Astrophysical: Galaxies

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    New redshifts for Abell 1758N galaxies (Boschin+, 2012)
    Multi-object spectroscopic observations of A1758N were carried out at the TNG, a 4m-class telescope, in May 2008 and May 2009. We used DOLORES/MOS with the LR-B...
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    New techniques are developed for producing synthetic catalogues of galaxies
    The group of Cosmology and Large Scale Structure at the Instituto de Astrofísica de Canarias (IAC) has developed, using the BAM (Bias Assignment Method)...
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    New ultra metal-poor stars from SDSS: follow-up GTC medium-resolution spectroscopy
    Context. The first generation of stars formed in the Galaxy left behind the chemical signatures of their nucleosynthesis in the interstellar medium, visible...
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    New VR Magnification Ratios of QSO 0957+561
    We present VR magnification ratios of QSO 0957+561 that are inferred from the GLITP light curves of Q0957+561A and new frames taken with the 2.56 m Nordic...
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    NGC 1436: the making of a lenticular galaxy in the Fornax Cluster
    We study the evolutionary path of the Fornax Cluster galaxy NGC 1436, which is known to be currently transitioning from a spiral into a lenticular morphology...
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    NGC 4526 gas, high velocity clouds, and Galactic halo gas: the interstellar medium towards SN 1994D.
    We present spectroscopic observations of supernova 1994D in NGC 4526, an S0_3_ galaxy in the Virgo cluster 15Mpc distant. The datasets consist of the...
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    NGC 4672: A new case of an early-type disk galaxy with an orthogonally decoupled core
    We report the case of the early-type disk galaxy NGC 4672 as a new example of a galaxy characterized by the orthogonal geometrical decoupling between bulge and...
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    NGC 55 blue massive stars VLT-spectroscopy (Castro+, 2008)
    Targets were selected from existing V- and I-band photometry obtained as part of the ongoing ARAUCARIA Cepheid search project whose results have been reported...
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    NGC 5506: physics of the extended narrow line region.
    NGC 5506 is a peculiar Seyfert (Sy) galaxy: it has a Sy2-like optical spectrum, but broad permitted infrared lines and a high X-ray luminosity as compared with...