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most citedThe Hyper Suprime-Cam SSP Survey: Overview and Survey Design

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astro-ph.GA2023★ 2 cited

PROVABGS: The Probabilistic Stellar Mass Function of the BGS One-Percent Survey

ChangHoon Hahn, Jessica Nicole Aguilar, Shadab Alam +33

We present the probabilistic stellar mass function (pSMF) of galaxies in the DESI Bright Galaxy Survey (BGS), observed during the One-Percent Survey. The One-Percent Survey was one…

astro-ph.CO2023★ 1 cited

Cluster Cosmology Without Cluster Finding

Enia Xhakaj, Alexie Leauthaud, Johannes Lange +5

We propose that observations of super-massive galaxies contain cosmological constraining power similar to conventional cluster cosmology, and we provide promising indications that…

astro-ph.GA2023★ 15 cited

The Merian Survey: Design, Construction, and Characterization of a Filter Set Optimized to Find Dwarf Galaxies and Measure their Dark Matter Halo Properties with Weak Lensing

Yifei Luo, Alexie Leauthaud, Jenny Greene +28

The Merian survey is mapping 850 degrees of the Hyper Suprime-Cam Strategic Survey Program (HSC-SSP) wide layer with two medium-band filters on the 4-meter Victor M. Bla…

astro-ph.CO2023★ 11 cited

Galaxy Clustering in the Mira-Titan Universe I: Emulators for the redshift space galaxy correlation function and galaxy-galaxy lensing

Juliana Kwan, Shun Saito, Alexie Leauthaud +7

We construct accurate emulators for the projected and redshift space galaxy correlation functions and excess surface density as measured by galaxy-galaxy lensing, based on Halo Occ…

astro-ph.GA2022★ 21 cited

Ultra-Diffuse Galaxies as Extreme Star-forming Environments I: Mapping Star Formation in HI-Rich UDGs

Erin Kado-Fong, Jenny E. Greene, Song Huang +1

Ultra-Diffuse Galaxies are both extreme products of galaxy evolution and extreme environments in which to test our understanding of star formation. In this work, we contrast the sp…

astro-ph.GA2022★ 34 cited

The Contribution of In-situ and Ex-situ Star Formation in Early-Type Galaxies: MaNGA versus IllustrisTNG

Carlo Cannarozzo, Alexie Leauthaud, Grecco A. Oyarzún +6

We compare stellar mass surface density, metallicity, age, and line-of-sight velocity dispersion profiles in massive () present-day early-type g…

astro-ph.GA2022★ 16 cited

The Nature of Low Surface Brightness Galaxies in the Hyper Suprime-Cam Survey

Jenny E Greene, Johnny P. Greco, Andy D. Goulding +9

We present the statistical redshift distribution of a large sample of low surface brightness (LSB) galaxies identified in the first 200 deg of the Hyper Suprime-Cam Strategic S…

astro-ph.GA2021

SDSS-IV MaNGA: Cannibalism Caught in the Act -- on the Frequency of Occurrence of Multiple Cores in Brightest Cluster Galaxies

Yun-Hsin Hsu, Yen-Ting Lin, Song Huang +16

Although it is generally accepted that massive galaxies form in a two-phased fashion, beginning with a rapid mass buildup through intense starburst activities, followed by primaril…

astro-ph.GA2021★ 45 cited

Ultra-Diffuse Galaxies in the Perseus Cluster: Comparing Galaxy Properties with Globular Cluster System Richness

Jonah S. Gannon, Duncan A. Forbes, Aaron J. Romanowsky +6

It is clear that within the class of ultra-diffuse galaxies (UDGs) there is an extreme range in the richness of their associated globular cluster (GC) systems. Here, we report the…

astro-ph.GA2021★ 32 cited

Reaching for the Edge I: Probing the Outskirts of Massive Galaxies with HSC, DECaLS, SDSS, and Dragonfly

Jiaxuan Li, Song Huang, Alexie Leauthaud +9

The outer light (stellar halos) of massive galaxies has recently emerged as a possible low scatter tracer of dark matter halo mass. To test the robustness of outer light measuremen…

astro-ph.GA2021★ 87 cited

Hyper Suprime-Cam Subaru Strategic Program: A Mass-Dependent Slope of the Galaxy Size-Mass Relation at

Lalitwadee Kawinwanichakij, John D. Silverman, Xuheng Ding +11

We present the galaxy size-mass () distributions using a stellar-mass complete sample of million galaxies, covering deg, with $\log(M_{\ast}…

astro-ph.GA2021★ 22 cited

The Outer Stellar Mass of Massive Galaxies: A Simple Tracer of Halo Mass with Scatter Comparable to Richness and Reduced Projection Effects

