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20132026
most citedThe Fourteenth Data Release of the Sloan Digital Sky Survey: First Spectroscopic Data from the extended Baryon Oscillation Spectroscopic Survey and from the second phase of the Apache Point Observatory Galactic Evolution Experiment

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118 papers

astro-ph.SR2026

A Comprehensive Study of the Magnetic White Dwarfs in DESI DR1

Adam Moss, Pierre Bergeron, Mukremin Kilic +2

As the end point of stellar evolution for most stars, white dwarfs offer powerful insight into stellar magnetism. Multiple formation channels are required to explain the observed p…

astro-ph.GA2026

The Twentieth Data Release of the Sloan Digital Sky Survey: First All-Sky BOSS Spectra, eROSITA-SDSS-V Mapper Coordinated Observations, and a Preview of the Local Volume Mapper

SDSS Collaboration, Mojgan Aghakhanloo, David Aguilar +273

This paper presents the twentieth data release (DR20) from the Sloan Digital Sky Survey, the third data release of its fifth generation (SDSS-V). SDSS-V is a panoptic spectroscopy…

astro-ph.SR2026

The Open Cluster Chemical Abundances and Mapping Survey: IX. Measuring the Effects of Stellar Diffusion in the Open Clusters NGC 752 and Ruprecht 147 using APOGEE

Diogo Souto, Taylor Spoo, Peter M. Frinchaboy +4

A growing understanding of stellar processes that alter surface chemical abundances over time has opened new avenues for using these changes as probes of stellar properties. On the…

astro-ph.SR2026

Evaluating the Sensitivity of the Age Inferences of Red Giant Stars to Machine Learning Methodology

Jamie Tayar, Carli Mankowski, Lara Tunca +22

Stellar ages are vital for understanding the formation of our galaxy, but they are among the most challenging parameters to measure. Many authors address this by using machine lear…

astro-ph.SR2026

TESS Asteroseismology of Red Giants in the Old Metal-Rich Open Clusters NGC 188 & NGC 6791

Madeline Howell, Jennifer A. Johnson, Marc H. Pinsonneault +5

Open clusters are fundamental laboratories for investigating stellar and Galactic evolution, and serve as important benchmarks for asteroseismic analyses. Using a boutique method t…

cs.CV2026

ArtHOI: Taming Foundation Models for Monocular 4D Reconstruction of Hand-Articulated-Object Interactions

Zikai Wang, Zhilu Zhang, Yiqing Wang +2

Existing hand-object interactions (HOI) methods are largely limited to rigid objects, while 4D reconstruction methods of articulated objects generally require pre-scanning the obje…

astro-ph.EP2026

Thermal Eclipse Observation of the Young Hot Neptune AU Mic b with Spitzer

Kevin I. Collins, Peter Plavchan, Zachory Berta-Thompson +11

We present the observation of a secondary eclipse of the young hot Neptune, AU Mic b, in the infrared using the Spitzer Space Telescope. Using a primary transit from Spitzer to con…

astro-ph.SR2025

Expanding Asteroseismic Studies in Star Clusters Using NASA's TESS and ESA's Gaia Missions

Carli Mankowski, Jamie Tayar, Cassidy Martin

Star clusters have long been central to the study of stellar evolution due to their chemically and chronologically homogeneous populations. Asteroseismology, the analysis of stella…

astro-ph.GA2025

The Two-infall Model Revisited: Constraints on Milky Way Bulge Assembly from >30,000 Galactic Chemical Evolution Models and Machine Learning

Niall Miller, Meridith Joyce, Christian I. Johnson +3

We constrain the formation history of the Milky Way bulge using a two-infall galactic chemical evolution (GCE) algorithm implemented in the N'OMEGA+ code. We recover a best-fit sce…

astro-ph.SR2025★ 1 cited

Evolved stars with inconsistent age estimates: Abundance outliers or mass transfer products?

Polly Frazer, Emily J. Griffith, David W. Hogg +2

In the Milky Way disk there is a strong trend linking stellar age to surface element abundances. Here we explore this relationship with a dataset of 8,803 red-giant and red-clump s…

astro-ph.GA2025

Extending the [C/N]-Age Calibration: Using Globular Clusters to Explore Older and Metal-Poor Populations

Taylor Spoo, Katelyn Thomas, Ellie "Kaleo" Toguchi-Tani +8

In the coming years, detailed chemical abundances from large-scale high-resolution spectroscopic surveys will become available for vast numbers of stars across the Milky Way. Previ…

astro-ph.SR2025

TESS Subgiant and Lower Red Giant Asteroseismology in the Continuous Viewing Zones

