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

The Milky Way and the Local Group (MWLG)
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    Searching for optical companions to four binary millisecond pulsars with the Gran Telescopio Canarias
    We report on multiband photometric observations of four binary millisecond pulsars with the Gran Telescopio Canarias. The observations led to detection of...
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    Searching for the next Galactic Luminous red nova
    Luminous red novae (LRNe) are astrophysical transients believed to be caused by the partial ejection of a binary star's common envelope (CE) and the merger of...
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    SEGUE-2: Old Milky Way Stars Near and Far
    The Sloan Extension for Galactic Understanding and Exploration 2 (SEGUE-2) obtained 128,288 low-resolution spectra (R ~ 1800) of 118,958 unique stars in the...
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    Self-enrichment in globular clusters: the extreme He-rich populationof NGC 2808
    Almost several decades after the discovery of the first multiple populations in galactic globular clusters (GC), the debate on their formation is still...
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    Separation between RR Lyrae and type II Cepheids and their importance for a distance determination: the case of omega Cen
    The separation between RR Lyrae (RRLs) and type II Cepheid (T2Cs) variables based on their period is debated. Both types of variable stars are distance...
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    Seven young star clusters in the inner region of the Small Magellanic Cloud
    We present CCD photometry in the Washington system C and T1 passbands down to T1 ~ 22 in the fields of L35, L45, L49, L50, L62, L63 and L85, seven poorly...
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    Sextans: the smallest cannibal galaxy discovered until now
    A team at the Instituto de Astrofísica de Canarias (IAC) has discovered a new case of galactic cannibalism in the neighbourhood of the Milky Way, which has...
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    Short-lived radioactivity in the early solar system: The Super-AGB star hypothesis
    The composition of the most primitive solar system condensates, such as calcium-aluminum-rich inclusions (CAIs) and micron-sized corundum grains, show that...
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    SIGNALS: I. Survey description
    SIGNALS, the Star formation, Ionized Gas, and Nebular Abundances Legacy Survey, is a large observing programme designed to investigate massive star formation...