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

The Milky Way and the Local Group (MWLG)
  • Publication
    Physical characterization of 2020 AV<SUB>2</SUB>, the first known asteroid orbiting inside Venus orbit
    The first known asteroid with the orbit inside that of Venus is 2020 AV 2. This may be the largest member of a new population of small bodies with the aphelion...
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    Physical conditions derived from O II recombination lines in planetary nebulae and their implications
    Based on high quality observations of multiplet V1 of O II and the NLTE atomic computations for O II we study the density and temperature of a sample of PNe. We...
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    Physical parameters of red supergiants in dwarf irregular galaxies in the Local Group
    Context. Increasing the statistics of evolved massive stars in the Local Group enables investigating their evolution at different metallicities. During the late...
  • Project
    Physical properties and evolution of Massive Stars
    This project aims at the searching, observation and analysis of massive stars in nearby galaxies to provide a solid empirical ground to understand their...
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    Physical Properties of a Coma-analog Protocluster at z = 6.5
    We present evidence for the discovery of a protocluster of starburst galaxies (Lyα emitters, or LAEs) near the end of the epoch of reionization. The recent...
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    Physical properties of the first spectroscopically confirmed red supergiant stars in the Sculptor Group galaxy NGC 55
    We present K-band Multi-Object Spectrograph (KMOS) observations of 18 red supergiant (RSG) stars in the Sculptor Group galaxy NGC 55. Radial velocities are...
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    Physics of Eclipsing Binaries. IV. The Impact of Interstellar Extinction on the Light Curves of Eclipsing Binaries
    Traditionally, the effects of interstellar extinction on binary star light curves have been treated as a uniform reduction in the observed brightness of the...
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    Physics of Eclipsing Binaries. V. General Framework for Solving the Inverse Problem
    PHOEBE 2 is a Python package for modeling the observables of eclipsing star systems, but until now it has focused entirely on the forward model—that is...
  • Project
    Physics of Ionized Nebulae
    The research that is being carried out by the group can be condensed into two main lines: 1) Study of the structure, dynamics, physical conditions and chemical...