RSAA Papers for June 2026

Published in the RSAA Lunations
Vol1 Issue73 1–30 June 2026

1. Revealing the cold skeleton of the Magellanic clouds and the Magellanic Bridge with ASKAP
*DEMPSEY, JAMES*; *MCCLURE-GRIFFITHS, N. M.*; *MARCHAL, ANTOINE*; Clark, S. E.; Dickey, John M.; Lee, Min-Young; Murray, Claire; *NGUYEN, HIEP*; Pingel, Nickolas M.; Stanimirović, Snežana; van Loon, Jacco Th; Dénes, Helga; Gibson, Steven J.; Jameson, Katie; Kemp, Ian; *LYNN, CALLUM*; *MA, YIK KI*, Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, 549, 1, stag863 (2026).
2. Milky Way Mapper decoded abundances ─ I. Shared disc enrichment patterns
*NESS, MELISSA K.*; *AQUILINA, SARAH*; Mead, Jennifer; Griffith, Emily; Manea, Catherine; Bird, Jonathan; Casey, Andrew R.; Lu, Lucy (Yuxi); Johnston, Kathryn V.; Blanton, Michael R.; Johnson, James W.; *JABLONSKA, MAJA*; Carigi, Leticia; Fernández-Trincado, José G.; Valdivia, Ricardo López; Song, Ying-Yi; Kollmeier, Juna, Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, 548, 4, stag637 (2026).
3. Continuum reverberation in bright quasars using NASA/ATLAS
*STEYN, ZACHARY*; *WOLF, CHRISTIAN*; *ONKEN, CHRISTOPHER*; Smith, Ken; *TANG, JI-JIA*; Kovačević, Andjelka B.; Tonry, John; Clocchiatti, Alejandro, Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, 548, 4, stag702 (2026).
4. High-fidelity stellar extinction with Gaia and APOGEE ─ I. The method and a new extinction curve
*YU, JIE*; *CASAGRANDE, LUCA*; Taylor, John A.; Ciucă, Ioana; *CORDONI, GIACOMO*; Drimmel, Ronald; Khanna, Shourya; *NGUYEN, HIEP*; *RÓŻAŃSKI, TOMASZ*; Stello, Dennis; Yuan, Haibo; Yuan, Zhen, Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, 549, 1, stag848 (2026).
5. The chemodynamical memory of a major merger in a NIHAO-UHD Milky Way analogue ─ II. Were Splash stars heated or already born hot?
*BUDER, SVEN*; Buck, Tobias; Skúladóttir, Ása; *NESS, MELISSA*; McKenzie, Madeleine; Monty, Stephanie, Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, 548, 4, stag729 (2026).
6. The chemodynamical memory of a major merger in a NIHAO-UHD Milky Way analogue - I. A golden thread through time and space
*BUDER, SVEN*; Buck, Tobias; Skúladóttir, Ása; *NESS, MELISSA*; McKenzie, Madeleine; Monty, Stephanie, Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, in press (2026).
7. Empirical colour─effective temperature relations in the SDSS system from IRFM temperatures of GALAH and APOGEE stars
*ZHOU, ZENGHUA*; *CASAGRANDE, LUCA*; Zhang, Xiaobin; Xiong, Jianping; Li, Jiao; Guo, Yanjun; Han, Zhanwen; Chen, Xuefei, Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, 549, 4, stag1009 (2026).
8. Recalibration of SDSS photometric zero-points based on the InfraRed Flux Method temperature scale
*ZHOU, ZENGHUA*; *CASAGRANDE, LUCA*; *XIONG, HERAN*; Guo, Yanjun; Li, Jiajia; Han, Zhanwen; Chen, Xuefei, Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, 549, 3, stag942 (2026).
9. Large-scale and local environmental drivers of quenching: tracing H α concentration in X-ray and optical galaxy groups
*BARSANTI, STEFANIA*; Wang, Di; *COLLESS, MATTHEW*; Liu, Ang; Bulbul, Esra; Owers, Matt S.; Croom, Scott M.; Vulcani, Benedetta; Bryant, Julia J.; Mai, Yifan; Oh, Sree; Ristea, Andrei; Sweet, Sarah M.; van de Sande, Jesse, Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, 549, 1, stag862 (2026).
