Overview of the LAMOST survey in the first decade

H Yan, H Li, S Wang, W Zong, H Yuan, M Xiang… - The Innovation, 2022 - cell.com
The Large Sky Area Multi-Object Fiber Spectroscopic Telescope (LAMOST), also known as
the Guoshoujing Telescope, is a major national scientific facility for astronomical research …

[HTML][HTML] Binary stars in the new millennium

X Chen, Z Liu, Z Han - Progress in Particle and Nuclear Physics, 2024 - Elsevier
Binary stars are as common as single stars. Binary stars are of immense importance to
astrophysicists because that they allow us to determine the masses of the stars independent …

A time-resolved picture of our Milky Way's early formation history

M Xiang, HW Rix - Nature, 2022 - nature.com
The formation of our Milky Way can be split up qualitatively into different phases that resulted
in its structurally different stellar populations: the halo and the disk components,–. Revealing …

The GALAH+ survey: Third data release

S Buder, S Sharma, J Kos, AM Amarsi… - Monthly Notices of …, 2021 - academic.oup.com
The ensemble of chemical element abundance measurements for stars, along with precision
distances and orbit properties, provides high-dimensional data to study the evolution of the …

A sun-like star orbiting a black hole

K El-Badry, HW Rix, E Quataert… - Monthly Notices of …, 2023 - academic.oup.com
We report discovery of a bright, nearby () Sun-like star orbiting a dark object. We identified
the system as a black hole candidate via its astrometric orbital solution from the Gaia …

A million binaries from Gaia eDR3: sample selection and validation of Gaia parallax uncertainties

K El-Badry, HW Rix, TM Heintz - Monthly Notices of the Royal …, 2021 - academic.oup.com
We construct from Gaia eDR3 an extensive catalogue of spatially resolved binary stars
within≈ 1 kpc of the Sun, with projected separations ranging from a few au to 1 pc. We …

Robust data-driven metallicities for 175 million stars from Gaia XP spectra

R Andrae, HW Rix, V Chandra - The Astrophysical Journal …, 2023 - iopscience.iop.org
We derive and publish data-driven estimates of stellar metallicity [M/H] for∼ 175 million stars
with low-resolution XP spectra published in Gaia DR3. The [M/H] values, along with T eff and …

Evidence from the h3 survey that the stellar halo is entirely comprised of substructure

RP Naidu, C Conroy, A Bonaca… - The Astrophysical …, 2020 - iopscience.iop.org
In the ΛCDM paradigm, the Galactic stellar halo is predicted to harbor the accreted debris of
smaller systems. To identify these systems, the H3 Spectroscopic Survey, combined with …

The fourteenth data release of the Sloan digital sky survey: First spectroscopic data from the extended baryon oscillation spectroscopic survey and from the second …

B Abolfathi, DS Aguado, G Aguilar… - The Astrophysical …, 2018 - iopscience.iop.org
It is now 16 years since the first data release from the Sloan Digital Sky Survey (SDSS; York
et al. 2000). This Early Data Release, or EDR, occurred in 2001 June (Stoughton et al …

Parameters of 220 million stars from Gaia BP/RP spectra

X Zhang, GM Green, HW Rix - Monthly Notices of the Royal …, 2023 - academic.oup.com
We develop, validate and apply a forward model to estimate stellar atmospheric parameters
(T eff, log g, and [Fe/H]), revised distances and extinctions for 220 million stars with XP …