Astrophysical: Galactic center

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    Coevolution of supermassive black holes and their host galaxies
    Accretion onto a supermassive black hole (BH) is the most viable explanation for the huge emitted luminosity in active galaxies. Nowadays a wealth of...
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    Constraints on Ultra-Light Dark Matter from Galactic Rotation Curves
    Bosonic ultra-light dark matter (ULDM) in the mass range m ~ $10^{-22} - 10^{-21} \rm eV$ has been invoked as a motivated candidate with new input for the small...
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    Models of our Galaxy: why, how and what they do for us
    The study of the Milky is expected to have a major impact on our understanding of how galaxies form and evolve. "Near-field cosmology" is being vigorously...
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    Probing the early Milky Way with the Pristine survey
    The lowest metallicity stars that still exist today represent a window into the early Universe. Studying these stars gives us a local avenue to guide our...
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    The complex Milky Way history
    In this seminar I will focus on how the avalanche of new data changes our views on how our Galaxy formed and evolved. Precise astrometric, spectroscopic...
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    The Large Scale IMF-from local studies to large scale Star-formation
    Over the past years observations of young and populous star clusters have shown that the stellar IMF appears to be an invariant featureless Salpeter power-law...
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    The Milky Way as you never saw it before
    Abstract: The study of the structure of our Galaxy, particularly its inner disc, has always been hindered by two factors: interstellar extinction dims even the...
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    Unveiling New Quiescent BHs with IPHAS
    X-ray transients provide the best evidence for the existence of stellar-mass BHs, with 20 confirmed cases based on dynamical studies. However, these are only...