Traces of Galaxy Formation: Stellar populations, Dynamics and Morphology

Group members
Start year
2006
Organizational Unit
RESEARCH DIVISION
Organizing institutions
Instituto de Astrofísica de Canarias (IAC)

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General
Description

Welcome to the Traces of Galaxy Formation research group website.

We are a large, diverse, and very active research group aiming to provide a comprehensive picture for the formation of galaxies in the Universe. Rooted in detailed stellar population analysis, we are constantly exploring and developing new tools and ideas to understand how galaxies came to be what we now observe.

A complex star formation history, as the one expected to describe galaxy evolution, needs a multidisciplinary approach to be fully understood. Our group at the IAC consists of experienced researchers in cosmological simulations, dynamical studies, stellar populations and morphological properties of galaxies up to high redshift. We combine different approaches (e.g. observations and theory, secular and cosmological evolution studies) to obtain a complete view of the dominant mechanisms driving the evolution of galaxies.

Within this general framework, we are currently exploring three main areas of research:

  1. Stellar population synthesis models

    • Development of new stellar population synthesis models
    • Stellar population analysis tools
    • Universality of the stellar initial mass function (IMF)

     

  2. Cosmic evolution of galaxies

    • Massive galaxy evolution
    • Stellar populations in different environments
    • Low surface brightness science
    • Machine learning and cosmological simulations

     

  3. Evolutionary processes in nearby galaxies
    • The role of black holes in the evolution of galaxies
    • Surveys of nearby galaxies
    • Stellar kinematics and dynamical models

If you want to get in contact or work with us, please send an email to the head of the group (Anna Ferré-Mateu, anna.ferre [at] iac.es (anna[dot]ferre[at]iac[dot]es)).

Principal investigator
Project staff

Here you can find some of our most recent highlights:

Related publications

The Fornax 3D project: Unveiling the thick disk origin in FCC 170; possible signs of accretion 2019A&A...623A..19P
J-PLUS: The Javalambre Photometric Local Universe Survey 2019A&A...622A.176C
Dark matter response to galaxy assembly history 2019A&A...622A.197A
Clocking the assembly of double-barred galaxies with the MUSE TIMER project 2019MNRAS.484.5296D
The Fornax 3D project: dust mix and gas properties in the centre of early-type galaxy FCC 167 2019A&A...622A..89V
The missing light of the Hubble Ultra Deep Field 2019A&A...621A.133B
Time Inference with MUSE in Extragalactic Rings (TIMER): properties of the survey and high-level data products 2019MNRAS.482..506G
Intracluster light: a luminous tracer for dark matter in clusters of galaxies 2019MNRAS.482.2838M
Inner bars also buckle. The MUSE TIMER view of the double-barred galaxy NGC 1291 2019MNRAS.482L.118M
Discovery of disc truncations above the galaxies' mid-plane in Milky Way-like galaxies 2019MNRAS.483..664M
A dynamical view on stellar metallicity gradient diversity across the Hubble sequence with CALIFA 2019MNRAS.483.1862Z
Transfer learning for galaxy morphology from one survey to another 2019MNRAS.484...93D
Impact of metallicity and star formation rate on the time-dependent, galaxy-wide stellar initial mass function 2018A&A...620A..39J
Mirach's Goblin: Discovery of a dwarf spheroidal galaxy behind the Andromeda galaxy 2018A&A...620A.126M
MEGARA, the R=6000-20000 IFU and MOS of GTC 2018SPIE10702E..16C
The first sample of spectroscopically confirmed ultra-compact massive galaxies in the Kilo Degree Survey 2018MNRAS.481.4728T
The IAC Stripe82 Legacy Survey: Improved Sky-rectified Images 2018RNAAS...2c.144R
Fornax3D project: Overall goals, galaxy sample, MUSE data analysis, and initial results 2018A&A...616A.121S
Integrated-light analyses vs. colour-magnitude diagrams. II. Leo A: an extremely young dwarf in the Local Group 2018A&A...617A..18R
Shocked POststarburst Galaxy Survey. III. The Ultraviolet Properties of SPOGs 2018ApJ...863...28A
On the shape and evolution of a cosmic-ray-regulated galaxy-wide stellar initial mass function 2018MNRAS.479.5678F
Stellar feedback and the energy budget of late-type Galaxies: missing baryons and core creation 2018MNRAS.480.4287K
CLUES about M33: the reversed radial stellar age gradient in the outskirts of Triangulum galaxy 2018MNRAS.480.4455M
The intrinsic three-dimensional shape of galactic bars 2018MNRAS.479.4172M
On the early evolution of Local Group dwarf galaxy types: star formation and supernova feedback 2018MNRAS.479.1514B
Impact of young stellar components on quiescent galaxies: deconstructing cosmic chronometers 2018A&A...614A.127L
Evolution of the anti-truncated stellar profiles of S0 galaxies since z = 0.6 in the SHARDS survey. II. Structural and photometric evolution 2018A&A...615A..26B
Spectroscopic characterization of the stellar content of ultra-diffuse galaxies 2018MNRAS.478.2034R
A quartet of black holes and a missing duo: probing the low end of the MBH-σ relation with the adaptive optics assisted integral-field spectroscopy 2018MNRAS.477.3030K
MUSE observations of the counter-rotating nuclear ring in NGC 7742 2018A&A...612A..66M
The Fourteenth Data Release of the Sloan Digital Sky Survey: First Spectroscopic Data from the Extended Baryon Oscillation Spectroscopic Survey and from the Second Phase of the Apache Point Observatory Galactic Evolution Experiment 2018ApJS..235...42A
Abundance ratios in dwarf elliptical galaxies 2018MNRAS.475.3453S
The EDGE-CALIFA survey: validating stellar dynamical mass models with CO kinematics 2018MNRAS.477..254L
The hELENa project - II. Abundance distribution trends of early-type galaxies: from dwarfs to giants 2018MNRAS.476.4501S
A single population of red globular clusters around the massive compact galaxy NGC 1277 2018Natur.555..483B
The stellar orbit distribution in present-day galaxies inferred from the CALIFA survey 2018NatAs...2..233Z
Timing the formation and assembly of early-type galaxies via spatially resolved stellar populations analysis 2018MNRAS.475.3700M
The shape of oxygen abundance profiles explored with MUSE: evidence for widespread deviations from single gradients 2018A&A...609A.119S
Revisiting the stellar velocity ellipsoid-Hubble-type relation: observations versus simulations 2018MNRAS.475.2697P
Black-hole-regulated star formation in massive galaxies 2018Natur.553..307M
GalIMF–E-MILES library: Impact of an environment-dependent initial mass function on stellar population spectra
Extragalactic archaeology provides new clues about the formation of the galaxies
ZF-UDS-7329: A relic galaxy in the early Universe
The “last breaths” in the lives of galaxies
Type
Research
State
In progress

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