Extragalactic planetary nebulae (PNe) are detectable through relatively strong nebulous [O III] emission and act as direct probes into the local stellar population. Because they have an apparently universal invariant magnitude cut-off, PNe are also considered to be a remarkable standard candle for distance estimation. Through detecting PNe within

A statistical study of intermediate Palomar Transient Factory supernovae (SNe) in Type 1 active galactic nuclei (AGNs) has shown a major deficit of supernovae around Type 1 AGN host galaxies, with respect to Type 2 AGN hosts. The aim of this work is to test whether there is any preference for Type 1 AGNs to host SN of a specific kind. Through the

It is widely accepted that starbursts can dramatically affect their host galaxies via feedback-driven outflows, especially for gas-rich dwarfs with shallow potential wells. The removal of gas from a galaxy's center is predicted to change the gravitational potential, causing "cuspy" cold dark matter (CDM) density profiles to transform into constant

We propose to collect deep near-infrared (NIR) images of two peculiar Galactic globular clusters (GGCs), NGC1851 and M22, to explore the properties of their multiple stellar populations. These GGCs display multiple sequences along the red-giant and sub-giant branches in ultraviolet-optical color-magnitude diagrams (CMDs), and spectroscopy confirmed

Lyman alpha emitters (LAEs) and Lyman break galaxies (LBGs) represent the most common groups of star-forming galaxies at high z, and the differences between their inherent stellar populations (SPs) are a key factor in understanding early galaxy formation and evolution. We have run a set of SP burst-like models for a sample of 1558 sources at 3.4 <

We present a detailed study of the composition of 20 M giants in the Galactic center with 15 of them confirmed to be in the nuclear star cluster. As a control sample we have also observed 7 M giants in the Milky Way disk with similar stellar parameters. All 27 stars are observed using the NIRSPEC spectrograph on the KECK II telescope in the K-band