Lines of research: The Milky Way and the Local Group (MWLG)

The Milky Way and the Local Group (MWLG)
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    The Nature of Starbursts. II. The Duration of Starbursts in Dwarf Galaxies
    The starburst phenomenon can shape the evolution of the host galaxy and the surrounding intergalactic medium. The extent of the evolutionary impact is partly...
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    The nature of the Cygnus extreme B supergiant 2MASS J20395358+4222505
    2MASS J20395358+4222505 is an obscured early B supergiant near the massive OB star association Cygnus OB2. Despite its bright infrared magnitude (K s = 5.82) it...
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    The nature of V39: an LBV candidate or LBV impostor in the very low metallicity galaxy IC 1613?
    Context. Very few examples of luminous blue variable (LBV) stars or LBV candidates (LBVc) are known, particularly at metallicities below that of the Small...
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    The nature of VX Sagitarii. Is it a TŻO, a RSG, or a high-mass AGB star?
    Aims: We present a spectroscopic analysis of the extremely luminous red star VX Sgr based on high-resolution observations combined with AAVSO light curve data...
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    The near-infrared Ca II triplet as a metallicity indicator - II. Extension to extremely metal-poor metallicity regimes
    We extend our previous calibration of the infrared Ca II triplet (CaT) as a metallicity indicator to the metal-poor regime by including observations of 55 field...
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    The new 4-m robotic telescope
    We present a project to build a 4-m-diameter telescope (New Robotic Telescope [NRT]) with fully robotic operation. The telescope will be sited at the...
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    The NGC 346 massive star census. Nitrogen abundances for apparently single, narrow lined, hydrogen core burning B-type stars
    Previous analyses of two large spectroscopic surveys of early-type stars in the Large Magellanic Cloud (LMC) have found an excess of nitrogen enriched B-type...
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    The Open Cluster Chemical Abundances and Mapping Survey. II. Precision Cluster Abundances for APOGEE Using SDSS DR14
    The Open Cluster Chemical Abundances and Mapping (OCCAM) survey aims to produce a comprehensive, uniform, infrared-based spectroscopic data set for hundreds of...
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    The Open Cluster Chemical Abundances and Mapping Survey. IV. Abundances for 128 Open Clusters Using SDSS/APOGEE DR16
    The Open Cluster Chemical Abundances and Mapping (OCCAM) survey aims to constrain key Galactic dynamical and chemical evolution parameters by the construction...