Jo Bovy

Publications: ADS-refereed ADS-all ADS-by-citation ADS-first-few-authors

In preparation

Dynamics and Astrophysics of Galaxies
Jo Bovy, Princeton University Press, in preparation (2025) [galaxiesbook.org]

Estimating Probability Densities with Transformer and Denoising Diffusion
Henry W. Leung, Jo Bovy, & Joshua S. Speagle, ICML 2024 Workshop on Foundation Models in the Wild, in press (2024) [arXiv/2407.15703] [code]

Distribution functions for the modelling of accretion remnants in Milky Way-like galaxies: insights from IllustrisTNG
James M. M. Lane & J. Bovy, Mon. Not. Roy. Astron. Soc., submitted (2024) [arXiv/2405.10945]

Euclid: Early Release Observations -- Programme overview and pipeline for compact- and diffuse-emission photometry
J.-C. Cuillandre, et al., Astron. & Astrophys., submitted (2024) [arXiv/2405.13496]

Euclid: Early Release Observations -- Unveiling the morphology of two Milky Way globular clusters out to their periphery
D. Massari, E. Dalessandro, D. Erkal, E. Balbinot, J. Bovy, et al., Astron. & Astrophys., in press (2024) [arXiv/2405.13498]

Stream Members Only: Data-Driven Characterization of Stellar Streams with Mixture Density Networks
Nathaniel Starkman, Jacob Nibauer, Jo Bovy, Jeremy J. Webb, Kiyan Tavangar, Adrian Price-Whelan, & Ana Bonaca, Astrophys. J., in press (2024) [arXiv/2311.16960]

Published

Disentangling stellar age estimates from Galactic chemodynamical evolution
Jeff Shen, Joshua S. Speagle, Neige Frankel, J. Ted Mackereth, Yuan-Sen Ting, & Jo Bovy, Astrophys. J. 960, 84 (2024) [ApJ] [ADS]

Towards an astronomical foundation model for stars with a Transformer-based model
Henry W. Leung & Jo Bovy, Mon. Not. Roy. Astron. Soc. 527, 1494 (2024) [MNRAS] [ADS] [code]

Decoding the age-chemical structure of the Milky Way disk: An application of copulas and elicitable maps
Aarya A. Patil, Jo Bovy, Sebastian Jaimungal, Neige Frankel, & Henry W. Leung, Mon. Not. Roy. Astron. Soc. 526, 1997 (2023) [MNRAS] [ADS] [code]

The stellar mass of the Gaia-Sausage/Enceladus accretion remnant
James M. M. Lane, Jo Bovy, & J. Ted Mackereth, Mon. Not. Roy. Astron. Soc. 526, 1209 (2023) [MNRAS] [ADS] [code]

Constraints on the Galactic centre environment from Gaia hypervelocity stars III: Insights on a possible companion to Sgr A^*
Fraser A. Evans, Alexander Rasskazov, Amber Remmelzwaal, Tommaso Marchetti, Alfred Castro-Ginard, Elena Maria Rossi, & Jo Bovy, Mon. Not. Roy. Astron. Soc. 525, 561 (2023) [MNRAS] [ADS]

On the fast track: Rapid construction of stellar stream paths
Nathaniel Starkman, Jo Bovy, Jeremy J. Webb, Daniela Calvetti, & Erkki Somersalo, Mon. Not. Roy. Astron. Soc. 522, 5022 (2023) [MNRAS] [ADS] [code]

A variational encoder-decoder approach to precise spectroscopic age estimation for large Galactic surveys
Henry W. Leung, Jo Bovy, J. Ted Mackereth, & Andrea Miglio, Mon. Not. Roy. Astron. Soc. 522, 4577 (2023) [MNRAS] [ADS] [code]

Constraining resonant dark matter self-interactions with strong gravitational lenses
Daniel Gilman, Yi-Ming Zhong, & Jo Bovy, Phys. Rev. D 107, 103008 (2023) [PRD] [ADS]

Vertical motion in the Galactic disc: unwinding the Snail
Neige Frankel, Jo Bovy, Scott Tremaine, & David W. Hogg, Mon. Not. Roy. Astron. Soc. 521, 5917 (2023) [MNRAS] [ADS]

Made-to-measure modelling of globular clusters
Jeremy J. Webb, Jason A. S. Hunt, & Jo Bovy, Mon. Not. Roy. Astron. Soc. 521, 3898 (2023) [MNRAS] [ADS] [code]

The origin and fate of the Gaia phase-space snail
Scott Tremaine, Neige Frankel, & Jo Bovy, Mon. Not. Roy. Astron. Soc. 521, 114 (2023) [MNRAS] [ADS]

A direct measurement of the distance to the Galactic center using the kinematics of bar stars
Henry W. Leung, Jo Bovy, J. Ted Mackereth, Jason A. S. Hunt, Richard R. Lane, & John C. Wilson, Mon. Not. Roy. Astron. Soc. 519, 948 (2023) [MNRAS] [ADS]

Simulated bars may be shorter but are not slower than observed: TNG50 vs. MaNGA
Neige Frankel, Annalisa Pillepich, Hans-Walter Rix, Vicente Rodriguez-Gomez, Jason Sanders, Jo Bovy, Juna Kollmeier, Norm Murray, & Ted Mackereth, Astrophys. J. 940, 61 (2022) [ApJ] [ADS]

Quantum fluctuations masquerade as halos: Bounds on ultra-light dark matter from quadruply-imaged quasars
Alexander Laroche, Daniel Gilman, Xinyu Li, Jo Bovy, & Xiaolong Du, Mon. Not. Roy. Astron. Soc. 517, 1867 (2022) [MNRAS] [ADS]

No globular cluster progenitors in Milky Way satellite galaxies
Pierre Boldrini & Jo Bovy, Mon. Not. Roy. Astron. Soc. 516, 4560 (2022) [MNRAS] [ADS] [code]

