revealed a correlation between the radius of the broad-line emitting region (BLR) and the continuum luminosity…

astro-ph.GA2019★ 31 cited

The Sloan Digital Sky Survey Reverberation Mapping Project: Improving Lag Detection with an Extended Multi-Year Baseline

Yue Shen, C. J. Grier, Keith Horne +32

We investigate the effects of extended multi-year light curves (9-year photometry and 5-year spectroscopy) on the detection of time lags between the continuum variability and broad…