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astro-ph.GA2025

Wide binaries in an ultra-faint dwarf galaxy: discovery, population modeling, and a nail in the coffin of primordial black hole dark matter

Cheyanne Shariat, Kareem El-Badry, Mario Gennaro +24

We report the discovery and characterization of a wide binary population in the ultrafaint dwarf galaxy Boötes I using deep JWST/NIRCam imaging. Our sample consists of 52 candidate…

astro-ph.GA2025★ 1 cited

Project AMIGA: The Inner Circumgalactic Medium of Andromeda from Thick Disk to Halo

Nicolas Lehner, J. Christopher Howk, Lucy Collins +22

The inner circumgalactic medium (CGM) of galaxies, where disk and halo processes intersect, remains poorly characterized despite its critical role in regulating galaxy evolution. W…

astro-ph.GA2025

The Local Ultraviolet to Infrared Treasury II. Refining Star Formation Histories of Ten Metal-Poor Dwarf Galaxies with Simultaneous UV-Optical Two-CMD Fitting

Yumi Choi, Karoline M. Gilbert, Benjamin F. Williams +10

We present the star formation histories (SFHs) of ten metal-poor (<12% Zsun), star-forming dwarf galaxies from the Local Ultraviolet to Infrared Treasury (LUVIT) survey. The derive…

astro-ph.GA2025

The JWST Resolved Stellar Populations Early Release Science Program. VIII. The Spatially Resolved Star Formation History of WLM

Roger E. Cohen, Kristen B. W. McQuinn, Alessandro Savino +17

We measure radial stellar age gradients in the relatively isolated gas-rich dwarf irregular WLM, combining JWST NIRCam and NIRISS imaging with six archival Hubble fields over semi-…

astro-ph.GA2025

The Hubble Space Telescope Survey of M31 Satellite Galaxies IV. Survey Overview and Lifetime Star Formation Histories

A. Savino, D. R. Weisz, A. E. Dolphin +35

From orbits of HST imaging, we present deep homogeneous resolved star color-magnitude diagrams that reach the oldest main sequence turnoff and uniformly measured star forma…

astro-ph.GA2024

Scylla III. The Outside-In Radial Age Gradient in the Small Magellanic Cloud and the Star Formation Histories of the Main Body, Wing and Outer Regions

Roger E. Cohen, Kristen B. W. McQuinn, Claire E. Murray +13

The proximity of the Large and Small Magellanic Clouds (LMC and SMC) provides the opportunity to study the impact of dwarf-dwarf interactions on their mass assembly with a unique l…

astro-ph.GA2024

Scylla II. The Spatially Resolved Star Formation History of the Large Magellanic Cloud Reveals an Inverted Radial Age Gradient

Roger E. Cohen, Kristen B. W. McQuinn, Claire E. Murray +11

The proximity of the Magellanic Clouds provides the opportunity to study interacting dwarf galaxies near a massive host, and spatial trends in their stellar population properties i…

astro-ph.GA2024

Scylla I: A pure-parallel, multi-wavelength imaging survey of the ULLYSES fields in the LMC and SMC

Claire E. Murray, Christina W. Lindberg, Petia Yanchulova Merica-Jones +17

Scylla is a deep Hubble Space Telescope survey of the stellar populations, interstellar medium and star formation in the LMC and SMC. As a pure-parallel complement to the Ultraviol…

astro-ph.GA2024★ 4 cited

The Local Ultraviolet to Infrared Treasury I. Survey Overview of the Broadband Imaging

Karoline M. Gilbert, Yumi Choi, Martha L. Boyer +21

The Local Ultraviolet to Infrared Treasury (LUVIT) is a Hubble Space Telescope program that combines newly acquired data in the near ultraviolet (NUV), optical, and near infrared (…

astro-ph.GA2024

Scylla IV: Intrinsic Stellar Properties and Line-of-Sight Dust Extinction Measurements Towards 1.5 Million Stars in the SMC and LMC

Christina W. Lindberg, Claire E. Murray, Petia Yanchulova Merica-Jones +14

By analyzing the spectral energy distributions (SEDs) of resolved stars in nearby galaxies, we can constrain their stellar properties and line-of-sight dust extinction. From the Sc…

astro-ph.GA2024

The JWST Resolved Stellar Populations Early Release Science Program VII. Stress Testing the NIRCam Exposure Time Calculator

A. Savino, M. Gennaro, A. E. Dolphin +19

We empirically assess estimates from v3.0 of the JWST NIRCam Exposure Time Calculator (ETC) using observations of resolved stars in Local Group targets taken as part of the Resolve…

astro-ph.GA2024

The JWST Resolved Stellar Populations Early Release Science Program V. DOLPHOT Stellar Photometry for NIRCam and NIRISS

