Astrophysical: Star formation

  • Talk
    The Formation of Molecular Clouds and Massive Stars
    In this talk I consider two questions. First, I investigate the formation of molecular clouds from diffuse interstellar gas. It has been argued that the...
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    The formation of super-star clusters in disk and dwarf galaxies
    Super-star clusters are probably the largest star-forming entities in our local Universe, containing hundreds of thousands to millions of young stars usually...
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    The Fornax3D project: Environmental effects on the assembly of dynamically cold disks in Fornax cluster galaxies
    We apply a population-orbit superposition metho1d to 16 galaxies in the Fornax cluster observed with MUSE/VLT in the context of the Fornax3D project. By fitting...
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    The Fornax3D project: intrinsic correlations between orbital properties and the stellar initial mass function
    Variations of the stellar initial mass function (IMF) in external galaxies have been inferred from a variety of independent probes. Yet the physical conditions...
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    The Fundamental Metallicity Relation Emerges from the Local Anti-correlation between Star Formation Rate and Gas-phase Metallicity that Exists in Disk Galaxies
    The fundamental metallicity relation (FMR) states that galaxies of the same stellar mass but larger star formation rate (SFR) tend to have smaller gas-phase...
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    The G-dwarf problem - A tentative analytical approach, relaxing instantaneous recycling
    The general solution for the birth function B(m,t) of stars, derived by Casuso et al. (1989) was used to obtain a first-order analytical approximation to this...
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    The GaLAxy Cluster Evolution Survey (GLACE): overview and status report
    Aimed at understanding the evolution of galaxies in clusters, the GLACE survey is mapping a set of key optical lines in several galaxy clusters at z~0.40, 0.63...
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    The galaxy-wide initial mass function of dwarf late-type to massive early-type galaxies
    Observational studies are showing that the galaxy-wide stellar initial mass function (IMF) is top-heavy in galaxies with high star formation rates (SFRs)...
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    The GALEX/S4G Surface Brightness and Color Profiles Catalog. I. Surface Photometry and Color Gradients of Galaxies
    We present new spatially resolved surface photometry in the far-ultraviolet (FUV) and near-ultraviolet (NUV) from images obtained by the Galaxy Evolution...