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You can find a full list of my publications in this ADS library (link), at the end of my CV, or below.

I have published or submitted 43 papers: 12 as the first author, 13 as the second or third author, and 18 as an Nth author. My current citation count is >1900 (ref: Google Scholar)

2025

43. What Sets the Metallicity of Ultra-Faint Dwarfs?
Wheeler, V., Kravtsov, A., Chiti, A., Katz, H., Semenov, V.
Submitted to the Open Journal of Astrophysics, 
arXiv:2507.03182

42. Spectroscopic Analysis of Pictor II: a very low metallicity ultra-faint dwarf galaxy bound to the Large Magellanic Cloud

Pace, A. B. et al. (inc. Chiti, A.)
Submitted to the Open Journal of Astrophysics, arXiv:2506.21841

41. The DECam MAGIC Survey: Spectroscopic Follow-up of the Most Metal-Poor Stars in the Distant Milky Way Halo

Placco, V. M., Limberg, G., Chiti, A., Prabhu, D. S., Ji, A. P., Barbosa, F. O. et al.
Submitted to AAS Journals, arXiv:2506.19163

40. A Bimodal Metallicity Distribution Function in the Ultra-faint Dwarf Galaxy Reticulum II
Luna, A. M., Ji, A. P., Chiti, A., Simon, J. D., Kelson, D. D., Go, M., Limberg, G., Li, T. S., Frebel, A.

Submitted to AAS Journals, arXiv:2506.16462

39. The DECam MAGIC Survey: A Wide-field Photometric Metallicity Study of the Sculptor Dwarf Spheroidal Galaxy

Barbosa, F. O., Chiti, A., Limberg, G., Pace, A., Cerny, W., Rossi, S. et al.
Submitted to AAS Journals, arXiv:2504.03593

38. Early r-process Enrichment and Hierarchical Assembly Across the Sagittarius Dwarf Galaxy

Ou, X., Yelland, A., Chiti, A., Frebel, A., Limberg, G., Mardini, M. K.
AJ 169, 279.


37. The R-Process Alliance: Hunting for gold in the near-UV spectrum of 2MASS J05383296-5904280

Hansen, T. T., Roederer I. U., Shah, S. P., Ezzeddine, R., Beers, T. C., Frebel, A., Holmbeck, E. M., Placco, V. M., Sakari, C. M., Ji, A. P., Marshall, J. L., Mardini, M. K., Chiti, A.
A&A 697, 127.


36. 
A Pride of Satellites in the Constellation Leo? Discovery of the Leo VI Milky Way Satellite Ultra-faint Dwarf Galaxy with DELVE Early Data Release 3

Tan, C. Y. et al. (inc Chiti, A.)
ApJ 979, 176.


35. 
Discovery and Spectroscopic Confirmation of Aquarius III: A Low-mass Milky Way Satellite Galaxy

Cerny, W., Chiti, A., Geha, M., Mutlu-Pakdil, B., Drlica-Wagner, A. et al.
ApJ 979, 164.

34. Stellar Metallicities from DECam u-band photometry: A Study of Milky Way Ultra-faint Dwarf Galaxies
Pan, Y., Chiti, A., Drlica-Wagner, A., Ji, A. P., Li, T. S., Limberg, G., Tucker, D. L., Allam, S.
ApJ 978, 39.

2024

33. Signatures of Extragalactic First Stars in the Large Magellanic Cloud
Chiti, A., Mardini, M. K., Limberg, G., Frebel, A., Ji, A. P., Reggiani, H., Ferguson, P., Andales, H., Brauer, K., Li, T. S., Simon, J. D.
Nature Astronomy 8, 637.

32. A Blueprint for the Milky Way's Stellar Populations. V. 3D Local Dust Extinction
An, D., Beers, T. C., Chiti, A. 
ApJS 272, 20.

31. ​Signatures of Tidal Disruption of the Hercules Ultrafaint Dwarf Galaxy
Ou, X., Chiti, A., Shipp, N., Simon, J. D., Geha, M., Frebel, A., Mardini, M. K., Erkal, D., Necib, L.
ApJ 966, 33.

