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

The Milky Way and the Local Group (MWLG)
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    The Proper Motion Field of the Small Magellanic Cloud: Kinematic Evidence for Its Tidal Disruption
    We present a new measurement of the systemic proper motion of the Small Magellanic Cloud (SMC), based on an expanded set of 30 fields containing background...
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    The Proper Motion of the Magellanic Clouds. I. First Results and Description of the Program
    We present the first results of a ground-based program to determine the proper motion of the Magellanic Clouds (MCs) relative to background quasars (QSO), being...
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    The Proper-motion Field along the Magellanic Bridge: A New Probe of the LMC–SMC Interaction
    We present the first detailed kinematic analysis of the proper motions (PMs) of stars in the Magellanic Bridge, from both the Gaia Data Release 2 catalog and...
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    The R136 star cluster dissected with Hubble Space Telescope/STIS - II. Physical properties of the most massive stars in R136
    We present an optical analysis of 55 members of R136, the central cluster in the Tarantula Nebula of the Large Magellanic Cloud. Our sample was observed with...
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    The radial abundance gradient of chlorine in the Milky Way
    We determine the radial abundance gradient of Cl in the Milky Way from H II regions spectra. For the first time, the Cl/H ratios are computed by simply adding...
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    The radial abundance gradient of oxygen towards the Galactic anti-centre
    We present deep optical spectroscopy of eight H II regions located in the anti-centre of the Milky Way. The spectra were obtained at the 10.4 m GTC and 8.2 m...
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    The Recent Star Formation History of NGC 5102
    We present Hubble Space Telescope photometry of young stars in NGC 5102, a nearby gas-rich post-starburst S0 galaxy with a bright young stellar nucleus. We use...
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    The recurrent impact of the Sagittarius dwarf on the star formation history of the Milky Way
    Satellites orbiting disk galaxies can induce phase space features such as spirality, vertical heating and phase-mixing in their disks. Such features have also...
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    The Resolved Stellar Populations in the LEGUS Galaxies1
    The Legacy ExtraGalactic UV Survey (LEGUS) is a multiwavelength Cycle 21 Treasury program on the Hubble Space Telescope. It studied 50 nearby star-forming...