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20242026
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7 papers

astro-ph.GA2026

The Star Formation History and Evolution of the Ultra-Diffuse M81 Satellite F8D1

Adam Smercina, Eric F. Bell, Benjamin F. Williams +15

We present deep HST imaging of one of the nearest ultra-diffuse galaxies (UDGs) outside of the Local Group: F8D1, a satellite of M81 known to be tidally disrupting. UDGs are an eni…

astro-ph.GA2026

Galaxy mergers and disk angular momentum evolution: stellar halos as a critical test

Eric F. Bell, Richard D'Souza, Monica Valluri +1

We investigate the role of hierarchical assembly in the angular momentum (AM) evolution of galaxies using a sample of 471 Milky Way-mass galaxies from the TNG-50 simulation. While…

astro-ph.GA2026

The role of mass loss in constraining quenching time in dwarf galaxies from AGB and RGB star counts

Paolo Ventura, Richard D'Souza, Flavia Dell'Agli +4

The capability of reconstructing the past star formation history of dwarf elliptical galaxies out of the Local Volume relies on modelling bright stellar populations currently evolv…

astro-ph.GA2025

An integral field spectroscopic study of stellar and ionized gas properties around edge-on disk galaxies in the stellar mass range 9<log M*<11

Guinevere Kauffmann, Richard D'Souza, Antonela Monachesi

We analyze the stellar light, 4000 Angstrom break and emission line profiles of 82 edge-on disk galaxies from the MaNGA survey. We characterize the stellar light profiles perpendic…

astro-ph.GA2025

Andromeda XXXV: The Faintest Dwarf Satellite of the Andromeda Galaxy

Jose Marco Arias, Eric F. Bell, Katya Gozman +8

We present the discovery of Andromeda XXXV, the faintest Andromeda satellite galaxy discovered to date, identified as an overdensity of stars in the Pan-Andromeda Archaeological Su…

astro-ph.GA2024

Star formation beyond galaxies: widespread in-situ formation of intra-cluster stars

Niusha Ahvazi, Laura V. Sales, Julio F. Navarro +3

We study the fraction of the intra-cluster light (ICL) formed in-situ in the three most massive clusters of the TNG50 simulation, with virial masses M. We…