A Large-scale Approach to Modeling Molecular Biosignatures: The Diatomics (2022)
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Cross, T. M., Benoit, D. M., Pignatari, M., & Gibson, B. K. (2022). A Large-scale Approach to Modeling Molecular Biosignatures: The Diatomics. The Astrophysical journal, 925(1), Article 57. https://doi.org/10.3847/1538-4357/ac3976

This work presents the first steps to modeling synthetic rovibrational spectra for all molecules of astrophysical interest using a new approach implemented in the Prometheus code. The goal is to create a new comprehensive source of first-principles m... Read More about A Large-scale Approach to Modeling Molecular Biosignatures: The Diatomics.

Project ThaiPASS: international outreach blending astronomy and Python (2021)
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Keegans, J. D., Stancliffe, R. J., Bilton, L. E., Cashmore, C. R., Gibson, B. K., Kristensen, M. T., …Chongchitnan, S. (2021). Project ThaiPASS: international outreach blending astronomy and Python. Physics Education, 56(3), Article 035001. https://doi.org/10.1088/1361-6552/abdae7

We present our outreach program, the Thailand–UK Python+Astronomy Summer School (ThaiPASS), a collaborative project comprising UK and Thai institutions and assess its impact and possible application to schools in the United Kingdom. Since its incepti... Read More about Project ThaiPASS: international outreach blending astronomy and Python.

The horizon run 5 cosmological hydrodynamical simulation: probing galaxy formation from kilo- to gigaparsec scales (2021)
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Lee, J., Shin, J., Snaith, O. N., Kim, Y., Few, C. G., Devriendt, J., …Park, C. (2021). The horizon run 5 cosmological hydrodynamical simulation: probing galaxy formation from kilo- to gigaparsec scales. The Astrophysical journal, 908(1), Article 11. https://doi.org/10.3847/1538-4357/abd08b

Horizon Run 5 (HR5) is a cosmological hydrodynamical simulation that captures the properties of the universe on a Gpc scale while achieving a resolution of 1 kpc. Inside the simulation box, we zoom in on a high-resolution cuboid region with a volume... Read More about The horizon run 5 cosmological hydrodynamical simulation: probing galaxy formation from kilo- to gigaparsec scales.

The RAdial Velocity Experiment (RAVE): Parameterisation of RAVE spectra based on convolutional neural networks (2020)
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Guiglion, G., Matijevič, G., Queiroz, A. B., Valentini, M., Steinmetz, M., Chiappini, C., …Siebert, A. (2020). The RAdial Velocity Experiment (RAVE): Parameterisation of RAVE spectra based on convolutional neural networks. Astronomy and Astrophysics, 644, Article A168. https://doi.org/10.1051/0004-6361/202038271

© ESO 2020. Context Data-driven methods play an increasingly important role in the field of astrophysics In the context of large spectroscopic surveys of stars, data-driven methods are key in deducing physical parameters for millions of spectra in a... Read More about The RAdial Velocity Experiment (RAVE): Parameterisation of RAVE spectra based on convolutional neural networks.

Explaining the chemical trajectories of accreted and in-situ halo stars of the Milky Way (2020)
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Brook, C. B., Kawata, D., Gibson, B. K., Gallart, C., & Vicente, A. (2020). Explaining the chemical trajectories of accreted and in-situ halo stars of the Milky Way. Monthly notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, 495(3), 2645-2651. https://doi.org/10.1093/mnras/staa992

© 2020 The Author(s) Published by Oxford University Press on behalf of the Royal Astronomical Society. The Milky Way underwent its last significant merger ten billion years ago, when the Gaia-Enceladus-Sausage (GES) was accreted. Accreted GES stars a... Read More about Explaining the chemical trajectories of accreted and in-situ halo stars of the Milky Way.

Single-lined Spectroscopic Binary Star Candidates from a Combination of the RAVE and Gaia DR2 Surveys (2019)
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Birko, D., Zwitter, T., Grebel, E. K., Parker, Q. A., Kordopatis, G., Bland-Hawthorn, J., …Watson, F. (in press). Single-lined Spectroscopic Binary Star Candidates from a Combination of the RAVE and Gaia DR2 Surveys. Astronomical Journal, 158(4), Article 155. https://doi.org/10.3847/1538-3881/ab3cc1

The combination of the final version of the Radial Velocity Experiment (RAVE) spectroscopic survey data release 6 with radial velocities (RVs) and astrometry from Gaia DR2 allows us to identify and create a catalog of single-lined binary star candida... Read More about Single-lined Spectroscopic Binary Star Candidates from a Combination of the RAVE and Gaia DR2 Surveys.