Daniel R. Weisz, Andrew E. Dolphin, Alessandro Savino +38

We present NIRCam and NIRISS modules for DOLPHOT, a widely-used crowded field stellar photometry package. We describe details of the modules including pixel masking, astrometric al…

astro-ph.GA2024

The structure of the stellar halo of the Andromeda galaxy explored with the NB515 for Subaru/HSC. I.: New Insights on the stellar halo up to 120 kpc

Itsuki Ogami, Mikito Tanaka, Yutaka Komiyama +16

We analyse the M31 halo and its substructure within a projected radius of 120 kpc using a combination of Subaru/HSC and CFHT/MegaCam - \& -…

astro-ph.GA2023

The JWST Resolved Stellar Populations Early Release Science Program IV: The Star Formation History of the Local Group Galaxy WLM

Kristen. B. W. McQuinn, Max J. B. Newman, Alessandro Savino +23

We present the first star formation history (SFH) and age-metallicity relation (AMR) derived from resolved stellar populations imaged with the JWST NIRCam instrument. The target is…

astro-ph.GA2023

The Hubble Space Telescope Survey of M31 Satellite Galaxies. III. Calibrating the Horizontal Branch as an Age Indicator for Nearby Galaxies

Connor Jennings, Alessandro Savino, Daniel Weisz +14

We present a new method for measuring the mean age of old/intermediate stellar populations in resolved, metal-poor () galaxies using only th…

astro-ph.GA2023

TREX: Kinematic Characterisation of a High-Dispersion Intermediate-Age Stellar Component in M33

L. R. Cullinane, Karoline M. Gilbert, Puragra Guhathakurta +7

The dwarf galaxy Triangulum (M33) presents an interesting testbed for studying stellar halo formation: it is sufficiently massive so as to have likely accreted smaller satellites,…

astro-ph.GA2023★ 1 cited

The Panchromatic Hubble Andromeda Treasury: Triangulum Extended Region (PHATTER). V. The Structure of M33 in Resolved Stellar Populations

Adam Smercina, Julianne J. Dalcanton, Benjamin F. Williams +13

We present a detailed analysis of the the structure of the Local Group flocculent spiral galaxy M33, as measured using the Panchromatic Hubble Andromeda Treasury Triangulum Extende…

astro-ph.GA2023

The Panchromatic Hubble Andromeda Treasury XXI. The Legacy Resolved Stellar Photometry Catalog

Benjamin F. Williams, Meredith Durbin, Dustin Lang +14

We present the final legacy version of stellar photometry for the Panchromatic Hubble Andromeda Treasury (PHAT) survey. We have reprocessed all of the Hubble Space Telescope (HST)…

astro-ph.GA2023★ 1 cited

The Prevalence of the -bimodality: First JWST -abundance Results in M31

David L. Nidever, Karoline Gilbert, Erik Tollerud +8

We present initial results from our JWST NIRSpec program to study the -abundances in the M31 disk. The Milky Way has two chemically-defined disks, the low- and high- disks…

astro-ph.GA2023

The Hubble Space Telescope Survey of M31 Satellite Galaxies II. The Star Formation Histories of Ultra-Faint Dwarf Galaxies

A. Savino, D. R. Weisz, E. D. Skillman +34

We present the lifetime star formation histories (SFHs) for six ultra-faint dwarf (UFD; , ) satellite galaxies of M31 based on…

astro-ph.GA2023★ 3 cited

The JWST Resolved Stellar Populations Early Release Science Program II. Survey Overview

Daniel R. Weisz, Kristen B. W. McQuinn, Alessandro Savino +39

We present the JWST Resolved Stellar Populations Early Release Science (ERS) science program. We obtained 27.5 hours of NIRCam and NIRISS imaging of three targets in the Local Grou…

astro-ph.GA2022★ 13 cited

Elemental abundances in M31: Individual and Coadded Spectroscopic [Fe/H] and [α/Fe] throughout the M31 Halo with SPLASH

J. Leigh Wojno, Karoline M. Gilbert, Evan N. Kirby +6

We present spectroscopic chemical abundances of red giant branch (RGB) stars in Andromeda (M31), using medium resolution () spectra obtained via the Spectroscopic and Ph…

astro-ph.GA2022★ 5 cited

A detailed star formation history for the extremely diffuse Andromeda XIX dwarf galaxy

Michelle L. M. Collins, Benjamin F. Williams, Erik J. Tollerud +3

We present deep imaging of the ultra-diffuse Andromeda XIX dwarf galaxy from the Advance Camera for Surveys on the Hubble Space Telescope which resolves its stellar populations to…

astro-ph.GA2022★ 7 cited

Resolved SPLASH Chemodynamics in Andromeda's PHAT Stellar Halo and Disk: On the Nature of the Inner Halo Along the Major Axis

Ivanna Escala, Amanda C. N. Quirk, Puragra Guhathakurta +5

Stellar kinematics and metallicity are key to exploring formation scenarios for galactic disks and halos. In this work, we characterized the relationship between kinematics and pho…