Using LSST Microlensing to Constrain Dark Compact Objects in Spherical and Disk Configurations
Harrison Winch, Jack Setford, Jo Bovy, & David Curtin, Astrophys. J. 933, 177 (2022) [ApJ] [ADS]

The primordial matter power spectrum on sub-galactic scales
Daniel Gilman, Andrew Benson, Jo Bovy, Simon Birrer, Tommaso Treu, & Anna Nierenberg, Mon. Not. Roy. Astron. Soc. 512, 3163 (2022) [MNRAS] [ADS]

Exploring the Sgr-Milky-Way-disc interaction using high resolution N-body simulations
Morgan Bennett, Jo Bovy, & Jason A. S. Hunt, Astrophys. J. 927, 121 (2022) [ApJ] [ADS]

The structure of accreted stellar streams
Yansong Qian, Yumna Arshad, & Jo Bovy, Mon. Not. Roy. Astron. Soc. 511, 2339 (2022) [MNRAS] [ADS]

Functional data analysis for extracting the intrinsic dimensionality of spectra—Application: chemical homogeneity in open cluster M67
Aarya A. Patil, Jo Bovy, Gwendolyn Eadie, & Sebastian Jaimungal, Astrophys. J. 926, 51 (2022) [ApJ] [ADS] [code]

The kinematic properties of Milky Way stellar halo populations
James M. M. Lane, Jo Bovy, & J. Ted Mackereth, Mon. Not. Roy. Astron. Soc. 510, 5119 (2022) [MNRAS] [ADS] [code] [more code]

Variation in the stellar mass function along stellar streams
Jeremy J. Webb & Jo Bovy, Mon. Not. Roy. Astron. Soc. 510, 774 (2022) [MNRAS] [ADS]

Novel constraints on the particle nature of dark matter from stellar streams
Nilanjan Banik, Jo Bovy, Gianfranco Bertone, Denis Erkal, & T. J. L. de Boer J. Cosmol. Astropart. Phys. 10(2021), 043 (2021) [JCAP] [ADS] [code]

Strong lensing signatures of self-interacting dark matter in low-mass halos
Daniel Gilman, Jo Bovy, Tommaso Treu, Anna Nierenberg, Simon Birrer, Andrew Benson, & Omid Sameie, Mon. Not. Roy. Astron. Soc. 507, 2432 (2021) [MNRAS] [ADS]

Testing the chemical homogeneity of chemically-tagged dissolved birth clusters
Chloe M. Cheng, Natalie Price-Jones, & Jo Bovy, Mon. Not. Roy. Astron. Soc. 506, 5573 (2021) [MNRAS] [ADS]

On N-body simulations of globular cluster streams
Nilanjan Banik & Jo Bovy, Mon. Not. Roy. Astron. Soc. 504, 648 (2021) [MNRAS] [ADS]

Don't cross the streams: caustics from Fuzzy Dark Matter
Neal Dalal, Jo Bovy, Lam Hui, & Xinyu Li, J. Cosmol. Astropart. Phys. 03(2021), 076 (2021) [JCAP] [ADS]

Did Sgr cause the vertical waves in the solar neighbourhood?
Morgan Bennett & Jo Bovy, Mon. Not. Roy. Astron. Soc. 503, 376 (2021) [MNRAS] [ADS]

Evidence of a population of dark subhalos from Gaia and Pan-STARRS observations of the GD-1 stream
Nilanjan Banik, Jo Bovy, Gianfranco Bertone, Denis Erkal, & T. J. L. de Boer Mon. Not. Roy. Astron. Soc. 502, 2364 (2021) [MNRAS] [ADS]

The contribution of N-rich stars to the Galactic stellar halo using APOGEE red giants
Danny Horta Darrington, J. Ted Mackereth, Ricardo Schiavon, Sten Hasselquist, Jo Bovy, et al., Mon. Not. Roy. Astron. Soc. 500, 5462 (2021) [MNRAS] [ADS] [Erratum]

The Effects of Dwarf Galaxies on the Orbital Evolution of Galactic Globular Clusters
Turner Garrow, Jeremy J. Webb, & Jo Bovy, Mon. Not. Roy. Astron. Soc. 499, 804 (2020) [MNRAS] [ADS]

High-resolution simulations of dark matter subhalo disruption in a Milky Way-like tidal field
Jeremy J. Webb & Jo Bovy, Mon. Not. Roy. Astron. Soc. 499, 116 (2020) [MNRAS] [ADS]

Strong chemical tagging with APOGEE: 21 candidate star clusters that have dissolved across the Milky Way disc
Natalie Price-Jones, Jo Bovy, Jeremy J. Webb, et al., Mon. Not. Roy. Astron. Soc. 496, 5101 (2020) [MNRAS] [ADS]

Searching for Solar Siblings in APOGEE and Gaia DR2 with N-body Simulations
Jeremy J. Webb, Natalie Price-Jones, Jo Bovy, Simon Portegies Zwart, Jason A. S. Hunt, J. Ted Mackereth, & Henry W. Leung, Mon. Not. Roy. Astron. Soc. 494, 2268 (2020) [MNRAS] [ADS]

The Gaia DR2 parallax zero point: Hierarchical modeling of red clump stars
Victor C. Chan & Jo Bovy, Mon. Not. Roy. Astron. Soc. 493, 4367 (2020) [MNRAS] [ADS]

An extended Pal 5 stream in Gaia DR2
Nathaniel Starkman, Jo Bovy, & Jeremy Webb, Mon. Not. Roy. Astron. Soc. 493, 4978 (2020) [MNRAS] [ADS]

