Astrophysical: Galaxy evolution

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    Historical Perspectives on the Concept of Galaxy Size
    A brief narrative on how the effective radius and isophotal diameters were accepted as galaxy size measures is presented. Evidence suggests that these...
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    How simple are galaxies?
    Galaxies are arguably complex systems. However, they also display many scaling relations between their physical properties, hinting that it might be possible to...
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    Hunting for VIPERS red nuggets - traces of the past
    Vimos Public Extragalactic Redshift Survey (VIPERS) is a spectroscopic survey designed to investigate the spatial distribution of ~90k galaxies on redshift 0.4...
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    IAC doctoral students tackle galactic archaeology and research into ‘other worlds’ at the Museum of Science and the Cosmos
    The Museum of Science and the Cosmos (MCC), part of the Autonomous Organization of Museums and Centers of the Cabildo of Tenerife, will host the second session...
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    Indiana Jones and where to find relic galaxies
    There are galaxies that remain untouched since the ancient Universe. These unique objects, the so-called relic galaxies, are several times more massive than our...
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    Interacting Binary Stars and Stellar Populations
    Spectroscopic analysis of stellar populations is widely used to understand the history of many systems including globular clusters, nuclear star clusters, dwarf...
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    International conference at the IAC explores the mysteries of the early universe
    The Instituto de Astrofísica de Canarias (IAC) organised the international conference From Fake News to Real Clusters: The Controversial Fate of High-z Galaxy...
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    Introduction of new postdocs. (1) Stellar magnetic fields, (2) My humble efforts to understand galaxy formation and evolution, (3) Waiting for Herschel: my perspective
    (1) Stellar magnetic fields. Spectro-polarimetry is a very powerful tool to diagnose magnetic fields in a large variety of astrophysical objects. My research...
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    Is the riddle of the astronomical Li origin solved?
    Lithium is a key element which plays an important role in astronomy as well as everyday human life. Nevertheless it is probably the only element whose...