Astrophysical: Galaxy physics

  • Publication
    Evidence for the Accretion of Gas in Star-forming Galaxies: High N/O Abundances in Regions of Anomalously Low Metallicity

    While all models for the evolution of galaxies require the accretion of gas to sustain their growth via on-going star formation, it has proven difficult to...

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    Physically Motivated Fit to Mass Surface Density Profiles Observed in Galaxies

    Polytropes have gained renewed interest because they account for several seemingly disconnected observational properties of galaxies. Here we study whether...

  • News
    The mystery of the runaway supermassive black hole, solved

    A study carried out by a team of researchers at the Instituto de Astrofísica de Canarias (IAC) has shown that an unusual thin structure of stars, recently...