The Milky Way bar and bulge revealed by APOGEE and Gaia EDR3
We investigate the inner regions of the Milky Way using data from APOGEE and Gaia EDR3. Our inner Galactic sample has more than 26 500 stars within |X Gal|< 5...
The Milky Way's bulge star formation history as constrained from its bimodal chemical abundance distribution
We conduct a quantitative analysis of the star formation history (SFH) of the Milky Way's (MW) bulge by exploiting the constraining power of its stellar [Fe/H]...
The Missing Link? Discovery of Pulsations in the Nitrogen-rich PG 1159 Star PG 1144+005
Up to 98% of all single stars will eventually become white dwarfs-stars that link the history and future evolution of the Galaxy, and whose previous evolution...
The Missing Satellites of the Magellanic Clouds? Gaia Proper Motions of the Recently Discovered Ultra-faint Galaxies
According to LCDM theory, hierarchical evolution occurs on all mass scales, implying that satellites of the Milky Way should also have companions. The recent...
The mixed chemistry phenomenon in Galactic Bulge PNe
Aims: We investigate the dual-dust chemistry phenomenon in planetary nebulae (PNe) and discuss reasons for its occurrence, by analyzing Spitzer/IRS spectra of a...
The Na-O anticorrelation in horizontal branch stars. IV. M 22
We obtained high-resolution spectra for 94 candidate stars belonging to the HB of M 22 with FLAMES. Previous works have indicated that this cluster has split...
The nature and origin of substructure in the outskirts of M31 - II. Detailed star formation histories
While wide-field surveys of M31 have revealed much substructure at large radii, understanding the nature and origin of this material is not straightforward from...
The Nature of Dust in Compact Galactic Planetary Nebulae from Spitzer Spectra
We present the Spitzer/Infrared Spectrograph (IRS) spectra of 157 compact Galactic planetary nebulae (PNe). These young PNe provide insight on the effects of...