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most citedThe merger that led to the formation of the Milky Way's inner stellar halo and thick disk

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astro-ph.IM2023★ 2 cited

NANCY: Next-generation All-sky Near-infrared Community surveY

Jiwon Jesse Han, Arjun Dey, Adrian M. Price-Whelan +206

The Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope is capable of delivering an unprecedented all-sky, high-spatial resolution, multi-epoch infrared map to the astronomical community. This oppor…

astro-ph.EP2021★ 7 cited

Unveiling wide-orbit companions to K-type stars in Sco-Cen with Gaia EDR3

Alexander J. Bohn, Christian Ginski, Matthew A. Kenworthy +12

Abbreviated. We aim to identify new low-mass companions to young stars using the astrometric measurements provided by the Gaia space mission and complementary VLT/SPHERE data. We i…

astro-ph.SR2021★ 6 cited

Fine structure in the luminosity function in young stellar populations with Gaia DR2

Difeng Guo, Alex de Koter, Lex Kaper +2

A pioneering study showed that the fine structure in the luminosity function (LF) of young star clusters contains information about the evolutionary stage (age) and composition of…

astro-ph.IM2021★ 41 cited

Selection Functions in Astronomical Data Modeling, with the Space Density of White Dwarfs as Worked Example

Hans-Walter Rix, David W. Hogg, Douglas Boubert +6

Statistical studies of astronomical data sets, in particular of cataloged properties for discrete objects, are central to astrophysics. One cannot model those objects' population p…

astro-ph.EP2021★ 33 cited

Oort cloud Ecology II: The chronology of the formation of the Oort cloud

Simon Portegies Zwart, Santiago Torres, Maxwell X. Cai +1

We present a chronology of the formation and early evolution of the Oort cloud by simulations. These simulations start with the Solar System being born with planets and asteroids i…

astro-ph.GA2021★ 34 cited

Finding Quasars behind the Galactic Plane. I. Candidate Selections with Transfer Learning

Yuming Fu, Xue-Bing Wu, Qian Yang +4

Quasars behind the Galactic plane (GPQs) are important astrometric references and useful probes of Milky Way gas. However, the search for GPQs is difficult due to large extinctions…