Líneas de investigación: La Vía Láctea y el Grupo Local (MWLG)

La Vía Láctea y el Grupo Local (MWLG)
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    Separation between RR Lyrae and type II Cepheids and their importance for a distance determination: the case of omega Cen
    The separation between RR Lyrae (RRLs) and type II Cepheid (T2Cs) variables based on their period is debated. Both types of variable stars are distance...
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    Seven young star clusters in the inner region of the Small Magellanic Cloud
    We present CCD photometry in the Washington system C and T1 passbands down to T1 ~ 22 in the fields of L35, L45, L49, L50, L62, L63 and L85, seven poorly...
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    Sextans: la galaxia caníbal más pequeña descubierta hasta la fecha
    Un equipo del Instituto de Astrofísica de Canarias (IAC) descubre un nuevo caso de canibalismo galáctico alrededor de la Vía Láctea que ha producido la fusión...
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    Short-lived radioactivity in the early solar system: The Super-AGB star hypothesis
    The composition of the most primitive solar system condensates, such as calcium-aluminum-rich inclusions (CAIs) and micron-sized corundum grains, show that...
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    SIGNALS: I. Survey description
    SIGNALS, the Star formation, Ionized Gas, and Nebular Abundances Legacy Survey, is a large observing programme designed to investigate massive star formation...
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    Signatures of the Galactic bar on stellar kinematics unveiled by APOGEE
    Bars are common galactic structures in the local universe that play an important role in the secular evolution of galaxies, including the Milky Way. In...
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    Single Rotating Stars and the Formation of Bipolar Planetary Nebula
    We have computed new stellar evolution models that include the effects of rotation and magnetic torques under different hypotheses. The goal is to test whether...
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    Sloan Digital Sky Survey IV: Mapping the Milky Way, Nearby Galaxies, and the Distant Universe
    We describe the Sloan Digital Sky Survey IV (SDSS-IV), a project encompassing three major spectroscopic programs. The Apache Point Observatory Galactic...
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    Small-Scale Behavior of the Physical Conditions and the Abundance Discrepancy in the Orion Nebula
    We present the results of long-slit spectroscopy, in several positions, of the Orion Nebula. Our goal is to study the spatial distributions of a large number of...