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 (μ g = 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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    A Long Time Ago in a Galaxy Far, Far Away: A Candidate z 12 Galaxy in Early JWST CEERS Imaging
    We report the discovery of a candidate galaxy with a photo-z of z ~ 12 in the first epoch of the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) Cosmic Evolution Early...
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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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    An Unexplained Origin for the Unusual Globular Cluster System in the Ultradiffuse Galaxy FCC 224
    We study the quiescent ultradiffuse galaxy FCC 224 in the Fornax cluster using Hubble Space Telescope (HST) imaging, motivated by peculiar properties of its...
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    Atacama Large Aperture Submillimeter Telescope (AtLAST) science: Surveying the distant Universe
    During the most active period of star formation in galaxies, which occurs in the redshift range 1 < z < 3, strong bursts of star formation result in significant...
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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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    CEERS Key Paper. I. An Early Look into the First 500 Myr of Galaxy Formation with JWST
    We present an investigation into the first 500 Myr of galaxy evolution from the Cosmic Evolution Early Release Science (CEERS) survey. CEERS, one of 13 JWST ERS...
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    CEERS Key Paper. IV. A Triality in the Nature of HST-dark Galaxies
    The new capabilities that JWST offers in the near- and mid-infrared (IR) are used to investigate in unprecedented detail the nature of optical/near-IR-faint...