Smithsonian Digital Repository: Recent submissions

  • Phylogenomic inference of the higher classification of velvet ants (Hymenoptera: Mutillidae) 
    Waldren, George C.; Sadler, Emily A.; Murray, Elizabeth A.; Bossert, Silas; Danforth, Bryan N.; Pitts, James P. (2023)
    The family Mutillidae (Hymenoptera) is a species-rich group of aculeate wasps that occur worldwide. The higher-level classification of the family has historically been controversial due, in part, to the extreme sexual ...
  • Chemical aposematism: the potential for non-host odours in avian defence 
    Weldon, Paul J. (2023)
    Many birds display plumage coloration and patterns that act as visual aposematic and mimetic signals for predators. Avian aposematism can also be communicated via chemical cues, where so-called non-host odours (NHO) emitted ...
  • Global Impacts of a Bilateral Trade Policy on Ballast Water-Mediated Species Spread Risk: A Case Study of Sino-US Trade 
    Wang, Zhaojun; Kacimi, Adel; Xu, Hailian; Du, Mingxi (2023)
    A trade policy could generate both economic and environmental impacts. This work is focused on the impacts of a bilateral trade policy on ballast water-mediated nonindigenous species (NIS) spread risk. Taking the hypothetical ...
  • Bibliography of Tortoises of the World Giants to Dwarfs 
    Reese, Devin A.; Zug, George R. (2023)
  • Clusters, clouds, and correlations: relating young clusters to giant molecular clouds in M33 and M31 
    Peltonen, Joshua; Rosolowsky, Erik; Johnson, L. Clifton; Seth, Anil C.; Dalcanton, Julianne; Bell, Eric F.; Braine, Jonathan; Koch, Eric W.; Lazzarini, Margaret; Leroy, Adam K.; Skillman, Evan D.; Smercina, Adam; Wainer, Tobin; Williams, Benjamin F. (2023)
    We use young clusters and giant molecular clouds (GMCs) in the galaxies M33 and M31 to constrain temporal and spatial scales in the star formation process. In M33, we compare the Panchromatic Hubble Andromeda Treasury: ...
  • Observational Properties of a Bright Type lax SN 2018cni and a Faint Type Iax SN 2020kyg 
    Singh, Mridweeka; Sahu, Devendra K.; Dastidar, Raya; Barna, Barnabás; Misra, Kuntal; Gangopadhyay, Anjasha; Howell, D. Andrew; Jha, Saurabh W.; Im, Hyobin; Taggart, Kirsty; Andrews, Jennifer; Hiramatsu, Daichi; Teja, Rishabh Singh; Pellegrino, Craig; Foley, Ryan J.; Joshi, Arti; Anupama, G. C.; Bostroem, K. Azalee; Burke, Jamison; Camacho-Neves, Yssavo; Dutta, Anirban; Kwok, Lindsey A.; McCully, Curtis; Pan, Yen-Chen; Siebert, Matt; Srivastav, Shubham; Szalai, Tamás; Swift, Jonathan J.; Yang, Grace; Zhou, Henry; DiLullo, Nico; Scheer, Jackson (2023)
    We present the optical photometric and spectroscopic analysis of two Type Iax supernovae (SNe), 2018cni and 2020kyg. SN 2018cni is a bright Type Iax SN (M <sub> V,peak</sub> = -17.81 ± 0.21 mag), whereas SN 2020kyg (M <sub> ...
