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most citedThe GALAH Survey: Scientific Motivation

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astro-ph.GA2025★ 5 cited

The GALAH survey: Improving chemical abundances using star clusters

Janez Kos, Sven Buder, Kevin L. Beeson +18

Large spectroscopic surveys aim to consistently compute stellar parameters of very diverse stars while minimizing systematic errors. We explore the use of stellar clusters as bench…

astro-ph.GA2024★ 20 cited

The GALAH survey: Tracing the Milky Way's formation and evolution through RR Lyrae stars

Valentina D'Orazi, Nicholas Storm, Andrew R. Casey +39

Stellar mergers and accretion events have been crucial in shaping the evolution of the Milky Way (MW). These events have been dynamically identified and chemically characterised us…

astro-ph.GA2023★ 10 cited

Tidal debris from Omega Centauri discovered with unsupervised machine learning

Kris Youakim, Karin Lind, Iryna Kushniruk

The gravitational interactions between the Milky Way and in-falling satellites offer a wealth of information about the formation and evolution of our Galaxy. In this paper, we expl…

astro-ph.SR2023★ 50 cited

The Gaia-ESO Survey: homogenisation of stellar parameters and elemental abundances

A. Hourihane, P. Francois, C. C. Worley +59

The Gaia-ESO Survey is a public spectroscopic survey that has targeted stars covering all major components of the Milky Way from the end of 2011 to 2018, delivering i…

astro-ph.SR2023★ 18 cited

Raising the observed metallicity floor with a 3D non-LTE analysis of SDSS J102915.14+172927.9

C. Lagae, A. M. Amarsi, L. F. Rodríguez Díaz +4

Context: The first stars produced the first heavy elements and set the stage for the formation of the first galaxies. Accurate chemical abundances of ultra metal-poor stars ([Fe/H]…

astro-ph.IM2023★ 6 cited

Automatic line selection for abundance determination in large stellar spectroscopic surveys

Georges Kordopatis, Vanessa Hill, Karin Lind

*Context: The optimisation of new multiplex spectrographs (resolution, wavelength range,...), their associated surveys (choice of setup), or their parameterisation pipelines requir…

astro-ph.IM2022★ 211 cited

The wide-field, multiplexed, spectroscopic facility WEAVE: Survey design, overview, and simulated implementation

Shoko Jin, Scott C. Trager, Gavin B. Dalton +212

WEAVE, the new wide-field, massively multiplexed spectroscopic survey facility for the William Herschel Telescope, will see first light in late 2022. WEAVE comprises a new 2-degree…

astro-ph.SR2022★ 22 cited

The Gaia-ESO Survey: Lithium measurements and new curves of growth

E. Franciosini, S. Randich, P. de Laverny +37

The Gaia-ESO Survey (GES) is a large public spectroscopic survey that was carried out using the multi-object FLAMES spectrograph at the Very Large Telescope. The survey provides ac…

astro-ph.SR2022★ 19 cited

Titanium abundances in late-type stars I. 1D non-local thermodynamic equilibrium modelling in benchmark dwarfs and giants

J. W. E. Mallinson, K. Lind, A. M. Amarsi +4

The titanium abundances of late-type stars are important tracers of Galactic formation history. However, abundances inferred from Ti I and Ti II lines can be in stark disagreement…

astro-ph.SR2022★ 20 cited

The Active Chromospheres of Lithium-Rich Red Giant Stars

Christopher Sneden, Melike Afsar, Zeynep Bozkurt +17

We have gathered near-infrared -band high resolution spectra of nearly 300 field red giant stars with known lithium abundances in order to survey their \species{He}{i} 1083…

astro-ph.SR2022★ 133 cited

The Gaia-ESO Public Spectroscopic Survey: Motivation, implementation, GIRAFFE data processing, analysis, and final data products

G. Gilmore, S. Randich, C. C. Worley +165

The Gaia-ESO Public Spectroscopic Survey is an ambitious project designed to obtain astrophysical parameters and elemental abundances for 100,000 stars, including large representat…

astro-ph.GA2022★ 8 cited

A method for identifying metal-poor stars with Gaia BP/RP spectra

Theodora Xylakis-Dornbusch, Norbert Christlieb, Karin Lind +1

Context. The study of the oldest and most metal-poor stars in our Galaxy promotes our understanding of the Galactic chemical evolution and the beginning of Galaxy and star formatio…

astro-ph.GA2022★ 188 cited

The Gaia-ESO Public Spectroscopic Survey: Implementation, data products, open cluster survey, science, and legacy

