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most citedExtremely compact massive galaxies at z~1.4

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Toward the Italian Astronomical Community's Contribution to HWO: Science, Technology, and Instrument Concepts

A. Fontana, F. Annibali, N. Antonietti +101

This paper summarizes the interest of the Italian astronomical community in the possible participation in the development of the Habitable Worlds Observatory (HWO). It is largely b…

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KiDS J1447-0149: The first spatially resolved spectroscopy of a relic galaxy beyond the local universe. An old high-dispersion core embedded in a compact rotating stellar structure

Johanna Hartke, Chiara Spiniello, Michele Cappellari +13

Relic galaxies are the descendants of high-redshift compact quiescent systems. We present the first spatially resolved spectroscopic study of J1447-0149, a massive relic at $z=0.21…

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Structural, thermal and optical tolerance analysis of SHARP, a near infrared spectrograph for next generation telescope

H. Mahmoodzadeh, P. Saracco, I. DI Antonio +15

The design and verification of cryogenic near-infrared spectrographs require rigorous multidisciplinary analyses to ensure optical performance under realistic operational condition…

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Probing IMF Variations in High-Redshift Early-Type Galaxies with SHARP

F. La Barbera, G. De Lucia, F. Ditrani +9

The stellar initial mass function (IMF), which describes the distribution of stellar masses at birth, is a fundamental ingredient in shaping galaxy evolution. Recent observations i…

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SHARP -- A spectrograph proposal to fully exploit ELT capabilities and look beyond JWST

P. Saracco, P. Conconi, C. Arcidiacono +47

The Extremely Large Telescopes (ELTs), with their large apertures and cutting-edge Multi-Conjugate Adaptive Optics (MCAO) systems, promise to deliver data that is both sharper and…

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Milky-Way-like stars in a galaxy core 8 billion years ago revealed by gravitational lensing

Quirino D'Amato, Filippo Mannucci, Alessandro Sonnenfeld +40

The assembly of stellar-dominated cores in elliptical galaxies is key to understanding how cosmic structures evolved. Gravitational lensing offers unique insights into the nature o…