The Ophiuchus stream progenitor: a new type of globular cluster and its possible Sagittarius connection
James M. M. Lane, Julio F. Navarro, Azadeh Fattahi, Kyle A. Oman, & Jo Bovy, Mon. Not. Roy. Astron. Soc. 492, 4164 (2020) [MNRAS] [ADS]

Weighing the stellar constituents of the Galactic halo with APOGEE red giant stars
J. Ted Mackereth & Jo Bovy, Mon. Not. Roy. Astron. Soc. 492, 3631 (2020) [MNRAS] [ADS] [code]

Life in the fast lane: a direct view of the dynamics, formation, and evolution of the Milky Way's bar
Jo Bovy, Henry W. Leung, Jason A. S. Hunt, J. Ted Mackereth, D. Anibal García-Hernández, & Alexandre Roman-Lopes, Mon. Not. Roy. Astron. Soc. 490, 4740 (2019) [MNRAS] [ADS]

Signatures of resonance and phase mixing in the Galactic disc
Jason A. S. Hunt, Mathew W. Bub, Jo Bovy, J. Ted Mackereth, Wilma H. Trick, & Daisuke Kawata, Mon. Not. Roy. Astron. Soc. 490, 1026 (2019) [MNRAS] [ADS]

Simultaneous calibration of spectro-photometric distances and the Gaia DR2 parallax zero-point offset with deep learning
Henry W. Leung & Jo Bovy, Mon. Not. Roy. Astron. Soc. 489, 2079 (2019) [MNRAS] [ADS] [code] [more code]

Dynamical heating across the Milky Way disc using APOGEE and Gaia
J. Ted Mackereth, Jo Bovy, Henry W. Leung, Ricardo P. Schiavon, Wilma H. Trick, et al., Mon. Not. Roy. Astron. Soc. 489, 176 (2019) [MNRAS] [ADS] [code]

Modelling the Effects of Dark Matter Substructure on Globular Cluster Evolution with the Tidal Approximation
Jeremy J. Webb, Jo Bovy, Raymond G. Carlberg, & Mark Gieles, Mon. Not. Roy. Astron. Soc. 488, 5748 (2019) [MNRAS] [ADS]

The orbital anisotropy profiles of nearby globular clusters from Gaia Data Release 2
Abhinav Jindal, Jeremy J. Webb. & Jo Bovy, Mon. Not. Roy. Astron. Soc. 487, 3693 (2019) [MNRAS] [ADS]

Blind chemical tagging with DBSCAN: prospects for spectroscopic surveys
Natalie Price-Jones & Jo Bovy, Mon. Not. Roy. Astron. Soc. 487, 871 (2019) [MNRAS] [ADS]

Chemical abundances of main-sequence, turn-off, subgiant and red giant stars from APOGEE spectra II: Atomic diffusion in M67 stars
Diogo Souto, C. Allende Prieto, Katia Cunha, Marc Pinsonneault, Verne V. Smith, R. Garcia-Dias, Jo Bovy, et al., Astrophys. J., in press (2019) Astrophys. J. 874, 97 (2019) [ApJ] [ADS]

Searching for the GD-1 stream progenitor in Gaia DR2 with direct N-body simulations
Jeremy J. Webb & Jo Bovy, Mon. Not. Roy. Astron. Soc. 485, 5929 (2019) [MNRAS] [ADS]

Effects of baryonic and dark matter substructure on the Pal 5 stream
Nilanjan Banik & Jo Bovy, Mon. Not. Roy. Astron. Soc. 484, 2009 (2019) [MNRAS] [ADS]

Deep learning of multi-element abundances from high-resolution spectroscopic data
Henry W. Leung & Jo Bovy, Mon. Not. Roy. Astron. Soc. 483, 3255 (2019) [MNRAS] [ADS] [code] [more code]

The origin of accreted stellar halo populations in the Milky Way using APOGEE, Gaia, and the EAGLE simulations
J. Ted Mackereth, Ricardo P. Schiavon, Joel Pfeffer, Christian R. Hayes, Jo Bovy, et al., Mon. Not. Roy. Astron. Soc. 482, 3426 (2019) [MNRAS] [ADS]

Vertical waves in the solar neighbourhood in Gaia DR2
Morgan Bennett & Jo Bovy, Mon. Not. Roy. Astron. Soc. 482, 1417 (2019) [MNRAS] [ADS] [code]

Galactic Local Circular Velocity from Gaia DR1 Cepheids and Effects of Non-Axisymmetry
Daisuke Kawata, Jo Bovy, Noriyuki Matsunaga, & Junichi Baba, Mon. Not. Roy. Astron. Soc. 482, 40 (2018) [MNRAS] [ADS]

Fast estimation of orbital parameters in Milky-Way-like potentials
J. Ted Mackereth & Jo Bovy, Publ. Astron. Soc. 130, 114501 (2018) [PASP] [ADS] [code]

APOGEE Data Releases 13 and 14: Data and Analysis
Jon A. Holtzman, Sten Hasselquist, Matthew Shetrone, Katia Cunha, Carlos Allende Prieto, Borja Anguiano, Dmitry Bizyaev, Jo Bovy, et al., Astron. J. 156, 125 (2018) [AJ] [ADS]

The origin of the 300 km s^-1 stream near Segue 1
Sal Wanying Fu, Joshua D. Simon, Matthew Shetrone, Jo Bovy, et al., Astrophys. J. 866, 42 (2018) [ApJ] [ADS]

Transient spiral structure and the disc velocity substructure in Gaia DR2
Jason A. S. Hunt, Jack Hong, Jo Bovy, Daisuke Kawata, & Robert J. J. Grand, Mon. Not. Roy. Astron. Soc. 481, 3794 (2018) [MNRAS] [ADS]

Improving Gaia parallax precision with a data-driven model of stars
Lauren Anderson, David W. Hogg, Boris Leistedt, Adrian M. Price-Whelan, & Jo Bovy, Astron. J. 156, 145 (2018) [AJ] [ADS]

