Líneas de investigación: La Vía Láctea y el Grupo Local (MWLG)

La Vía Láctea y el Grupo Local (MWLG)
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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: la galaxia caníbal más pequeña descubierta hasta la fecha
    Un equipo del Instituto de Astrofísica de Canarias (IAC) descubre un nuevo caso de canibalismo galáctico alrededor de la Vía Láctea que ha producido la fusión...
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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...
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    Signatures of the Galactic bar on stellar kinematics unveiled by APOGEE
    Bars are common galactic structures in the local universe that play an important role in the secular evolution of galaxies, including the Milky Way. In...