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The local rotation curve of the Milky Way based on SEGUE and RAVE data (2018)
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Sysoliatina, K., Just, A., Golubov, O., Parker, Q. A., Grebel, E. K., Kordopatis, G., …Watson, F. (2018). The local rotation curve of the Milky Way based on SEGUE and RAVE data. Astronomy and Astrophysics, 614, A63. https://doi.org/10.1051/0004-6361/201731143

Aims. We construct the rotation curve of the Milky Way in the extended solar neighbourhood using a sample of Sloan Extension for Galactic Understanding and Exploration (SEGUE) G-dwarfs. We investigate the rotation curve shape for the presence of any... Read More about The local rotation curve of the Milky Way based on SEGUE and RAVE data.

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.

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.

an overview of the MHONGOOSE survey: Observing nearby galaxies with MeerKAT (2018)
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de Blok, W. J., Adams, E. A., Amram, P., Athanassoula, E., Bagetakos, I., Balkowski, C., …Zijlstra, A. (2018). an overview of the MHONGOOSE survey: Observing nearby galaxies with MeerKAT. Proceedings of Science, 277, Article 7. https://doi.org/10.22323/1.277.0007

© Copyright owned by the author(s). MHONGOOSE is a deep survey of the neutral hydrogen distribution in a representative sample of 30 nearby disk and dwarf galaxies with H I masses from ∼ 106 to ∼ 1011 M, and luminosities from MR ∼ 12 to MR ∼ −22. The... Read More about an overview of the MHONGOOSE survey: Observing nearby galaxies with MeerKAT.

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 Foundation Supernova Survey: Motivation, design, implementation, and first data release (2017)
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Foley, R. J., Scolnic, D., Rest, A., Jha, S. W., Pan, Y., Riess, A. G., …Willman, M. (2018). The Foundation Supernova Survey: Motivation, design, implementation, and first data release. Monthly notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, 475(1), 193-219. https://doi.org/10.1093/mnras/stx3136

© 2017 The Author(s). The Foundation Supernova Survey aims to provide a large, high-fidelity, homogeneous, and precisely calibrated low-redshift Type Ia supernova (SN Ia) sample for cosmology. The calibration of the current low-redshift SN sample is... Read More about The Foundation Supernova Survey: Motivation, design, implementation, and first data release.

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.

The Gaia-ESO Survey: matching chemodynamical simulations to observations of the Milky Way (2017)
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Thompson, B. B., Few, C. G., Bergemann, M., Gibson, B. K., MacFarlane, B. A., Serenelli, A., …Zaggia, S. (2018). The Gaia-ESO Survey: matching chemodynamical simulations to observations of the Milky Way. Monthly notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, 473(1), 185-197. https://doi.org/10.1093/MNRAS/STX2316

The typical methodology for comparing simulated galaxies with observational surveys is usually to apply a spatial selection to the simulation to mimic the region of interest covered by a comparable observational survey sample. In this work, we compar... Read More about The Gaia-ESO Survey: matching chemodynamical simulations to observations of the Milky Way.

Climbing the cosmic ladder with stellar twins in RAVE with Gaia (2017)
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Jofré, P., Traven, G., Hawkins, K., Gilmore, G., Sanders, J. L., Mädler, T., …Zwitter, T. (2017). Climbing the cosmic ladder with stellar twins in RAVE with Gaia. Monthly notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, 472(3), 2517-2533. https://doi.org/10.1093/mnras/stx1877

© 2017 The Author. We apply the twin method to determine parallaxes to 232 545 stars of the RAVE survey using the parallaxes of Gaia DR1 as a reference. To search for twins in this large data set, we apply the t-student stochastic neighbour embedding... Read More about Climbing the cosmic ladder with stellar twins in RAVE with Gaia.

PLATO as it is: A legacy mission for Galactic archaeology (2017)
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Miglio, A., Chiappini, C., Mosser, B., Davies, G. R., Freeman, K., Girardi, L., …Worley, C. C. (2017). PLATO as it is: A legacy mission for Galactic archaeology. Astronomische Nachrichten, 338(6), 644-661. https://doi.org/10.1002/asna.201713385

Deciphering the assembly history of the Milky Way is a formidable task, which becomes possible only if one can produce high-resolution chrono-chemo-kinematical maps of the Galaxy. Data from large-scale astrometric and spectroscopic surveys will soon... Read More about PLATO as it is: A legacy mission for Galactic archaeology.

