Astrophysical: Galaxy evolution

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    Astronomers discover that the first galaxies had very different shapes to today's galaxies
    Thanks to images obtained by the James Webb Telescope (JWST), an international scientific team in which the Instituto de Astrofísica de Canarias (IAC)...
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    Bar characterization from S4G imaging: Gaining insight into the secular evolution of disc galaxies
    The ΛCDM model predicts that galaxies originate in dark matter haloes, undergoing in their early age a process of continuous merges with other galaxies that...
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    Big Data to model the evolution of the cosmic web
    The Instituto de Astrofísica de Canarias (IAC) has led an international team which has developed an algorithm called COSMIC BIRTH to analyse large scale cosmic...
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    Binary stars in stellar population synthesis models and the UV upturn in early type galaxies.
    Many stars are observed to belong to multiple systems. Interactions between binary stars may change the evolutionary track of a star, creating atypical stars...
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    Bridging Gaps in Stellar Population Synthesis
    Stellar population synthesis has reached a high degree of sophistication that has been exploited to understand to a certain extent the mechanisms of formation...
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    Calar Alto Legacy Integral Field Area survey
    CALIFA is the largest IFS survey ever performed up to date. Recently started, it will observe ~600 galaxies in the Local Universe with PPAK at the 3.5m of the...
  • Publication
    CEERS Key Paper. I. An Early Look into the First 500 Myr of Galaxy Formation with JWST
    We present an investigation into the first 500 Myr of galaxy evolution from the Cosmic Evolution Early Release Science (CEERS) survey. CEERS, one of 13 JWST ERS...
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    CEERS Key Paper. III. The Diversity of Galaxy Structure and Morphology at z = 3-9 with JWST
    We present a comprehensive analysis of the evolution of the morphological and structural properties of a large sample of galaxies at z = 3-9 using early James...
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    CEERS Key Paper. IV. A Triality in the Nature of HST-dark Galaxies
    The new capabilities that JWST offers in the near- and mid-infrared (IR) are used to investigate in unprecedented detail the nature of optical/near-IR-faint...