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most citedLAMOST Experiment for Galactic Understanding and Exploration (LEGUE) The survey science plan

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128 papers

astro-ph.GA2026

A -like metallicity profile in the disk of the Sagittarius dwarf galaxy

Zixi Guo, Xiang-Xiang Xue, Jiang Chang +12

Unveiling the properties of the progenitors that formed the tidal structures of the Milky Way (MW) is essential for exploring the MW's assembly history. Such studies further afford…

astro-ph.SR2025

Stellar Parameters of BOSS M dwarfs in SDSS-V DR19

Dan Qiu, Jennifer A. Johnson, Chao Liu +15

We utilized the Stellar LAbel Machine (SLAM), a data-driven model based on Support Vector Regression, to derive stellar parameters ([Fe/H], , and ) for SDSS-V…

astro-ph.GA2025

Distance estimation of the high-velocity cloud Anti-Center Shell

Yu-Ting Wang, Chao Liu, Zhi-Yu Zhang

High-velocity clouds (HVCs) are interstellar gas clouds whose velocities are incompatible with Galactic rotation. Since the first discovery of HVCs in 1963, their origins have been…

astro-ph.GA2023★ 11 cited

The first comprehensive Milky Way stellar mock catalogue for the Chinese Space Station Telescope Survey Camera

Yang Chen, Xiaoting Fu, Chao Liu +9

The Chinese Space Station Telescope (CSST) is a cutting-edge two-meter astronomical space telescope currently under construction. Its primary Survey Camera (SC) is designed to cond…

astro-ph.GA2023★ 10 cited

A Catalog of Distance Determinations for the LAMOST DR8 K Giants in the Galactic Halo

Lan Zhang, Xiang-Xiang Xue, Chengqun Yang +4

We present a catalog of distances for 19544 K giants drawn from LAMOST DR8. Most of them are located in the halo of the Milky Way up to ~120~kpc. There are 15% K giants without SDS…

astro-ph.GA2023★ 75 cited

Stellar Initial Mass Function Varies with Metallicities and Time

Jiadong Li, Chao Liu, Zhi-Yu Zhang +4

Most structural and evolutionary properties of galaxies strongly rely on the stellar initial mass function (IMF), namely the distribution of the stellar mass formed in each episode…

astro-ph.SR2022★ 4 cited

LAMOST medium-resolution spectroscopic survey of binarity and exotic star (LAMOST-MRS-B): Observation strategy and target selection

Jiao Li, Jiang-Dan Li, Yan-Jun Guo +15

LAMOST-MRS-B is one of the sub-surveys of LAMOST medium-resolution (R~7500) spectroscopic survey. It aims at studying the statistical properties (e.g., binary fraction, orbital per…

astro-ph.SR2022★ 20 cited

The Eclipsing Binaries from the LAMOST Medium-resolution Survey.III. A High-precision Empirical Stellar Mass Library

Jianping Xiong, Chao Liu, Jiao Li +6

High-precision stellar mass and radius measured directly from binaries can effectively calibrate the stellar models. However, such a database containing full spectral types and lar…

astro-ph.GA2022★ 15 cited

Constructing the Milky Way Stellar Halo in the Galactic Center by Direct Orbit Integration

Chengqun Yang, Ling Zhu, Behzad Tahmasebzadeh +2

The halo stars on highly radial orbits should inevitably pass the center regions of the Milky Way. Under the assumption that the stellar halo is in dynamical equilibrium and axisym…

astro-ph.GA2022★ 20 cited

Classifying globular clusters and applying them to estimate the mass of the Milky Way

GuangChen Sun, Yougang Wang, Chao Liu +3

We combine the kinematics of 159 globular clusters (GCs) provided by the Gaia Early Data Release 3 (EDR3) with other observational data to classify the GCs, and to estimate the mas…

astro-ph.GA2022★ 15 cited

The North/South Asymmetry of the Galaxy: Possible Connection to the Vertical Phase Space Snail

Rui Guo, Juntai Shen, Zhao-yu Li +2

The Galaxy is found to be in disequilibrium based on recent findings of the North/South (N/S) asymmetry and the phase mixing signatures, such as a phase spiral (snail) structure in…

astro-ph.GA2022★ 42 cited

Milky Way Mass with K Giants and BHB Stars Using LAMOST, SDSS/SEGUE, and Gaia: 3D Spherical Jeans Equation and Tracer Mass Estimator

