Overview

This is a summarized version of my List of Publications. A detailed version is provided in the material below (as of May 25, 2025):

• ORCID: 0000-0003-0105-9576

• List of publications in the NASA ADS system:
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Number of publications in peer-reviewed journals: 65

Number of citations: 6,569

h-index: 23

Recent Publications

As first author

• Medina, G. E., Li, T. S., Eadie, G. M., et al., “The mass of the Milky Way from outer halo stars measured by DESI DR1”, 2025, arXiv:2508.19351.
• Medina, G. E., Li, T. S., Allende Prieto, C., et al., “The DESI Y1 RR Lyrae catalog II: The metallicity dependency of pulsational properties, the shape of the RR Lyrae instability strip, and metal rich RR Lyrae”, 2025, arXiv:2505.10614.
• Medina, G. E., Li, T. S., Koposov, S., et al., “The DESI Y1 RR Lyrae catalog I: Empirical modeling of the cyclic variation of spectroscopic properties and a chemodynamical analysis of the outer halo”, 2025, arXiv:2504.02924.
• Medina, G. E., Muñoz R. R., Carlin, J. L., Vivas, A. K., Grebel, E. K., Martínez-Vázquez, C. E., Hansen, C. J., “Taking the pulse of the outer Milky Way with HOWVAST: an RR Lyrae density profile out to >200 kpc”, 2024, MNRAS, 531, 4762.
• Medina, G. E., Hansen, C. J., Muñoz, R. R., Grebel E. K., Vivas, A. K., Carlin, J. L., Martínez- Vazquez C., “RR Lyrae stars as probes of the outer Galactic halo: Chemical and kinematic analysis of a pilot sample”, 2023, MNRAS 519, 5689.
• Medina, G. E., Lemasle, B., Grebel, E. K., “A revisited study of Cepheids in open clusters in the Gaia era”, 2021, MNRAS 505, 1342.
• Medina, G. E., Muñoz, R. R., Vivas, A. K., Carlin, J. L., Förster, F., Martinez, J., Galbany, L., González-Gaitán, S., Hamuy, M., de Jaeger, Th., Maureira, J. C., San Martín, J., “Discovery of distant RR Lyrae stars in the Milky Way using DECam”, 2018, ApJ, 855, 43.
• Medina, G. E., Muñoz, R. R., Vivas, A. K., Förster, F., Carlin, J. L., Martinez, J., Galbany, L., González-Gaitán, S., Hamuy, M., de Jaeger, Th., Maureira, J. C., San Martín, J., “Serendipitous Discovery of RR Lyrae Stars in the Leo V Ultra-faint Galaxy”, 2017, ApJ, 845, L10.

As co-author (showing only recent papers)

