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UNVEILING THE MILKY WAY: A NEW TECHNIQUE FOR DETERMINING THE OPTICAL COLOR AND LUMINOSITY OF OUR GALAXY
Published in The Astrophysical journal (10-08-2015)“…ABSTRACT We demonstrate a new statistical method of determining the global photometric properties of the Milky Way (MW) to an unprecedented degree of accuracy,…”
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SIZING UP THE MILKY WAY: A BAYESIAN MIXTURE MODEL META-ANALYSIS OF PHOTOMETRIC SCALE LENGTH MEASUREMENTS
Published in The Astrophysical journal (01-11-2016)“…ABSTRACT The exponential scale length (Ld) of the Milky Way's (MW's) disk is a critical parameter for describing the global physical size of our Galaxy,…”
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DOES THE MILKY WAY OBEY SPIRAL GALAXY SCALING RELATIONS?
Published in The Astrophysical journal (20-12-2016)“…ABSTRACT It is crucial to understand how the Milky Way (MW), the galaxy we can study in the most intimate detail, fits in among other galaxies. Key…”
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Predictably missing satellites: subhalo abundances in Milky Way-like haloes
Published in Monthly notices of the Royal Astronomical Society (01-07-2019)“…ABSTRACT On small scales there have been a number of claims of discrepancies between the standard cold dark matter (CDM) model and observations. The ‘missing…”
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IMPROVED ESTIMATES OF THE MILKY WAY'S STELLAR MASS AND STAR FORMATION RATE FROM HIERARCHICAL BAYESIAN META-ANALYSIS
Published in The Astrophysical journal (10-06-2015)“…ABSTRACT We present improved estimates of several global properties of the Milky Way, including its current star formation rate (SFR), the stellar mass…”
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LUMINOUS RED GALAXIES: SELECTION AND CLASSIFICATION BY COMBINING OPTICAL AND INFRARED PHOTOMETRY
Published in The Astrophysical journal (20-04-2015)“…ABSTRACT We describe a new method of combining optical and infrared photometry to select luminous red galaxies (LRGs) at redshifts . We explore this technique…”
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Studying the Milky Way through its extragalactic analogs
Published 01-01-2016“…The Universe is teeming with galaxies, which are complex structures with a broad range of colors, shapes, and sizes. We reside within the Milky Way (MW), just…”
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Sizing Up the Milky Way: A Bayesian Mixture Model Meta-Analysis of Photometric Scale Length Measurements
Published 06-09-2016“…2016 ApJ 831, 71 The exponential scale length ($L_d$) of the Milky Way's (MW's) disk is a critical parameter for describing the global physical size of our…”
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Improved Estimates of the Milky Way's Stellar Mass and Star Formation Rate from Hierarchical Bayesian Meta-Analysis
Published 21-08-2015“…2015 ApJ 806, 96 We present improved estimates of several global properties of the Milky Way, including its current star formation rate (SFR), the stellar mass…”
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Does the Milky Way Obey Spiral Galaxy Scaling Relations?
Published 18-10-2016“…It is crucial to understand how the Milky Way, the galaxy we can study in the most intimate detail, fits in amongst other galaxies. Key examples include the…”
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Predictably Missing Satellites: Subhalo Abundance in Milky Way-like Halos
Published 17-06-2019“…Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, Volume 486, Issue 4, July 2019, Pages 4545-4568 On small scales there have been a number of claims of…”
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Unveiling the Milky Way: A New Technique for Determining the Optical Color and Luminosity of our Galaxy
Published 18-08-2015“…2015 ApJ 809, 96 We demonstrate a new statistical method of determining the global photometric properties of the Milky Way (MW) to an unprecedented degree of…”
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Preliminary Target Selection for the DESI Luminous Red Galaxy (LRG) Sample
Published 21-10-2020“…Res. Notes AAS, 4, 181 (2020) The DESI survey will observe more than 8 million candidate luminous red galaxies (LRGs) in the redshift range $0.3<z<1.0$. Here…”
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Luminous Red Galaxies: Selection and classification by combining optical and infrared photometry
Published 23-04-2015“…ApJ 803 105 (2015) We describe a new method of combining optical and infrared photometry to select Luminous Red Galaxies (LRGs) at redshifts $z > 0.6$. We…”
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The SDSS-IV extended Baryonic Oscillation Spectroscopic Survey: Luminous Red Galaxy Target Selection
Published 18-08-2015“…We describe the algorithm used to select the Luminous Red Galaxy (LRG) sample for the extended Baryon Oscillation Spectroscopic Survey (eBOSS) of the Sloan…”
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The Eleventh and Twelfth Data Releases of the Sloan Digital Sky Survey: Final Data from SDSS-III
Published 21-05-2015“…The third generation of the Sloan Digital Sky Survey (SDSS-III) took data from 2008 to 2014 using the original SDSS wide-field imager, the original and an…”
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