De re metallica: the cosmic chemical evolution of galaxies

R Maiolino, F Mannucci - The Astronomy and Astrophysics Review, 2019 - Springer
The evolution of the content of heavy elements in galaxies, the relative chemical
abundances, their spatial distribution, and how these scale with various galactic properties …

Streams, substructures, and the early history of the Milky Way

A Helmi - Annual Review of Astronomy and Astrophysics, 2020 - annualreviews.org
The advent of the second data release of the Gaia mission, in combination with data from
large spectroscopic surveys, is revolutionizing our understanding of the Galaxy. Thanks to …

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 red giant orbiting a black hole

K El-Badry, HW Rix, Y Cendes… - Monthly Notices of …, 2023 - academic.oup.com
We report spectroscopic and photometric follow-up of a dormant black hole (BH) candidate
from Gaia DR3. The system, which we call Gaia BH2, contains a∼ 1 M⊙ red giant and a …

The Gaia-ESO Public Spectroscopic Survey: Implementation, data products, open cluster survey, science, and legacy

S Randich, G Gilmore, L Magrini, GG Sacco… - Astronomy & …, 2022 - aanda.org
Context. In the last 15 years different ground-based spectroscopic surveys have been
started (and completed) with the general aim of delivering stellar parameters and elemental …

The revised TESS input catalog and candidate target list

KG Stassun, RJ Oelkers, M Paegert… - The Astronomical …, 2019 - iopscience.iop.org
We describe the catalogs assembled and the algorithms used to populate the revised TESS
Input Catalog (TIC), based on the incorporation of the Gaia second data release. We also …

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 …

The poor old heart of the Milky Way

HW Rix, V Chandra, R Andrae… - The Astrophysical …, 2022 - iopscience.iop.org
Abstract Our Milky Way should host an ancient, metal-poor, and centrally concentrated
stellar population, which reflects the star formation and enrichment in the few most massive …

Validation of the scientific program for the Dark Energy Spectroscopic Instrument

AG Adame, J Aguilar, S Ahlen, S Alam… - The Astronomical …, 2024 - iopscience.iop.org
Studies of the geometry and energy content of the Universe, physics of cosmic expansion,
fundamental properties of standard model particles, and growth of structure remain the key …

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 …