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

The Milky Way and the Local Group (MWLG)
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    Optical Observations of Psr J2021+3651 in the Dragonfly Nebula With the GTC
    PSR J2021+3651 is a 17 kyr old rotation powered pulsar detected in the radio, X-rays, and γ-rays. It powers a torus-like pulsar wind nebula with jets, dubbed...
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    Optical Study of the Hyper-luminous X-Ray Source 2XMM J011942.7+032421
    We present the identification and characterization of the optical counterpart to 2XMM J011942.7+032421, one of the most luminous and distant ultra-luminous X...
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    Optical validation and characterization of Planck PSZ2 sources at the Canary Islands observatories. I. First year of LP15 observations
    Aims: The second catalogue of Planck Sunyaev-Zeldovich (SZ) sources, hereafter PSZ2, is the largest sample of galaxy clusters selected through their SZ...
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    Orbital Torus Imaging: Using Element Abundances to Map Orbits and Mass in the Milky Way
    Many approaches to galaxy dynamics assume that the gravitational potential is simple and the distribution function is time invariant. Under these assumptions...
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    Origin of stellar prolate rotation in a cosmologically simulated faint dwarf
    In the current cosmological model, galaxies are formed in a hierarchical way, by merging with each other. These mergers can lead to kinematic anomalies that can...
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    Origin of stellar prolate rotation in a cosmologically simulated faint dwarf galaxy
    Stellar prolate rotation in dwarf galaxies is rather uncommon, with only two known galaxies in the Local Group showing such feature (Phoenix and And II)...
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    Outburst activity in comets - II. A multiband photometric monitoring of comet 29P/Schwassmann-Wachmann 1
    We have carried out a continuous multiband photometric monitoring of the nuclear activity of comet 29P/Schwassmann-Wachmann 1 from 2008 to 2010. Our main aim...
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    Outside-In Disk Evolution in the Large Magellanic Cloud
    From the analysis of the color-magnitude diagrams and color functions of four wide LMC fields located from ~=2 to 6 kpc from the kinematic center of the LMC we...
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    Oxygen and silicon abundances in Cygnus OB2. Chemical homogeneity in a sample of OB slow rotators
    Context. Cygnus OB2 is a rich OB association in the Galaxy located at only ˜1.4 kpc from us which has experienced intense star formation in the last 20-25 Myr...