Probing the nature of dark matter particles with stellar streams
Nilanjan Banik, Gianfranco Bertone, Jo Bovy, & Nassim Bozorgnia, J. Cosmol. Astropart. Phys. 07(2018), 061 (2018) [JCAP] [ADS]

The 4:1 Outer Lindblad Resonance of a long slow bar as a potential explanation for the Hercules stream
Jason A. S. Hunt & Jo Bovy, Mon. Not. Roy. Astron. Soc. 477, 3945 (2018) [MNRAS] [ADS]

Age-resolved chemistry of red giants in the solar neighbourhood
Diane K. Feuillet, Jo Bovy, Jon Holtzman, David H. Weinberg, et al., Mon. Not. Roy. Astron. Soc. 477, 2326 (2018) [MNRAS] [ADS]

Stellar Multiplicity Meets Stellar Evolution And Metallicity: The APOGEE View
Carles Badenes, Christine Mazzola, Todd A. Thompson, Kevin Covey, Peter E. Freeman, Matthew G. Walker, Maxwell Moe, Nicholas Troup, David Nidever, Carlos Allende Prieto, Brett Andrews, Rodolfo H. Barbá, Timothy C. Beers, Jo Bovy, et al., Astrophys. J. 854, 147 (2018) [ApJ] [ADS]

The dimensionality of stellar chemical space using spectra from the Apache Point Observatory Galactic Evolution Experiment
Natalie Price-Jones & Jo Bovy, Mon. Not. Roy. Astron. Soc. 475, 1410 (2018) [MNRAS] [ADS] [code]

The Bulge Metallicity Distribution from the APOGEE Survey
Ana E. García Pérez, Melissa Ness, Annie C. Robin, Inmaculada Martinez-Valpuesta, Jennifer Sobeck, Gail Zasowski, Steven R. Majewski, Jo Bovy, et al. Astrophys. J. 852, 91 (2018) [ApJ] [ADS]

The Hercules stream as seen by APOGEE-2 South
Jason A. S. Hunt, Jo Bovy, Angeles Pérez-Villegas, et al., Mon. Not. Roy. Astron. Soc. 474, 95 (2018) [MNRAS] [ADS]

Target Selection for the SDSS-IV APOGEE-2 Survey
G. Zasowski, R. E. Cohen, S. D. Chojnowski, F. Santana, R. J. Oelkers, B. Andrews, R. L. Beaton, C. Bender, J. C. Bird, Jo Bovy, et al., Astron. J. 154, 198 (2017) [AJ] [ADS]

Made-to-measure modeling of observed galaxy dynamics
Jo Bovy, Daisuke Kawata, & Jason A. S. Hunt, Mon. Not. Roy. Astron. Soc. 473, 2288 (2018) [MNRAS] [ADS] [code]

The age-metallicity structure of the Milky Way disk
J. Ted Mackereth, Jo Bovy, Ricardo P. Schiavon, et al., Mon. Not. Roy. Astron. Soc. 471, 3057 (2017) [MNRAS] [ADS]

Red clump stars and Gaia: Calibration of the standard candle using a hierarchical probabilistic model
Keith Hawkins, Boris Leistedt, Jo Bovy, & David W. Hogg, Mon. Not. Roy. Astron. Soc. 471, 722 (2017) [MNRAS] [ADS]

The Peculiar Globular Cluster Palomar 1 and Persistence in the SDSS-APOGEE Database
Farbod Jahandar, Kim A. Venn, Matthew D. Shetrone, Mike Irwin, Jo Bovy, Charli M. Sakari, Collin L. Kielty, Ruth A. R. Digby, & Peter M. Frinchaboy, Mon. Not. Roy. Astron. Soc. 470, 4782 (2017) [MNRAS] [ADS]

Stellar Inventory of the Solar Neighborhood using Gaia DR1
Jo Bovy, Mon. Not. Roy. Astron. Soc. 470, 1360 (2017) [MNRAS] [ADS] [code]

Absolute Magnitudes of Seismic Red Clumps in the Kepler Field and SAGA: the age dependency of the distance scale
Y.Q. Chen, L. Casagrande, G. Zhao, J. Bovy, V. Silva Aguirre, J.K. Zhao, & Y.P. Jia, Astrophys. J. 840, 77 (2017) [ApJ] [ADS]

The proper motion of Pyxis: the first use of adaptive optics in tandem with HST on a faint halo object
Tobias K. Fritz, Sean Linden, Paul Zivick, Nitya Kallivayalil, Rachael Beaton, Jo Bovy, et al., Astrophys. J. 840, 30 (2017) [ApJ] [ADS] [some code]

Action-based Dynamical Modeling for the Milky Way Disk: The Influence of Spiral Arms
Wilma Trick, Jo Bovy, Elena D'Onghia, & Hans-Walter Rix, Astrophys. J. 839, 61 (2017) [ApJ] [ADS]

Galactic rotation in Gaia DR1
Jo Bovy, Mon. Not. Roy. Astron. Soc. Lett. 468, L63 (2017) [MNRAS] [ADS] [code] [code on nbviewer]

Linear perturbation theory for tidal streams and the small-scale CDM power spectrum
Jo Bovy, Denis Erkal, & Jason L. Sanders, Mon. Not. Roy. Astron. Soc. 466, 628 (2017) [MNRAS] [ADS] [code]

The shape of the inner Milky Way halo from observations of the Pal 5 and GD-1 stellar streams
Jo Bovy, Anita Bahmanyar, Tobias K. Fritz, & Nitya Kallivayalil, Astrophys. J. 833, 31 (2016) [ApJ] [ADS] [code]

Detection of a dearth of stars with zero angular momentum in the solar neighbourhood
Jason A. S. Hunt, Jo Bovy, & Raymond G. Carlberg, Astrophys. J. Lett. 832, L25 (2016) [ApJL] [ADS]

