Astrophysical: Galaxies

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    The attractive force between two spherical systems whose density distribution follows Schuster's law.
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    The Aurora radiation-hydrodynamical simulations of reionization: calibration and first results
    We introduce a new suite of radiation-hydrodynamical simulations of galaxy formation and reionization called Aurora. The Aurora simulations make use of a...
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    The awakening of BL Lacertae: observations by Fermi, Swift and the GASP-WEBT
    Since the launch of the Fermi satellite, BL Lacertae has been moderately active at γ-rays and optical frequencies until 2011 May, when the source started a...
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    The B-type Binaries Characterisation Programme - II. VFTS 291: a stripped star from a recent mass transfer phase
    Recent studies of massive binaries with putative black hole companions have uncovered a phase of binary evolution that has not been observed before, featuring a...
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    The BaLROG project - I. Quantifying the influence of bars on the kinematics of nearby galaxies
    We present the BaLROG (Bars in Low Redshift Optical Galaxies) sample of 16 morphologically distinct barred spirals to characterize observationally the influence...
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    The BaLROG project - II. Quantifying the influence of bars on the stellar populations of nearby galaxies
    We continue the exploration of the BaLROG (Bars in Low Redshift Optical Galaxies) sample: 16 large mosaics of barred galaxies observed with the integral field...
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    The Bar Pattern Speed of Dwarf Galaxy NGC 4431
    We present surface photometry and stellar kinematics of NGC 4431, a barred dwarf galaxy in the Virgo Cluster undergoing a tidal interaction with one of its...
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    The bar rotation rate as a diagnostic of dark matter content in the centre of disc galaxies
    We investigate the link between the bar rotation rate and dark matter content in barred galaxies by concentrating on the cases of the lenticular galaxies NGC...
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    The Baryonic Tully-Fisher Relationship for S4G Galaxies and the "Condensed" Baryon Fraction of Galaxies
    We combine data from the Spitzer Survey for Stellar Structure in Galaxies, a recently calibrated empirical stellar mass estimator from Eskew et al., and an...