• Yang, Y., Lewis, G. F., Li, T. S., et al., “Epicyclic Density Variations in the Indus Stellar Stream”, 2026, arXiv:2603.09305.
• Lambert, M., Rockosi, C. M., Koposov, S. E., et al., “Signatures of a Tidally Induced Spiral Arm at the Anticenter of the Milky Way and a Kinematically Extended Anticenter Stream Using DESI DR2”, 2026, arXiv:2601.14562.
• Webber, K. B., Hansen, T. T., Marshall, J. L., et al., “Detailed Chemical Abundance Analysis of the Brightest Stars in the Turranburra and Willka Yaku Stellar Streams”, 2025, arXiv:2512.10003.
• Oden, S. J., Nidever, D. L., Povick, J., et al., “Warped & Hooked: Mapping the Magellanic Clouds in 3D using Red Clump stars”, 2025, arXiv:2512.04200.
• Li, S., Wang, W., Koposov, S. E., et al., “The Milky Way stellar halo is twisted and doubly broken: insights from DESI DR2 Milky Way Survey observation”, 2026, ApJ, 999, 108.
• Ding, J., Rockosi, C., Li, T. S., et al., “The Draco Dwarf Spheroidal Galaxy in the First Year of DESI Data”, 2025, arXiv:2509.21822.
• To, C.-H., Chang, C., Anbajagane, D., et al., “A DECADE of dwarfs: first detection of weak lensing around spectroscopically confirmed low-mass galaxies”, 2025, arXiv:2509.20458.
• Tan, C. Y., Drlica-Wagner, A., Pace, A. B., et al., “DELVE Milky Way Satellite Census I: Satellite Population and Survey Selection Function”, 2025, arXiv:2509.12313.
• Gatti, M., Anbajagane, D., Chang, C., et al., “DECADE+DES Y3 Weak Lensing Mass Map: A 13,000 deg2 View of Cosmic Structure from 270 Million Galaxies”, 2025, arXiv:2509.03798.
• Anbajagane, D., Chang, C., Drlica-Wagner, A., et al., “The Dark Energy Camera All Data Everywhere cosmic shear project V: Constraints on cosmology and astrophysics from 270 million galaxies across 13,000 deg2 of the sky”, 2025, arXiv:2509.03582.
• Sandford, N.~R., Li, T.~S., Koposov, S.~E., et al., “Chemodynamics of BoötesI with S5: Revised Velocity Gradient, Dark Matter Density, and Galactic Chemical Evolution Constraints”, 2025, ApJ, 998, 47.
• Byström, A., Koposov, S., Lilleengen, S., et al., ``Exploring the interaction between the MW and LMC with a large sample of blue horizontal branch stars from the DESI survey’’, 2025, MNRAS, 542, 560.
• Heiger, M. E., Ji, A. P., Li, T. S., et al., “Not-so-heavy metal(s): Chemical Abundances in the Ultra-faint Dwarf Galaxies Eridanus IV and Centaurus I”, 2025, arXiv:2508.11012.
• Chiti, A., Placco, V., Pace, A., et al., “A second-generation star in a relic dwarf galaxy”, 2025, arXiv:2508.05053.
• Yang, H., Wang, W., Zhu, L., et al., “The dark matter content of Milky Way dwarf spheroidal galaxies: Draco, Sextans and Ursa Minor”, 2025, ApJ, 993, 249.
• Chiti, A., Tavangar, K., Ferguson, P. S., et al., “DELVE-ing into the Milky Way’s Globular Clusters: Assessing extra-tidal features in NGC 5897, NGC 7492, and testing detectability with deeper photometry”, 2025, AJ, 170, 294.
• Placco, V.~M, Limberg, G., Chiti, A., et al., “The DECam MAGIC Survey: Spectroscopic Follow-up of the Most Metal-Poor Stars in the Distant Milky Way Halo”, 2025, ApJ, 991, 101.
• Pace, A., Li, T.~S., Ji, A.~P., et al., “Spectroscopic Analysis of Pictor II: a very low metallicity ultra-faint dwarf galaxy bound to the Large Magellanic Cloud”, 2025, OJAp, 8, 112.
• Koposov, S., Li, T. S., Allende Prieto, C., et al., “DESI Data Release 1: Stellar Catalogue”, 2026, OJAp, 9, 555260.
• Kim, B., Koposov, S., Li, Ti., et al., “Nearby stellar substructures in the Galactic halo from DESI Milky Way Survey Year 1 Data Release”, 2025, MNRAS, 540, 264.
• Casey, Q. O., Mutlu-Pakdil, B., Sand, D. J., et al., “Deep Photometric Observations of Ultra-Faint Milky Way Satellites Centaurus I and Eridanus IV”, 2025, ApJ, 984, 148.
• Doliva-Dolinsky, A., Mutlu-Pakdil, B., Crnojević, D., et al., “The NGC3109 Satellite System: The First Systematic Resolved Search for Dwarf Galaxies Around a SMC-mass Host”, 2025, ApJ, 989, 21.
• Medoff, J., Mutlu-Pakdil, B., Carlin, J. L., et al., “DELVE-DEEP Survey: The Faint Satellite System of NGC 55”, 2025, ApJ, 990, 108.
• Aganze, C., Chandra, V., Wechsler, R. H., et al., “The Cocytos Stream: A Disrupted Globular Cluster from our Last Major Merger?”, 2025, arXiv:2504.11687.
• Barbosa, F. O., Chiti, A., Limberg, G., et al., “The DECam MAGIC Survey: A Wide-field Photometric Metallicity Study of the Sculptor Dwarf Spheroidal Galaxy”, 2025, ApJ, 993, 77.
• DESI Collaboration, Karim, M. A., Adame, A. G., et al., “Data Release 1 of the Dark Energy Spectroscopic Instrument”, 2025, arXiv:2503.14745.
• Gwyn, S., McConnachie, A. W., Cuillandre, J-C., et al., “UNIONS: The Ultraviolet Near-Infrared Optical Northern Survey”, 2025, AJ, 170, 324.
• Anbajagane, D., Chang, C., Drlica-Wagner, A., et al., “The DECADE cosmic shear project IV: cosmological constraints from 107 million galaxies across 5,400 deg2 of the sky”, 2025, OJAp, 8, 46161.
• Anbajagane, D., Chang, C., Chicoine, N., et al., “The DECADE cosmic shear project III: validation of analysis pipeline using spatially inhomogeneous data”, 2025, OJAp, 8, 46160.
• Anbajagane, D., Alarcon, A., Teixeira, R., et al., “The DECADE cosmic shear project II: photometric redshift calibration of the source galaxy sample”, 2025, OJAp, 8, 46159.
• Anbajagane, D., Chang, C., Zhang, Z., et al., “The DECADE cosmic shear project I: A new weak lensing shape catalog of 107 million galaxies”, 2025, OJAp, 8, 46158.
• Bayer, M., Starkenburg, E., Thomas G.~F., et al., “A Pristine-UNIONS view on the Galaxy: Kinematics of the distant spur feature of the Sagittarius stream traced by Blue Horizontal Branch stars”, 2025, ApJ, 701, 117.
• Danieli, S., Kado-Fong, E., Huang, S., et al., “Merian: A Wide-Field Imaging Survey of Dwarf Galaxies at z 0.06-0.10”, 2025, ApJ, 993, 110.
• Cerny, W., Chiti, A., Geha, M., et al., “Discovery and Spectroscopic Confirmation of Aquarius III: A Low-Mass Milky Way Satellite Galaxy”, 2025, ApJ, 979, 164.
• Tan, C. Y., Cerny, W., Drlica-Wagner, A., et al., “A Pride of Satellites in the Constellation Leo? Discovery of the Leo VI Milky Way Satellite Galaxy with DELVE Early Data Release 3”, 2025, ApJ, 979, 176.
• Valluri, M., Fagrelius, P., Koposov, S. E., et al., “GD-1 Stellar Stream and Cocoon in the DESI Early Data Release”, 2025, ApJ, 980, 71.
• Shrestha, M., Bostroem, K.A., Sand, D. J., et al., “Extended Shock Breakout and Early Circumstellar Interaction in SN 2024ggi”, 2024, ApJL, 972, L15.
• DESI Collaboration, Adame A. G., Aguilar J., et al., “The Early Data Release of the Dark Energy Spectroscopic Instrument”, 2024, AJ, 168, 58D.
• Luo, Y., Leauthaud, A., Greene, J., et al., “The Merian survey: design, construction, and characterization of a filter set optimized to find dwarf galaxies and measure their dark matter halo properties with weak lensing”, 2024, AJ, 168, 58D.
• Pessi, T., Cartier, R., Hueichapan, E., et al., “Early flash-ionization lines in SN 2024ggi revealed by high-resolution spectroscopy”, 2024, ApJ, 668, 28.
• Yu, F., Li, T. S., Speagle, J. S., Medina, G. E., et al., “The Power of High Precision Broadband Photometry: Tracing the Milky Way Density Profile with Blue Horizontal Branch stars in the Dark Energy Survey”, 2024, ApJ, 975, 81.
• Alfradique V., Bom C. R., Palmese A., et al., “A dark siren measurement of the Hubble constant using gravitational wave events from the first three LIGO/Virgo observing runs and DELVE”, 2024, MNRAS, 528, 3249.
• Heiger M. E., Li T. S., Pace A. B., et al., “Reading Between the (Spectral) Lines: Magellan/IMACS spectroscopy of the Ultra-faint Dwarf Galaxies Eridanus IV and Centaurus I”, 2024, ApJ, 961, 234.
• DESI Collaboration, Adame A. G., Aguilar J., et al., “Validation of the Scientific Program for the Dark Energy Spectroscopic Instrument”, 2024, AJ, 167, 62.
• Luo Y., Leauthaud A., Greene J., et al., “The Merian Survey: Design, Construction, and Characterization of a Filter Set Optimized to Find Dwarf Galaxies and Measure their Dark Matter Halo Properties with Weak Lensing”, 2024, MNRAS, 530, 4988.
• Cerny W., Drlica-Wagner A., Li T. S., et al., “DELVE 6: An Ancient, Ultra-faint Star Cluster on the Outskirts of the Magellanic Clouds”, 2023, ApJL, 953, L21.
• Cerny W., Martínez-Vázquez C. E., Drlica-Wagner A., et al., “Six More Ultra-faint Milky Way Companions Discovered in the DECam Local Volume Exploration Survey”, 2023, ApJ, 953, 1.

