NSF’s NOIRLab

Recent papers from NSF’s NOIRLab

1. Nāpōwawā‘enakaulua : A Close Quasar Pair at Cosmic Dawn in the Aether SurveyThe Astrophysical Journal Letters · 2026
2. JWST Observations of the Metal-poor T Dwarf WISEA J155349.96+693355.2: The First Brown Dwarf Likely Associated with the Gaia-Enceladus Milky Way SubstructureMonthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society · 2026
3. XShooter DESI Lens Program: Sample characterization2026
4. WFST Follow-up of S251112cm: Searching for an Optical Counterpart to a Subsolar-mass Compact-binary Merger CandidateThe Astrophysical Journal Letters · 2026
5. Radio Quasars in the Cosmic Dawn: A Spectroscopic Sample from the DESI SurveyThe Astrophysical Journal · 2026
6. A Decade-scale Ionization Echo of Black Hole Accretion in Galactic NucleiThe Astrophysical Journal · 2026
7. Mode Switching in Two Blue Large-amplitude Pulsators Observed by OGLE, KMTNet, and DREAMSThe Astrophysical Journal · 2026
8. A Hectospec Spectroscopic Census of Kinematic Members in the Orion Nebula ClusterMonthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society · 2026
9. Joint Multiband Photometry with crowdsourceThe Astrophysical Journal · 2026
10. Planetary Accretion Is Less Frequent in Wide Binaries: Evidence from Metal-enriched White Dwarfs in DESI DR1The Astrophysical Journal · 2026
11. Lensing in the Blue. III. Weak-lensing Shape Catalogs of 30 Merging Galaxy ClustersThe Astrophysical Journal · 2026
12. Unveiling Hidden Lyman Alpha Emitters in the DESI DR1 DataThe Astrophysical Journal · 2026
13. 1000 cataclysmic variables identified from DESI spectroscopyMonthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society · 2026
14. Metal-poor Brown Dwarf Kinematics from JWST NIRSpec SpectroscopyThe Astrophysical Journal · 2026
15. A clear detection of proper motion confirms that the claimed z ≃ 32 galaxy candidate, “Capotauro”, is a Y-type brown dwarfMonthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society · 2026
16. PANORAMIC: The Dawn of Massive Quiescent Galaxies. I. Number Density and Cosmic Variance from 1000 arcmin 2 NIRCam ImagingThe Astrophysical Journal · 2026
17. Extreme Enrichment at Cosmic Dawn: Three Fe II -strong Quasars at z > 6 from the JWST Aether SurveyThe Astrophysical Journal · 2026
18. Improved constraints on the Milky Way potential using the M68 stream and DESI spectroscopic dataMonthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society · 2026
19. Additional High Proper Motion Ultracool Dwarf Discoveries from Backyard Worlds: Cool NeighborsResearch Notes of the AAS · 2026
20. The Carbon-dependent Binary Frequency of CEMP-no StarsThe Astrophysical Journal · 2026