Astrophysical: Galaxy formation

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    A Disk and No Signatures of Tidal Distortion in the Galaxy "Lacking" Dark Matter NGC 1052-DF2

    Using ultra-deep imaging (μg = 30.4 mag arcsec-2; 3σ, 10″ × 10″), we probed the surroundings of the first galaxy "lacking" dark matter (DM) KKS2000[04] (NGC...

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    A Duality in the Origin of Bulges and Spheroidal Galaxies

    Studying the resolved stellar populations of the different structural components that build massive galaxies directly unveils their assembly history. We aim at...

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    An Intermediate-age Alpha-rich Galactic Population in K2

    We explore the relationships between the chemistry, ages, and locations of stars in the Galaxy using asteroseismic data from the K2 mission and spectroscopic...

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    Big Data to model the evolution of the cosmic web

    The Instituto de Astrofísica de Canarias (IAC) has led an international team which has developed an algorithm called COSMIC BIRTH to analyse large scale cosmic...

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    Discovery of Faint Double-peak Hα Emission in the Halo of Low Redshift Galaxies

    Aimed at the detection of cosmological gas being accreted onto galaxies in the local universe, we examined the Hα emission in the halo of 164 galaxies in the...

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    Discovery of Four Apparently Cold Dusty Galaxies at z = 3.62─5.85 in the COSMOS Field: Direct Evidence of Cosmic Microwave Background Impact on High-redshift Galaxy Observables

    We report Atacama Large Millimeter Array (ALMA) observations of four high-redshift dusty star-forming galaxy candidates selected from far-infrared (FIR)...

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    Extended Point-spread Functions for Deep Astronomical Imaging Surveys

    The low surface brightness (LSB) universe is one of the last frontiers in observational astronomy. However, uncovering the information contained in ultra-deep...

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    From Naked Spheroids to Disky Galaxies: How Do Massive Disk Galaxies Shape Their Morphology?

    We investigate the assembly history of massive disk galaxies and describe how they shape their morphology through cosmic time. Using SHARDS and HST data, we...

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    Galactic archaeology for amateur astronomers: RR Lyrae stars as tracers of the Milky Way formation

    Cosmological models predict that large galaxies like the Milky Way formed from the accretion of smaller stellar systems. The most spectacular of these merger...