Año de inicio
2006
Unidad organizativa
Institución organizadora
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Descripción
Bienvenida a la página web del grupo de investigación Traces of Galaxy Formation.
Somos un grupo de investigación amplio, diverso y muy activo cuyo objetivo principal es entender la formación de galaxias en el Universo de una manera lo más completa posible. Con el estudio detellado de las poblaciones estelares como bandera, estamos constantemente buscando y desarrollando nuevas herramientas e ideas que nos permitan entender cómo las galaxias han llegado a convertirse en lo que hoy observamos.
Una historia de formación compleja, como la que se espera describa la evolución de las galaxias, necesita de un acercamiento multidisciplinar para ser entendida. Nuestro grupo en el IAC está compuesto por personal investigador de gran experiencia en simulaciones cosmológicas, estudios dinámicos, análisis de poblaciones estelares y caracterizaciones morfológicas de galaxias tanto locales como a alto corrimiento al rojo. Combinamos distintas alternativas (e.g. observaciones y teoría o procesos de evolución secular y cosmológica) para poder alcanzar en los próximos años una visión consistente de los mecanismos físicos que regulan la formación de las galaxias.
Dentro de este esquema general, estamos principalmente centrados en el estudio de tres líneas centrales:
- Modelos de síntesis de poblaciones estelares
- Desarrollo de modelos de poblaciones estelares
- Métodos de análisis para el estudio de poblaciones estelares
- Universalidad de la función inicial de masa (IMF)
- Evolución cósmica de galaxias
- Evolución de galaxias masivas
- Poblaciones estelares en distintos entornos
- Ciencia a bajo brillo superficial
- Simulaciones númericas y aprendizaje automático
- Procesos evolutivos en galaxias cercanas
- Agujeros negros como moduladores de la formación estelar
- Cartogrtafiados locales
- Cinemática estelar y modelos dinámicos
Si quieres ponerte en contacto o trabajar con el grupo, por favor, envía un correo al investigador principal (Ignacio Martín-Navarro ignacio.martin [at] iac.es (ignacio[dot]martin[at]iac[dot]es)).
Miembros
Investigador principal
Ignacio
Martín Navarro
Personal del proyecto
Ignacio
Trujillo Cabrera
Alexandre
Vazdekis Vazdekis
Ignacio Alfonso
Ferreras Páez
Jesús
Falcón Barroso
Marc
Huertas-Portocarrero Company
Adriana de
Lorenzo-Cáceres Rodríguez
Anna
Ferré Mateu
Mireia
Montes Quiles
Regina
Sarmiento
Iveth Adaena
Gaspar Gorostieta
Eirini
Angeloudi
Giulia
Golini
Laura Elizabeth
Scholz Díaz
Pablo
Rodríguez Beltrán
Resultados
Esta es una muestra de algunos de nuestros resultados destacados más recientes:
- Local variations of the stellar velocity ellipsoid - II. The effect of the bar in the inner regions of Auriga galaxies. Walo et al. 2022, MNRAS (https://ui.adsabs.harvard.edu/abs/2022MNRAS.513.4587W)
- Anisotropic satellite galaxy quenching modulated by black hole activity. Martín-Navarro et al. 2021, Nature (https://ui.adsabs.harvard.edu/abs/2021Natur.594..187M)
- Evaluating hydrodynamical simulations with green valley galaxies. Angthopo et al. 2021, MNRAS (https://ui.adsabs.harvard.edu/abs/2021MNRAS.502.3685A)
- Sub one per cent mass fractions of young stars in red massive galaxies. Salvador-Rusiñol et al. 2020, Nature Astronomy (https://ui.adsabs.harvard.edu/abs/2020NatAs...4..252S)
- Detection of young stellar populations in apparently quenched low-mass galaxies using red spectral line indices. de Lorenzo-Cáceres et al. 2020, MNRAS (https://ui.adsabs.harvard.edu/abs/2020MNRAS.498.1002D)
Actividad científica
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The long Galactic bar as seen by UKIDSS Galactic plane surveyContext: Over the past decade there have been a series of results supporting the hypothesis of the existence of a long thin bar in the Milky Way with a half-length of 4.5 kpc and a position angle of around 45°. This is apparently a very different structure from the triaxial bulge of the Galaxy, which is thicker and shorter and dominates the starCabrera-Lavers, A. et al.
