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A huge stream of stars is discovered in the Coma cluster
An international team of scientists, with participation by researchers at the Instituto de Astrofísica de Canarias (IAC), has discovered a very large, but thin...
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PublicationA Mass Model for the Lensing Cluster SDSS J1004+4112: Constraints from the Third Time Delay
We have built a new model for the lens system SDSS J1004+4112 including the recently measured time delay of the fourth quasar image. This time delay has a...
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PublicationA New Era of Intracluster Light Studies with JWST
Still largely unexplored, the diffuse light in clusters of galaxies traces the past and ongoing buildup of these massive structures. Here we present the first...
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NewsAstronomers discover tiny galaxy with extraordinary star formation in distant Universe
Using first-of-their-kind observations from the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST), an international scientific team, in which the Instituto de Astrofísica de...
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NewsAstronomers witness the birth of a cluster of galaxies from the early Universe
An international scientific team, in which the Instituto de Astrofísica de Canarias (IAC) participates, has discovered a large reservoir of hot gas in the still...
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NewsClusters of galaxies: features of the XXXII IAC Winter School
Today in the multiple use hall of IACTEC in La Laguna the XXXII Canary Islands Winter School of Astrophysics, organised by the Instituto de Astrofísica de...
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PublicationComprehensive Gas Characterization of a z = 2.5 Protocluster: A Cluster Core Caught in the Beginning of Virialization?
In order to connect galaxy clusters to their progenitor protoclusters, we must constrain the star formation histories within their member galaxies and the...
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PublicationDetection and Characterization of Galaxy Systems at Intermediate Redshift.
This thesis is divided into two very related parts. In the first part we implement and apply a galaxy cluster detection method, based on multiband observations...
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PublicationEmergence of an Ultrared, Ultramassive Galaxy Cluster Core at z = 4
Recent simulations and observations of massive galaxy cluster evolution predict that the majority of stellar mass buildup happens within cluster members by z =...