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20172026
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

681 citations · 3k across the 53 of their papers we have counts for

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54 papers

astro-ph.GA2026

A two-stage settling of the Milky Way disk revealed by precise ChronoGal ages

David Mirabal, Carme Gallart, Tomás Ruiz-Lara +9

The spatial distribution of Galactic disk stars of different ages and metallicities encodes its dynamical evolution history and formation pathways. The lack of precise ages for lar…

astro-ph.GA2026

Neighbors, Not Kin: Kinematic evidence for tidal tails from NGC 7492 along the Sagittarius stream

Camila Navarrete, Álvaro Rojas-Arriagada, Andrés E. Piatti +8

The formation, extension, and morphology of extra-tidal stars around globular clusters depend on the internal kinematics of the host cluster and the Galactic potential. Tracing the…

astro-ph.GA2026

Reassessing the low- massive sequence stars in Gaia RVS

G. Nandakumar, G. Kordopatis, M. Schultheis +4

Recently, a chemically depleted young massive stellar population was identified using the spectroscopic catalogue of Gaia DR3. To explain its characteristics, a recent enhanced sta…

astro-ph.SR2026

The Gaia GSP-Spec catalogue of interstellar extinctions, and stellar luminosities, radii, and masses

Patrick de Laverny, Alejandra Recio-Blanco, Camila Navarrete +2

The Gaia/DR3 GSP-Spec module has published the atmospheric parameters of up to 5.6 million stars based on the analysis of their Radial Velocity Spectrometer spectra. By combining t…

astro-ph.GA2026★ 1 cited

Solar twins in Gaia DR3 GSP-Spec II. Age distribution and its implications for the Sun's migration

Takuji Tsujimoto, Daisuke Taniguchi, Alejandra Recio-Blanco +2

Solar twins are among the most powerful tracers of Galactic disk evolution owing to their unique property of sharing nearly solar metallicities ([Fe/H] ~ 0) while spanning a wide r…

astro-ph.SR2026★ 2 cited

Surface brightness-colour relations of Milky Way and Magellanic Clouds classical Cepheids based on Gaia magnitudes

M. C. Bailleul, N. Nardetto, V. Hocdé +12

Aims: We derive SBCRs for classical Cepheids in the Milky Way and in the Magellanic Clouds using the photometric data available in the Gaia database, and we quantify the metallicit…

astro-ph.SR2026★ 2 cited

Solar twins in Gaia DR3 GSP-Spec I. Building a large catalog of Solar twins with ages

Daisuke Taniguchi, Patrick de Laverny, Alejandra Recio-Blanco +2

[Abbreviated] Context. Solar twins, stars whose stellar parameters (Teff, log g, and [M/H]) are very close to the Solar ones, offer a unique opportunity to investigate Galactic arc…

astro-ph.IM2025

Why the Northern Hemisphere Needs a 30-40 m Telescope and the Science at Stake: Resolved Stellar Populations Studies in M31 and its Satellites

C. Gallart, E. Fernández-Alvar, A. B. A. Queiroz +48

A 30 m class optical/near-IR telescope in the Northern Hemisphere, equipped for diffraction-limited imaging and high-resolution, multi-object spectroscopy of faint stars, would ena…

astro-ph.GA2025

3D extinction maps of the Milky Way disc from Gaia GSP-Spec parameters

M. Barbillon, A. Recio-Blanco, P. de Laverny +1

3D maps of interstellar dust are crucial for understanding the structure of the Milky Way interstellar medium to apply correction to astrophysical observations affected by dust. We…

astro-ph.SR2025

The AMBRE Project: Line-broadening and stellar rotation of ESO/FEROS archived spectra

F. Bado, P. de Laverny, Z. Kam +3

Stellar rotation is a fundamental parameter in stellar studies. However, large homogeneous catalogues of rotational velocities derived from high-resolution stellar spectra are stil…

astro-ph.GA2025★ 1 cited

Caveats about measuring carbon abundances in stars using the CH band

Pablo Santos-Peral, Patricia Sánchez-Blázquez, Alejandro Vazdekis +4

Deriving accurate carbon abundance estimates for a wide variety of stars is still complex due to the difficulties in properly measuring it from atomic and molecular lines. The aim…

astro-ph.EP2025★ 7 cited

The Gaia spectroscopic catalogue of exoplanets and host stars

Patrick de Laverny, Roxanne Ligi, Aurélien Crida +2

Complete, accurate, and precise catalogues of exoplanet host star (EHS) properties are essential to deriving high-quality exoplanet parameters. This paper aims at homogeneously par…

astro-ph.GA2024★ 2 cited

Signatures of simulated spiral arms on radial actions

P. A. Palicio, A. Recio-Blanco, T. Tepper-Garcia +7

Among the various implications of the spiral arms, it has been observed in the Milky Way disc that the distribution of radial actions from the Gaia Data Release 3 exhibits structur…

astro-ph.GA2024★ 10 cited

Constraints on the history of Galactic spiral arms revealed by Gaia GSP-Spec alpha-elements