30. Extending the Chemical Reach of the H3 Survey: Detailed Abundances of the Dwarf-galaxy Stellar Stream Wukong/LMS-1
Limberg, G., Ji, A. P. , Naidu, R. P., Chiti, A.Rossi, S., Usman, S. A., Ting, Y.-S., Zaritsky, D., Bonaca, A., Borbolato, L., Speagle, J. S., Chandra, V., Conroy, C.
MNRAS 530, 2512.
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29. An Sr rich ultra metal-poor star from the GaiaXP catalog
Mardini, M. K., Frebel, A., Chiti, A.
MNRAS 529, 60.
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28. Reading Between the (Spectral) Lines: Magellan/IMACS spectroscopy of the Ultra-faint Dwarf Galaxies Eridanus IV and Centaurus I
Heiger, M. E., Li, T. S., Pace, A. B., Simon, J. D., Ji, A. P., Chiti, A.Bom, C. R., Carballo-Bello, J. A., Carlin, J. L., Cerny, W., Choi, Y., Drlica-Wagner, A., James, D. J., Martínez-Vázquez, C. E., Medina, G. E., Mutlu-Pakdil, B., Navabi, M., Noël, N. E. D., Sakowska, J. D., Stringfellow, G. S.
ApJ, 961, 234.

2023

27. Detailed Chemical Abundances of Stars in the Outskirts of the Tucana II ultra-faint dwarf galaxy
Chiti, A., Frebel, A., Ji, A. P., Mardini, M. K., Ou, X., Simon, J. D., Jerjen, H., Kim, D., Norris, J. E.
AJ 2023, 165, 55.​
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26. Six More Ultra-faint Milky Way Companions Discovered in the DECam Local Volume Exploration Survey
Cerny, W. et al. (inc. Chiti, A)
ApJ 2023, 953, 1.
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25. Strong Variability in AzV 493, an Extreme Oe-type Star in the SMC
Oey, M. S., Castro, N., Renzo, M., Vargas-Salazar, I., Suffak, M. W., Ratajczak, M., Monnier, J. D., Szymanski, M. K., Phillips, G. D., Calvet, N., Chiti, A.Micheva, G., Rasmussen, K. C., Townsend, R. H. D. 
ApJ 2023, 947, 27.​​

2022

24. Magellan/IMACS Spectroscopy of Grus I: A low metallicity ultra-faint dwarf galaxy

Chiti, A., Simon, J. D., Frebel, A., Pace, A. B., Ji, A. P., Li, T. S.

ApJ 2022, 939, 41.

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23. The chemical abundance pattern of the extremely metal-poor thin disc star 2MASS J1808-5104 and its origins

Mardini, M. K., Frebel, A., Ezzeddine, R., Chiti, A., Meiron, Y., Ji, A. P., Placco, V. M., Roederer, I. U., Melendez, J.

MNRAS 2022, 517, 3993.​

22. The Atari Disk, a Metal-Poor Stellar Population in the Disk System of the Milky Way
Mardini, M. K., Frebel, A., Chiti, A., Meiron, Y., Brauer, K. V., Ou, X. 

ApJ 2022, 936, 78.

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21. Tucana B: A Potentially Isolated and Quenched Ultra-faint Dwarf Galaxy at D=1.4 Mpc

Sand, D. J., Mutlu-Pakdil, B., Jones, M. G., Karunakaran, A., Wang, F., Yang, J., Chiti, A., Bennet, P., Crnojevic, D., Spekkens, K.

ApJL 2022, 935, 17.

2021

20. An extended halo around an ancient dwarf galaxy

Chiti, A., Frebel, A., Simon, J. D., Erkal, D., Chang, L. J., Necib, L., Ji, A. P., Jerjen, H., Kim, D., Norris, J.

Nature Astronomy 2021, 5, 392.

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19. The Metal-poor Metallicity Distribution of the Ancient Milky Way

Chiti, A., Mardini, M. K., Frebel, A., Daniel, T.

ApJL 2021, 911, L23.

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18. Stellar metallicities from SkyMapper photometry II: Precise Photometric metallicities of ~280,000 giant stars with [Fe/H] < -0.75 in the Milky Way from SkyMapper DR2

Chiti, A., Frebel, A., Mardini, M. K., Daniel, T., Ou, X., Uvarova, A. V.

ApJS 2021, 254, 31.

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17. High resolution spectroscopic follow-up of the most metal-poor candidates from SkyMapper DR1.1

Yong, D., Da Costa, G. S., Bessell, M. S., Chiti, A., Frebel, A., Gao, X., Lind, K., Mackey, A. D., Marino, A. F., Murphy, S. J., Nordlander, T.,  Asplund, M., Casey, A. R., Kobayashi, C., Norris, J. E., Schmidt, B. P.,

MNRAS 2021, 507, 4102.

 

16. r-Process elements from magnetorotational hypernovae

Yong, D.,  Kobayashi, C., Da Costa, G. S., Bessell, M. S., Chiti, A., Frebel, A., Lind, K., Mackey, A. D., Nordlander, T.,  Asplund, M., Casey, A. R., Marino, A. F., Murphy, S. J., Schmidt, B. P.

