Investigating the Lower Limit of Metallicity for the Galactic Thin Disk by Guozhen Hu, Zhengyi Shao, Erbil Gügercinoǧlu, Wenyuan Cui

“…Their existence provides compelling support for the two-infall model of the Milky Way's disk formation. Moreover, these stars impose observational constraints on the timing and metallicity of the second gas infall event.…”
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Searching for string bosenovas with gravitational wave detectors by Dawid Brzeminski, Anson Hook, Junwu Huang, Clayton Ristow

“…Small tension strings, whose string networks can have total lengths as large as 1040 km, can travel to the earth with appreciable rate from any black hole in the Milky Way and interact with earth based accelerometers. …”
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Testing the Breakdown of the Asteroseismic Scaling Relations in Luminous Red Giants by Amanda L. Ash, Marc H. Pinsonneault, Mathieu Vrard, Joel C. Zinn

“…We test the ${\nu }_{{\rm{\max }}}$ and Δ ν scaling relations separately, by using stars of known mass and radius in star clusters and the Milky Way's high- α sequence. We find evidence that the Δ ν scaling relation contributes to the observed breakdown in luminous giants more than the ${\nu }_{{\rm{\max }}}$ relation. …”
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Dark Galactic Subhalos and the Gaia Snail by Daniel Gilman, Jo Bovy, Neige Frankel, Andrew Benson

“…Our results motivate investigation of the Milky Way's dark satellites by characterizing their kinematic signatures in phase-space spirals across the Galaxy.…”
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A New X-Ray and Radio Burst Activity from the Magnetar SGR 1935+2154 by Noor S. Rehan, Alaa I. Ibrahim

“…SGR 1935+2154 has emerged as the most active magnetar in recent years, exhibiting X-ray burst activity nearly annually and emitting a fast radio burst (FRB 200428 (FRB1)) in its 2020 April activity, for the first time from a Milky Way source, accompanied by an X-ray burst (X _FRB1 ). …”
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cogsworth: A Gala of COSMIC Proportions Combining Binary Stellar Evolution and Galactic Dynamics by Tom Wagg, Katelyn Breivik, Mathieu Renzo, Adrian M. Price-Whelan

“…We provide a detailed explanation of the functionality of cogsworth and demonstrate its capabilities through a series of use cases: (1) we predict the spatial distribution of compact objects and runaways in both dwarf and Milky Way–like galaxies; (2) using a star cluster from a hydrodynamical simulation, we show how supernovae can change the orbits of stars in several ways; and (3) we predict the separation of disrupted binary stellar companions on the sky and create a synthetic Gaia color–magnitude diagram. …”
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Classification of Periodic Variable Stars from TESS by Xinyi Gao, Xiaodian Chen, Shu Wang, Jifeng Liu

“…The increasing number of variables stars is helpful to investigate the structure of the Milky Way, stellar physics, and chromospheric activity.…”
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A Multiple-detection-heads Machine Learning Algorithm for Detecting White Dwarfs by Jiangchuan Zhang, Yude Bu, Mengmeng Zhang, Duo Xie, Zhenping Yi

“…White dwarfs (WDs) are the ultimate stage for approximately 97% of stars in the Milky Way and are crucial for studying stellar evolution and galaxy structure. …”
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Contribution of Unresolved Sources to Diffuse Gamma-Ray Emission from the Galactic Plane by Jiayin He, Houdun Zeng, Yi Zhang, Qiang Yuan, Rui Zhang, Jun Li

“…The diffuse gamma-ray emission from the Milky Way serves as a crucial probe for understanding the propagation and interactions of cosmic rays within our Galaxy. …”
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Improving H2RG Performance in SPHEREx Brassboard Model by Chi H. Nguyen, Phillip Korngut, C. Darren Dowell, James Bock, Jill Burnham, Samuel Condon, Walter Cook, Grigory Heaton, Howard Hui, Branislav Kecman, Hiromasa Miyasaka, Kenneth Manatt, Hien T. Nguyen, Stephen Padin, Marco Viero

“…Spectro-Photometer for the History of the Universe, Epoch of Reionization, and Ices Explorer is an upcoming NASA satellite mission to study the physics of inflation, the history of galaxy formation, and the abundance of biogenic ices in the Milky Way, obtaining the first all-sky spectroscopic survey at infrared wavelengths 0.75–5.0 μ m. …”
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Calibrating the Color–Magnitude Relation of M Giants by Using Open Clusters by X. Y. Tang, C. J. Hao, J. Li, Z. Z. Yan, Y. Xu, J. Zhong, Z. H. Lin, Y. J. Li, D. J. Liu, L. F. Ding, X. F. Long