10. The contribution of stars, dust, neutral gas, and supermassive black holes in galaxies to the cosmic baryon inventory
D'Silva, Jordan C. J.; Driver, Simon P.; Robotham, Aaron S. G.; *BATTISTI, ANDREW*; da Cunha, Elisabete; Davies, Luke J. M.; Eales, Stephen; Lagos, Claudia del P., Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, 549, 1, stag873 (2026).
11. The GALAH Survey: Neutron-Capture Elemental Abundances for 350,000 Gaia-RVS Spectra and the Chemodynamics of Accreted Structures
Das, Pradosh Barun; Zucker, Daniel B.; Mura-Guzmán, Aldo; Borsato, Nicholas W.; *DE SILVA, GAYANDHI M.*; *BUDER, SVEN*; Feuillet, Diane; Nordlander, Thomas; *NESS, MELISSA K.*; Martell, Sarah L.; Kos, Janez; Bland-Hawthorn, Joss; *FREEMAN, KEN C.*; Casey, Andrew R.; Lewis, Geraint F.; Stello, Dennis; de Grijs, Richard, Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, in press (2026).
12. Kennicutt─Schmidt relation of galaxies over 13 billion years in the COLIBRE hydrodynamical simulations
Lagos, Claudia del P.; Schaye, Joop; Schaller, Matthieu; Obreschkow, Danail; Bahé, Yannick M.; Benítez-Llambay, Alejandro; Chaikin, Evgenii; Correa, Camila; Davis, Timothy A.; Frenk, Carlos S.; Huško, Filip; *KAASINEN, MELANIE*; McGibbon, Robert J.; Oman, Kyle; Ploeckinger, Sylvia; Richings, Alexander J.; Trayford, James W.; Wang, Jing; Wright, Ruby J., Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, 549, 2, stag947 (2026).
13. The ALPINE─CRISTAL─JWST Survey: The Fast Metal Enrichment of Massive Galaxies at z ∼ 5
Faisst, Andreas L.; ...; *BATTISTI, ANDREW J.*; ...; *NARAYANAN, DESIKA*; et al. (54 authors not shown), The Astrophysical Journal, 1004, 1, 22 (2026).
14. Erratum: "Cloud-scale Gas Properties, Depletion Times, and Star Formation Efficiency per Freefall Time in PHANGS─ALMA" (2025, ApJ, 985, 14)
Leroy, Adam K.; Sun, Jiayi; Meidt, Sharon; Agertz, Oscar; Chiang, I-Da; Gensior, Jindra; Glover, Simon C. O.; Gnedin, Oleg Y.; Hughes, Annie; Schinnerer, Eva; Barnes, Ashley T.; Bigiel, Frank; Bolatto, Alberto D.; Colombo, Dario; den Brok, Jakob; Chevance, Mélanie; Chown, Ryan; Eibensteiner, Cosima; Gleis, Damian R.; *GRASHA, KATHRYN*; Henshaw, Jonathan D.; Klessen, Ralf S.; Koch, Eric W.; Oakes, Elias K.; Pan, Hsi-An; Querejeta, Miguel; Rosolowsky, Erik; Saito, Toshiki; Sandstrom, Karin; Sarbadhicary, Sumit K.; Teng, Yu-Hsuan; Usero, Antonio; Utomo, Dyas; Williams, Thomas G., The Astrophysical Journal, 1003, 2, 248 (2026).
15. The NIRISS PASSAGE Spectroscopic Redshift Catalog in COSMOS
Huberty, Mason S.; Nedkova, Kalina V.; Sattari, Zahra; Mehta, Vihang; Scarlata, Claudia; Rafelski, Marc; Hayes, Matthew J.; Watson, Peter J.; Acharyya, Ayan; Levine, Jacob; Vulcani, Benedetta; Le Reste, Alexandra; Hasan, Farhanul; Colbert, James; Trenti, Michele; Wang, Xin; Runnholm, Axel; Malkan, Matthew A.; Bunker, Andrew J.; Alavi, Anahita; Atek, Hakim; *BATTISTI, ANDREW J.*; Dai, Y. Sophia; Kim, Keunho; Henry, Alaina; Rutkowski, Michael J.; Akins, Hollis; Casey, Caitlin M.; Franco, Maximilien; Harish, Santosh; Kartaltepe, Jeyhan S.; Koekemoer, Anton; Liu, Daizhong; McCracken, Henry; Rhodes, Jason; Robertson, Brant; Shuntov, Marko, The Astrophysical Journal Supplement Series, 284, 2, 64 (2026).