M. Barbillon, A. Recio-Blanco, E. Poggio +4

The distribution of chemical elements in the Galactic disc can reveal fundamental clues on the physical processes that led to the current configuration of our Galaxy. We map chemic…

astro-ph.SR2024★ 6 cited

Gaia/GSP-spec spectroscopic properties of gamma Doradus pulsators

P. de Laverny, A. Recio-Blanco, C. Aerts +1

Gaia/DR3 has provided a large sample of new g-mode pulsators, among which~11,600 are Gam Dor stars. This work present the spectroscopic parameters of these Gam Dor pulsators estima…

astro-ph.SR2024★ 7 cited

The Gaia-ESO Survey DR5.1 and Gaia DR3 GSP-Spec: a comparative analysis

M. Van der Swaelmen, C. Viscasillas Vazquez, L. Magrini +10

(abridged) The third data release of Gaia, has provided stellar parameters, metallicity [M/H], [α/Fe], individual abundances, broadening parameter from its RVS spectra for about 5.…

astro-ph.GA2024★ 20 cited

The Great Wave: Evidence of a large-scale vertical corrugation propagating outwards in the Galactic disc

E. Poggio, S. Khanna, R. Drimmel +6

We analyse the three-dimensional structure and kinematics of two samples of young stars in the Galactic disc, containing respectively young giants (17000 stars out to he…

astro-ph.GA2024★ 129 cited

Discovery of a dormant 33 solar-mass black hole in pre-release Gaia astrometry

Gaia Collaboration, P. Panuzzo, T. Mazeh +412

Gravitational waves from black-hole merging events have revealed a population of extra-galactic BHs residing in short-period binaries with masses that are higher than expected base…

astro-ph.CO2024★ 14 cited

Cosmic Type Ia SN rate and constraints on SN Ia progenitors

P. A. Palicio, F. Matteucci, M. Della Valle +1

Type Ia supernovae play a key role in the evolution of galaxies by polluting the interstellar medium with a fraction of iron peak elements larger than that released in the core col…

astro-ph.GA2024★ 11 cited

Double Red Giant Branch and Red Clump features of Galactic disc stellar populations with Gaia GSPspec

Alejandra Recio-Blanco, P. de Laverny, P. A. Palicio +4

To disentangle the different competing physical processes at play in Galactic evolution, a detailed chrono chemicalkinematical, and dynamical characterisation of the disc bimodalit…

astro-ph.SR2023

Production of s-process elements in AGB stars as revealed by Gaia GSP-spec abundances

G. Contursi, P. de Laverny, A. Recio-Blanco +2

The recent parameterisation by the GSP-spec module of Gaia/RVS spectra has produced an homogeneous catalogue of about 174,000 AGB stars. Among the 13 chemical elements presented in…

astro-ph.SR2023★ 16 cited

Gaia Focused Product Release: Sources from Service Interface Function image analysis -- Half a million new sources in omega Centauri

Gaia Collaboration, K. Weingrill, A. Mints +400

Gaia's readout window strategy is challenged by very dense fields in the sky. Therefore, in addition to standard Gaia observations, full Sky Mapper (SM) images were recorded for ni…

astro-ph.EP2023★ 23 cited

Gaia Focused Product Release: Asteroid orbital solution. Properties and assessment

Gaia Collaboration, P. David, F. Mignard +2

Context. We report the exploitation of a sample of epoch astrometry for 157 000 asteroids, the same object in the Gaia Data Release 3, extended over the time coverage planned for t…

astro-ph.GA2023★ 17 cited

2D chemical evolution models II. Effects of multiple spiral arm patterns on O, Eu, Fe and Ba abundance gradients

E. Spitoni, G. Cescutti, A. Recio-Blanco +7

According to observations and numerical simulations, the Milky Way could exhibit several spiral arm modes with multiple pattern speeds, wherein the slower patterns are located at l…