Astrophysical: Galaxies

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    Hα star formation rates in massive galaxies at z˜ 1
    We present a near-infrared spectroscopic study of a stellar mass selected sample of galaxies at z˜ 1 utilizing the Long-slit Intermediate Resolution Infrared...
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    IAC Scientists have characterized over 200 new clusters of galaxies first detected by the Planck satellite using the telescopes on La Palma
    An international team led by the group of Cosmology with Galaxy Clusters of the Instituto de Astrofísica de Canarias (IAC), including researchers from the...
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    IAC-pop: Finding the Star Formation History of Resolved Galaxies
    IAC-pop is a code designed to solve the star formation history (SFH) of a complex stellar population system, like a galaxy, from the analysis of the color...
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    IC 10: More evidence that it is a blue compact dwarf
    We present optical spectroscopy of H Ii regions in the Local Group galaxy IC 10 and UBVR photometry of foreground stars in three fields towards this galaxy...
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    Identification of red supergiants in nearby galaxies with mid-IR photometry
    Context. The role of episodic mass loss in massive-star evolution is one of the most important open questions of current stellar evolution theory. Episodic mass...
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    Identification of tidal features in deep optical galaxy images with convolutional neural networks
    Interactions between galaxies leave distinguishable imprints in the form of tidal features, which hold important clues about their mass assembly. Unfortunately...
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    Identifying Sagittarius Stream Stars by Their APOGEE Chemical Abundance Signatures
    The SDSS-IV Apache Point Observatory Galactic Evolution Experiment (APOGEE) survey provides precise chemical abundances of 18 chemical elements for ∼176,000 red...
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    Images from the Hubble Space Telescope and GRANTECAN help to show how the first galaxies were formed
    One of the most interesting questions for astrophysicists for the past few decades is how and when did the first galaxies form. One of the possible answers to...
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    Imaging and Spectrophotometry of Markarian 1094: Implications for the Recent Star Formation
    Narrowband Hα imaging and intermediate- and high-resolution optical spectrophotometry have been obtained for the blue compact dwarf Wolf-Rayet galaxy Mrk 1094...