2D-Galactic chemical evolution: The role of the spiral density wave (2019)
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Mollá, M., Wekesa, S., Cavichia, O., Díaz, I., Gibson, B. K., Rosales-Ortega, F. F., …Sánchez, S. F. (2019). 2D-Galactic chemical evolution: The role of the spiral density wave. Monthly notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, 490(1), 665-682. https://doi.org/10.1093/mnras/stz2537

© 2019 The Author(s). Published by Oxford University Press on behalf of the Royal Astronomical Society. We present a 2D chemical evolution code applied to a Milky Way type Galaxy, incorporating the role of spiral arms in shaping azimuthal abundance v... Read More about 2D-Galactic chemical evolution: The role of the spiral density wave.

Galactic chemical evolution of radioactive isotopes (2019)
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Côté, B., Lugaro, M., Reifarth, R., Pignatari, M., Világos, B., Yagüe, A., & Gibson, B. K. (2019). Galactic chemical evolution of radioactive isotopes. The Astrophysical journal, 878(2), Article 156. https://doi.org/10.3847/1538-4357/ab21d1

The presence of short-lived (∼ Myr) radioactive isotopes in meteoritic inclusions at the time of their formation represents a unique opportunity to study the circumstances that led to the formation of the Solar System. To interpret these observations... Read More about Galactic chemical evolution of radioactive isotopes.

The R-Process Alliance: Discovery of a Low-α, r-process-enhanced Metal-poor Star in the Galactic Halo (2019)
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Wyse, R. F., Sakari, C. M., Roederer, I. U., Placco, V. M., Beers, T. C., Ezzeddine, R., …Watson, F. (2019). The R-Process Alliance: Discovery of a Low-α, r-process-enhanced Metal-poor Star in the Galactic Halo. The Astrophysical journal, 874(2), Article 148. https://doi.org/10.3847/1538-4357/ab0c02

A new moderately r-process-enhanced metal-poor star, RAVE J093730.5−062655, has been identified in the Milky Way halo as part of an ongoing survey by the R-Process Alliance. The temperature and surface gravity indicate that J0937−0626 is likely a hor... Read More about The R-Process Alliance: Discovery of a Low-α, r-process-enhanced Metal-poor Star in the Galactic Halo.

Local disc model in view of Gaia DR1 and RAVE data (2018)
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Sysoliatina, K., Just, A., Koutsouridou, I., Grebel, E. K., Kordopatis, G., Steinmetz, M., …Seabroke, G. (2018). Local disc model in view of Gaia DR1 and RAVE data. Astronomy and Astrophysics, 620, A71. https://doi.org/10.1051/0004-6361/201833228

Aims. We test the performance of the semi-analytic self-consistent Just-Jahreiß disc model (JJ model) with the astrometric data from the Tycho-Gaia Astrometric Solution (TGAS) sub-catalogue of the first Gaia data release (Gaia DR1), as well as the ra... Read More about Local disc model in view of Gaia DR1 and RAVE data.

The r-process alliance: First release from the Northern search for r-process enhanced metal-poor stars in the Galactic Halo (2018)
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Sakari, C. M., Placco, V. M., Farrell, E. M., Roederer, I. U., Wallerstein, G., Beers, T. C., …Watson, F. (2018). The r-process alliance: First release from the Northern search for r-process enhanced metal-poor stars in the Galactic Halo. The Astrophysical journal, 868(2), 110. https://doi.org/10.3847/1538-4357/aae9df

This paper presents the detailed abundances and r-process classifications of 126 newly identified metal-poor stars as part of an ongoing collaboration, the R-Process Alliance.

The time evolution of the Milky Way's oxygen abundance gradient (2018)
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Mollá, M., Díaz, Á. I., Cavichia, O., Gibson, B. K., Maciel, W. J., Costa, R. D., …Few, C. G. (2019). The time evolution of the Milky Way's oxygen abundance gradient. Monthly notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, 482(3), 3071-3088. https://doi.org/10.1093/mnras/sty2877

© 2018 The Author(s). We study the evolution of oxygen abundance radial gradients as a function of time for the Milky Way Galaxy obtained with our MulChem chemical evolution model. We review the recent data of abundances for different objects observe... Read More about The time evolution of the Milky Way's oxygen abundance gradient.

Evolution of starburst galaxies in the Illustris simulation (2018)
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Wilkinson, C. L., Pimbblet, K. A., Stott, J. P., Few, C. G., & Gibson, B. K. (2018). Evolution of starburst galaxies in the Illustris simulation. Monthly notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, 479(1), 758-767. https://doi.org/10.1093/mnras/sty1493

© 2018 The Author(s). Published by Oxford University Press on behalf of The Royal Astronomical Society. There is a consensus in the literature that starburst galaxies are triggered by interaction events. However, it remains an open question as to wha... Read More about Evolution of starburst galaxies in the Illustris simulation.

