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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

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20 papers

astro-ph.EP2026

Mass Production of 2023 KMTNet Microlensing Planets. III: Three Planets from the Subprime Field

Hongyu Li, Zhixing Li, Weicheng Zang +56

To complete the analysis of the 2023 KMTNet subprime-field microlensing planetary events identified by its AlertFinder system, we present the analysis of six events, KMT-2023-BLG-(…

astro-ph.EP2026

Mass Production of 2023 KMTNet Microlensing Planets. II: Two Planets and A Brown Dwarf

Zhixing Li, Hongyu Li, Weicheng Zang +63

To expand the homogeneous microlensing planetary sample of the Korea Microlensing Telescope Network (KMTNet), we investigate six planetary candidates identified by the AnomalyFinde…

astro-ph.EP2026★ 3 cited

KMT-2025-BLG-1616Lb: First Microlensing Bound Planet From DREAMS

Hongjing Yang, Weicheng Zang, Yoon-Hyun Ryu +60

We present observations and analysis of the bound planetary microlensing event KMT-2025-BLG-1616. The planetary signal was captured by the Korea Microlensing Telescope Network (KMT…

astro-ph.EP2025★ 1 cited

KMT-2022-BLG-1818Lb,c: A Cold Super-Jupiter with a Saturn Sibling

Hongyu Li, Jiyuan Zhang, Cheongho Han +72

We present the discovery and analysis of the sixth microlensing two-planet system, KMT-2022-BLG-1818Lb,c, detected by a follow-up program targeting high-magnification events. Both…

astro-ph.GA2019★ 2 cited

Photometric and Kinematic Misalignments and Their Evolution Among Fast and Slow Rotators in the Illustris Simulation

Lisiyuan Yang, Dandan Xu, Shude Mao +2

We use the Illustris simulation to study the distributions of ellipticities and kinematic misalignments of galactic projections, as well as the intrinsic shapes and rotation of the…

astro-ph.CO2019★ 30 cited

Constraining the inner density slope of massive galaxy clusters

Qiuhan He, Hongyu Li, Ran Li +7

We determine the inner density profiles of massive galaxy clusters (M > M) in the Cluster-EAGLE (C-EAGLE) hydrodynamic simulations, and investi…

astro-ph.GA2019★ 43 cited

Evaluating the ability of triaxial Schwarzschild modelling to estimate properties of galaxies from the Illustris simulation

Yunpeng Jin, Ling Zhu, R. J. Long +4

We evaluate the capabilities of Schwarzschild's orbit-superposition method by applying it to galaxies from the large scale, high resolution Illustris simulation. Nine early-type ga…

astro-ph.GA2019★ 37 cited

SDSS--IV MaNGA : The Inner Density Slopes of nearby galaxies

Ran Li, Hongyu Li, Shi Shao +12

We derive the mass weighted total density slopes within the effective (half-light) radius, , for more than 2000 nearby galaxies from the SDSS-IV MaNGA survey using Jeans-anisot…

astro-ph.GA2018★ 5 cited

Orbit properties of massive prolate galaxies in the Illustris simulation

Yougang Wang, Shude Mao, Hongyu Li +3

We explore orbit properties of 35 prolate-triaxial galaxies selected from the Illustris cosmological hydrodynamic simulation. We present a detailed study of their orbit families, a…

astro-ph.GA2018★ 85 cited

SDSS-IV MaNGA: pattern speeds of barred galaxies

Rui Guo, Shude Mao, E. Athanassoula +5

The MaNGA project has obtained IFU data for several thousand nearby galaxies, including barred galaxies. With the two dimensional spectral and kinematic information provided by IFU…

astro-ph.GA2018★ 52 cited

Recovering stellar population parameters via two full-spectrum fitting algorithms in the absence of model uncertainties

Junqiang Ge, Renbin Yan, Michele Cappellari +3

Using mock spectra based on Vazdekis/MILES library fitted within the wavelength region 3600-7350Å, we analyze the bias and scatter on the resulting physical parameters induced by t…

astro-ph.GA2018★ 161 cited

SDSS-IV MaNGA: Stellar angular momentum of about 2300 galaxies: unveiling the bimodality of massive galaxy properties

Mark T. Graham, Michele Cappellari, Hongyu Li +14

We measure , a proxy for galaxy specific stellar angular momentum within one effective radius, and the ellipticity, , for about 2300 galaxies of all morphological types…

astro-ph.GA2018★ 126 cited

SDSS-IV MaNGA: Global stellar population and gradients for about 2000 early-type and spiral galaxies on the mass-size plane

Hongyu Li, Shude Mao, Michele Cappellari +12

We perform full spectrum fitting stellar population analysis and Jeans Anisotropic modelling (JAM) of the stellar kinematics for about 2000 early-type galaxies (ETGs) and spiral ga…

astro-ph.GA2017★ 24 cited

SDSS-IV MaNGA: A Distinct Mass Distribution Explored in Slow-Rotating Early-type Galaxies

Yu Rong, Hongyu Li, Jie Wang +8

We study the radial acceleration relation (RAR) for early-type galaxies (ETGs) in the SDSS MaNGA MPL5 dataset. The complete ETG sample show a slightly offset RAR from the relation…

astro-ph.GA2017★ 56 cited

The origin and properties of massive prolate galaxies in the Illustris simulation

Hongyu Li, Shude Mao, Eric Emsellem +3

We study galaxy shapes in the Illustris cosmological hydrodynamic simulation. We find that massive galaxies have a higher probability of being prolate. For galaxies with stellar ma…

astro-ph.GA2017★ 681 cited

The 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

Bela Abolfathi, D. S. Aguado, Gabriela Aguilar +344

The fourth generation of the Sloan Digital Sky Survey (SDSS-IV) has been in operation since July 2014. This paper describes the second data release from this phase, and the fourtee…

astro-ph.GA2017★ 92 cited

SDSS-IV MaNGA: variation of the stellar initial mass function in spiral and early-type galaxies

Hongyu Li, Junqiang Ge, Shude Mao +10

We perform Jeans anisotropic modeling (JAM) on elliptical and spiral galaxies from the MaNGA DR13 sample. By comparing the stellar mass-to-light ratios estimated from stellar popul…

astro-ph.GA2016★ 126 cited

SDSS-IV MaNGA: environmental dependence of stellar age and metallicity gradients in nearby galaxies

Zheng Zheng, Huiyuan Wang, Junqiang Ge +20

We present a study on the stellar age and metallicity distributions for 1105 galaxies using the STARLIGHT software on MaNGA integral field spectra. We derive age and metallicity gr…

astro-ph.GA2016★ 360 cited

SDSS-IV MaNGA IFS Galaxy Survey --- Survey Design, Execution, and Initial Data Quality

Renbin Yan, Kevin Bundy, David R. Law +47

The MaNGA Survey (Mapping Nearby Galaxies at Apache Point Observatory) is one of three core programs in the Sloan Digital Sky Survey IV. It is obtaining integral field spectroscopy…

astro-ph.GA2015★ 58 cited

Assessing the Jeans Anisotropic Multi-Gaussian Expansion method with the Illustris simulation

Hongyu Li, Ran Li, Shude Mao +3

We assess the effectiveness of the Jeans-Anisotropic-MGE (JAM) technique with a state-of-the-art cosmological hydrodynamic simulation, the Illustris project. We perform JAM modelli…