Astrophysical: Star formation

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    Starburst galaxies in the COSMOS field: clumpy star-formation at redshift 0 < z < 0.5
    Context. At high redshift, starburst galaxies present irregular morphologies with 10-20% of their star formation occurring in giant clumps. These clumpy...
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    Starbursts and Galaxy Evolution: results from COSMOS survey.
    The search for starbursts galaxies in COSMOS database by a tailored procedure that uses the photometry from SUBARU, results in 220 targets at z
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    Starbursts Are Preferentially Interacting: Confirmation from the Nearest Galaxies
    We complement a recent Letter by Luo et al. by comparing the fraction of starburst galaxies that are interacting with the overall fraction of interacting...
  • News
    Stars rich in phosphorus: seeds of life in the universe
    The journal Nature Communications today is publishing the discovery of a new type of stars, very rich in phosphorus, which could help to explain the origin of...
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    Statistics and properties of H II regions in NGC 6814
    We present a new H-alpha image of high quality of the grand-design galaxy NGC 6814, and describe statistical properties of the H II region population. We have...
  • Talk
    Status of the Stratospheric Observatory for Infrared Astronomy (SOFIA)
    The Stratospheric Observatory for Infrared Astronomy (SOFIA) is now performing scientific observations and the results of the second open observing cycle...
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    Stellar and Gas Kinematics in the Core and Bar Regions of M100
    Two-dimensional maps of the stellar and gas kinematics of the bar and starbursting circumnuclear region in the barred spiral galaxy M100 are presented. In this...
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    Stellar Disk Truncations: HI Density and Dynamics
    Using HI Nearby Galaxy Survey (THINGS) 21-cm observations of a sample of nearby (nearly face-on) galaxies we explore whether the stellar disk truncation...
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    Stellar mass-metallicity relation throughout the large-scale structure of the Universe: CAVITY mother sample
    Context. Void galaxies are essential for understanding the physical processes that drive galaxy evolution because they are less affected by external factors...