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SDSS analysis of Galactic stellar streams
The last years saw numerous detections of substructure in the Galactic halo, largely due to wide area surveys like the Sloan Digital Sky Survey (SDSS) or the...
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PublicaciónSearching for Exoplanets Born Outside the Milky Way: VOYAGERS Survey DesignObservations over the past few decades have found that planets are common around nearby stars in our Galaxy, but little is known about planets that formed...
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PublicaciónSearching for Tidal Remnants in the Milky Way: Photometric Survey of Globular ClustersThe picture of building the Milky Way halo from the merger of protogalactic fragments is considered the local manifestation of the hierarchical galaxy formation...
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PublicaciónSegue 2 Recently Collided with the Cetus-Palca Stream: New Opportunities to Constrain Dark Matter in an Ultra-faint DwarfStellar streams in the Milky Way are promising detectors of low-mass dark matter (DM) subhalos predicted by ΛCDM. Passing subhalos induce perturbations in...
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CharlaShedding light on the darkest galaxies: the Local Group dwarfsCrucial issues in cosmology and astrophysics are to understand the process of galaxy formation and evolution and the nature of what appears to be the dominant...
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CharlaSimulating cosmic reionizationThe first galaxies are thought to have started the reionization of the Universe, that is the transformation of the cosmic hydrogen from its initial neutral to...
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PublicaciónStar Formation Histories of Ultra-faint Dwarf Galaxies: Environmental Differences between Magellanic and Non-Magellanic Satellites?We present the color-magnitude diagrams and star formation histories (SFHs) of seven ultra-faint dwarf galaxies: Horologium 1, Hydra 2, Phoenix 2, Reticulum 2...
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CharlaStar formation modes and population gradients in simulated dwarf galaxiesToday we largely understand the large scale evolution of the Universe but we have only little knowledge of the small scale physics involved in forming and...
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CharlaTales from the Milky Way's dwarf galaxiesThe immediate surroundings of our Milky Way galaxy are home to a number of dwarf galaxies, whose variety in shape, size, spatial location and velocity tells us...