Astrophysical: Star formation

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    Field O stars: formed in situ or as runaways?
    A significant fraction of massive stars in the Milky Way and other galaxies are located far from star clusters and star-forming regions. It is known that some...
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    First steps of the GTC photometric calibration plan
    Large telescopes require a very precise calibration in order to maximize its scientific output. Current catalogues of standard stars are generally too bright...
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    Formation of Slowly Rotating Elliptical Galaxies in Major Mergers. A Resolution Study
    We study resolution effects in numerical simulations of gas-rich (20% of the total baryonic mass) major mergers, and show that the formation of slowly-rotating...
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    From blue cloud to red sequence: evidence of morphological transition prior to star formation quenching
    We present a study of a sample of 254 clusters from the SDSS-DR7 Yang Catalogue and an auxiliary sample of field galaxies to perform a detailed investigation on...
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    From kpcs to the central parsec of NGC 1097: feeding star formation and a black hole at the same time
    A panchromatic view of the star-forming ring and feeding process in the central kpc of the galaxy NGC 1097 is presented. The assembled IR to UV images at ˜10 pc...
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    From the blue cloud to the red sequence (and over the green valley): investigating the evolution of galaxies over cosmological timescales
    In the local universe, galaxies fall into one of two populations: a star-forming blue cloud and a red sequence lacking star formation. At redshift z ~ 1.5...
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    Frontier Fields: Combining HST, VLT, and Spitzer data to explore the z ~ 8 Universe behind the lensing cluster MACSJ0416.1-2403
    Context. The Hubble Space Telescope (HST) Frontier Fields (HFFs) project started at the end of 2013 with the aim of providing extremely deep images of six...
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    Fueling and Morphology of Central Starbursts
    Of the mechanisms proposed to bring gaseous fuel into the central starburst regions of a galaxy, non-axisymmetries in the gravitational potential set up by...
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    Further evidence for a time-dependent initial mass function in massive early-type galaxies
    Spectroscopic analyses of gravity-sensitive line strengths give growing evidence towards an excess of low-mass stars in massive early-type galaxies (ETGs). Such...