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

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astro-ph.GA2026

A Tale of Two Origins: In-Situ versus Accreted Nitrogen-Rich Field Stars in the MW

Yi Qiao, Baitian Tang, José G. Fernández-Trincado +14

Spectroscopic surveys have identified significant numbers of metal-poor nitrogen-rich (N-rich) field stars. These stars are strong candidates for escapees from globular clusters (G…

astro-ph.SR2023★ 14 cited

Value-added catalog of M-giant stars in LAMOST DR9

Jing Li, Lin Long, Jing Zhong +9

In this work, we update the catalog of M-giant stars from the low-resolution spectra of the Large Sky Area Multi-Object Fiber Spectroscopic Telescope (LAMOST) Data Release 9. There…

astro-ph.SR2023★ 8 cited

Atmospheric parameters and kinematic information for the M giants stars from LAMOST DR9

Dan Qiu, Hao Tian, Jing Li +5

A catalog of more than 43,000 M giant stars has been selected by Li et al. from the ninth data release of LAMOST. Using the data-driven method SLAM, we obtain the stellar parameter…

astro-ph.GA2022★ 60 cited

A Blind All-sky Search for Star Clusters in Gaia EDR3: 886 Clusters within 1.2 kpc of the Sun

Zhihong He, Kun Wang, Yangping Luo +3

Although previous searches for star clusters have been very successful, many clusters are likely still omitted, especially at high Galactic latitude regions. In this work, based on…

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.GA2021★ 15 cited

Exploring the Galactic Anticenter substructure with LAMOST & Gaia DR2

Jing Li, Xiang-Xiang Xue, Chao Liu +12

We characterize the kinematic and chemical properties of 589 Galactic Anticenter Substructure Stars (GASS) with K-/M- giants in Integrals-of-Motion space. These stars likely includ…

astro-ph.GA2020★ 40 cited

Exploring the pertubed Milky Way disk and the substructures of the outer disk

Y. Xu, C. Liu, H. Tian +6

The recent discovery of a spiral feature in phase plane in the solar neighborhood implies that the Galactic disk has been remarkably affected by a dwarf galaxy passing thro…

astro-ph.GA2019★ 40 cited

Tracing Kinematic and Chemical Properties of Sagittarius Stream by K-Giants, M-Giants, and BHB stars

Chengqun Yang, Xiang-Xiang Xue, Jing Li +12

We characterize the kinematic and chemical properties of 3,000 Sagittarius (Sgr) stream stars, including K-giants, M-giants, and BHBs, select from SEGUE-2, LAMOST, and SDSS s…

astro-ph.GA2019★ 28 cited

Identifying Galactic Halo Substructure in 6D Phase-space Using 13,000 LAMOST K Giants

Chengqun Yang, Xiang-Xiang Xue, Jing Li +6

We construct a large halo K-giant sample by combining the positions, distances, radial velocities, and metallicities of over 13,000 LAMOST DR5 halo K giants with the Gaia DR2 prope…

astro-ph.GA2019★ 33 cited

Detecting the Sagittarius stream with LAMOST DR4 M giants \& Gaia DR2

Jing Li, Chao Liu, Xiangxiang Xue +4

We use LAMOST DR4 M giants combined with Gaia DR2 proper motions and ALLWISE photometry to obtain an extremely pure sample of Sagittarius (Sgr) stream stars. Using TiO5 and CaH spe…

astro-ph.GA2019★ 35 cited

Revealing the Complicated Story of the Cetus Stream with StarGO

Zhen Yuan, M. C. Smith, Xiang-Xiang Xue +5

We use a novel cluster identification tool StarGO to explore the metal poor ([Fe/H] -1.5) outer stellar halo (d 15 kpc) of the Milky Way using data from Gaia, LAMOST and SD…

astro-ph.SR2018★ 36 cited

A Systematic Study of Hale and Anti-Hale Sunspot Physical Parameters

Jing Li

We present a systematic study of sunspot physical parameters using full disk magnetograms from MDI/SoHO and HMI/SDO. Our aim is to use uniform datasets and analysis procedures to c…