Very metal-poor stars observed by the RAVE survey (2017)
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Matijevič, G., Chiappini, C., Grebel, E. K., Wyse, R. F. G., Zwitter, T., Bienaymé, O., …Watson, F. (2017). Very metal-poor stars observed by the RAVE survey. Astronomy and Astrophysics, 603, A19. https://doi.org/10.1051/0004-6361/201730417

© ESO, 2017. Metal-poor stars trace the earliest phases in the chemical enrichment of the Universe. They give clues about the early assembly of the Galaxy as well as on the nature of the first stellar generations. Multi-object spectroscopic surveys p... Read More about Very metal-poor stars observed by the RAVE survey.

Observing the metal-poor solar neighbourhood: A comparison of galactic chemical evolution predictions (2017)
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Mishenina, T., Pignatari, M., Côté, B., Thielemann, F., Soubiran, C., Basak, N., …Herwig, F. (2017). Observing the metal-poor solar neighbourhood: A comparison of galactic chemical evolution predictions. Monthly notices of the Royal Astronomical Society. Letters, 469(4), 4378-4399. https://doi.org/10.1093/mnras/stx1145

© 2017 The Authors. Atmospheric parameters and chemical compositions for 10 stars with metallicities in the region of -2.2 < [Fe/H] < -0.6 were precisely determined using high-resolution, high signal-tonoise, spectra. For each star, the abundance... Read More about Observing the metal-poor solar neighbourhood: A comparison of galactic chemical evolution predictions.

The RAVE-on Catalog of Stellar Atmospheric Parameters and Chemical Abundances for Chemo-dynamic Studies in the Gaia Era (2017)
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Casey, A. R., Hawkins, K., Hogg, D. W., Ness, M., Rix, H. W., Kordopatis, G., …Wyse, R. (2017). The RAVE-on Catalog of Stellar Atmospheric Parameters and Chemical Abundances for Chemo-dynamic Studies in the Gaia Era. The Astrophysical journal, 840(1), 59. https://doi.org/10.3847/1538-4357/aa69c2

The orbits, atmospheric parameters, chemical abundances, and ages of individual stars in the Milky Way provide the most comprehensive illustration of galaxy formation available. The Tycho-Gaia Astrometric Solution (TGAS) will deliver astrometric para... Read More about The RAVE-on Catalog of Stellar Atmospheric Parameters and Chemical Abundances for Chemo-dynamic Studies in the Gaia Era.

Asymmetric metallicity patterns in the stellar velocity space with RAVE (2017)
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Antoja, T., Kordopatis, G., Helmi, A., Monari, G., Famaey, B., Wyse, R. F. G., …Zwitter, T. (2017). Asymmetric metallicity patterns in the stellar velocity space with RAVE. Astronomy and Astrophysics, 601, A59. https://doi.org/10.1051/0004-6361/201629387

© ESO, 2017. Context. The chemical abundances of stars encode information on their place and time of origin. Stars formed together in e.g. a cluster, should present chemical homogeneity. Also disk stars influenced by the effects of the bar and the sp... Read More about Asymmetric metallicity patterns in the stellar velocity space with RAVE.

A RAVE investigation on Galactic open clusters: II. Open cluster pairs, groups and complexes (2017)
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Conrad, C., Scholz, R., Kharchenko, N. V., Piskunov, A. E., Röser, S., Schilbach, E., …Wyse, R. (2017). A RAVE investigation on Galactic open clusters: II. Open cluster pairs, groups and complexes. Astronomy and Astrophysics, 600, A106. https://doi.org/10.1051/0004-6361/201630012

© ESO, 2017. Context. It is generally agreed upon that stars form in open clusters (OCs) and stellar associations, but little is known about structures in the Galactic OC population; whether OCs and stellar associations are born isolated or if they p... Read More about A RAVE investigation on Galactic open clusters: II. Open cluster pairs, groups and complexes.

RAVE stars in K2: I. Improving RAVE red giants spectroscopy using asteroseismology from K2 Campaign 1 (2017)
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Valentini, M., Chiappini, C., Davies, G. R., Elsworth, Y. P., Mosser, B., Lund, M. N., …Mott, A. (2017). RAVE stars in K2: I. Improving RAVE red giants spectroscopy using asteroseismology from K2 Campaign 1. Astronomy and Astrophysics, 600, A66. https://doi.org/10.1051/0004-6361/201629701

© 2017 ESO. We present a set of 87 RAVE stars with detected solar like oscillations, observed during Campaign 1 of the K2 mission (RAVE K2-C1 sample). This data set provides a useful benchmark for testing the gravities provided in RAVE data release 4... Read More about RAVE stars in K2: I. Improving RAVE red giants spectroscopy using asteroseismology from K2 Campaign 1.