Action-based dynamical modelling for the Milky Way disk
Wilma Trick, Jo Bovy, & Hans-Walter Rix, Astrophys. J. 830, 97 (2016) [ApJ] [ADS]

Chemical abundances in a sample of red giants in the open cluster NGC 2420 from APOGEE
Diogo Souto, Katia Cunha, Verne Smith, Carlos Allende Prieto, Marc Pinsonneault, Olga Zamora, D. Anibal García-Hernández, Szabolcs Mészáros, Jo Bovy, et al., Astrophys. J. 830, 35 (2016) [ApJ] [ADS]

The number and size of subhalo-induced gaps in stellar streams
Denis Erkal, Vasily Belokurov, Jo Bovy, & Jason L. Sanders, Mon. Not. Roy. Astron. Soc. 463, 102 (2016) [MNRAS] [ADS]

ASPCAP: The APOGEE stellar parameter and chemical abundances pipeline
Ana E. García~Pérez, et al., Astron. J. 151, 144 (2016) [AJ] [ADS]

The stellar population structure of the Galactic disk
Jo Bovy, Hans-Walter Rix, Edward F. Schlafly, David L. Nidever, Jon A. Holtzman, Matthew Shetrone, & Timothy C. Beers, Astrophys. J. 823, 30 (2016) [ApJ] [ADS] [code] [more code]

Detecting the disruption of dark-matter halos with stellar streams
Jo Bovy, Phys. Rev. Lett. 116, 121301 (2016) [PRL] [ADS] [code]

Dynamics of stream-subhalo interactions
Jason L. Sanders, Jo Bovy, & Denis Erkal, Mon. Not. Roy. Astron. Soc. 457, 3817 (2016) [MNRAS] [ADS] [code]

On Galactic density modeling in the presence of dust extinction
Jo Bovy, Hans-Walter Rix, Gregory M. Green, Edward F. Schlafly, Douglas P. Finkbeiner, Astrophys. J. 818, 130 (2016) [ApJ] [ADS] [mwdust code] [code]

The chemical homogeneity of open clusters
Jo Bovy, Astrophys. J. 817, 49 (2016) [ApJ] [ADS]

Determining Ages of APOGEE giants with known distances
Diane Feuilet, Jo Bovy, Jon Holtzman, Léo Girardi, Nick MacDonald, Steven R. Majewski, & David L. Nidever, Astrophys. J. 817, 40 (2016) [ApJ] [ADS]

Cosmological implications of baryon acoustic oscillation (BAO) measurements
Éric Aubourg, et al., Phys. Rev. D 92, 123516 (2015) [PRD] [ADS]

Abundances, Stellar Parameters, and Spectra From the SDSS-III/APOGEE Survey
Jon A. Holtzman, Matthew Shetrone, Jennifer A. Johnson, Carlos Allende Prieto, Friedrich Anders, Brett Andrews, Timothy C. Beers, Dmitry Bizyaev, Michael R. Blanton, Jo Bovy, et al., Astron. J. 150, 148 (2015) [AJ] [ADS]

Spiral and bar driven peculiar velocities in Milky Way sized galaxy simulations
Robert J.J. Grand, Jo Bovy, Daisuke Kawata, Jason A.S. Hunt, Benoit Famaey, Arnaud Siebert, Giacomo Monari, & Mark Cropper, Mon. Not. Roy. Astron. Soc. 453, 1867 (2015) [MNRAS] [ADS]

The radial profile and flattening of the Milky Way's stellar halo to 80 kpc from the SEGUE K-giant Survey
Xiang-Xiang Xue, Hans-Walter Rix, Zhibo Ma, Heather Morrison, Jo Bovy, Branimir Sesar, & William Janesh, Astrophys. J. 809, 144 (2015) [ApJ] [ADS]

The nature and orbit of the Ophiuchus stream
Branimir Sesar, Jo Bovy, et al., Astrophys. J. 809, 59 (2015) [ApJ] [ADS] [some code]

Quasar probabilities and redshifts from WISE mid-IR through GALEX UV photometry
Michael A. DiPompeo, Jo Bovy, Adam D. Myers, & Dustin Lang, Mon. Not. Roy. Astron. Soc. 452, 3124 (2015) [MNRAS] [ADS] [code]

Chemical cartography with APOGEE: Metallicity distribution functions and the chemical structure of the Milky Way disk
Michael R. Hayden, Jo Bovy, Jon A. Holtzman, et al., Astrophys. J. 808, 132 (2015) [ApJ] [ADS] [some code]

Young alpha-enriched giant stars in the solar neighbourhood
Marie Martig, Hans-Walter Rix, Victor Silva Aguirre, Saskia Hekker, Benoit Mosser, Yvonne Elsworth, Jo Bovy, et al., Mon. Not. Roy. Astron. Soc. 451, 2230 (2015) [MNRAS] [ADS]

Exploring anticorrelations and light element variations in northern globular clusters observed by the APOGEE survey
Szabolcs Mészáros, Sarah L. Martell, Matthew Shetrone, Sara Lucatello, Nicholas W. Troup, Jo Bovy, et al., Astron. J. 149, 153 (2015) [AJ] [ADS] [some code]

Estimating Black Hole Masses in Hundreds of Quasars
Nina Hernitschek, Hans-Walter Rix, Jo Bovy, & Eric Morganson, Astrophys. J. 801, 45 (2015) [ApJ] [ADS]

The power spectrum of the Milky Way: Velocity fluctuations in the Galactic disk
Jo Bovy, Jonathan C. Bird, Ana E. García~Pérez, Steven R. Majewski, David L. Nidever, & Gail Zasowski, Astrophys. J. 800, 83 (2015) [ApJ] [ADS] [code]

galpy: A Python Library for Galactic Dynamics
Jo Bovy, Astrophys. J. Supp. 216, 29 (2015) [ApJS] [ADS] [code] [code for figures] [more code for figures]

