Context. Nearby clusters of galaxies, z ≲ 0.1, are cosmic structures still under formation. Understanding the thermodynamic properties of merging clusters can...
Growth of First Galaxies: Impacts of Star Formation and Stellar Feedback
Recent observations have detected galaxies at high-redshift z∼ 6{--}11, and revealed the diversity of their physical properties, from normal star-forming...
Growth of galactic bulges by mergers. I. Dense satellites
Andredakis et al. (cite{r3}) fit Sersic's law mu (r) ~ r1/n to the bulges of the Balcells & Peletier (cite{r5}) galaxy sample, and infer that n drops with...
Growth of galactic bulges by mergers. II. Low-density satellites
Context: .Satellite accretion events have been invoked for mimicking the internal secular evolutionary processes of bulge growth. However, N-body simulations of...
GTC Follow-up Observations of Very Metal-poor Star Candidates from DESI
The observations from the Dark Energy Spectroscopic Instrument (DESI) will significantly increase the numbers of known extremely metal-poor stars by a factor of...
Aims: The aim of the project is to contribute to the characterisation of the spectral energy distribution of the coolest brown dwarfs discovered to date, the Y...
GTC/CanariCam Deep Mid-infrared Imaging Survey of Northern Stars within 5 pc
In this work we present the results of a direct imaging survey for brown dwarf companions around the nearest stars at the mid-infrared 10 micron range (λ c = 8...
GTC/CanariCam Mid-IR Imaging of the Fullerene-rich Planetary Nebula IC 418: Searching for the Spatial Distribution of Fullerene-like Molecules
We present seeing-limited narrow-band mid-IR GTC/CanariCam images of the spatially extended fullerene-containing planetary nebula (PN) IC 418. The narrow-band...
Context. The potentially hazardous asteroid (PHA) (99942) Apophis is one of the most remarkable near-Earth asteroids (NEA) in terms of impact hazard. A good...