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astro-ph.GA2026

The GALAH Survey: Neutron-Capture Elemental Abundances for 350,000 Gaia-RVS spectra and the Chemodynamics of Accreted Structures

Pradosh Barun Das, Daniel B. Zucker, Aldo Mura-Guzmán +15

We present a comprehensive data-driven spectroscopic analysis of 357,415 red giant stars using Gaia DR3 Radial Velocity Spectrometer (RVS) spectra (8460-8700 A; ),…

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★ 8 cited

The GALAH Survey: Stellar parameters and abundances for 800,000 Gaia RVS spectra using GALAH DR4 and The Cannon

Pradosh Barun Das, Daniel B. Zucker, Gayandhi M. De Silva +15

Analysing stellar parameters and abundances from nearly one million Gaia Data Release 3 (DR3) Radial Velocity Spectrometer (RVS) spectra poses challenges due to the limited spectra…

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.GA2024

The GALAH survey: Elemental abundances in open clusters using joint effective temperature and surface gravity photometric priors

Kevin L. Beeson, Janez Kos, Richard de Grijs +10

The ability to measure precise and accurate stellar effective temperatures () and surface gravities () is essential in determining accurate and precise abund…

astro-ph.GA2023★ 11 cited

The GALAH survey: New diffuse interstellar bands found in residuals of 872,000 stellar spectra

Rok Vogrinčič, Janez Kos, Tomaž Zwitter +11

We use more than 872,000 mid-to-high resolution (R 20,000) spectra of stars from the GALAH survey to discern the spectra of diffuse interstellar bands (DIBs). We use four wi…

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.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★ 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.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…

astro-ph.GA2020★ 27 cited

Combined APOGEE-GALAH stellar catalogues using the Cannon

Govind Nandakumar, Michael R. Hayden, Sanjib Sharma +21

APOGEE and GALAH are two high resolution multi-object spectroscopic surveys that provide fundamental stellar parameters and multiple elemental abundance estimates for about half a…

astro-ph.GA2020★ 21 cited

The GALAH Survey: Accreted stars also inhabit the Spite Plateau

Jeffrey D. Simpson, Sarah L. Martell, Sven Buder +22

The ESA Gaia astrometric mission has enabled the remarkable discovery that a large fraction of the stars near the Solar neighbourhood appear to be debris from a single in-falling s…

astro-ph.GA2020★ 117 cited

The GALAH survey: tracing the Galactic disk with Open Clusters

Lorenzo Spina, Yuan-Sen Ting, Gayandhi M. De Silva +28

Open clusters are unique tracers of the history of our own Galaxy's disk. According to our membership analysis based on \textit{Gaia} astrometry, out of the 226 potential clusters…

astro-ph.GA2020★ 626 cited

The GALAH+ Survey: Third Data Release

Sven Buder, Sanjib Sharma, Janez Kos +44

The ensemble of chemical element abundance measurements for stars, along with precision distances and orbit properties, provides high-dimensional data to study the evolution of the…

astro-ph.GA2020★ 80 cited

Fundamental relations for the velocity dispersion of stars in the Milky Way

Sanjib Sharma, Michael R. Hayden, Joss Bland-Hawthorn +34

We explore the fundamental relations governing the radial and vertical velocity dispersions of stars in the Milky Way, from combined studies of complementary surveys including GALA…

astro-ph.GA2019★ 26 cited

The GALAH Survey: Chemically tagging the Fimbulthul stream to the globular cluster Centauri

Jeffrey D. Simpson, Sarah L. Martell, Gary Da Costa +17

Using kinematics from Gaia and the large elemental abundance space of the second data release of the GALAH survey, we identify two new members of the Fimbulthul stellar stream, and…

astro-ph.GA2019★ 75 cited

The K2-HERMES Survey: Age and Metallicity of the Thick Disc

Sanjib Sharma, Dennis Stello, Joss Bland-Hawthorn +34

Asteroseismology is a promising tool to study Galactic structure and evolution because it can probe the ages of stars. Earlier attempts comparing seismic data from the {\it Kepler}…

astro-ph.GA2019★ 99 cited

The GALAH survey and Gaia DR2: Linking ridges, arches and vertical waves in the kinematics of the Milky Way

Shourya Khanna, Sanjib Sharma, Thor Tepper-Garcia +15

Gaia DR2 has revealed new small-scale and large-scale patterns in the phase-space distribution of stars in the Milky Way. In cylindrical Galactic coordinates , ridge-like…

astro-ph.GA2019★ 67 cited

The GALAH Survey: Chemodynamics of the Solar Neighbourhood

Michael R. Hayden, Joss Bland-Hawthorn, Sanjib Sharma +13

We present the chemodynamic structure of the solar neighbourhood using 62 814 stars within a 500 pc sphere of the Sun observed by GALAH and with astrometric parameters from Gaia DR…

astro-ph.GA2018★ 227 cited

The GALAH survey and Gaia DR2: dissecting the stellar disc's phase space by age, action, chemistry and location

Joss Bland-Hawthorn, Sanjib Sharma, Thor Tepper-Garcia +24

We use the second data releases of the ESA Gaia astrometric survey and the high-resolution GALAH spectroscopic survey to analyse the structure of our Galaxy's disc components. With…

astro-ph.GA2018★ 41 cited

The GALAH Survey and Gaia DR2: (Non)existence of five sparse high-latitude open clusters

Janez Kos, Gayandhi de Silva, Joss Bland-Hawthorn +21

Sparse open clusters can be found at high galactic latitudes where loosely populated clusters are more easily detected against the lower stellar background. Because most star forma…

astro-ph.GA2018★ 37 cited

The GALAH Survey: Stellar streams and how stellar velocity distributions vary with Galactic longitude, hemisphere and metallicity

Alice C. Quillen, Gayandhi De Silva, Sanjib Sharma +30

Using GALAH survey data of nearby stars, we look at how structure in the planar (u,v) velocity distribution depends on metallicity and on viewing direction within the Galaxy. In ne…