2D-FIS, a bundle of 125 optical fibres mounted in the focal plane of the WHT, has been used to study two-dimensional stellar kinematics and populations in...
Multiple Populations in Low-mass Globular Clusters: Palomar 13
Since the discovery of chemically peculiar stars in globular clusters in the last century, the study of multiple populations has become increasingly important...
On the extreme properties of massive galaxies at high redshifts
Massive (≥ 10 11 M⊙) galaxies at high redshift (z ≥ 1.5) remain mysterious objects. Their extremely small sizes (effective radii of 1-2 kpc) make them...
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...
Dwarf galaxies are a complex population. They comprise objects with young and old stellar populations, slow and fast rotation, as well as single- and multi...
Planning the WHT future: the WEAVE wide-field massive-multiplex spectrograph
The vision for the use of the WHT in the coming decade is taking shape. A key element is the construction and deployment of WEAVE, a wide-field massive...
Exciting things may have happened sometimes to the stars we see in the sky today. For example, Betelgeuse, also known as Alpha-Ori, an M-type red supergiant...
The APO-K2 Catalog. I. 7500 Red Giants with Fundamental Stellar Parameters from APOGEE DR17 Spectroscopy and K2-GAP Asteroseismology
We present a catalog of fundamental stellar properties for ~7500 evolved stars, including stellar radii and masses, determined from the combination of...