There is an ongoing debate regarding the onset luminosity of dusty mass loss in population-II red giant stars. We present VLT/VISIR mid-infrared (MIR) 8.6 μm...
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PublicationThe VLT/VISIR mid-IR view of 47 Tucanae. A further step in solving the puzzle of RGB mass loss
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PublicationThe VVV Templates Project Towards an automated classification of VVV light-curves. I. Building a database of stellar variability in the near-infrared
Context. The Vista Variables in the Vía Láctea (VVV) ESO Public Survey is a variability survey of the Milky Way bulge and an adjacent section of the disk...
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NewsThe WEAVE spectrograph on the William Herschel Telescope takes its first light data at the ORM
The Isaac Newton Group of Telescopes (ING) and the WEAVE instrument team present the first observations with this new instrument. This is a powerful latest...
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PublicationThe young massive SMC cluster NGC 330 seen by MUSE. I. Observations and stellar content
Context. A majority of massive stars are part of binary systems, a large fraction of which will inevitably interact during their lives. Binary-interaction...
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PublicationThe young open cluster NGC 7067 using Strömgren photometry
NGC 7067 is a young open cluster located in the direction between the first and the second Galactic quadrants and close to the Perseus spiral arm. This makes it...
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PublicationThe young stellar population of IC 1613. I. A new catalogue of OB associations
Context: Determining the parameters of massive stars is crucial to understand many processes in galaxies and the Universe, since these objects are important...
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PublicationThe young stellar population of IC 1613. II. Physical properties of OB associations
Context. To understand the structure and evolution of massive stars, systematic surveys of the Local Group galaxies have been undertaken, to find these objects...
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PublicationThe young stellar population of IC 1613. III. New O-type stars unveiled by GTC-OSIRIS
Context. Very low-metallicity massive stars are key to understanding the reionization epoch. Radiation-driven winds, chief agents in the evolution of massive...
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PublicationThermochemical properties of C60Br24