Search Results - "Cantiello, M"
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Halo mass estimates from the globular cluster populations of 175 low surface brightness galaxies in the Fornax cluster
Published in Monthly notices of the Royal Astronomical Society (21-04-2019)“…Abstract The halo masses Mhalo of low surface brightness (LSB) galaxies are critical measurements for understanding their formation processes. One promising…”
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Intracluster Patches of Baryons in the Core of the Fornax Cluster
Published in The Astrophysical journal (20-12-2017)“…In the core of the Fornax cluster, on the west side of NGC 1399, we have detected a previously unknown region of intracluster light (ICL). It is made up by…”
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THE FORNAX DEEP SURVEY WITH VST. I. THE EXTENDED AND DIFFUSE STELLAR HALO OF NGC 1399 OUT TO 192 kpc
Published in The Astrophysical journal (20-03-2016)“…ABSTRACT We have started a new, deep multi-imaging survey of the Fornax cluster, dubbed the Fornax Deep Survey (FDS), at the VLT Survey Telescope (VST). In…”
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Rejuvenated Accretors Have Less Bound Envelopes: Impact of Roche Lobe Overflow on Subsequent Common Envelope Events
Published in Astrophysical journal. Letters (01-01-2023)“…Abstract Common envelope (CE) evolution is an outstanding open problem in stellar evolution, critical to the formation of compact binaries including…”
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Conversion of internal gravity waves into magnetic waves
Published in Monthly notices of the Royal Astronomical Society (01-04-2017)“…Asteroseismology probes the interiors of stars by studying oscillation modes at a star's surface. Although pulsation spectra are well understood for solar-like…”
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Ejection of the Massive Hydrogen-rich Envelope Timed with the Collapse of the Stripped SN 2014C
Published in The Astrophysical journal (01-02-2017)“…We present multi-wavelength observations of SN 2014C during the first 500 days. These observations represent the first solid detection of a young extragalactic…”
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Starfall: a heavy rain of stars in ‘turning on’ AGN
Published in Monthly notices of the Royal Astronomical Society (29-06-2022)“…ABSTRACT As active galactic nuclei (AGN) ‘turn on’, some stars end up embedded in accretion discs around supermassive black holes (SMBHs) on retrograde orbits…”
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Rotational modulation in TESS B stars
Published in Monthly notices of the Royal Astronomical Society (21-05-2019)“…Abstract Light curves and periodograms of 160 B stars observed by the Transiting Exoplanet Survey Satellite (TESS) space mission and 29 main-sequence B stars…”
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Magnetic OB[A] Stars with TESS: probing their Evolutionary and Rotational properties (MOBSTER) – I. First-light observations of known magnetic B and A stars
Published in Monthly notices of the Royal Astronomical Society (21-07-2019)“…Abstract In this paper we introduce the MOBSTER collaboration and lay out its scientific goals. We present first results based on the analysis of 19 previously…”
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Prospects of Gravitational Wave Detections from Common Envelope Evolution with LISA
Published in The Astrophysical journal (01-10-2021)“…Abstract Understanding common envelope (CE) evolution is an outstanding problem in binary evolution. Although the CE phase is not driven by gravitational wave…”
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The Fornax Deep Survey with VST. II. Fornax A: A Two-phase Assembly Caught in the Act
Published in The Astrophysical journal (10-04-2017)“…As part of the Fornax Deep Survey with the ESO VLT Survey Telescope, we present new g- and r-band mosaics of the SW group of the Fornax Cluster. It covers an…”
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The Fornax Cluster VLT Spectroscopic Survey II – Planetary Nebulae kinematics within 200 kpc of the cluster core
Published in Monthly notices of the Royal Astronomical Society (21-06-2018)“…Abstract We present the largest and most spatially extended planetary nebulae (PNe) catalogue ever obtained for the Fornax cluster. We measured velocities of…”
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DISCOVERY OF THE MASSIVE OVERCONTACT BINARY VFTS 352: EVIDENCE FOR ENHANCED INTERNAL MIXING
Published in The Astrophysical journal (20-10-2015)“…ABSTRACT The contact phase expected to precede the coalescence of two massive stars is poorly characterized due to the paucity of observational constraints…”
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Abundance ratios and IMF slopes in the dwarf elliptical galaxy NGC 1396 with MUSE
Published in Monthly notices of the Royal Astronomical Society (11-12-2016)“…Deep observations of the dwarf elliptical (dE) galaxy NGC 1396 (...), located in the Fornax cluster, have been performed with the Very Large Telescope/Multi…”
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Astroinformatics-based search for globular clusters in the Fornax Deep Survey
Published in Monthly notices of the Royal Astronomical Society (01-12-2019)“…ABSTRACT In the last years, Astroinformatics has become a well-defined paradigm for many fields of Astronomy. In this work, we demonstrate the potential of a…”
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Search for the optical counterpart of the GW170814 gravitational wave event with the VLT Survey Telescope
Published in Monthly notices of the Royal Astronomical Society (01-02-2020)“…ABSTRACT We report on the search for the optical counterpart of the gravitational event GW170814, which was carried out with the VLT Survey Telescope (VST) by…”
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STEP: the VST survey of the SMC and the Magellanic Bridge – I. Overview and first results
Published in Monthly notices of the Royal Astronomical Society (11-08-2014)“…STEP (the SMC in Time: Evolution of a Prototype interacting late-type dwarf galaxy) is a Guaranteed Time Observation survey being performed at the VST (the ESO…”
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STREGA: STRucture and Evolution of the GAlaxy – I. Survey overview and first results
Published in Monthly notices of the Royal Astronomical Society (11-11-2014)“…STREGA (STRucture and Evolution of the GAlaxy) is a guaranteed time survey being performed at the VST (the ESO Very Large Telescope Survey Telescope) to map…”
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Optical Surface Brightness Fluctuations of Shell Galaxies toward 100 Mpc
Published in The Astrophysical journal (01-05-2008)“…We measure F814W surface brightness fluctuations (SBFs) for a sample of distant shell galaxies with radial velocities ranging from 4000 to 8000 km s super(-1)…”
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