Astrophysical: Dwarf galaxies

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    Reading the Chemical Evolution of the Fornax dSph
    Dwarf spheroidal (dSph) galaxies are the smallest, closest and most abundant galaxies in the Universe and therefore excellent laboratories to study star...
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    Rotation found in three galaxies satellites of the Milky Way
    An international team of astrophysicists from the Instituto de Astrofísica de Canarias (IAC), the University of La Laguna (ULL) and the Space Telescope Science...
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    S4G: The Spitzer Survey of Stellar Structure in Galaxies
    Galaxies are the basic building blocks of the Universe, and understanding their formation and evolution is crucial to many areas of current astrophysical...
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    SDSS analysis of Galactic stellar streams
    The last years saw numerous detections of substructure in the Galactic halo, largely due to wide area surveys like the Sloan Digital Sky Survey (SDSS) or the...
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    Searching for Tidal Remnants in the Milky Way: Photometric Survey of Globular Clusters
    The picture of building the Milky Way halo from the merger of protogalactic fragments is considered the local manifestation of the hierarchical galaxy formation...
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    Shedding light on the darkest galaxies: the Local Group dwarfs
    Crucial issues in cosmology and astrophysics are to understand the process of galaxy formation and evolution and the nature of what appears to be the dominant...
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    Simulating cosmic reionization
    The first galaxies are thought to have started the reionization of the Universe, that is the transformation of the cosmic hydrogen from its initial neutral to...
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    Solved: the mystery of how dark matter in galaxies is distributed
    The gravitational force in the Universe under which it has evolved from a state almost uniform at the Big Bang until now, when matter is concentrated in...
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    Star Formation Histories of Ultra-faint Dwarf Galaxies: Environmental Differences between Magellanic and Non-Magellanic Satellites?
    We present the color-magnitude diagrams and star formation histories (SFHs) of seven ultra-faint dwarf galaxies: Horologium 1, Hydra 2, Phoenix 2, Reticulum 2...