  • Rapid prototyping for quantifying belief weights of competing hypotheses about emergent diseases 
    Robertson, Ellen P.; Walsh, Daniel P.; Martin, Julien; Work, Thierry M.; Kellogg, Christina A.; Evans, James S.; Barker, Victoria; Hawthorn, Aine; Aeby, Greta; Paul, Valerie J.; Walker, Brian K.; Kiryu, Yasunari; Woodley, Cheryl M.; Meyer, Julie L.; Rosales, Stephanie M.; Studivan, Michael; Moore, Jennifer F.; Brandt, Marilyn E.; Bruckner, Andrew (2023)
  • Joshua Johnson: Black Craftsmanship and Artistry in Early National Baltimore 
    Rothschild, Jill Vaum (American Folk Art Museum, 2023)
  • A Safer Work Environment for Stabilization of Moldy Collections 
    Tarnowski, Amber L. (2023)
    The National Museum of African American History and Culture (NMAAHC) is an actively collecting museum, and collections stewardship preservation activities include treatment of objects affected by mold. Mold adversely impacts ...
  • Decision analysis for the planning and assessment of ex situ management: An application to the endangered mahogany glider 
    Rout, Tracy M.; Jackson, Stephen M.; Adam, Dalene; Diggins, Jacqui; McDonald-Madden, Eve; Mitchell, Nicola J.; Walshe, Terry V. (2023)
    Ex situ (‘off-site’) management refers to keeping species in artificial conditions away from their natural habitat and includes captive breeding facilities, botanical gardens and seed banks. There is scope for ex situ ...
  • Biological anthropology must reassess museum collections for a more ethical future 
    Stantis, Chris; De La Cova, Carlina; Lippert, Dorothy; Sholts, Sabrina B. (2023)
  • Star Formation Laws and Efficiencies across 80 Nearby Galaxies 
    Sun, Jiayi; Leroy, Adam K.; Ostriker, Eve C.; Meidt, Sharon; Rosolowsky, Erik; Schinnerer, Eva; Wilson, Christine D.; Utomo, Dyas; Belfiore, Francesco; Blanc, Guillermo A.; Emsellem, Eric; Faesi, Christopher; Groves, Brent; Hughes, Annie; Koch, Eric W.; Kreckel, Kathryn; Liu, Daizhong; Pan, Hsi-An; Pety, Jérôme; Querejeta, Miguel; Razza, Alessandro; Saito, Toshiki; Sardone, Amy; Usero, Antonio; Williams, Thomas G.; Bigiel, Frank; Bolatto, Alberto D.; Chevance, Mélanie; Dale, Daniel A.; Gensior, Jindra; Glover, Simon C. O.; Grasha, Kathryn; Henshaw, Jonathan D.; Jiménez-Donaire, María J.; Klessen, Ralf S.; Kruijssen, J. M. Diederik; Murphy, Eric J.; Neumann, Lukas; Teng, Yu-Hsuan; Thilker, David A. (2023)
    We measure empirical relationships between the local star formation rate (SFR) and properties of the star-forming molecular gas on 1.5 kpc scales across 80 nearby galaxies. These relationships, commonly referred to as "star ...
  • Limit on Supernova Emission in the Brightest Gamma-Ray Burst, GRB 221009A 
    Shrestha, Manisha; Sand, David J.; Alexander, Kate D.; Bostroem, K. Azalee; Hosseinzadeh, Griffin; Pearson, Jeniveve; Aghakhanloo, Mojgan; Vinkó, József; Andrews, Jennifer E.; Jencson, Jacob E.; Lundquist, M. J.; Wyatt, Samuel; Howell, D. Andrew; McCully, Curtis; Gonzalez, Estefania Padilla; Pellegrino, Craig; Terreran, Giacomo; Hiramatsu, Daichi; Newsome, Megan; Farah, Joseph; Jha, Saurabh W.; Smith, Nathan; Wheeler, J. Craig; Martínez-Vázquez, Clara; Carballo-Bello, Julio A.; Drlica-Wagner, Alex; James, David J.; Mutlu-Pakdil, Burçin; Stringfellow, Guy S.; Sakowska, Joanna D.; Noël, Noelia E. D.; Bom, Clécio R.; Kuehn, Kyler (2023)
    We present photometric and spectroscopic observations of the extraordinary gamma-ray burst (GRB) 221009A in search of an associated supernova. Some past GRBs have shown bumps in the optical light curve that coincide with ...
