The galaxy in context: structural, kinematic, and integrated properties

J Bland-Hawthorn, O Gerhard - Annual Review of Astronomy …, 2016 - annualreviews.org
Our Galaxy, the Milky Way, is a benchmark for understanding disk galaxies. It is the only
galaxy whose formation history can be studied using the full distribution of stars from faint …

Chemodynamical history of the galactic bulge

B Barbuy, C Chiappini, O Gerhard - Annual Review of …, 2018 - annualreviews.org
The Galactic Bulge can uniquely be studied from large samples of individual stars and is
therefore of prime importance for understanding the stellar population structure of bulges in …

A 3D dust map based on Gaia, Pan-STARRS 1, and 2MASS

GM Green, E Schlafly, C Zucker… - The Astrophysical …, 2019 - iopscience.iop.org
We present a new three-dimensional map of dust reddening, based on Gaia parallaxes and
stellar photometry from Pan-STARRS 1 and 2MASS. This map covers the sky north of a decl …

Clusters and mirages: cataloguing stellar aggregates in the Milky Way

T Cantat-Gaudin, F Anders - Astronomy & Astrophysics, 2020 - aanda.org
Context. Many of the open clusters listed in modern catalogues were initially reported by
visual astronomers as apparent overdensities of bright stars. As observational techniques …

The automatic learning for the rapid classification of events (ALeRCE) alert broker

F Förster, G Cabrera-Vives… - The Astronomical …, 2021 - iopscience.iop.org
Abstract We introduce the Automatic Learning for the Rapid Classification of Events
(ALeRCE) broker, an astronomical alert broker designed to provide a rapid and self …

The Fermi galactic center GeV excess and implications for dark matter

M Ackermann, M Ajello, A Albert… - The Astrophysical …, 2017 - iopscience.iop.org
The region around the Galactic Center (GC) is now well established to be brighter at
energies of a few GeV than what is expected from conventional models of diffuse gamma …

The field substellar mass function based on the full-sky 20 pc census of 525 L, T, and Y dwarfs

JD Kirkpatrick, CR Gelino, JK Faherty… - The Astrophysical …, 2021 - iopscience.iop.org
We present final Spitzer trigonometric parallaxes for 361 L, T, and Y dwarfs. We combine
these with prior studies to build a list of 525 known L, T, and Y dwarfs within 20 pc of the …

The Southern Photometric Local Universe Survey (S-PLUS): improved SEDs, morphologies, and redshifts with 12 optical filters

C Mendes de Oliveira, T Ribeiro… - Monthly Notices of …, 2019 - academic.oup.com
ABSTRACT The Southern Photometric Local Universe Survey (S-PLUS) is imaging∼ 9300
deg2 of the celestial sphere in 12 optical bands using a dedicated 0.8 m robotic telescope …

A Jovian analogue orbiting a white dwarf star

JW Blackman, JP Beaulieu, DP Bennett, C Danielski… - Nature, 2021 - nature.com
Studies, have shown that the remnants of destroyed planets and debris-disk planetesimals
can survive the volatile evolution of their host stars into white dwarfs,, but few intact planetary …

The catalina surveys periodic variable star catalog

AJ Drake, MJ Graham, SG Djorgovski… - The Astrophysical …, 2014 - iopscience.iop.org
We present∼ 47,000 periodic variables found during the analysis of 5.4 million variable star
candidates within a 20,000 deg 2 region covered by the Catalina Surveys Data Release-1 …