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<i>Gaia</i> Data Release 3 Open
Context. We present the third data release of the European Space Agency’s Gaia mission, Gaia DR3. This release includes a large variety of new data products, notably a much expanded radial velocity survey and a very extensive astrophysical…
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The Complete Light-curve Sample of Spectroscopically Confirmed SNe Ia from Pan-STARRS1 and Cosmological Constraints from the Combined Pantheon Sample Open
We present optical light curves, redshifts, and classifications for spectroscopically confirmed Type Ia supernovae (SNe Ia) discovered by the Pan-STARRS1 (PS1) Medium Deep Survey. We detail improvements to the PS1 SN photometry, astrometry…
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A Comprehensive Measurement of the Local Value of the Hubble Constant with 1 km s<sup>−1</sup> Mpc<sup>−1</sup> Uncertainty from the Hubble Space Telescope and the SH0ES Team Open
We report observations from the Hubble Space Telescope (HST) of Cepheid variables in the host galaxies of 42 Type Ia supernovae (SNe Ia) used to calibrate the Hubble constant ( H 0 ). These include the complete sample of all suitable SNe I…
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Gaia Data Release 1 Open
Context. At about 1000 days after the launch of Gaia we present the first Gaia data release, Gaia DR1, consisting of astrometry and photometry for over 1 billion sources brighter than magnitude 20.7. Aims. A summary of Gaia DR1 is presente…
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The Electromagnetic Counterpart of the Binary Neutron Star Merger LIGO/Virgo GW170817. II. UV, Optical, and Near-infrared Light Curves and Comparison to Kilonova Models Open
We present UV, optical, and near-infrared (NIR) photometry of the first electromagnetic counterpart to a gravitational wave source from Advanced Laser Interferometer Gravitational-wave Observatory (LIGO)/Virgo, the binary neutron star merg…
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<i>Gaia</i> Data Release 2 Open
Context. Gaia Data Release 2 provides high-precision astrometry and three-band photometry for about 1.3 billion sources over the full sky. The precision, accuracy, and homogeneity of both astrometry and photometry are unprecedented. Aims. …
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<i>Gaia</i> Data Release 2 Open
Aims. We describe the photometric content of the second data release of the Gaia project ( Gaia DR2) and its validation along with the quality of the data. Methods. The validation was mainly carried out using an internal analysis of the ph…
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<i>Gaia</i>Early Data Release 3 Open
Context. Gaia Early Data Release 3 ( Gaia EDR3) contains astrometry and photometry results for about 1.8 billion sources based on observations collected by the European Space Agency Gaia satellite during the first 34 months of its operatio…
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KiDS-1000 cosmology: Cosmic shear constraints and comparison between two point statistics Open
We present cosmological constraints from a cosmic shear analysis of the fourth data release of the Kilo-Degree Survey (KiDS-1000), which doubles the survey area with nine-band optical and near-infrared photometry with respect to previous K…
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Gaia Early Data Release 3: Summary of the contents and survey properties Open
CONTEXT: We present the early installment of the third Gaia data release, Gaia EDR3, consisting of astrometry and photometry for 1.8 billion sources brighter than magnitude 21, complemented with the list of radial velocities from Gaia DR2.…
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Kepler Mission Design, Realized Photometric Performance, and Early Science Open
The Kepler Mission, launched on 2009 March 6, was designed with the explicit capability to detect Earth-size planets in the habitable zone of solar-like stars using the transit photometry method. Results from just 43 days of data along wit…
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The GALAH+ survey: Third data release Open
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 Milky Way. With this third data release of the Galactic Ar…
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Structure and Formation of Elliptical and Spheroidal Galaxies Open
New surface photometry of all known elliptical galaxies in the Virgo cluster is combined with published data to derive composite profiles of brightness, ellipticity, position angle, isophote shape, and color over large radius ranges. These…
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Re-evaluating old stellar populations Open
Determining the properties of old stellar populations (those with age >1 Gyr) has long involved the comparison of their integrated light, either in the form of photometry or spectroscopic indexes, with empirical or synthetic templates. Her…
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COSMICFLOWS-3 Open
The Cosmicflows database of galaxy distances that in the second edition contained 8188 entries is now expanded to 17,669 entries. The major additions are 2257 distances that we have derived from the correlation between galaxy rotation and …
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Painting a portrait of the Galactic disc with its stellar clusters Open