Baryon Acoustic Oscillations in the Lyα forest of DR11 BOSS quasars
Timothée Delubac, et. al., Astron. & Astrophys. 574, A59 (2015) [A&A] [ADS]

The APOKASC Catalog: An asteroseismic and spectroscopic joint survey of targets in the Kepler fields
Marc Pinsonneault, et al., Astrophys. J. Supp. 215, 19 (2014) [ApJS] [ADS]

Tracing chemical evolution over the extent of the Milky Way's Disk with APOGEE Red Clump Stars
David L. Nidever, Jo Bovy, Jonathan C. Bird, et al., Astrophys. J. 796, 38 (2014) [ApJ] [ADS]

Bayesian distances and extinctions for giants observed by Kepler and APOGEE
Thaíse S. Rodrigues, Léo Girardi, Andrea Miglio, Diego Bossini, Jo Bovy, et al., Mon. Not. Roy. Astron. Soc. 445, 2758 (2014) [MNRAS] [ADS]

Dynamical modeling of tidal streams
Jo Bovy, Astrophys. J. 795, 95 (2014) [ApJ] [ADS] [code]

The Milky Way tomography with SDSS. V. Mapping the dark matter halo
Sarah R. Loebman, Željko Ivezić, Thomas R. Quinn, Jo Bovy, Charlotte R. Christensen, Mario Jurić, Rok Roškar, Alyson M. Brooks, Fabio Governato, Astrophys. J. 794, 151 (2014) [ApJ] [ADS]

The APOGEE red-clump catalog: Precise distances, velocities, and high-resolution elemental abundances over a large area of the Milky Way's disk
Jo Bovy, et al., Astrophys. J. 790, 127 (2014) [ApJ] [ADS] [code] [code]

Chemical cartography with APOGEE: Large-scale mean metallicity maps of the Milky Way
Michael R. Hayden, Jon A. Holtzman, Jo Bovy, et al., Astron. J. 147, 116 (2014) [AJ] [ADS]

A direct dynamical measurement of the Milky Way's disk surface density profile, disk scale length, and dark matter profile at 4 kpc < R < 9 kpc
Jo Bovy & Hans-Walter Rix, Astrophys. J. 779, 115 (2013) [ApJ] [ADS] [code] [data]

Quasars Probing Quasars VI. Excess HI Absorption Within One Proper Mpc of z~2 Quasars
J. Xavier Prochaska, Joseph F. Hennawi, Khee-Gan Lee, Sebastiano Cantalupo, Jo Bovy, S.G. Djorgovski, Sara L. Ellison, Marie Wingyee Lau, Crystal L. Martin, Adam Myers, Kate H.R. Rubin, & Robert A. Simcoe, Astrophys. J. 776, 136 (2013) [ApJ] [ADS]

MaGICC Thick Disk I: Comparing a Simulated Disk Formed with Stellar Feedback to the Milky Way
G. S. Stinson, J. Bovy, H.-W. Rix, C. Brook, R. Roškar, J. J. Dalcanton, A. V. Macciò, J. Wadsley, H. M. P. Couchman, T. R. Quinn, Mon. Not. Roy. Astron. Soc. 436, 625 (2013) [MNRAS] [ADS]

On the study of Galactic potential via action-based mono-abundance stars distribution function
Yuan-Sen Ting, Hans-Walter Rix, Jo Bovy, & Glenn van de Ven Mon. Not. Roy. Astron. Soc. 434, 652 (2013) [MNRAS] [ADS]

The SDSS-III Baryon Oscillation Spectroscopic Survey: The quasar luminosity function from data release nine
Nicholas P. Ross, et. al., Astrophys. J. 773, 14 (2013) [ApJ] [ADS]

The gravitational potential near the Sun from SEGUE K-dwarf kinematics
Lan Zhang, Hans-Walter Rix, Glenn van de Ven, Jo Bovy, Chao Liu, & Gang Zhao, Astrophys. J. 772, 108 (2013) [ApJ] [ADS]

The Milky Way's stellar disk
Hans-Walter Rix & Jo Bovy, Astron. Astrophys. Rev. 21, 61 (2013) [A&ARv] [ADS]

Measurement of baryon acoustic oscillations in the Lyman-alpha forest fluctuations in BOSS Data Release 9
Anže Slosar, et. al., J. Cosmol. Astropart. Phys. 4, 26 (2013) [JCAP] [ADS]

Baryon Acoustic Oscillations in the Lyα forest of BOSS quasars
Nicolás G. Busca, et. al., Astron. & Astrophys. 552, A96 (2013) [A&A] [ADS]

Low-mass suppression of the satellite luminosity function due to the supersonic baryon–cold-dark-matter relative velocity
Jo Bovy & Cora Dvorkin, Astrophys. J. 768, 70 (2013) [ApJ] [ADS] [code]

The stellar metallicity distribution function of the Galactic halo from SDSS photometry
Deokkeun An, Timothy C. Beers, Jennifer A. Johnson, Marc H. Pinsonneault, Young Sun Lee, Jo Bovy, Željko Ivezić, Daniela Carollo, & Matthew Newby, Astrophys. J. 763, 65 (2013) [ApJ] [ADS]

The Milky Way's circular velocity curve between 4 and 14 kpc from APOGEE data
Jo Bovy, et al., Astrophys. J. 759, 131 (2012) [ApJ] [ADS] [code]

On the local dark matter density
Jo Bovy & Scott Tremaine, Astrophys. J. 756, 89 (2012) [ApJ] [ADS] [code]