Song Huang, Alexie Leauthaud, Christopher Bradshaw +7

Using the weak gravitational lensing data from the Hyper Suprime-Cam Subaru Strategic Program (HSC survey), we study the potential of different stellar mass estimates in tracing ha…

astro-ph.GA2021★ 20 cited

The In-situ Origins of Dwarf Stellar Outskirts in FIRE-2

Erin Kado-Fong, Robyn E. Sanderson, Jenny E. Greene +11

Extended, old, and round stellar halos appear to be ubiquitous around high-mass dwarf galaxies () in the observed universe. However, it is unlike…

astro-ph.GA2021★ 14 cited

Brightest Cluster Galaxies Are Statistically Special From to

Roohi Dalal, Michael A. Strauss, Tomomi Sunayama +5

We study Brightest Cluster Galaxies (BCGs) in galaxy clusters from the Hyper Suprime-Cam (HSC) Subaru Strategic Program. The sample is selected over an area of 830 $\tex…

astro-ph.GA2021★ 34 cited

The Intrinsic Shapes of Low Surface Brightness Galaxies: a Discriminant of LSBG Formation Mechanisms

Erin Kado-Fong, Mihai Petrescu, Majid Mohammad +8

We use the low surface brightness galaxy (LSBG) samples created from the Hyper Suprime-Cam Subaru Strategic Program (HSC-SSP, 781 galaxies), the Dark Energy Survey (DES, 20977 gala…

astro-ph.GA2021★ 1 cited

A Search for Wandering Black Holes in the Milky Way with Gaia and DECaLS

Jenny E. Greene, Lachlan Lancaster, Yuan-Sen Ting +6

We present a search for "hyper-compact" star clusters in the Milky Way using a combination of Gaia and the Dark Energy Camera Legacy Survey (DECaLS). Such putative clusters, with s…

astro-ph.GA2021★ 37 cited

Anomaly detection in Hyper Suprime-Cam galaxy images with generative adversarial networks

Kate Storey-Fisher, Marc Huertas-Company, Nesar Ramachandra +5

The problem of anomaly detection in astronomical surveys is becoming increasingly important as data sets grow in size. We present the results of an unsupervised anomaly detection m…

astro-ph.GA2020★ 3 cited

Anomaly Detection in Astronomical Images with Generative Adversarial Networks

Kate Storey-Fisher, Marc Huertas-Company, Nesar Ramachandra +4

We present an anomaly detection method using Wasserstein generative adversarial networks (WGANs) on optical galaxy images from the wide-field survey conducted with the Hyper Suprim…

astro-ph.GA2020★ 22 cited

Stellar and Weak Lensing Profiles of Massive Galaxies in the Hyper-Suprime Cam Survey and in Hydrodynamic Simulations

Felipe Ardila, Song Huang, Alexie Leauthaud +11

We perform a consistent comparison of the mass and mass profiles of massive () central galaxies at z~0.4 from deep Hyper Suprime-Cam (HSC) observation…

astro-ph.GA2020★ 6 cited

SDSS-IV MaNGA: The Nature of an Off-galaxy H Blob -- A Multi-wavelength View of Offset Cooling in a Merging Galaxy Group

Hsi-An Pan, Lihwai Lin, Bau-Ching Hsieh +20

Galaxies in dense environments, such as groups and clusters, experience various processes by which galaxies gain and lose gas. Using data from the SDSS-IV MaNGA survey, we previous…

astro-ph.GA2020★ 28 cited

Hyper Suprime-Cam Low Surface Brightness Galaxies II: A Hubble Space Telescope Study of the Globular Cluster Systems of Ultra-Diffuse Galaxies in Groups

Jean J. Somalwar, Jenny E. Greene, Johnny P. Greco +4

We increase the sample of ultra diffuse galaxies (UDGs) in lower density environments with characterized globular cluster (GC) populations using new Hubble Space Telescope observat…

astro-ph.GA2020★ 1 cited

Tracing the Intrinsic Shapes of Dwarf Galaxies out to Four Effective Radii: Clues to Low-Mass Stellar Halo Formation

Erin Kado-Fong, Jenny E. Greene, Song Huang +3

Though smooth, extended spheroidal stellar outskirts have long been observed around nearby dwarf galaxies, it is unclear whether dwarfs generically host an extended stellar halo. W…

astro-ph.GA2020★ 1 cited

The merger-driven evolution of massive early-type galaxies

Carlo Cannarozzo, Carlo Nipoti, Alessandro Sonnenfeld +4

The evolution of the structural and kinematic properties of early-type galaxies (ETGs), their scaling relations, as well as their stellar metallicity and age contain precious infor…

astro-ph.GA2019★ 44 cited

How Accurately Can We Detect the Splashback Radius of Dark Matter Halos and its Correlation With Accretion Rate?

Enia Xhakaj, Benedikt Diemer, Alexie Leauthaud +5

The splashback radius () of dark matter halos has recently been detected using weak gravitational lensing and cross-correlations with galaxies. However, different metho…