The DECam local volume exploration survey: Overview and first data release

A Drlica-Wagner, JL Carlin, DL Nidever… - The Astrophysical …, 2021 - iopscience.iop.org
Abstract The DECam Local Volume Exploration survey (DELVE) is a 126-night survey
program on the 4 m Blanco Telescope at the Cerro Tololo Inter-American Observatory in …

APOGEE chemical abundance patterns of the massive Milky Way satellites

S Hasselquist, CR Hayes, J Lian… - The Astrophysical …, 2021 - iopscience.iop.org
Abstract The SDSS-IV Apache Point Observatory Galactic Evolution Experiment (APOGEE)
survey has obtained high-resolution spectra for thousands of red giant stars distributed …

Stellar streams discovered in the dark energy survey

N Shipp, A Drlica-Wagner, E Balbinot… - The Astrophysical …, 2018 - iopscience.iop.org
We perform a search for stellar streams around the Milky Way using the first 3 yr of multiband
optical imaging data from the Dark Energy Survey (DES). We use DES data covering∼ 5000 …

DELVE 6: An Ancient, Ultra-faint Star Cluster on the Outskirts of the Magellanic Clouds

W Cerny, A Drlica-Wagner, TS Li… - The Astrophysical …, 2023 - iopscience.iop.org
We present the discovery of DELVE 6, an ultra-faint stellar system identified in the second
data release of the DECam Local Volume Exploration (DELVE) survey. Based on a …

Ogle-ing the magellanic system: Optical reddening maps of the large and small magellanic clouds from red clump stars

DM Skowron, J Skowron, A Udalski… - The Astrophysical …, 2021 - iopscience.iop.org
We present the most extensive and detailed reddening maps of the Magellanic Clouds
(MCs) derived from the color properties of Red Clump (RC) stars. The analysis is based on …

The lazy giants: APOGEE abundances reveal low star formation efficiencies in the Magellanic Clouds

DL Nidever, S Hasselquist, CR Hayes… - The Astrophysical …, 2020 - iopscience.iop.org
We report the first APOGEE metallicities and α-element abundances measured for 3600 red
giant stars spanning a large radial range of both the Large (LMC) and Small Magellanic …

Star Formation Histories of Ultra-faint Dwarf Galaxies: Environmental Differences between Magellanic and Non-Magellanic Satellites?

E Sacchi, H Richstein, N Kallivayalil… - The Astrophysical …, 2021 - iopscience.iop.org
We present the color–magnitude diagrams and star formation histories (SFHs) of seven ultra-
faint dwarf galaxies: Horologium 1, Hydra 2, Phoenix 2, Reticulum 2, Sagittarius 2 …

The Recent LMC–SMC Collision: Timing and Impact Parameter Constraints from Comparison of Gaia LMC Disk Kinematics and N-body Simulations

Y Choi, KAG Olsen, G Besla… - The Astrophysical …, 2022 - iopscience.iop.org
We present analysis of the proper-motion (PM) field of the red clump stars in the Large
Magellanic Cloud (LMC) disk using the Gaia Early Data Release 3 catalog. Using a …

The VMC survey–XXXI: The spatially resolved star formation history of the main body of the Small Magellanic Cloud

S Rubele, G Pastorelli, L Girardi… - Monthly Notices of …, 2018 - academic.oup.com
We recover the spatially resolved star formation history across the entire main body and
Wing of the Small Magellanic Cloud (SMC), using 14 deep tile images from the VISTA …

Kinematic analysis of the Large Magellanic Cloud using Gaia DR3

Ó Jiménez-Arranz, M Romero-Gómez, X Luri… - Astronomy & …, 2023 - aanda.org
Context. The high quality of the Gaia mission data has allowed for studies of the internal
kinematics of the Large Magellanic Cloud (LMC) to be undertaken in unprecedented detail …