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 …

This overview paper describes the legacy prospect and discovery potential of the Dark
Energy Survey (DES) beyond cosmological studies, illustrating it with examples from the …

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 …

Abstract The DESI Legacy Imaging Surveys (http://legacysurvey. org/) are a combination of
three public projects (the Dark Energy Camera Legacy Survey, the Bei**g–Arizona Sky …

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 …

We investigate the nature of the double color–magnitude sequence observed in the Gaia
DR2 HR diagram of stars with high transverse velocities. The stars in the reddest-color …

Using a sample of 69,919 red giants from the SDSS-III/APOGEE Data Release 12, we
measure the distribution of stars in the [α/Fe] versus [Fe/H] plane and the metallicity …

Accurate distances to local molecular clouds are critical for understanding the star and
planet formation process, yet distance measurements are often obtained inhomogeneously …

We present a uniform catalog of accurate distances to local molecular clouds informed by
the Gaia DR2 data release. Our methodology builds on that of Schlafly et al. First, we infer …

The Gaia mission has revolutionized our view of the Milky Way and its satellite citizens. The
field of Galactic Archaeology has been piecing together the formation and evolution of the …