Sarah A. Bird, Xiang-Xiang Xue, Chao Liu +8

We measure the enclosed Milky Way mass profile to Galactocentric distances of and kpc using the smooth, diffuse stellar halo samples of Bird et al. The samples ar…

astro-ph.GA2022★ 11 cited

Is the core-cusp problem a matter of perspective: Jeans Anisotropic Modeling against numerical simulations

Wenting Wang, Ling Zhu, Zhaozhou Li +14

Mock member stars for 28 dwarf galaxies are constructed from the cosmological Auriga simulation, which reflect the dynamical status of realistic stellar tracers. The axis-symmetric…

astro-ph.SR2022★ 12 cited

Mass-Ratio Distribution of Binaries From the LAMOST-MRS Survey

Jiangdan Li, Jiao Li, Chao Liu +7

Binary evolution leads to the formation of important objects crucial to the development of astrophysics, but the statistical properties of binary populations are still poorly under…

astro-ph.GA2022★ 8 cited

Searching Extra-tidal Features around the Globular Cluster Whiting 1

Jundan Nie, Hao Tian, Jing Li +14

Whiting 1 is a faint and young globular cluster in the halo of the Milky Way, and was suggested to have originated in the Sagittarius spherical dwarf galaxy (Sgr dSph). In this pap…

astro-ph.EP2022★ 33 cited

Planets Across Space and Time (PAST). III. Morphology of the Planetary Radius Valley as a Function of Stellar Age and Metallicity in the Galactic Context Revealed by the LAMOST-Gaia-Kepler Sample

Di-Chang Chen, Ji Wei Xie, Ji-Lin. Zhou +7

The radius valley, a dip in the radius distribution of exoplanets at ~1.9 Earth radii separates compact rocky Super-Earths and Sub-Neptunes with lower density. Various hypotheses h…

astro-ph.SR2022★ 23 cited

Identification of new classical Be stars from the LAMOST MRS survey

Luqian Wang, Jiao Li, You Wu +6

Be stars are B-type main-sequence stars that display broad Balmer emission lines in their spectra. Identification of Be population is essential to further examine the formation and…

astro-ph.SR2021★ 44 cited

The Spectroscopic Binaries from LAMOST Medium-Resolution Survey (MRS). I. Searching for Double-lined Spectroscopic Binaries (SB2s) with Convolutional Neural Network

Bo Zhang, Ying-Jie Jing, Fan Yang +13

We developed a convolutional neural network (CNN) model to distinguish the double-lined spectroscopic binaries (SB2s) from others based on single exposure medium-resolution spectra…

astro-ph.SR2021★ 24 cited

The Early-type Stars from LAMOST survey: Atmospheric parameters

YanJun Guo, Bo Zhang, Chao Liu +7

Massive stars play key roles in many astrophysical processes. Deriving atmospheric parameters of massive stars is important to understand their physical properties and thus are key…

astro-ph.SR2021★ 31 cited

LAMOST Time-Domain Survey: First Results of four 2 plates

Song Wang, Haotong Zhang, Zhongrui Bai +23

From Oct. 2019 to Apr. 2020, LAMOST performs a time-domain spectroscopic survey of four 2 plates with both low- and med-resolution observations. The low-resolution spectroscopic…

astro-ph.SR2021★ 25 cited

The Binarity of Early-type Stars from LAMOST Medium-resolution Spectroscopic Survey

Yanjun Guo, Jiao Li, Jianping Xiong +8

Massive binaries play significant roles in many fields. Identification of massive stars, particularly massive binaries, is of great importance. In this paper, by adopting the techn…

astro-ph.SR2021★ 11 cited

Binary fraction of O and B-type stars from LAMOST data

Feng Luo, Yong-Heng Zhao, Jiao Li +2

Binary stars plays important role in the evolution of stellar populations . The intrinsic binary fraction () of O and B-type (OB) stars in LAMOST DR5 was investigated in t…

astro-ph.SR2021★ 2 cited

The Relative Calibration of Radial Velocity for LAMOST Medium Resolution Stellar Spectra

Jianping Xiong, Bo Zhang, Chao Liu +3

The Large Sky Area Multi-Object Fiber Spectroscopic Telescope (LAMOST) started median-resolution spectroscopic (MRS, R7500) survey since October 2018. The main scientific goa…

astro-ph.SR2021★ 17 cited

Exploring the stellar rotation of early-type stars in the LAMOST Medium-Resolution Survey. I. Catalog

Weijia Sun, Xiao-Wei Duan, Licai Deng +3

We derive stellar parameters and abundances (`stellar labels') of 40,034 late-B and A-type main-sequence stars extracted from the Large Sky Area Multi-Object Fiber Spectroscopic Te…