  • Forbidden hugs in pandemic times. IV. Panchromatic evolution of three luminous red novae 
    Pastorello, A.; Valerin, G.; Fraser, M.; Reguitti, A.; Elias-Rosa, N.; Filippenko, A. V.; Rojas-Bravo, C.; Tartaglia, L.; Reynolds, T. M.; Valenti, S.; Andrews, J. E.; Ashall, C.; Bostroem, K. A.; Brink, T. G.; Burke, J.; Cai, Y. -Z; Cappellaro, E.; Coulter, D. A.; Dastidar, R.; Davis, K. W.; Dimitriadis, G.; Fiore, A.; Foley, R. J.; Fugazza, D.; Galbany, L.; Gangopadhyay, A.; Geier, S.; Gutiérrez, C. P.; Haislip, J.; Hiramatsu, Daichi; Holmbo, S.; Howell, D. A.; Hsiao, E. Y.; Hung, T.; Jha, S. W.; Kankare, E.; Karamehmetoglu, E.; Kilpatrick, C. D.; Kotak, R.; Kouprianov, V.; Kravtsov, T.; Kumar, S.; Li, Z. -T; Lundquist, M. J.; Lundqvist, P.; Matilainen, K.; Mazzali, P. A.; McCully, C.; Misra, K.; Morales-Garoffolo, A.; Moran, S.; Morrell, N.; Newsome, M.; Padilla Gonzalez, E.; Pan, Y. -C; Pellegrino, C.; Phillips, M. M.; Pignata, G.; Piro, A. L.; Reichart, D. E.; Rest, A.; Salmaso, I.; Sand, D. J.; Siebert, M. R.; Smartt, S. J.; Smith, K. W.; Srivastav, S.; Stritzinger, M. D.; Taggart, K.; Tinyanont, S.; Yan, S. -Y; Wang, L.; Wang, X. -F; Williams, S. C.; Wyatt, S.; Zhang, T. -M; de Boer, T.; Chambers, K.; Gao, H.; Magnier, E. (2023)
    We present photometric and spectroscopic data on three extragalactic luminous red novae (LRNe): AT 2018bwo, AT 2021afy, and AT 2021blu. AT 2018bwo was discovered in NGC 45 (at about 6.8 Mpc) a few weeks after the outburst ...
  • Circumstellar Medium Interaction in SN 2018lab, A Low-luminosity Type IIP Supernova Observed with TESS 
    Pearson, Jeniveve; Hosseinzadeh, Griffin; Sand, David J.; Andrews, Jennifer E.; Jencson, Jacob E.; Dong, Yize; Bostroem, K. Azalee; Valenti, S.; Janzen, Daryl; Retamal, Nicolás Meza; Lundquist, M. J.; Wyatt, Samuel; Amaro, R. C.; Burke, Jamison; Howell, D. Andrew; McCully, Curtis; Hiramatsu, Daichi; Jha, Saurabh W.; Smith, Nathan; Haislip, Joshua; Kouprianov, Vladimir; Reichart, Daniel E.; Yang, Yi; Rho, Jeonghee (2023)
    We present photometric and spectroscopic data of SN 2018lab, a low-luminosity Type IIP supernova (LLSN) with a V-band peak luminosity of -15.1 ± 0.1 mag. SN 2018lab was discovered by the Distance Less Than 40 Mpc (DLT40) ...
  • One of the Deepest Genera of Antipatharia: Taxonomic Position Revealed and Revised 
    Molodtsova, Tina N.; Opresko, Dennis M.; O’Mahoney, Michael; Simakova, Ulyana V.; Kolyuchkina, Galina A.; Bledsoe, Yessenia M.; Nasiadka, Teresa W.; Ross, Rachael F.; Brugler, Mercer R. (2023)
    The genus Abyssopathes Opresko, 2002, comprises deep-sea black corals known almost exclusively from lower bathyal and abyssal depths, mainly from seamounts covered by cobalt-rich crusts and areas of polymetallic nodules. ...
