Traces of Galaxy Formation: Stellar populations, Dynamics and Morphology

Group members
Start year
2006
Organizational Unit
RESEARCH DIVISION
Organizing institutions
Instituto de Astrofísica de Canarias (IAC)

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General
Description

Welcome to the Traces of Galaxy Formation research group website.

We are a large, diverse, and very active research group aiming to provide a comprehensive picture for the formation of galaxies in the Universe. Rooted in detailed stellar population analysis, we are constantly exploring and developing new tools and ideas to understand how galaxies came to be what we now observe.

A complex star formation history, as the one expected to describe galaxy evolution, needs a multidisciplinary approach to be fully understood. Our group at the IAC consists of experienced researchers in cosmological simulations, dynamical studies, stellar populations and morphological properties of galaxies up to high redshift. We combine different approaches (e.g. observations and theory, secular and cosmological evolution studies) to obtain a complete view of the dominant mechanisms driving the evolution of galaxies.

Within this general framework, we are currently exploring three main areas of research:

  1. Stellar population synthesis models
    • Development of new stellar population synthesis models
    • Stellar population analysis tools
    • Universality of the stellar initial mass function (IMF)
     
  2. Cosmic evolution of galaxies
    • Massive galaxy evolution
    • Stellar populations in different environments
    • Low surface brightness science
    • Machine learning and cosmological simulations
     
  3. Evolutionary processes in nearby galaxies
    • The role of black holes in the evolution of galaxies
    • Surveys of nearby galaxies
    • Stellar kinematics and dynamical models

If you want to get in contact or work with us, please send an email to the head of the group (Ignacio Martín-Navarro ignacio.martin [at] iac.es (ignacio[dot]martin[at]iac[dot]es)).

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Project staff

Here you can find some of our most recent highlights:

Related publications

The Fornax 3D project: PNe populations and stellar metallicity in edge-on galaxies 2021A&A...652A.109G
The lens SW05 J143454.4+522850: a fossil group at redshift 0.6? 2021MNRAS.506.1715D
Local variations of the Stellar Velocity Ellipsoid-I: the disc of galaxies in the Auriga simulations 2021MNRAS.506.1801W
Pushing automated morphological classifications to their limits with the Dark Energy Survey 2021MNRAS.506.1927V
The ultraviolet luminosity function of star-forming galaxies between redshifts of 0.6 and 1.2 2021MNRAS.506..473P
Extending the evolution of the stellar mass-size relation at z ≤ 2 to low stellar mass galaxies from HFF and CANDELS 2021MNRAS.506..928N
The size function of massive satellites from the R<SUB>e</SUB>-R<SUB>h</SUB> and M<SUB>star</SUB>-M<SUB>h</SUB> relations: constraining the role of environment 2021MNRAS.505L..84Z
Constraints on the dust extinction law of the Galaxy with Swift/UVOT, Gaia, and 2MASS 2021MNRAS.505..283F
The SAMI Galaxy Survey: the third and final data release 2021MNRAS.505..991C
Mild radial variations of the stellar IMF in the bulge of M31 2021MNRAS.505..415L
Anisotropic satellite galaxy quenching modulated by black hole activity 2021Natur.594..187M
The evolution of compact massive quiescent and star-forming galaxies derived from the R<SUB>e</SUB>-R<SUB>h</SUB> and M<SUB>star</SUB>-M<SUB>h</SUB> relations 2021MNRAS.505.4555Z
Diversity of nuclear star cluster formation mechanisms revealed by their star formation histories 2021A&A...650A.137F
History of the gas fuelling star formation in EAGLE galaxies 2021MNRAS.505.4655S
An extension of the MILES library with derived T<SUB>eff</SUB>, log g, [Fe/H], and [α/Fe] 2021MNRAS.505.4496G
A Duality in the Origin of Bulges and Spheroidal Galaxies 2021ApJ...913..125C
A comparison between X-shooter spectra and PHOENIX models across the HR-diagram 2021A&A...649A..97L
sMILES: a library of semi-empirical MILES stellar spectra with variable [α/Fe] abundances 2021MNRAS.504.2286K
Numerical simulations of dark matter haloes produce polytropic central cores when reaching thermodynamic equilibrium 2021MNRAS.504.2832S
Fingerprints of stellar populations in the near-infrared: an optimized set of spectral indices in the JHK bands 0 2021MNRAS.504.2190E
Beyond the hubble sequence - exploring galaxy morphology with unsupervised machine learning 2021MNRAS.503.4446C
Investigating the projected phase space of Gaussian and non-Gaussian clusters 2021MNRAS.503.3065S
The Fornax3D project: Assembly histories of lenticular galaxies from a combined dynamical and population orbital analysis 2021A&A...647A.145P
The number of globular clusters around the iconic UDG DF44 is as expected for dwarf galaxies 2021MNRAS.502.5921S
Evaluating hydrodynamical simulations with green valley galaxies 2021MNRAS.502.3685A
BAYES-LOSVD: A Bayesian framework for non-parametric extraction of the line-of-sight velocity distribution of galaxies 2021A&A...646A..31F
Constraining stellar population parameters from narrow band photometric surveys using convolutional neural networks 2021MNRAS.502.1355L
Galaxies within galaxies in the TIMER survey: stellar populations of inner bars are scaled replicas of main bars 2021A&A...646A..42B
The nature of giant clumps in high-z discs: a deep-learning comparison of simulations and observations 2021MNRAS.501..730G
A deep learning approach to test the small-scale galaxy morphology and its relationship with star formation activity in hydrodynamical simulations 2021MNRAS.501.4359Z
The kinematics of young and old stellar populations in nuclear rings of MUSE TIMER galaxies 2020A&A...644A.116R
Galactic cirri in deep optical imaging 2020A&A...644A..42R
The Galaxy "Missing Dark Matter" NGC 1052-DF4 is Undergoing Tidal Disruption 2020ApJ...904..114M
Detecting outliers in astronomical images with deep generative networks 2020MNRAS.496.2346M
Stellar masses of giant clumps in CANDELS and simulated galaxies using machine learning 2020MNRAS.499..814H
Inside-out formation of nuclear discs and the absence of old central spheroids in barred galaxies of the TIMER survey 2020A&A...643A..65B
Kinematic signatures of nuclear discs and bar-driven secular evolution in nearby galaxies of the MUSE TIMER project 2020A&A...643A..14G
The principle of maximum entropy explains the cores observed in the mass distribution of dwarf galaxies 2020A&A...642L..14S
The Fornax Deep Survey with VST. X. The assembly history of the bright galaxies and intra-group light in the Fornax A subgroup 2020A&A...640A.137R
Detection of young (≤20 Myr) stellar populations in apparently quenched low-mass galaxies using red spectral line indices 2020MNRAS.498.1002D

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