Astrophysical: Galaxy evolution

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    From the blue cloud to the red sequence (and over the green valley): investigating the evolution of galaxies over cosmological timescales
    In the local universe, galaxies fall into one of two populations: a star-forming blue cloud and a red sequence lacking star formation. At redshift z ~ 1.5...
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    Galaxy environments at low- and high-z & Constraining the dust content of tadpoles
    One of the important questions in extragalactic astronomy concerns the debate between nature and nurture scenarios. Are the observed galaxy local properties the...
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    Galaxy properties as a fingerprint of cosmology & fundamental physics
    Any viable theory of the formation and evolution of galaxies should be able to broadly account for the emergent properties of the galaxy population, and their...
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    Globular cluster systems and the origin of early-type dwarfs in Virgo
    Early-type dwarfs (dEs) are by far the most abundant galaxy population in nearby clusters. Whether these objects are primordial, or recent end-products of the...
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    Globular clusters systems and their host dark matter halos
    In the Λ-CDM galaxy formation paradigm, the star formation history of a galaxy is coupled to the total mass of its dark matter halo through processes like...
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    Historical Perspectives on the Concept of Galaxy Size
    A brief narrative on how the effective radius and isophotal diameters were accepted as galaxy size measures is presented. Evidence suggests that these...
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    How simple are galaxies?
    Galaxies are arguably complex systems. However, they also display many scaling relations between their physical properties, hinting that it might be possible to...
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    Hunting for VIPERS red nuggets - traces of the past
    Vimos Public Extragalactic Redshift Survey (VIPERS) is a spectroscopic survey designed to investigate the spatial distribution of ~90k galaxies on redshift 0.4...
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    Indiana Jones and where to find relic galaxies
    There are galaxies that remain untouched since the ancient Universe. These unique objects, the so-called relic galaxies, are several times more massive than our...