Context. The large astrometric and photometric survey performed by the Gaia mission allows for a panoptic view of the Galactic disc and its stellar cluster population. Hundreds of stellar clusters were only discovered after the latest Gaia…
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How to Measure Galaxy Star Formation Histories. II. Nonparametric Models Open
Nonparametric star formation histories (SFHs) have long promised to be the “gold standard” for galaxy spectral energy distribution (SED) modeling as they are flexible enough to describe the full diversity of SFH shapes, whereas parametric …
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<i>Gaia</i> Data Release 2 Open
The second Gaia data release ( Gaia DR2) contains, beyond the astrometry, three-band photometry for 1.38 billion sources. One band is the G band, the other two were obtained by integrating the Gaia prism spectra (BP and RP). We have used t…
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The<i>Hubble Space Telescope</i>UV Legacy Survey of Galactic globular clusters – IX. The Atlas of multiple stellar populations Open
We use high-precision photometry of red-giant-branch (RGB) stars in 57 Galactic globular clusters (GCs), mostly from the 'Hubble Space Telescope (HST ) UV Legacy Survey of Galactic GCs', to identify and characterize their multiple stellar …
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Galactic reddening in 3D from stellar photometry – an improved map Open
We present a new 3D map of interstellar dust reddening, covering three quarters of the sky (declinations of δ ≳ −30°) out to a distance of several kiloparsecs. The map is based on high-quality stellar photometry of 800 million stars from P…
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CEERS Key Paper. I. An Early Look into the First 500 Myr of Galaxy Formation with JWST Open
We present an investigation into the first 500 Myr of galaxy evolution from the Cosmic Evolution Early Release Science (CEERS) survey. CEERS, one of 13 JWST ERS programs, targets galaxy formation from z ∼ 0.5 to >10 using several imaging a…
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The Sloan Digital Sky Survey Quasar Catalog: Twelfth data release Open
We present the Data Release 12 Quasar catalog (DR12Q) from the Baryon Oscillation Spectroscopic Survey (BOSS) of the Sloan Digital Sky Survey III. This catalog includes all SDSS-III/BOSS objects that were spectroscopically targeted as quas…
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The COSMOS2015 galaxy stellar mass function Open
We measure the stellar mass function (SMF) and stellar mass density of galaxies in the COSMOS field up to z ~ 6. We select them in the near-IR bands of the COSMOS2015 catalogue, which includes ultra-deep photometry from UltraVISTA-DR2, SPL…
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GALEX–SDSS–WISE LEGACY CATALOG (GSWLC): STAR FORMATION RATES, STELLAR MASSES, AND DUST ATTENUATIONS OF 700,000 LOW-REDSHIFT GALAXIES Open
In this paper, we present the GALEX –SDSS– WISE Legacy Catalog (GSWLC), a catalog of physical properties (stellar masses, dust attenuations, and star formation rates [SFRs]) for ∼700,000 galaxies with Sloan Digital Sky Survey (SDSS) redshi…
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<i>Gaia</i>Early Data Release 3 Open
Context. The third Gaia data release is published in two stages. The early part, Gaia EDR3, gives very precise astrometric and photometric properties for nearly two billion sources together with seven million radial velocities from Gaia DR…
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<i>Gaia</i>-2MASS 3D maps of Galactic interstellar dust within 3 kpc Open
Gaia stellar measurements are currently revolutionizing our knowledge of the evolutionary history of the Milky Way. 3D maps of the interstellar dust provide complementary information and are a tool for a wide range of uses. We built 3D map…
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Euclid Spectroscopic Image Simulations and Reconstruction Open
Parallel Talk presented at the XX International Workshop on Neutrino Telescopes - Venice 23-27 October 2023 Abstract: Euclid is a European Space Agency (ESA) mission, designed to investigate the nature of Dark Energy and Dark Matter. It wi…
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Gaia Data Release 2: Photometric content and validation Open
Aims. We describe the photometric content of the second data release of the Gaia project (Gaia DR2) and its validation along with the quality of the data. Methods. The validation was mainly carried out using an internal analysis of the pho…
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The MUSE <i>Hubble </i>Ultra Deep Field Survey Open
We present the MUSE Hubble Ultra Deep Survey, a mosaic of nine MUSE fields covering 90% of the entire HUDF region with a 10-h deep exposure time, plus a deeper 31-h exposure in a single 1.15 arcmin 2 field. The improved observing strategy …
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The unWISE Catalog: Two Billion Infrared Sources from Five Years of <i>WISE</i> Imaging Open
We introduce the unWISE Catalog, containing the positions and fluxes of roughly 2 billion objects observed by the Wide-field Infrared Survey Explorer (WISE) over the full sky. The unWISE Catalog has two advantages over the existing WISE ca…