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122008 -
The Orientation of Disk Galaxies around Large Cosmic VoidsUsing a large sample of galaxies from the the seventh data release of the Sloan Digital Sky Survey (SDSS-DR7), we have analyzed the alignment of disk galaxies around cosmic voids. We have constructed a complete sample of cosmic voids (devoid of galaxies brighter than Mr - 5log h = -20.17) with radii larger than 10 h -1 Mpc up to redshift 0.12. DiskVarela, J. et al.
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Probing IGM large-scale flows: warps in galaxies at shells of voidsContext: Hydrodynamical cosmological simulations predict flows of the intergalactic medium along the radial vector of the voids, approximately in the direction of the infall of matter at the early stages of the galaxy formation. Aims: These flows might be detected by analysing the dependence of the warp amplitude on the inclination of the galaxiesLópez-Corredoira, M. et al.
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92008 -
Radial distribution of near-UV flux in disc galaxies in the range 0 ⪉ z ⪉ 1Context: In the last 8 Gyr of cosmic time the global star formation rate (SFR) has declined by roughly an order of magnitude, and most of this activity has been progressively confined to ever less massive galaxies (“downsizing”). Previous studies show that the main drivers of the decline in the global SFR are the spiral galaxies. However, we stillAzzollini, R. et al.
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72009 -
Cosmic Evolution of Stellar Disk Truncations: From z~1 to the Local UniverseWe have conducted the largest systematic search so far for stellar disk truncations in disklike galaxies at intermediate redshift (zAzzollini, R. et al.
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92008 -
Color Profiles of Disk Galaxies since z ~ 1: Probing Outer Disk Formation ScenariosWe present deep color profiles for a sample of 415 disk galaxies within the redshift range 0.1Azzollini, R. et al.
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62008 -
Velocity Dispersions and Stellar Populations of the Most Compact and Massive Early-type Galaxies at Redshift ~1We present Gran-Telescopio-Canarias/OSIRIS optical spectra of four of the most compact and massive early-type galaxies (ETGs) in the Groth Strip Survey at redshift z ~ 1, with effective radii R e = 0.5-2.4 kpc and photometric stellar masses M sstarf = (1.2-4) × 1011 M sun. We find that these galaxies have velocity dispersions σ = 156-236 km s-1Martinez-Manso, Jesus et al.
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92011 -
The relation between stellar populations, structure and environment for dwarf elliptical galaxies from the MAGPOP-ITPDwarf galaxies, as the most numerous type of galaxy, offer the potential to study galaxy formation and evolution in detail in the nearby universe. Although they seem to be simple systems at first view, they remain poorly understood. In an attempt to alleviate this situation, the MAGPOP EU Research and Training Network embarked on a study of dwarfMichielsen, D. et al.
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42008 -
The morphologies and masses of extremely red galaxies in the Groth StripWe present a new catalogue of EROs from the Groth Strip and study the relation between their morphology and mass. With a selection criterion F814W-Ks≥ 4 and Ks≤ 21.0 we find 102 EROs, over a survey area of 155 arcmin2, leading to a surface density of 0.66 arcmin-2. The photometric data include U, B, F606W, F814W, J, Ks bands. Morphologies are basedHempel, A. et al.
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72011 -
The Minor Role of Gas-Rich Major Mergers in the Rise of Intermediate-Mass Early Types at z <= 1We study the evolution of galaxy structure since z ~ 1 to the present. From a Great Observatories Origins Deep Survey South (GOODS-S) multi-band catalog, we define (blue) luminosity- and mass-weighted samples, limited by MB = 1010 M sun, comprising 1122 and 987 galaxies, respectively. We extract early-type (ET; E/S0/Sa) and late-type (LT; Sb-Irr)López-Sanjuan, C. et al.
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22010 -
The HST/ACS Coma Cluster Survey. VIII. Barred Disk Galaxies in the Core of the Coma ClusterWe use high-resolution (~0farcs1) F814W Advanced Camera for Surveys (ACS) images from the Hubble Space Telescope ACS Treasury survey of the Coma cluster at z ~ 0.02 to study bars in massive disk galaxies (S0s), as well as low-mass dwarf galaxies in the core of the Coma cluster, the densest environment in the nearby universe. Our study helps toMarinova, Irina et al.