S. Randich, G. Gilmore, L. Magrini +161

In the last 15 years different ground-based spectroscopic surveys have been started (and completed) with the general aim of delivering stellar parameters and elemental abundances f…

astro-ph.GA2022

The GALAH Survey: A New Sample of Extremely Metal-Poor Stars Using A Machine Learning Classification Algorithm

Arvind C. N. Hughes, Lee R. Spitler, Daniel B. Zucker +21

Extremely Metal-Poor (EMP) stars provide a valuable probe of early chemical enrichment in the Milky Way. Here we leverage a large sample of high-resolution stellar sp…

astro-ph.EP2021★ 6 cited

The GALAH Survey: Improving our understanding of confirmed and candidate planetary systems with large stellar surveys

Jake T. Clark, Duncan J. Wright, Robert A. Wittenmyer +24

Pioneering photometric, astrometric, and spectroscopic surveys are helping exoplanetary scientists better constrain the fundamental properties of stars within our galaxy, and the p…

astro-ph.SR2021★ 20 cited

Non-detection of Li in Spite plateau stars with ESPRESSO

E. X. Wang, T. Nordlander, M. Asplund +3

The detection of Li in Spite plateau stars contradicts the standard Big Bang nucleosynthesis prediction, known as the second cosmological lithium problem. We measure the isotop…

astro-ph.GA2021★ 93 cited

The GALAH Survey: Chemical tagging and chrono-chemodynamics of accreted halo stars with GALAH+ DR3 and eDR3

Sven Buder, Karin Lind, Melissa K. Ness +27

Since the advent of astrometry, it is possible to identify massive accreted systems within the Galaxy through their unique dynamical signatures. One such system, -Saus…

astro-ph.GA2021★ 38 cited

High resolution spectroscopic follow-up of the most metal-poor candidates from SkyMapper DR1.1

D. Yong, G. S. Da Costa, M. S. Bessell +13

We present chemical abundances for 21 elements (from Li to Eu) in 150 metal-poor Galactic stars spanning 4.1 [Fe/H] 2.1. The targets were selected from the SkyMapper…

astro-ph.SR2021★ 80 cited

R-Process elements from magnetorotational hypernovae

D. Yong, C. Kobayashi, G. S. Da Costa +11

Neutron-star mergers were recently confirmed as sites of rapid-neutron-capture (r-process) nucleosynthesis. However, in Galactic chemical evolution models, neutron-star mergers alo…

astro-ph.GA2021★ 11 cited

The GALAH Survey: No chemical evidence of an extragalactic origin for the Nyx stream

Daniel B. Zucker, Jeffrey D. Simpson, Sarah L. Martell +20

The results from the ESA Gaia astrometric mission and deep photometric surveys have revolutionized our knowledge of the Milky Way. There are many ongoing efforts to search these da…

astro-ph.SR2020★ 10 cited

Chemical Compositions of Red Giant Stars from Habitable Zone Planet Finder Spectroscopy

Christopher Sneden, Melike Afsar, Zeynep Bozkurt +15

We have used the Habitable Zone Planet Finder (HPF) to gather high resolution, high signal-to-noise near-infrared spectra of 13 field red horizontal-branch (RHB) stars, one open-cl…

astro-ph.SR2020★ 17 cited

The GALAH+ Survey: A New Library of Observed Stellar Spectra Improves Radial Velocities and Hints at Motions within M67

Tomaž Zwitter, Janez Kos, Sven Buder +25

GALAH+ is a magnitude-limited survey of high resolution stellar spectra obtained by the HERMES spectrograph at the Australian Astronomical Observatory. Its third data release provi…

astro-ph.GA2020★ 9 cited

The GALAH Survey: Dependence of elemental abundances on age and metallicity for stars in the Galactic disc

Sanjib Sharma, Michael R. Hayden, Joss Bland-Hawthorn +24

Using data from the GALAH survey, we explore the dependence of elemental abundances on stellar age and metallicity among Galactic disc stars. We find that the abundance of most ele…

astro-ph.GA2020★ 38 cited

The GALAH Survey: Chemical Clocks

Michael R. Hayden, Sanjib Sharma, Joss Bland-Hawthorn +27

Previous studies have found that the elemental abundances of a star correlate directly with its age and metallicity. Using this knowledge, we derive ages for a sample of 250,000 st…