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

The Milky Way and the Local Group (MWLG)
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    Diverse Variability of O and B Stars Revealed from 2-minute Cadence Light Curves in Sectors 1 and 2 of the TESS Mission: Selection of an Asteroseismic Sample
    Uncertainties in stellar structure and evolution theory are largest for stars undergoing core convection on the main sequence. A powerful way to calibrate the...
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    Do evolved stars in the LMC show dual dust chemistry?
    We study a group of evolved M-stars in the Large Magellanic Cloud, characterized by a peculiar spectral energy distribution. While the 9.7 μm feature arises...
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    Does the Milky Way move like a spinning top?
    An investigation carried out by the astrophysicists of the Instituto de Astrofísica de Canarias (IAC) Žofia Chrobáková, a doctoral student at the IAC and the...
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    Double-lined Spectroscopic Binaries in the APOGEE DR16 and DR17 Data
    APOGEE spectra offer ≲1 km s -1 precision in the measurement of stellar radial velocities. This holds even when multiple stars are captured in the same spectrum...
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    DR. CRISTINA CHIAPPINI (Leibniz Institute for Astrophysics Potsdam, AIP, Germany)
    Dr. Cristina Chiappini received her PhD in 1998 at the University of Sao Paulo, Brazil. After a postdoctoral position at Columbia University, she obtained a...
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    DR. GIULIANA FIORENTINO (INAF- Osservatorio astronomico di Roma, Italy)
    Since 2014, she has been a researcher at the INAF - Osservatorio Astronomico di Rome. He got her PhD in 2006 at the University of "Roma Tor Vergata". From 2008...
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    DR. LETICIA CARIGI (Instituto de Astronomía, UNAM)
    Dr. Leticia Carigi obtained the PhD at the Centro de Investigaciones de Astronomía in Mérida, Venezuela. She later joined the Instituto de Astronomía (IA) of...
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    DR. MARC PINSONNEAULT (The Ohio State University)
    Dr. Marc Pinsonneault, Professor from The Ohio State University. The goals of Marc’s visit are two-fold. The first one is to progress on the Kepler Legacy red...
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    DR. SANTI CASSISI (INAF, Osservatorio Astronomico d'Abruzzo, Italy)
    Dr. Santi Cassisi is a world-recognized expert in stellar evolution, and main creator and maintainer of the widely used BaSTI stellar evolution library. Stellar...