Observations of M31 were obtained using the 0.8-m telescope at Wendelstein, Germany and the 1.2-m telescope at Calar Alto, Spain, over three observing seasons...
Welcome to the Twilight Zone: The Mid-infrared Properties of Post-starburst Galaxies
We investigate the optical and Wide-field Survey Explorer (WISE) colors of “E+A” identified post-starburst galaxies, including a deep analysis of 190 post...
WHaD diagram: Classifying the ionizing source with one single emission line
Context. The usual approach to classify the ionizing source using optical spectroscopy is based on the use of diagnostic diagrams that compare the relative...
What boost galaxy mergers in two massive galaxy protoclusters at z = 2.24?
Characterizing the structural properties of galaxies in high-redshift protoclusters is key to our understanding of the environmental effects on galaxy evolution...
Detection of optical surface brightness structures with magnitudes fainter than 30 mag/arcsec2 has remained elusive in current photometric deep surveys. We are...
What do Simulations Predict for the Galaxy Stellar Mass Function and its Evolution in Different Environments?
We present a comparison between the observed galaxy stellar mass function and the one predicted from the De Lucia & Blaizot semi-analytic model applied to the...
We present a study aimed at understanding the physical phenomena underlying the formation and evolution of galaxies following a data-driven analysis of...
What is the Milky Way outer halo made of?. High resolution spectroscopy of distant red giants
In a framework where galaxies form hierarchically, extended stellar haloes are predicted to be an ubiquitous feature around Milky Way-like galaxies and to...
When disks collide: major and minor mergers in disk galaxies
We present the surface brightness profile fitting of a sample of double nucleus disk galaxies, minor merger candidates. We have decomposed these systems into...