4 papers
The Merger-Driven Origin of the Vast Extended Stellar Disc Around the Andromeda Galaxy
C. Tsakonas, M. Arnaboldi, F. Hammer +4
The closest giant spiral, the Andromeda galaxy (M31), shows compelling evidence for a recent, gas-rich major merger event. Pronounced substructures in its inner halo and a kinemati…
A homogeneous view of asymptotic giant branch carbon stars as seen by Gaia
Alessio Liberatori, Despina Hatzidimitriou, Konstantinos Antoniadis +12
Carbon stars on the asymptotic giant branch are major contributors to galactic dust enrichment, with gas mass-loss rates up to 1e-4 Msun/yr. We present a homogeneous spectral energ…
Black-hole mass estimation through accretion disk spectral fitting for high-redshift blazars
G. Kyriopoulos, M. Petropoulou, G. Vasilopoulos +1
High-redshift () blazars, with relativistic jets aligned toward us, probe the most powerful end of the active galactic nuclei (AGN) population. We aim at determining the black…
The survey of planetary nebulae in Andromeda (M31) VII. Predictions of a major merger simulation model compared with chemodynamical data of the disc and inner halo substructures
C. Tsakonas, M. Arnaboldi, S. Bhattacharya +5
The nearest giant spiral, M31, exhibits a kinematically hot stellar disc, a global star formation episode ~2-4 Gyr ago, and conspicuous substructures in its stellar halo that are s…