“…M giants, with their distinctive properties such as high luminosity, serve as excellent indicators for mapping the structure of the Milky Way. The distance to distant M giants can be determined by using the color–magnitude relation (CMR), which is derived from color–magnitude diagrams of specific systems in previous studies. …”
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Figuring Out Gas and Galaxies In Enzo (FOGGIE). VIII. Complex and Stochastic Metallicity Gradients at z > 2 by Ayan Acharyya, Molly S. Peeples, Jason Tumlinson, Brian W. O’Shea, Cassandra Lochhaas, Anna C. Wright, Raymond C. Simons, Ramona Augustin, Britton D. Smith, Eugene Hyeonmin Lee

“…We use the FOGGIE simulations to study the metallicity gradients (∇ Z ) of six Milky Way–like galaxies throughout their evolution. …”
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Investigations of MWISP Filaments. I. Filament Identification and Analysis Algorithms, and Source Catalog by Yu Jiang, Xuepeng Chen, Sheng Zheng, Zhibo Jiang, Zhiwei Chen, Yao Huang, Yang Su, Li Sun, Jian-Cheng Feng, Haoran Feng, Ji Yang

“…We demonstrate the effectiveness of DPConCFil by applying the identification method to the clumps detected in the Milky Way Imaging Scroll Painting survey data set by FacetClumps, successfully identifying a batch of filaments across various scales within 10° ≤ l ≤ 20°, −5 $\mathop{.}…”
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Atacama Large Aperture Submillimeter Telescope (AtLAST) science: Our Galaxy [version 2; peer review: 2 approved] by Pamela Klaassen, Maria Beltrán, Alessio Traficante, Mark Booth, Kate Pattle, Jonathan Marshall, Joshua Lovell, Brandt Gaches, Alvaro Hacar, Nicolas Peretto, Caroline Bot, Doris Arzoumanian, Thomas Stanke, Gaspard Duchêne, Ana Duarte Cabral, Antonio Hales, David Eden, Patricia Luppe, Jens Kauffmann, Elena Redaelli, Sebastian Marino, Álvaro Sánchez-Monge, Andrew Rigby, Dmitry Semenov, Eugenio Schisano, Mark Thompson, Silvia Spezzano, Claudia Cicone, Friedrich Wyrowski, Martin Cordiner, Tony Mroczkowski, Doug Johnstone, Luca Di Mascolo, Minju Lee, Eelco van Kampen, Thomas Maccarone, Daizhong Liu, Matthew Smith, Amélie Saintonge, Sven Wedemeyer, Alexander Thelen

“…Because we are deeply embedded in the plane of our Galaxy, it takes up a significant fraction of the sky, with complex dust lanes scattered throughout the optically recognizable bands of the Milky Way. These bands become bright at (sub-)millimetre wavelengths, where we can study dust thermal emission and the chemical and kinematic signatures of the gas. …”
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ALMA Observations of Massive Clouds in the Central Molecular Zone: External-pressure-confined Dense Cores and Salpeter-like Core Mass Functions by Zhenying Zhang, Xing Lu, Tie Liu, Sheng-Li Qin, Adam Ginsburg, Yu Cheng, Hauyu Baobab Liu, Daniel L. Walker, Xindi Tang, Shanghuo Li, Qizhou Zhang, Thushara Pillai, Jens Kauffmann, Cara Battersby, Siyi Feng, Suinan Zhang, Qi-Lao Gu, Fengwei Xu, Wenyu Jiao, Xunchuan Liu, Li Chen, Qiu-yi Luo, Xiaofeng Mai, Zi-yang Li, Dongting Yang, Xianjin Shen, Meizhu Liu, Zhiqiang Shen

“…We present Atacama Large Millimeter/submillimeter Array Band 6 (1.3 mm) observations of dense cores in three massive molecular clouds within the central molecular zone (CMZ) of the Milky Way, including the Dust Ridge cloud e, Sgr C, and the 20 km s ^−1 cloud, at a spatial resolution of 2000 au. …”
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APOKASC-3: The Third Joint Spectroscopic and Asteroseismic Catalog for Evolved Stars in the Kepler Fields by Marc H. Pinsonneault, Joel C. Zinn, Jamie Tayar, Aldo Serenelli, Rafael A. García, Savita Mathur, Mathieu Vrard, Yvonne P. Elsworth, Benoit Mosser, Dennis Stello, Keaton J. Bell, Lisa Bugnet, Enrico Corsaro, Patrick Gaulme, Saskia Hekker, Marc Hon, Daniel Huber, Thomas Kallinger, Kaili Cao, Jennifer A. Johnson, Bastien Liagre, Rachel A. Patton, Ângela R. G. Santos, Sarbani Basu, Paul G. Beck, Timothy C. Beers, William J. Chaplin, Katia Cunha, Peter M. Frinchaboy, Léo Girardi, Diego Godoy-Rivera, Jon A. Holtzman, Henrik Jönsson, Szabolcs Mészáros, Claudia Reyes, Hans-Walter Rix, Matthew Shetrone, Verne V. Smith, Taylor Spoo, Keivan G. Stassun, Ji Wang

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