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22012 -
The HST/ACS Coma Cluster Survey. IV. Intergalactic Globular Clusters and the Massive Globular Cluster System at the Core of the Coma Galaxy ClusterIntracluster stellar populations are a natural result of tidal interactions in galaxy clusters. Measuring these populations is difficult, but important for understanding the assembly of the most massive galaxies. The Coma cluster of galaxies is one of the nearest truly massive galaxy clusters and is host to a correspondingly large system ofPeng, Eric W. et al.
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The HST/ACS Coma Cluster Survey - VI. Colour gradients in giant and dwarf early-type galaxiesUsing deep, high-spatial-resolution imaging from the Hubble Space Telescope/Advanced Camera for Surveys (HST/ACS) Coma Cluster Treasury Survey, we determine colour profiles of early-type galaxies in the Coma cluster. From 176 galaxies brighter than MF814W(AB)=-15 mag that are either spectroscopically confirmed members of Coma or identified by eyeden Brok, M. et al.
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72011 -
The HST/ACS Coma Cluster Survey - III. Structural parameters of galaxies using single Sérsic fitsWe present a catalogue of structural parameters for 8814 galaxies in the 25 fields of the Hubble Space Telescope/ACS Coma Treasury Survey. Parameters from Sérsic fits to the two-dimensional surface brightness distributions are given for all galaxies from our published Coma photometric catalogue with mean effective surface brightness brighter thanHoyos, Carlos et al.
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Spectro-photometric close pairs in GOODS-S: major and minor companions of intermediate-mass galaxiesAims: Recent work has shown that major mergers of disc galaxies can only account for 20% of the growth of the galaxy red sequence between z = 1 and z = 0. Our goal here is to provide merger frequencies that encompass both major and minor mergers, derived from close pair statistics. We aim to show that reliable close pair statistics can be derivedLópez-Sanjuan, C. et al.
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72010 -
On the Connection of the Apparent Proper Motion and the VLBI Structure of Compact Radio SourcesMany of the compact extragalactic radio sources that are used as fiducial points to define the celestial reference frame are known to have proper motions detectable with long-term geodetic/astrometric very long baseline interferometry (VLBI) measurements. These changes can be as high as several hundred microarcseconds per year for certain objectsMoór, A. et al.
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62011 -
On the buildup of massive early-type galaxies at z ⪉ 1. I. Reconciling their hierarchical assembly with mass downsizingContext. Several studies have tried to ascertain whether the increase in abundance of the early-type galaxies (E-S0a's) with time is mainly due to major mergers, but have reached opposite conclusions. Aims: We have tested it directly through semi-analytical modelling, quantifying the possible contribution of the observed major mergers to theEliche-Moral, M. C. et al.
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92010 -
Color Profiles of Spiral Galaxies: Clues on Outer-Disk Formation ScenariosWe have explored radial color and stellar surface mass density profiles for a sample of 85 late-type spiral galaxies with deep (down to ~27 mag arcsec-2) SDSS g'- and r'-band surface brightness profiles. About 90% of the light profiles have been classified as broken exponentials, exhibiting either truncations (Type II galaxies) or antitruncationsBakos, Judit et al.
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82008 -
Are dry mergers dry, moist or wet?We present a spectral analysis of a sample of red-sequence galaxies identified by van Dokkum as dry merger remnants and ongoing dry mergers. Kinematics, stellar population absorption features and ionization from emission lines are derived. We find that approximately half of the sample showing strong tidal features have younger stellar populationsSánchez-Blázquez, P. et al.
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122009 -
Constraining the formation of inner bars: photometry, kinematics and stellar populations in NGC 357Double-barred galaxies are common in the local Universe, with approximately one-third of barred spirals hosting a smaller, inner bar. Nested bars have been proposed as a mechanism to transport gas to the very central regions of the galaxy, trigger star formation and contribute to the growth of the bulge. To test this idea, we perform for the firstde Lorenzo-Cáceres, A. et al.
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22012
