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most citedThe VISTA Variables in the Vía Láctea eXtended (VVVX) ESO public survey: Completion of the observations and legacy

38 citations · 91 across the 25 of their papers we have counts for

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26 papers

astro-ph.GA2026

Comparing phylogenetic trees of stars with spectral graph distances

Theosamuele Signor, Matias Neto, Paula Jofré +9

Phylogenetic trees offer a hierarchical representation of chemical similarities among stars, from which their evolutionary histories can, in principle, be reconstructed. Simulation…

astro-ph.GA2026

The properties of central stellar knots embedded in galactic bulges of CIELO simulations

Belén Acosta-Tripailao, Patricia B. Tissera, Manuela Zoccali +7

Deeply bound stellar substructures of about 1 kpc at the center of bulges are found in a subset of galaxies from the cosmological chemo-hydrodynamical zoom-in CIELO simulation suit…

astro-ph.GA2026

Rubin J122659.4+090236: An Extremely Low Surface Brightness Galaxy Candidate Discovered in the Rubin LSST Early Data Preview 2

Dipanjan Mitra, Kanak Saha, Sugata Kaviraj +28

We report the serendipitous discovery of an exceptionally low surface brightness galaxy (LSBG) candidate, Rubin J122659.4+090236, in Rubin Observatory imaging of the interacting NG…

astro-ph.GA2026

[CII] as a global cold gas tracer in novel hydrodynamical simulations

Valentina P. Miranda, Patricia B. Tissera, Jorge González-López +1

[CII] emission is a powerful tool for studying the gas content in galaxies, especially at early stages of evolution. Given its low excitation potential, the [CII] 158 μm line is th…

astro-ph.GA2026

Angular momentum evolution in the CIELO simulations. I. Temporal evolution of gas-stellar misalignments and baryonic merger timing

Catalina Casanueva-Villarreal, Patricia B. Tissera, Nelson Padilla +4

Gas-stellar kinematic misalignments trace how galaxies assemble and reorient their angular momentum. Although well documented locally, their continuous evolution remains largely un…

astro-ph.GA2026

Reconstructing chemical enrichment pathways in disc galaxies: A phylogenetic approach

Brian Tapia-Contreras, Patricia B. Tissera, Emanuel Sillero +11

Phylogenetic methods, traditionally used in biology to trace the evolutionary relationships among species, are emerging as a powerful framework to reconstruct evolutionary processe…

astro-ph.GA2026

Aligned and misaligned metallicity gradients in young stars and star-forming regions in the EAGLE discs

Isha Shailesh, Patricia B. Tissera, Emanuel Sillero

Disc galaxies exhibit radial metallicity gradients in both their stellar and gaseous components. The star-forming gas (SFG) in HII regions and young stars (YSs) trace the recent ev…

astro-ph.GA2026★ 3 cited

On the Use of Field RR Lyrae as Galactic Probes -- VIII. Early Formation of the Galactic Spheroid

G. Bono, V. F. Braga, M. Fabrizio +54

We introduce a new photometric catalog of RR Lyrae variables (RRLs, 300,000) mainly based on data available in public datasets. We also present the largest and most homogeneo…

astro-ph.GA2026

The impact of cosmic voids on AGN activity

Benedict Rouse, Patricia B. Tissera, Yetli Rosas-Guevara +1

From the Eagle project, we study the properties of galaxies hosting AGN in cosmic voids and their surrounding structures, filaments and walls, at , comparing them to non-AGN g…

astro-ph.GA2025★ 1 cited

Chemical enrichment in LINERs from MaNGA. II. Characterizing the shape of their radial metallicity gradients

Borja Pérez-Díaz, José M. Vílchez, Enrique Pérez Montero +3

Chemical abundance radial gradients provide key information on how the processes that affect chemical enrichment of the gas-phase interstellar medium (ISM) act at different galaxy…

astro-ph.GA2025

The heartbeat of stellar halos: Insights from the stellar halo mass-metallicity relation

