Lines of research: The Milky Way and the Local Group (MWLG)

The Milky Way and the Local Group (MWLG)
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    OCCASO - II. Physical parameters and Fe abundances of red clump stars in 18 open clusters
    Open clusters have long been used to study the chemodynamical evolution of the Galactic disc. This requires a homogeneously analysed sample covering a wide...
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    OCCASO - III. Iron peak and α elements of 18 open clusters. Comparison with chemical evolution models and field stars
    The study of open-cluster chemical abundances provides insights on stellar nucleosynthesis processes and on Galactic chemo-dynamical evolution. In this paper we...
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    OCCASO. V. Chemical-abundance trends with Galactocentric distance and age
    Context. Open clusters provide valuable information on stellar nucleosynthesis and the chemical evolution of the Galactic disk, as their age and distances can...
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    Old Main-Sequence Turnoff Photometry in the Small Magellanic Cloud. II. Star Formation History and its Spatial Gradients
    We present a quantitative analysis of the star formation history (SFH) of 12 fields in the Small Magellanic Cloud (SMC) based on unprecedented deep [(B - R), R]...
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    Old-Aged Primary Distance Indicators
    Old-aged stellar distance indicators are present in all Galactic structures (halo, bulge, disk) and in galaxies of all Hubble types and, thus, are immensely...
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    On a New Method to Estimate the Distance, Reddening, and Metallicity of RR Lyrae Stars Using Optical/Near-infrared (B, V, I, J, H, K) Mean Magnitudes: ω Centauri as a First Test Case
    We developed a new approach to provide accurate estimates of the metal content, reddening, and true distance modulus of RR Lyrae stars (RRLs). The method is...
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    On a New Near-Infrared Method to Estimate the Absolute Ages of Star Clusters: NGC 3201 as a First Test Case
    We present a new method to estimate the absolute ages of stellar systems. This method is based on the difference in magnitude between the main-sequence turnoff...
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    On a New Parameter to Estimate the Helium Content in Old Stellar Systems
    We introduce a new parameter Δξ-the difference in magnitude between the red giant branch (RGB) bump and the point on the main sequence (MS) at the same color as...
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    On emission-line spectra obtained from evolutionary synthesis models. II. Scale-relations and the estimation of mass dependences
    Aims: In this paper we study the influence of the ionizing cluster mass on the emission line spectrum of H ii regions in order to determine the influence of low...