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19992023
most citedThe Emergence of the Thick Disk in a CDM Universe

404 citations · 5.1k across the 113 of their papers we have counts for

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113 papers

astro-ph.IM2023★ 1 cited

JASMINE: Near-Infrared Astrometry and Time Series Photometry Science

Daisuke Kawata, Hajime Kawahara, Naoteru Gouda +86

Japan Astrometry Satellite Mission for INfrared Exploration (JASMINE) is a planned M-class science space mission by the Institute of Space and Astronautical Science, the Japan Aero…

astro-ph.IM2023

Roman CCS White Paper: Characterizing the Galactic population of isolated black holes

Casey Y. Lam, Natasha Abrams, Jeff Andrews +34

Although there are estimated to be 100 million isolated black holes (BHs) in the Milky Way, only one has been found so far, resulting in significant uncertainty about their propert…

astro-ph.GA2022★ 54 cited

Chasing the impact of the Gaia-Sausage-Enceladus merger on the formation of the Milky Way thick disc

Ioana Ciucă, Daisuke Kawata, Yuan-Sen Ting +8

We employ our Bayesian Machine Learning framework BINGO (Bayesian INference for Galactic archaeOlogy) to obtain high-quality stellar age estimates for 68,360 red giant and red clum…

astro-ph.GA2022★ 26 cited

Mira variables in the Milky Way's nuclear stellar disc: discovery and classification

Jason L. Sanders, Noriyuki Matsunaga, Daisuke Kawata +3

The properties of the Milky Way's nuclear stellar disc give crucial information on the epoch of bar formation. Mira variables are promising bright candidates to study the nuclear s…

astro-ph.GA2021★ 5 cited

Constraining Ultra Light Dark Matter with the Galactic Nuclear Star Cluster

Firat Toguz, Daisuke Kawata, George Seabroke +1

We use the Milky Way's nuclear star cluster (NSC) to test the existence of a dark matter 'soliton core', as predicted in ultra-light dark matter (ULDM) models. Since the soliton co…

astro-ph.GA2021★ 6 cited

Constraints on the dust extinction law of the Galaxy with Swift/UVOT, Gaia and 2MASS

I. Ferreras, M. Tress, G. Bruzual +6

We explore variations of the dust extinction law of the Milky Way by selecting stars from the Swift/UVOT Serendipitous Source Catalogue, cross-matched with Gaia DR2 and 2MASS to pr…