activity
20242026
collaborators

10 papers

astro-ph.GA2026

With arms wide open: a VLT/MUSE view of the mechanisms driving unwinding spiral arms in cluster galaxies

Augusto E. Lassen, Benedetta Vulcani, Jacopo Fritz +13

The environmental mechanisms driving unwinding spiral arms in cluster galaxies remain debated. While earlier studies attributed it mainly to gravitational interactions, recent work…

astro-ph.GA2026

Molecular gas and star formation in GASP jellyfish galaxies

A. Moretti, R. Paladino, C. Bacchini +13

Several studies have reported a nearly linear correlation between the molecular gas and star formation rate surface density, the so-called Kennicutt-Schmidt (KS) law. We aim to ret…

astro-ph.GA2026

Mechanisms Affecting Galaxies Nearby and Environmental Trends (MAGNET)

Benedetta Vulcani, Gabriella De Lucia, Daria Zakharova +28

[ABRIDGED] Galaxy evolution is shaped by internal and external mechanisms that regulate the baryon cycle and star formation activity. We present a theoretical framework based on th…

astro-ph.GA2026

Spatially resolved PAH emission and stellar ages in ram pressure stripped clumps at

Pietro Benotto, Benedetta Vulcani, Peter J. Watson +8

Ram pressure stripping (RPS) plays a crucial role in shaping galaxy evolution in dense environments, yet its impact on the molecular and dusty phases of the interstellar medium rem…

astro-ph.GA2025

Distinguishing ram pressure from gravitational interactions: Applying the Size-Shape Difference method to real galaxies

Augusto E. Lassen, Rory Smith, Benedetta Vulcani +12

In dense environments, mechanisms like ram pressure stripping (RPS) and gravitational interactions can induce similar morphological features in galaxies, distinguishable only throu…

astro-ph.GA2025

Star formation at different stages of ram-pressure stripping as observed through far-ultraviolet imaging of 13 GASP galaxies

Koshy George, B. M. Poggianti, B. Vulcani +12

Galaxies undergoing ram-pressure stripping develop gaseous tails that can extend several kiloparsecs outside the galaxy disc. We used far-ultraviolet and H imaging from the GAS…