The HST/ACS Survey of Galactic globular clusters (GGCs) is a HST Treasury project aimed at obtaining high precision photometry in a large sample of globular...
Quantification of bar strength and the structure of galaxies
Bars are important engines for the evolution of structure in galaxies. Bars can cause secular evolution of both the gas and stellar distributions in galaxies...
Reconstructing the history of the Milky Way and probing the dark matter nature in WEAVE and LSST era
At present, our understanding of the formation history of the MW is limited due to the complexity of observing the imprints of accretion events and of...
Sounding the treasure trove - Asteroseismology of red-giant stars and binaries systems
Understanding stellar structure and evolution significantly impacts our understanding of the tight-knit evolution of galaxies and exoplanet systems. However...
Stellar black holes at the dawn of the Universe: cosmological implications
The so called "dark ages" of the universe began about 400.000 years after the Big Bang as matter cooled down and space became filled with neutral hydrogen for...
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...
Tango for three and ballet for thirty: the interaction of the Milky Way with its satellites
I discuss the dynamical interactions between the Milky Way and its satellite galaxies, focusing on the closest and most massive satellites - the Large...
The binary population in Galactic globular clusters: theory versus observations
I present the first results of a long term project devoted to the study of the evolution of the binary population in globular clusters. Using deep ACS@HST...
The Calar Alto Legacy Integral Field Area Survey: extended data release and spatial resolved properties
We present the extended data release of the Calar Alto Legacy Integral Field Area (CALIFA) survey (eDR). It comprises science-grade quality data for 895...