The vertical motions of mono-abundance sub-populations in the Milky Way disk
Jo Bovy, Hans-Walter Rix, David W. Hogg, Timothy C. Beers, Young Sun Lee, & Lan Zhang, Astrophys. J. 755, 115 (2012) [ApJ] [ADS] [code] [data]

The clustering of intermediate redshift quasars as measured by the Baryon Oscillation Spectroscopic Survey
Martin White, et al., Mon. Not. Roy. Astron. Soc. 424, 933 (2012) [MNRAS] [ADS]

The spatial structure of mono-abundance sub-populations of the Milky Way disk
Jo Bovy, Hans-Walter Rix, Chao Liu, David W. Hogg, Timothy C. Beers, & Young Sun Lee, Astrophys. J. 753, 148 (2012) [ApJ] [ADS] [code] [more code] [data]

The Milky Way has no distinct thick disk
Jo Bovy, Hans-Walter Rix, & David W. Hogg, Astrophys. J. 751, 131 (2012) [ApJ] [ADS] [code] [data]

Photometric Redshifts and Quasar Probabilities from a Single, Data-driven Generative Model
Jo Bovy, et al., Astrophys. J. 749, 41 (2012) [ApJ] [ADS] [code]

The SDSS-III Baryon Oscillation Spectroscopic Survey: Quasar Target Selection for Data Release Nine
Nicholas P. Ross, Adam D. Myers, Erin S. Sheldon, Christophe Yèche, Michael A. Strauss, Jo Bovy, et al.,
Astrophys. J. Supp. 199, 3 (2012) [ApJS] [ADS]

Carbon-Enhanced Metal-Poor Stars in the Inner and Outer Halo Components of the Milky Way
Daniela Carollo, Timothy C. Beers, Jo Bovy, T. Sivarani, John E. Norris, Ken C. Freeman, W. Aoki, & Young Sun Lee, Astrophys. J. 744, 195 (2012) [ApJ] [ADS]

The Color Variability of Quasars
Kasper B. Schmidt, Hans-Walter Rix, Joseph C. Shields, Matthias Knecht, David W. Hogg, Dan Maoz, & Jo Bovy, Astrophys. J. 744, 147 (2012) [ApJ] [ADS]

Spherical harmonics analysis of Fermi gamma-ray data and the Galactic dark matter halo
Dmitry Malyshev, Jo Bovy, & Ilias Cholis, Phys. Rev. D 84, 023013 (2011) [PRD] [ADS]

Extreme deconvolution: inferring complete distribution functions from noisy, heterogeneous and incomplete observations
Jo Bovy, David W. Hogg, & Sam T. Roweis, Ann. Appl. Stat. 5, 2B, 1657 (2011) [AOAS] [ADS] [code]

Think outside the color box: probabilistic target selection and the SDSS-XDQSO quasar targeting catalog
Jo Bovy, et al., Astrophys. J. 729, 141 (2011) [ApJ] [ADS] [catalog] [code]

Inferring the eccentricity distribution
David W. Hogg, Adam D. Myers, & Jo Bovy, Astrophys. J. 725, 2166 (2010) [ApJ] [ADS]

Tracing the Hercules stream around the Galaxy
Jo Bovy, Astrophys. J. 725, 1676 (2010) [ApJ] [ADS] [code] [movies]

The velocity distribution of nearby stars from Hipparcos data II. The nature of the low-velocity moving groups
Jo Bovy & David W. Hogg, Astrophys. J. 717, 617 (2010) [ApJ] [ADS] [movies]

Dynamical inference from a kinematic snapshot: The force law in the Solar System
Jo Bovy, Iain Murray, & David W. Hogg, Astrophys. J. 711, 1157 (2010) [ApJ] [ADS]

Galactic masers and the Milky Way circular velocity
Jo Bovy, David W. Hogg, & Hans-Walter Rix, Astrophys. J. 704, 1704 (2009) [ApJ] [ADS]

The velocity distribution of nearby stars from Hipparcos data I. The significance of the moving groups
Jo Bovy, David W. Hogg, & Sam T. Roweis, Astrophys. J. 700, 1794 (2009) [ApJ] [ADS]

Substructure Boosts to Dark Matter Annihilation from Sommerfeld Enhancement
Jo Bovy, Phys. Rev. D 79, 083539 (2009) [PRD] [ADS] [code]

Cosmic transparency: A test with the baryon acoustic feature and type Ia supernovae
Surhud More, Jo Bovy, & David W. Hogg, Astrophys. J. 696, 1727 (2009) [ApJ] [ADS]

Connection between a Possible Fifth Force and the Direct Detection of Dark Matter
Jo Bovy & Glennys R. Farrar, Phys. Rev. Lett. 102, 101301 (2009) [PRL] [ADS]

The Transparency of Galaxy Clusters
Jo Bovy, David W. Hogg, & John Moustakas, Astrophys. J. 688, 198 (2008) [ApJ] [ADS]

N = 1,2 Supersymmetric Vacua of IIA Supergravity and SU(2) Structures
Jo Bovy, Dieter Lüst, & Dimitrios Tsimpis, J. High Energy Phys. 08, 056OB (2005) [JHEP] [ADS]

Collaboration papers

The eighteenth data release of the Sloan Digital Sky Surveys: Targeting and first spectra from SDSS-V
Andrés Almeida, et al., Astrophys. J. Suppl. 267, 44 (2023) [ApJS] [ADS]

The seventeenth data release of the Sloan Digital Sky Surveys: Complete release of MaNGA, MaStar and APOGEE-2 data
Abdurro'uf, et al., Astrophys. J. Suppl.259, 35 (2022) [ApJS] [ADS]

Final targeting strategy for the SDSS-IV APOGEE-2N survey
Rachael L. Beaton, et al., Astron. J. 162, 302 (2021) [AJ] [ADS]