The origin of the Milky Way's halo age distribution (2018)
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Carollo, D., Tissera, P. B., Beers, T. C., Gudin, D., Gibson, B. K., Freeman, K. C., & Monachesi, A. (2018). The origin of the Milky Way's halo age distribution. Astrophysical journal. Letters, 859(1), L7. https://doi.org/10.3847/2041-8213/aac2dc

© 2018. The American Astronomical Society.. We present an analysis of the radial age gradients for the stellar halos of five Milky Way (MW) mass-sized systems simulated as part of the Aquarius Project. The halos show a diversity of age trends, reflec... Read More about The origin of the Milky Way's halo age distribution.

Coma Berenices: The First Evidence for Incomplete Vertical Phase-mixing in Local Velocity Space with RAVE—Confirmed with Gaia DR2 (2018)
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Monari, G., Famaey, B., Minchev, I., Antoja, T., Bienaymé, O., Gibson, B. K., …Zwitter, T. (2018). Coma Berenices: The First Evidence for Incomplete Vertical Phase-mixing in Local Velocity Space with RAVE—Confirmed with Gaia DR2. Research Notes of the AAS, 2(2), 32. https://doi.org/10.3847/2515-5172/aac38e

Correlations between age, kinematics, and chemistry as seen by the RAVE survey (2018)
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Wojno, J., Kordopatis, G., Steinmetz, M., McMillan, P., Binney, J., Famaey, B., …Seabroke, G. (2018). Correlations between age, kinematics, and chemistry as seen by the RAVE survey. Monthly notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, 477(4), 5612-5624. https://doi.org/10.1093/mnras/sty1016

We explore the connections between stellar age, chemistry, and kinematics across a Galactocentric distance of 7.5 < R(kpc) < 9.0, using a sample of ∼12 000 intermediate-mass (FGK) turn-off stars observed with the RAdial Velocity Experiment (RAVE) sur... Read More about Correlations between age, kinematics, and chemistry as seen by the RAVE survey.

Improved distances and ages for stars common to TGAS and RAVE (2018)
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McMillan, P. J., Kordopatis, G., Kunder, A., Binney, J., Wojno, J., Zwitter, T., …Wyse, R. F. (2018). Improved distances and ages for stars common to TGAS and RAVE. Monthly notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, 477(4), 5279-5300. https://doi.org/10.1093/MNRAS/STY990

We combine parallaxes from the first Gaia data release with the spectrophotometric distance estimation framework for stars in the fifth RAVE survey data release. The combined distance estimates are more accurate than either determination in isolation... Read More about Improved distances and ages for stars common to TGAS and RAVE.

Is the Milky Way still breathing? RAVE–Gaia streaming motions (2018)
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Carrillo, I., Minchev, I., Kordopatis, G., Steinmetz, M., Binney, J., Anders, F., …Zwitter, T. (2018). Is the Milky Way still breathing? RAVE–Gaia streaming motions. Monthly notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, 475(2), 2679-2696. https://doi.org/10.1093/mnras/stx3342

We use data from the Radial Velocity Experiment (RAVE) and the Tycho-Gaia astrometric solution (TGAS) catalogue to compute the velocity fields yielded by the radial (VR), azimuthal (Vϕ),and vertical (Vz) components of associated Galactocentric veloci... Read More about Is the Milky Way still breathing? RAVE–Gaia streaming motions.

The role of stellar radial motions in shaping galaxy surface brightness profiles (2017)
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Ruiz-Lara, T., Few, C. G., Florido, E., Gibson, B. K., Pérez, I., & Sánchez-Blázquez, P. (2017). The role of stellar radial motions in shaping galaxy surface brightness profiles. Astronomy and Astrophysics, 608, A126. https://doi.org/10.1051/0004-6361/201731485

Aims. The physics driving features such as breaks observed in galaxy surface brightness (SB) profiles remains contentious. Here, we assess the importance of stellar radial motions in shaping their characteristics. Methods. We use the simulated Milky... Read More about The role of stellar radial motions in shaping galaxy surface brightness profiles.

Metallicity gradient of the thick disc progenitor at high redshift (2017)
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Kawata, D., Prieto, C. A., Brook, C. B., Casagrande, L., Ciucă, I., Gibson, B. K., …Hunt, J. A. S. (2018). Metallicity gradient of the thick disc progenitor at high redshift. Monthly notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, 473(1), 867-878. https://doi.org/10.1093/mnras/stx2464

© 2017 The Authors. We have developed a novel Markov Chain Monte Carlo chemical 'painting' technique to explore possible radial and vertical metallicity gradients for the thick disc progenitor. In our analysis, we match an N-body simulation to the da... Read More about Metallicity gradient of the thick disc progenitor at high redshift.