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

The Milky Way and the Local Group (MWLG)
  • Publication
    Kepler-730: A Hot Jupiter System with a Close-in, Transiting, Earth-sized Planet
    Kepler-730 is a planetary system hosting a statistically validated hot Jupiter in a 6.49 day orbit and an additional transiting candidate in a 2.85 day orbit...
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    KIC 10449976: discovery of an extreme helium subdwarf in the Kepler field
    Optical spectroscopy of the blue star KIC 10449976 shows that it is an extremely helium-rich subdwarf with effective temperature Teff = 40 000 ± 300 K and...
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    Kinematic and metallicity properties of the Aquarius dwarf galaxy from FORS2 MXU spectroscopy⋆
    Context. Dwarf galaxies found in isolation in the Local Group (LG) are unlikely to have interacted with the large LG spirals, and therefore environmental...
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    Kinematic study of planetary nebulae in NGC 6822
    Context. The kinematics of planetary nebulae in external galaxies and in our own is a clue for understanding the behavior of the low- and intermediate-mass...
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    Kinematical Analysis of a Sample of Bipolar Planetary Nebulae
    We present the kinematics of a sample of bipolar planetary nebulae (PNs) which cover a wide range of observed morphologies and collimation degrees, from bipolar...
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    Kinetic Isotope Effects on the Photolysis of C60H18 and C60D18
    Fullerane C60H18 and its deuterated analogous C60D18 were synthesized in n-hexane solution by a reduction reaction of C60 under the action of HCl or DCl on Zn...
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    Kinetic power of quasars and statistical excess of MOJAVE superluminal motions
    Aims: The MOJAVE (MOnitoring of Jets in AGN with VLBA Experiments) survey contains 101 quasars with a total of 354 observed radio components that are different...
  • Technical facility
    Laboratory of Integrated Circuits (LABIC)
    As part of the IAC's strategic plan, since 2019, the Electronic Department of the Instrumentation Division has been carrying out many activities to obtain the...
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    Legacy Extragalactic UV Survey (LEGUS) With the Hubble Space Telescope. I. Survey Description
    The Legacy ExtraGalactic UV Survey (LEGUS) is a Cycle 21 Treasury program on the Hubble Space Telescope aimed at the investigation of star formation and its...