Astrophysical: Star formation

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    The truncation of the disk of NGC 4565. Detected up to z = 4 kpc, with star formation, and affected by the warp
    Context. The hierarchical model of galaxy formation suggests that galaxies are continuously growing. However, our position inside the Milky Way prevents us from...
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    The ultraviolet to far-infrared spectral energy distribution of star-forming galaxies in the redshift desert
    We analyse the rest-frame ultraviolet (UV) to near-infrared (near-IR) spectral energy distribution (SED) of Lyman-break galaxies (LBGs), star-forming (SF) BzK...
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    The universal variability of the stellar initial mass function probed by the TIMER survey
    The debate about the universality of the stellar initial mass function (IMF) revolves around two competing lines of evidence. While measurements in the Milky...
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    The VANDELS ESO public spectroscopic survey
    VANDELS is a uniquely deep spectroscopic survey of high-redshift galaxies with the VIMOS spectrograph on ESO's Very Large Telescope (VLT). The survey has...
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    The vertical structure of the spiral galaxy NGC 3501: first stages of the formation of a thin metal-rich disc
    We trace the evolution of the edge-on spiral galaxy NGC 3501, making use of its stellar populations extracted from deep integral-field spectroscopy MUSE...
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    The VLT-FLAMES Tarantula Survey. XI. A census of the hot luminous stars and their feedback in 30 Doradus
    Context. The VLT-FLAMES Tarantula Survey has an extensive view of the copious number of massive stars in the 30 Doradus (30 Dor) star forming region of the...
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    The Young Exoplanet Transit Initiative (YETI)
    We present the Young Exoplanet Transit Initiative (YETI), in which we use several 0.2 to 2.6-m telescopes around the world to monitor continuously young (≤100...
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    The “last breaths” in the lives of galaxies
    A team of astronomers has discovered that galaxies with an Active Galactic Nucleus (AGN) –hosting continuously growing black holes that emit large amounts of...
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    Towards universal hybrid star formation rate estimators
    Context. To compute the star formation rate (SFR) of galaxies from the rest-frame ultraviolet (UV), it is essential to take the obscuration by dust into account...