Lines of research: The Milky Way and the Local Group (MWLG)

The Milky Way and the Local Group (MWLG)
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    Legacy Extragalactic UV Survey (LEGUS) With the Hubble Space Telescope. I. Survey Description
    The Legacy ExtraGalactic UV Survey (LEGUS) is a Cycle 21 Treasury program on the Hubble Space Telescope aimed at the investigation of star formation and its...
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    Legacy ExtraGalactic UV Survey with The Hubble Space Telescope: Stellar Cluster Catalogs and First Insights Into Cluster Formation and Evolution in NGC 628
    We report the large effort that is producing comprehensive high-level young star cluster (YSC) catalogs for a significant fraction of galaxies observed with the...
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    LEGUS Discovery of a Light Echo Around Supernova 2012aw
    We have discovered a luminous light echo around the normal Type II-Plateau Supernova (SN) 2012aw in Messier 95 (M95; NGC 3351), detected in images obtained...
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    Life in the fast lane: a direct view of the dynamics, formation, and evolution of the Milky Way's bar
    Studies of the ages, abundances, and motions of individual stars in the Milky Way provide one of the best ways to study the evolution of disc galaxies over...
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    Light elements Na and Al in 58 bulge spheroid stars from APOGEE
    We identified a sample of 58 candidate stars with metallicity [Fe/H] ≲ -0.8 that likely belong to the old bulge spheroid stellar population, and analyse their...
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    Limited impact of jet-induced feedback in the multi-phase nuclear interstellar medium of 4C12.50
    Context. 4C12.50 (IRAS 13451+1232) at z = 0.122 is an ultraluminous infared radio galaxy that has often been proposed as a prime candidate for the link between...
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    Linking bIrth and death: an Empirical approach To lumInous blue Massive star Evolution
    Recent investigations have dented confidence in state-of-the-art models of massive star evolution. As a result, our current understanding of how massive stars...
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    LITTLE THINGS in 3D: robust determination of the circular velocity of dwarf irregular galaxies
    Dwarf irregular galaxies (dIrrs) are the smallest stellar systems with extended H i discs. The study of the kinematics of such discs is a powerful tool to...
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    Liverpool telescope 2: a new robotic facility for rapid transient follow-up
    The Liverpool Telescope is one of the world's premier facilities for time domain astronomy. The time domain landscape is set to radically change in the coming...