Nucleosynthesis in stars and the chemical enrichment of galaxies

K Nomoto, C Kobayashi… - Annual Review of …, 2013 - annualreviews.org
After the Big Bang, production of heavy elements in the early Universe takes place starting
from the formation of the first stars, their evolution, and explosion. The first supernova …

Near-field cosmology with extremely metal-poor stars

A Frebel, JE Norris - Annual Review of Astronomy and …, 2015 - annualreviews.org
The oldest, most metal-poor stars in the Galactic halo and satellite dwarf galaxies present an
opportunity to explore the chemical and physical conditions of the earliest star-forming …

Co-formation of the disc and the stellar halo

V Belokurov, D Erkal, NW Evans… - Monthly Notices of …, 2018 - academic.oup.com
Using a large sample of main sequence stars with 7D measurements supplied by Gaia and
SDSS, we study the kinematic properties of the local (within∼ 10 kpc from the Sun) stellar …

Proper motions, orbits, and tidal influences of milky way dwarf spheroidal galaxies

AB Pace, D Erkal, TS Li - The Astrophysical Journal, 2022 - iopscience.iop.org
We combine Gaia early data release 3 astrometry with accurate photometry and utilize a
probabilistic mixture model to measure the systemic proper motion of 52 dwarf spheroidal …

Eight ultra-faint galaxy candidates discovered in year two of the dark energy survey

A Drlica-Wagner, K Bechtol, ES Rykoff… - The Astrophysical …, 2015 - iopscience.iop.org
We report the discovery of eight new ultra-faint dwarf galaxy candidates in the second year
of optical imaging data from the Dark Energy Survey (DES). Six of these candidates are …

One law to rule them all: the radial acceleration relation of galaxies

F Lelli, SS McGaugh, JM Schombert… - The Astrophysical …, 2017 - iopscience.iop.org
We study the link between baryons and dark matter (DM) in 240 galaxies with spatially
resolved kinematic data. Our sample spans 9 dex in stellar mass and includes all …

Eight new Milky Way companions discovered in first-year Dark Energy Survey data

K Bechtol, A Drlica-Wagner, E Balbinot… - The Astrophysical …, 2015 - iopscience.iop.org
We report the discovery of eight new Milky Way companions in $\sim 1800\;{\mathrm
{deg}}^{2} $ of optical imaging data collected during the first year of the Dark Energy Survey …

Gaia DR2 proper motions of dwarf galaxies within 420 kpc-orbits, Milky Way mass, tidal influences, planar alignments, and group infall

TK Fritz, G Battaglia, MS Pawlowski… - Astronomy & …, 2018 - aanda.org
A proper understanding of the Milky Way (MW) dwarf galaxies in a cosmological context
requires knowledge of their 3D velocities and orbits. However, proper motion (PM) …

Milky Way satellite census. I. The observational selection function for Milky Way satellites in DES Y3 and Pan-STARRS DR1

A Drlica-Wagner, K Bechtol, S Mau… - The Astrophysical …, 2020 - iopscience.iop.org
We report the results of a systematic search for ultra-faint Milky Way satellite galaxies using
data from the Dark Energy Survey (DES) and Pan-STARRS1 (PS1). Together, DES and PS1 …

The apache point observatory galactic evolution experiment (APOGEE)

SR Majewski, RP Schiavon… - The Astronomical …, 2017 - iopscience.iop.org
Abstract The Apache Point Observatory Galactic Evolution Experiment (APOGEE), one of the
programs in the Sloan Digital Sky Survey III (SDSS-III), has now completed its systematic …