  • The Origin and Evolution of the Normal Type Ia SN 2018aoz with Infant-phase Reddening and Excess Emission 
    Ni, Yuan Qi; Moon, Dae-Sik; Drout, Maria R.; Polin, Abigail; Sand, David J.; González-Gaitán, Santiago; Kim, Sang Chul; Lee, Youngdae; Park, Hong Soo; Howell, D. Andrew; Nugent, Peter E.; Piro, Anthony L.; Brown, Peter J.; Galbany, Lluís; Burke, Jamison; Hiramatsu, Daichi; Hosseinzadeh, Griffin; Valenti, Stefano; Afsariardchi, Niloufar; Andrews, Jennifer E.; Antoniadis, John; Beaton, Rachael L.; Bostroem, K. Azalee; Carlberg, Raymond G.; Cenko, S. Bradley; Cha, Sang-Mok; Dong, Yize; Gal-Yam, Avishay; Haislip, Joshua; Holoien, Thomas W. -S; Johnson, Sean D.; Kouprianov, Vladimir; Lee, Yongseok; Matzner, Christopher D.; Morrell, Nidia; McCully, Curtis; Pignata, Giuliano; Reichart, Daniel E.; Rich, Jeffrey; Ryder, Stuart D.; Smith, Nathan; Wyatt, Samuel; Yang, Sheng (2023)
    SN 2018aoz is a Type Ia SN with a B-band plateau and excess emission in infant-phase light curves ?1 day after the first light, evidencing an over-density of surface iron-peak elements as shown in our previous study. Here, ...
  • The ALMOND survey: molecular cloud properties and gas density tracers across 25 nearby spiral galaxies with ALMA 
    Neumann, Lukas; Gallagher, Molly J.; Bigiel, Frank; Leroy, Adam K.; Barnes, Ashley T.; Usero, Antonio; den Brok, Jakob S.; Belfiore, Francesco; Bešlic, Ivana; Cao, Yixian; Chevance, Mélanie; Dale, Daniel A.; Eibensteiner, Cosima; Glover, Simon C. O.; Grasha, Kathryn; Henshaw, Jonathan D.; Jiménez-Donaire, María J.; Klessen, Ralf S.; Kruijssen, J. M. Diederik; Liu, Daizhong; Meidt, Sharon; Pety, Jérôme; Puschnig, Johannes; Querejeta, Miguel; Rosolowsky, Erik; Schinnerer, Eva; Schruba, Andreas; Sormani, Mattia C.; Sun, Jiayi; Teng, Yu-Hsuan; Williams, Thomas G. (2023)
    We use new HCN(1-0) data from the ACA Large-sample Mapping Of Nearby galaxies in Dense gas (ALMOND) survey to trace the kpc-scale molecular gas density structure and CO(2-1) data from the Physics at High Angular resolution ...
  • Signs of binary evolution in seven magnetic DA white dwarfs 
    Moss, Adam; Kilic, Mukremin; Bergeron, P.; Firgard, Megan; Brown, Warren (2023)
    We present our findings on the spectral analysis of seven magnetic white dwarfs that were presumed to be double degenerates. We obtained time-resolved spectroscopy at the Gemini Observatory to look for evidence of binarity ...
  • In situ oxygen, magnesium, and silicon isotopic compositions of the FUN inclusion Vigarano 1623-5 
    Marin-Carbonne, Johanna; McKeegan, Kevin D.; Davis, Andrew M.; MacPherson, Glenn J.; Mendybaev, Ruslan A.; Richter, Frank M. (2023)
    Oxygen, magnesium, and silicon isotopic abundances in Vigarano 1623-5 were studied using secondary ion mass spectrometry to investigate correlations between isotopic and petrologic properties of this unique forsterite-bearing ...

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