Nature 2021, 595, 223.

 

15. Rapid state transitions in a supermassive black hole's accretion flow

Wevers, T., Pasham, D. R., van Velzen, S., Miller-Jones, J. C. A, Uttley, P., Gendreau, K. C., Remilland, R., Arzoumanian, Z., Lowenstein, M., Chiti, A.

ApJ 2021, 912, 151.

2020

14. Discovery of 18 stars with -3.10 < [Fe/H] < -1.45 in the Sagittarius dwarf galaxy

Chiti, A., Hansen, K. Y., Frebel, A.

ApJ 2020, 901, 164. 

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13. Stellar metallicities from SkyMapper photometry I: A study of the Tucana II ultra-faint dwarf galaxy

Chiti, A., Frebel, A. L., Jerjen, H., Kim, D., Norris, J.

ApJ 2020, 891, 8.

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12. The R-process Alliance: First Magellan/MIKE Release from the Southern Search for R-Process-enhanced Stars 

Ezzeddine, R., Rasmussen, K., Frebel, A., Chiti, A., Hinojosa, K., Placco, V. M., Beers, T. C., Hansen, T. T., Roederer, I. U., Sakari, C. M., Ji, A. P., Melendez, J.

ApJ 2020, 898, 150.

2019

11. Four Metal-poor Stars in the Sagittarius Dwarf Spheroidal Galaxy

Chiti, A. & Frebel, A.

ApJ 2019, 875, 112.

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10. The lowest detected stellar Fe abundance: The halo star SMSS J160540.18-144323.1

Nordlander, T., Bessell, M. S., Da Costa, G. S., Mackey, A. D., Asplund, M., Casey, A. R., Chiti, A., Ezzeddine, R., Frebel, A., Lind, K., Marino, A. F., Murphy, S. J., Norris, J. E., Schmidt, B. P., Yong, D.

MNRAS 2019, 488, 1.

 

9. Chemical Abundance Signature of J0023+0307 -- A Second-Generation Main-Sequence Star with [Fe/H] < -6 

Frebel, A. L., Ji, A.P., Ezzeddine, R., Hansen, T. T., Chiti, A., Thompson, I. B., Merle, T.,

ApJ 2019, 871, 146.

2018

8. Chemical Abundances of new member stars in the Tucana II dwarf galaxy

Chiti, A., Frebel, A. L., Ji, A. P., Jerjen, H., Kim, D., Norris, J.

ApJ 2018, 857, 74.

 

7. Detection of a Population of Carbon-enhanced Metal-poor stars in the Sculptor dwarf galaxy

Chiti, A., Simon, J. D., Frebel, A. L., Mateo, M., Bailey, J. I., Crane, J., Shectman, S., Thompson, I., Walker, M.

ApJ 2018, 856, 142.

2016

6. Transient Events in Archival Very Large Array Observations of the Galactic Center 

Chiti, A., Chatterjee, S., Wharton, R. S., Cordes, J., Lazio, T. J. W., Kaplan, D. L., Bower G. C., Croft, S.

ApJ 2016, 833, 11.

 

5. R-process enrichment from a single event in an ancient dwarf galaxy

Ji, A. P., Frebel, A. L., Chiti, A., Simon, J. D.

Nature 2016, 531, 610.

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4. Complete Element Abundances of Nine Stars in the r-process Galaxy Reticulum II

Ji, A. P., Frebel, A. L., Simon, J. D., Chiti, A.

ApJ 2016, 830, 93.

 

3. Observational Constraints on First-Star Nucleosynthesis. II. Spectroscopy of an Ultra metal-poor CEMP-no Star 

Placco, V. M., Frebel, A. L., Beers, T. C., Yoon, J., Chiti, A., Heger, A., Chan, C., Casey, A. R., Christlieb, N.

ApJ 2016, 833, 21.

 

2. Portrait of a Dark Horse: a Photometric and Spectroscopic Study of the Ultra-faint Milky Way Satellite Pegasus III

Kim, D., Jerjen, H., Geha, M., Chiti, A., Milone, A. P., Da Costa, G., Mackey, D., Frebel, A. L., Conn, B.

ApJ 2016, 833, 16.

2015

1. SD 1313-0019 -- Another second-generation star with [Fe/H] = --5.0, observed with the Magellan Telescope

Frebel, A. L., Chiti, A., Ji, A. P., Jacobson H. R., Placco, V. M.

ApJL 2015, 810, L27.

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