Jenny Gonzalez-Jara, Patricia B. Tissera, Antonela Monachesi +5

This work investigates the presence and evolution of the MZhR from redshift z=3.5 to z=0, and identifies when galaxies settle on the present-day MZhR. We used central galaxies with…

astro-ph.GA2025

The mass-metallicity relation of bulges

Ignacio Muñoz-Escobar, Patricia B. Tissera, Jenny Gonzalez-Jara +4

Context. Bulges, located at the central regions of galaxies, are complex structures, expected to be shaped by the physical processes involved in the assembly history of their host…

astro-ph.GA2025★ 1 cited

Metal-loaded outflows in sub-Milky Way galaxies in the CIELO simulations

Valentina P. Miranda, Patricia B. Tissera, Emanuel Sillero +5

Supernova (SN) feedback-driven galactic outflows are a key physical process that contributes to the baryon cycle by regulating the star formation activity, reducing the amount of m…

astro-ph.GA2025

On the origin of counterrotating stellar disks in TNG50. I

M. C. Bugueño, Facundo A. Gómez, Arianna Dolfi +1

Understanding galaxy evolution is key to explaining the structures we observe in the present-day Universe. Counterrotating stellar disks (CRDs), i.e. co-spatial stellar disks rotat…

astro-ph.GA2025

The formation and evolution of Supermassive disks in IllustrisTNG

Diego Pallero, Gaspar Galaz, Patricia B. Tissera +4

Supermassive disks are outstanding galaxies whose formation and evolution are still poorly understood. They comprise a large variety of objects, ranging from large, low-surface-bri…

astro-ph.GA2025

Mocking IFU observations and metallicity diagnostics from cosmological simulations

A. Cornejo-Cárdenas, E. Sillero, P. B. Tissera +4

Hydrodynamic simulations are powerful tools for studying galaxy formation. However, it is crucial to test and improve the sub-grid physics underlying these simulations by comparing…

astro-ph.GA2025★ 6 cited

Studying stellar populations in Omega Centauri with phylogenetics

P. Jofré, C. Aguilera-Gómez, P. Villarreal +14

The nature and formation history of our Galaxy's largest and most enigmatic stellar cluster, known as Omega Centauri (ocen) remains debated. Here, we offer a novel approach to dise…

astro-ph.GA2025★ 1 cited

Insight into the physical processes that shape the metallicity profiles in galaxies

Brian Tapia-Contreras, Patricia B. Tissera, Emanuel Sillero +6

The distribution of chemical elements in the star-forming regions can store information on the chemical enrichment history of the galaxies. Negative metallicity gradients are expec…

astro-ph.GA2025

The CIELO Project: The Chemo-dynamical properties of gaLaxies and the cosmic web

Patricia Tissera, Lucas Bignone, Jenny Gonzalez-Jara +13

The CIELO project introduces a novel set of chemo-dynamical zoom-in simulations designed to simultaneously resolve galaxies and their nearby environments. The initial conditions in…

astro-ph.GA2024

Unveiling the formation channels of stellar halos through their chemical fingerprints

Jenny Gonzalez-Jara, Patricia B. Tissera, Antonela Monachesi +6

Stellar halos around galaxies contain key information about their formation and assembly history. Using simulations, we can trace the origins of different stellar populations in th…

astro-ph.GA2024★ 8 cited

The role of accreted and in situ populations in shaping the stellar halos of low-mass galaxies

Elisa A. Tau, Antonela Monachesi, Facundo A. Gomez +7

The stellar halos of dwarf galaxies are becoming an object of interest in the extragalactic community due to their detection in some recent observations. Additionally, new cosmolog…

astro-ph.GA2024

A catalog of ringed galaxies in the TNG50 simulation: Analysis of their properties and structure

Julia Fernandez, Emanuel Sillero, Sol Alonso +1

The catalog of ringed galaxies was compiled through visual classification of synthetic images from the TNG50 simulation. Galaxies were selected based on specific criteria: a redshi…

astro-ph.GA2024★ 38 cited

The VISTA Variables in the Vía Láctea eXtended (VVVX) ESO public survey: Completion of the observations and legacy

R. K. Saito, M. Hempel, J. Alonso-García +143

The ESO public survey VISTA Variables in the Vía Láctea (VVV) surveyed the inner Galactic bulge and the adjacent southern Galactic disk from . Upon its conclusion, the c…

astro-ph.CO2014

Properties of Long Gamma Ray Burst Progenitors in Cosmological Simulations

L. A. Bignone, L. J. Pellizza, P. B. Tissera

We study the nature of long gamma ray burst (LGRB) progenitors using cosmological simulations of structure formation and galactic evolution. LGRBs are potentially excellent tracers…