Conference proceedings

• Medina, G. E., Muñoz, R. R., Carlin, J. L., Vivas, A. K., Hansen, C. J., Grebel, E. K., “A systematic DECam search for RR Lyrae in the outer halo of the Milky Way”. Proceedings of the conference “RR Lyrae/Cepheid 2019: Frontiers of Classical Pulsators” held in Cloudcroft, NM, USA, October 13-18, 2019. Eds: Kinemuchi, K., Lovekin, C., Neilson, H., Vivas, A. K., pp. 222-226. (Link)
• Medina, G. E., Lemasle, B., Grebel, E. K., Yen, S. X., “Classical Cepheids in open clusters in the era of Gaia DR2”. Proceedings of the conference “RR Lyrae/Cepheid 2019: Frontiers of Classical Pulsators” held in Cloudcroft, NM, USA, October 13-18, 2019. Eds: Kinemuchi, K., Lovekin, C., Neilson, H., Vivas, A. K., pp. 334-335. (Link)
• Medina, G. E., Muñoz, R. R., Vivas, A. K., Carlin, J. L., Förster, F., “Distant RR Lyrae from HiTS: Exploring the outskirts of the Milky Way”. Proceedings of the conference “The RR Lyrae 2017 conference: Revival of the classical pulsators” held in Niepolomice, Poland, September 17-21, 2017. Eds: Smolec, R., Kinemuchi, K., Anderson, R., pp. 42-46. (Link)
• Medina, G. E., Vivas, A. K., Muñoz, R. R., Förster, F., “Searching for distant RR Lyrae stars using the High cadence Transient Survey”. Proceedings of the conference “RRL 2015: High-precision studies of RR Lyrae stars” held in Visegrad, Hungary, October 19-22, 2015. Eds: Szabados, L., Szabó, R., Kinemuchi, K., pp. 93-96. (Link)