astro-ph.GA2017★ 7 cited

Probing satellite galaxies in the Local Group by using FAST

Jing Li, Yougang Wang, Minzhi Kong +3

The abundance of neutral hydrogen (HI) in satellite galaxies in the Local Group is important for studying the formation history of our Local Group. In this work, we generated mock…

astro-ph.GA2017★ 39 cited

Mapping the Milky Way with LAMOST II: the stellar halo

Yan Xu, Chao Liu, Xiang-Xiang Xue +9

The radial number density and flattening of the Milky Way's stellar halo is measured with metal-poor ([Fe/H]) K giants from LAMOST DR3, using a nonparametric m…

astro-ph.SR2016★ 99 cited

Estimating stellar atmospheric parameters, absolute magnitudes and elemental abundances from the LAMOST spectra with Kernel-based Principal Component Analysis

Maosheng Xiang, Xiaowei Liu, Jianrong Shi +16

Accurate determination of stellar atmospheric parameters and elemental abundances is crucial for Galactic archeology via large-scale spectroscopic surveys. In this paper, we estima…

astro-ph.GA2016★ 1 cited

New tidal debris nearby the Sagittarius leading tail from the LAMOST DR2 M giant stars

Jing Li, Chao Liu, Jeffrey L. Carlin +7

We report two new tidal debris nearby the Sagittarius (Sgr) tidal stream in the north Galactic cap identified from the M giant stars in LAMOST DR2 data. The M giant stars with sky…

astro-ph.GA2016★ 38 cited

Selecting M-giants with infra-red photometry: Distances, metallicities and the Sagittarius stream

Jing Li, Martin C. Smith, Jing Zhong +9

Using a spectroscopically confirmed sample of M-giants, M-dwarfs and quasars from the LAMOST survey, we assess how well WISE 2MASS color-cuts can be used to select M-giant sta…

astro-ph.GA2015★ 239 cited

Rings and Radial Waves in the Disk of the Milky Way

Yan Xu, Heidi Jo Newberg, Jeffrey L. Carlin +5

We show that in the anticenter region, between Galactic longitudes of , there is an oscillating asymmetry in the main sequence star counts on either side of…

astro-ph.GA2014★ 39 cited

The Nearest High-Velocity Stars Revealed by LAMOST Data Release 1

Jing Zhong, Li Chen, Chao Liu +14

We report the discovery of 28 candidate high-velocity stars (HVSs) at heliocentric distances of less than 3 kpc, based on the Large Sky Area Multi-Object Fiber Spectroscopic Telesc…

astro-ph.GA2014★ 92 cited

The K giant stars from the LAMOST survey data I: identification, metallicity, and distance

Chao Liu, Li-Cai Deng, Jeffrey L. Carlin +10

We present a support vector machine classifier to identify the K giant stars from the LAMOST survey directly using their spectral line features. The completeness of the identificat…

astro-ph.SR2013★ 20 cited

DA white dwarfs observed in LAMOST pilot survey

Yue-Yang Zhang, Li-Cai Deng, Chao Liu +14

A total of objects from LAMOST pilot survey have been publicly released. In this work, we present a catalog of DA white dwarfs from the entire pilot survey. We outlin…

astro-ph.GA2012★ 2 cited

A study of strong pulses detected from PSR B0656+14 using Urumqi 25-m radio telescope at 1540MHz

Guo-Cun Tao, Ali Esamdin, Hui-Dong Hu +3

We report on the properties of strong pulses from PSR B0656+14 by analyzing the data obtained using Urumqi 25-m radio telescope at 1540 MHz from August 2007 to September 2010. In 4…

astro-ph.GA2012★ 553 cited

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

Licai Deng, Heidi Jo Newberg, Chao Liu +22

We describe the current plans for a spectroscopic survey of millions of stars in the Milky Way galaxy using the Guo Shou Jing Telescope (GSJT, formerly the Large Area Multi-Object…

astro-ph.IM2012★ 29 cited

The site conditions of the Guo Shou Jing Telescope

Song Yao, Chao Liu, Haotong Zhang +18

The weather at Xinglong Observing Station, where the Guo Shou Jing Telescope (GSJT) is located, is strongly affected by the monsoon climate in north-east China. The LAMOST survey s…