MILKY-WAY BULGE
Reddening and metallicity maps of the Milky Way bulge from VVV and 2MASS
... the Milky Way bulge structure is consistent with a boxy bulge, formed as a con- sequence of the vertical buckling of the ...the Milky Way, which extends to larger longitudes and ...
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The first detection of blue straggler stars in the milky way bulge
... the Milky Way bulge would be important for galactic structure forma- ...“Disky bulge” accompanied by ongoing star formation (Kormendy & Kennicutt ...Boxy/Peanut bulge of the ...
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MAPPING THE X SHAPED MILKY WAY BULGE
... our bulge fields. We conclude that the Milky Way bulge has an X-shaped structure within | l | 2 ◦ , seen almost edge-on with respect to the line of ...innermost bulge regions combined ...
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Reddening and metallicity maps of the Milky Way bulge from VVV and 2MASS II The complete high resolution extinction map and implications for Galactic bulge studies
... Our current understanding of the Milky Way bulge struc- ture and stellar content can be summarized as follows: i) the GB structure is dominated by the bar (Stanek et al. 1994), which appears to have ...
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3D kinematics through the X shaped Milky Way bulge
... More recently, McWilliam & Zoccali (2010) and Nataf et al. (2010) used star counts of red clump (RC) stars from the 2MASS (Skruskie et al. 2006) and OGLE-III (Szymanski et al. 2011) catalogs to show that, along the l ...
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Alpha element abundances and gradients in the Milky Way bulge from FLAMES GIRAFFE spectra of 650 K giants
... classical bulge, within a bar-like ...the Bulge at higher dis- tances from the plane, while a disk-like component is observed in the central ...the bulge of a pure disk galaxy, NGC 3390, rotates ...
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Insights on the Milky Way bulge formation from the correlations between kinematics and metallicity
... pseudo-bulge (see, e.g. Combes et al. 1990; Norman et al. 1996; Kormendy & Kennicutt 2004; Athanassoula 2005). After the bar formation it heats in the vertical direction (Combes & Sanders 1981; Merrifield ...
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New VVV Survey Globular Cluster Candidates in the Milky Way Bulge
... and bulge shocking, evaporation, ...the bulge, and the old GCs may be representative ( or tracers ) of these fragments, and have been useful in studying the formation and evolution of the ...
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Reddening and metallicity maps of the Milky Way bulge from VVV and 2MASS I The method and minor axis maps
... of bulge stars in two fields at b = −6 ◦ and b = −8 ◦ , ...larger bulge region will for the first time provide a general picture of the iron content of the Galactic ...the bulge closer to the ...
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TWO RED CLUMPS AND THE X SHAPED MILKY WAY BULGE
... A reasonable, qualitative, model to explain the observations presented here is that the high-latitude bulge (above | b | ∼6 ◦ ) is dominated by the vertical extent of stars near the foreground and background ends ...
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Comparing the properties of the X shaped bulges of NGC 4710 and the Milky Way with MUSE
... the Milky Way, there is significant evidence showing that the oldest bulge stars do not follow the bar and BP bulge spa- tial ...spheroidal bulge compo- nent is found when performing an ...
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Comparing the properties of the X shaped bulges of NGC 4710 and the Milky Way with MUSE
... the Single Stellar Population library of Vazdekis et al. (2010) as reference. This template library has the same resolution as the analysed spectral range covered by MUSE (FWHM∼2.3Å) and thus the convolution of the ...
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Candidate star clusters toward the inner Milky Way discovered on deep stacked KS band images from the VVV Survey
... the Milky Way disk or ...the Milky Way bulge or halo, which comes as no surprise be- cause their CMDs are consistent with an evolved stellar popula- tion with log(t / 1 yr) ∼ ...which ...
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CLUSTERED CEPHEID VARIABLES 90 KILOPARSECS FROM THE GALACTIC CENTER
... Earlier work ( Chakrabarti & Blitz 2009 ) predicted that the observed perturbations in the atomic hydrogen disk of our Galaxy ( Levine et al. 2006 ) are due to a recent ( 300 Myr years ago ) interaction with a dwarf ...
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Normal globular cluster systems in massive low surface brightness galaxies
... this way we can reproduce for each control field the catalog of objects that we would have detected if there had been a particular galaxy of our sample in the ...
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Variability and stellar populations with deep optical IR images of the Milky Way disc: matching VVV with VLT/VIMOS data
... of the Galactic plane ( − 65 ◦ < l < − 10 ◦ , − 2 . 25 ◦ < b < + 2 . 25 ◦ ). Planned observations span the years 2010-2014 with the main variability monitoring campaigns in 2012 (bulge area) and 2013 ...
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NGC 6791: A Probable Bulge Cluster without Multiple Populations
... the bulge has managed to move outward by at least 5 kpc, about a factor of 2 in galactocentric distance, during its ...or bulge and has radially migrated to its current ...and bulge metallicity ...
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Scattered light echoes from the historical galactic supernovae Cassiopeia A and Tycho (SN 1572)
... the Milky Way Galaxy alone there have been at least 7 historic SNe (Stephenson & Green 2002) that are good candidates to have produced still-observable light ...
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Clulas madre cancergenas: conceptos actuales
... All body tissues are derived from stem cells. These cells are defined by their ability to undergo self-renewal, as well as to dif- ferentiate in a controlled way. Cancer stem cells are neoplastic cells with an ...
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The central spheroids of Milky Way mass sized galaxies
... (iv) Regarding the old stars, they represent most of the stars in the central regions, on average. In our simulations, old, accreted stars belong preferentially to the stellar haloes within the inner 10 kpc. A mass ...
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