16 papers
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…
The Keck/DEIMOS Stellar Archive: I. Uniform Velocities and Metallicities for 78 Milky Way Dwarf Galaxies and Globular Clusters
Marla Geha, Debora Pelliccia, J. Xavier Prochaska +5
We present a homogeneous spectroscopic dataset of 22,339 stars in 78 Milky Way dwarf galaxy satellites and globular clusters. All data were taken with the Keck II telescope and Dee…
Probing the IMF in the Early Universe -- Direct measurements in the Boötes I UFD with JWST/NIRCam
Keyi Ding, Mario Gennaro, Roberto J. Avila +20
The dependence of the stellar initial mass function (IMF) on star-formation environment, particularly at low metallicities and high redshifts, remains poorly constrained. Ultra-fai…
The Metallicity Distribution of the Ultra-Faint Dwarf Galaxy Segue 1
Daisy Bissonette, Alexander P. Ji, Joshua D. Simon +6
Ultra-faint dwarf galaxies (UFDs, ) offer unique insights into early chemical evolution in low-mass systems. However, interpreting their metallicity distributio…
Willman 1 Revisited: The Kinematics, Chemistry, and Orbital Properties of a Potentially-Disrupting Dwarf Galaxy
Camille Chiu, Marla Geha, William Cerny +4
The ultra-faint Milky Way satellite Willman 1 (W1; ; pc) was the first stellar over-density found via resolved stars in the Sloan Digital Sky Surv…
A Path to an All-Sky Survey with Roman
Jiwon Jesse Han, Anirudh Chiti, Kai-Feng Chen +93
A deep, space-based, all-sky near-infrared survey carried out with the Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope would constitute a foundational astronomical infrastructure for decades to…