Sophia Grusnis, Jamie Tayar, Diego Godoy-Rivera

Asteroseismology, the study of stellar oscillations, and stellar modeling both offer profound insights into the fundamental properties and evolution of stars. With pySYD, a new ope…

astro-ph.SR2025★ 2 cited

A nearly pristine star from the Large Magellanic Cloud

Alexander P. Ji, Vedant Chandra, Selenna Mejias-Torres +28

The first stars formed out of pristine gas, causing them to be so massive that none are expected to have survived until today. If their direct descendants were sufficiently low-mas…

astro-ph.SR2025★ 1 cited

200,000+ Deep Learning-inferred Periods of Stellar Variability from the All-Sky Automated Survey for Supernovae

Meir E. Schochet, Penelope Planet, Zachary R. Claytor +2

Stars exhibit a range of variability periods that depend on their mass, age, and evolutionary stage. For space-based photometric data, convolutional neural networks (CNNs) have dem…

astro-ph.SR2025★ 3 cited

Beyond the Nyquist frequency: Asteroseismic catalog of undersampled Kepler late subgiants and early red giants

B. Liagre, R. A. García, S. Mathur +9

Subgiants and early red giants are crucial for studying the first dredge-up, a key evolutionary phase where the convective envelope deepens, mixing previously interior-processed ma…

astro-ph.GA2025★ 6 cited

Mapping the Distant and Metal-Poor Milky Way with SDSS-V

Vedant Chandra, Phillip A. Cargile, Alexander P. Ji +28

The fifth-generation Sloan Digital Sky Survey (SDSS-V) is conducting the first all-sky low-resolution spectroscopic survey of the Milky Way's stellar halo. We describe the stellar…

astro-ph.GA2025★ 8 cited

The Nineteenth Data Release of the Sloan Digital Sky Survey

SDSS Collaboration, Gautham Adamane Pallathadka, Mojgan Aghakhanloo +210

Mapping the local and distant Universe is key to our understanding of it. For decades, the Sloan Digital Sky Survey (SDSS) has made a concerted effort to map millions of celestial…

astro-ph.IM2025★ 3 cited

Sloan Digital Sky Survey-V: Pioneering Panoptic Spectroscopy

Juna A. Kollmeier, Hans-Walter Rix, Conny Aerts +217

The Sloan Digital Sky Survey-V (SDSS-V) is pioneering panoptic spectroscopy: it is the first all-sky, multi-epoch, optical-to-infrared spectroscopic survey. SDSS-V is mapping the s…

astro-ph.SR2025★ 1 cited

SDSS-V Milky Way Mapper (MWM): ASPCAP Stellar Parameters and Abundances in SDSS-V Data Release 19

Szabolcs Mészáros, Paula Jofré, Jennifer A. Johnson +25

The goal of this paper is to describe the science verification of Milky Way Mapper (MWM) APOGEE Stellar Parameter and Chemical Abundances Pipeline (ASPCAP) data products published…

astro-ph.SR2025

Anchoring Stellar Age Indicators: A Cross-Calibration of [C/N] and Gyrochronology Ages via the Age-Velocity-Dispersion Relation

Yuxi Lu, Marc H. Pinsonneault, Yuan-Sen Ting +4

Determining stellar ages is challenging, as it depends on other stellar parameters in a non-linear way and often relies on stellar evolution models to infer the underlying relation…

astro-ph.SR2025

New Rotation Periods from the Kepler Bonus Background Light Curves

Zachary R. Claytor, Jamie Tayar

The Kepler field hosts the best studied sample of field star rotation periods. However, due to Kepler's large 4" pixels, many of its light curves are at high risk of contamination…

astro-ph.SR2025

Enhanced magnetic activity in rapidly rotating binary stars

Jie Yu, Charlotte Gehan, Saskia Hekker +12

Stellar activity is fundamental to stellar evolution and the formation and habitability of exoplanets. The interaction between convective motions and rotation in cool stars results…

astro-ph.SR2025★ 3 cited

Asteroseismically Inferred Ages of 132,000 Red Giants with TESS

Artemis Theano Theodoridis, Leslie Morales, Jamie Tayar

NASA's TESS mission has identified at least 158,000 oscillating red giants, increasing the known sample by roughly an order of magnitude. After validating that these measurements a…

astro-ph.SR2025

Asteroseismology of Metal-Poor Red Giants Observed by TESS

Corin Marasco, Jamie Tayar, David Nidever

Galactic archeology has long been limited by a lack of precise masses and ages for metal-poor stars in the Milky Way's thick disk. However, with TESS providing a growing number of…