Extragalactic fast X-ray transients (FXTs) are a class of soft (0.3-10 keV) X-ray transients lasting a few hundred seconds to several hours. Several progenitor...
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PublicationXMM-Newton-discovered Fast X-ray Transients: host galaxies and limits on contemporaneous detections of optical counterparts
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PublicationYoung ages and other intriguing properties of massive compact galaxies in the local Universe
We characterize the kinematics, morphology, stellar populations and star formation histories of a sample of massive compact galaxies in the nearby Universe...
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PublicationYoung LMC clusters: the role of red supergiants and multiple stellar populations in their integrated light and CMDs
The optical integrated spectra of three Large Magellanic Cloud young stellar clusters (NGC 1984, NGC 1994 and NGC 2011) exhibit concave continua and prominent...
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PublicationYoung stellar objects in NGC 6823
NGC 6823 is a young open cluster that lies at a distance of ˜2 kpc in the Vulpecula OB1 association. Previous studies using CCD photometry and spectroscopy have...
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PublicationYoung stellar population gradients in central cluster galaxies from NUV and optical spectroscopy
Central cluster galaxies are the largest and most massive galaxies in the Universe. Although they host very old stellar populations, several studies found the...
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PublicationYoung stellar population gradients in central cluster galaxies from NUV and optical spectroscopy
Central cluster galaxies are the largest and most massive galaxies in the Universe. Although they host very old stellar populations, several studies found the...
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PublicationYoung stellar populations in type II quasars: timing the onset of star formation and nuclear activity
Despite the emerging morphological evidence that luminous quasar-like active galactic nuclei (AGN) are triggered in galaxy mergers, the natures of the...
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PublicationYoung α-enriched giant stars in the solar neighbourhood
We derive age constraints for 1639 red giants in the APOKASC sample for which seismic parameters from Kepler, as well as effective temperatures, metallicities...
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Publicationμ<SUB>⋆</SUB> masses: weak-lensing calibration of the Dark Energy Survey Year 1 redMaPPer clusters using stellar masses
We present the weak-lensing mass calibration of the stellar-mass-based μ ⋆ mass proxy for redMaPPer galaxy clusters in the Dark Energy Survey Year 1. For the...