The completed SDSS-IV extended Baryon Oscillation Spectroscopic Survey: Cosmological implications from two decades of spectroscopic surveys at the Apache Point observatory
eBOSS Collaboration: Shadab Alam, et al., Phys. Rev. D 103, 083533 (2021) [PRD] [ADS]

APOGEE data and spectral analysis from SDSS Data Release 16: Seven years of observations including first results from APOGEE-South
Henrik Jönsson, Jon A. Holtzman, Carlos Allende Prieto, et al., Astron. J.160, 120 (2020) [AJ] [ADS]

The sixteenth data release of the Sloan Digital Sky Surveys: First release from the APOGEE-2 southern survey and full release of eBOSS spectra
Romina Ahumada, Carlos Allende Prieto, Andres Almeida, et al., Astrophys. J. Suppl.249, 3 (2020) [ApJS] [ADS]

Probing the fundamental nature of dark matter with the Large Synoptic Survey Telescope
Alex Drlica-Wagner, Yao-Yuan Mao, Susmita Adhikari, Robert Armstrong, Arka Banerjee, Nilanjan Banik, Keith Bechtol, Simeon Bird, Kimberly K. Boddy, Ana Bonaca, Jo Bovy, et al., [arXiv/1902.01055]

The fifteenth data release of the Sloan Digital Sky Surveys: First release of MaNGA derived quantities, data visualization tools and stellar library
D. S. Aguado, Romina Ahumada, Andres Almeida, et al., Astrophys. J. Suppl.240, 23 (2019) [ApJS] [ADS]

The Apache Point Observatory Galactic Evolution Experiment (APOGEE)
Steven R. Majewski, Ricardo P. Schiavon, Peter M. Frinchaboy, et al., Astron. J. 154, 94 (2017) [AJ] [ADS]

The fourteenth data release of the Sloan Digital Sky Survey: First spectroscopic data from the extended Baryon Oscillation Sky Survey and from the second phase of the Apache Point Observatory Galactic Evolution Experiment
Bela Abolfathi, et al., Astrophys. J. Supp. 235, 42 (2018) [ApJS] [ADS]

Sloan Digital Sky Survey IV: Mapping the Milky Way, nearby galaxies and the distant universe
Michael R. Blanton, et al., Astron. J. 154, 28 (2017) [AJ] [ADS]

The thirteenth data release of the Sloan Digital Sky Survey: First spectroscopic data from the SDSS-IV Survey MApping Nearby Galaxies at Apache Point Observatory
SDSS-III collaboration: Franco D. Albareti, et al., Astrophys. J. Supp. 223, 25 (2017) [ApJS] [ADS]

The Sloan Digital Sky Survey quasar catalog: twelfth data release
Isabelle Pâris, et al., Astron. & Astrophys. 597, A79 (2017) [A&A] [ADS]

The SDSS-IV extended Baryonic Oscillation Spectroscopic Survey: Quasar target selection
Adam D. Myers, Nathalie Palanque-Delabrouille, Abhishek Prakash, Isabelle Pâris, Christophe Yeche, Kyle S. Dawson, Jo Bovy, et al., Astrophys. J. Supp. 221, 27 (2015) [ApJS] [ADS]

The SDSS-IV extended Baryon Oscillation Spectroscopic Survey: Overview and early data
Kyle S. Dawson, et al., Astron. J. 151, 44 (2016) [AJ] [ADS]

The eleventh and twelfth data releases of the Sloan Digital Sky Survey: Final data from SDSS-III
SDSS-III collaboration: Shadab Alam, et al., Astrophys. J. Supp. 219, 12 (2015) [ApJS] [ADS]

The Sloan Digital Sky Survey quasar catalog: tenth data release
Isabelle Pâris, et al., Astron. & Astrophys. 563, A54 (2014) [A&A] [ADS]

The Tenth Data Release of the Sloan Digital Sky Survey: First Spectroscopic Data from the SDSS-III Apache Point Observatory Galactic Evolution Experiment
SDSS-III collaboration: Christopher P. Ahn, et al., Astrophys. J. Supp. 211, 17 (2014) [ApJS] [ADS]

The Baryon Oscillation Spectroscopic Survey of SDSS-III
Kyle S. Dawson, et al., Astron. J. 145, 10 (2013) [AJ] [ADS]

The Sloan Digital Sky Survey quasar catalog: ninth data release
Isabelle Pâris, et al., Astron. & Astrophys. 548, 66 (2012) [A&A] [ADS]

The Ninth Data Release of the Sloan Digital Sky Survey: First Spectroscopic Data from the SDSS-III Baryon Oscillation Spectroscopic Survey
SDSS-III collaboration: Christopher P. Ahn, et al., Astrophys. J. Supp. 203, 21 (2012) [ApJS] [ADS]

SDSS-III: Massive Spectroscopic Surveys of the Distant Universe, the Milky Way Galaxy, and Extra-Solar Planetary Systems
Daniel J. Eisenstein, et al., Astron. J. 142, 72 (2011) [AJ] [ADS]

The Eighth Data Release of the Sloan Digital Sky Survey: First Data from SDSS-III
SDSS-III collaboration: Hiroaki Aihara, et al., Astrophys. J. Supp. 193, 29 (2011) [ApJS] [ADS] [Erratum]

Miscellaneous

A purely acceleration-based measurement of the fundamental Galactic parameters
Jo Bovy (2020) [arXiv/2012.02169]

Stellar kinematics
Jo Bovy, Note on coordinate transformations (appendix from my PhD thesis) (2010) [PDF] [PhD Thesis]

Data analysis recipes: Fitting a model to data
David W. Hogg, Jo Bovy, & Dustin Lang, a chapter from a non-existent book (2010) [arXiv/1008.4686]

contact info

email: jo.bovy [at] utoronto.ca

address:
Department of Astronomy and Astrophysics
University of Toronto
50 St. George Street
Toronto, ON M5S 3H4