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

The Milky Way and the Local Group (MWLG)
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    Comprehensive comparison between APOGEE and LAMOST. Radial velocities and atmospheric stellar parameters
    Context. In the era of massive spectroscopy surveys, automated stellar parameter pipelines and their validation are extremely important for an efficient...
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    Conducting the SONG: The Robotic Nature and Efficiency of a Fully Automated Telescope
    We present a description of “the Conductor,” an automated software package that handles all observations at the first Stellar Observations Network Group (SONG)...
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    Confirmation of the link between central star binarity and extreme abundance discrepancy factors in planetary nebulae
    It has recently been noted that there seems to be a strong correlation between planetary nebulae with close binary central stars and highly enhanced...
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    Constraining gas metal mixing strength in simulations using observations of the Milky Way's disc
    This work explores the mixing rate of metals in the interstellar medium (ISM), comparing observational constraints from our solar neighbourhood to high...
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    Constraining Metallicity-dependent Mixing and Extra Mixing Using [C/N] in Alpha-rich Field Giants
    Internal mixing on the giant branch is an important process which affects the evolution of stars and the chemical evolution of the galaxy. While several...
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    Constraining the Epoch of Reionization from the Observed Properties of the High-z Universe
    We combine observational data on a dozen independent cosmic properties at high-z with the information on reionization drawn from the spectra of distant luminous...
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    Constraining the overcontact phase in massive binary evolution. II. Period stability of known O+O overcontact systems
    Context. Given that mergers are often invoked to explain many exotic phenomena in massive star evolution, understanding the evolutionary phase directly...
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    Constraining the solar neighbourhood age-metallicity relation from white dwarf-main sequence binaries
    The age-metallicity relation (AMR) is a fundamental tool for constraining the chemical evolution of the Galactic disc. In this work, we analyse the...
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    Constraint on the time variation of the fine-structure constant with the SDSS-III/BOSS DR12 quasar sample
    From the Sloan Digital Sky Survey (SDSS) Data Release 12, which covers the full Baryonic Oscillation Spectroscopic Survey (BOSS) footprint, we investigate the...