Search Results - "Fragkoudi, Francesca"
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Gas accretion and galactic fountain flows in the Auriga cosmological simulations: angular momentum and metal redistribution
Published in Monthly notices of the Royal Astronomical Society (01-12-2019)“…ABSTRACT Using a set of 15 high-resolution magnetohydrodynamic cosmological simulations of Milky Way formation, we investigate the origin of the baryonic…”
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Identifying resonances of the Galactic bar in Gaia DR2: I. Clues from action space
Published in Monthly notices of the Royal Astronomical Society (01-01-2021)“…ABSTRACT Action space synthesizes the orbital information of stars and is well suited to analyse the rich kinematic substructure of the disc in the second Gaia…”
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A dynamical mechanism for the origin of nuclear rings
Published in Monthly notices of the Royal Astronomical Society (21-11-2018)“…We develop a dynamical theory for the origin of nuclear rings in barred galaxies. In analogy with the standard theory of accretion discs, our theory is based…”
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Insights into the Galactic Bulge Chemodynamical Properties from Gaia Data Release 3
Published in The Astrophysical journal (01-05-2024)“…Abstract We explore the chemodynamical properties of the Galaxy in the azimuthal velocity V ϕ and metallicity [Fe/H] space using red giant stars from Gaia Data…”
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Impacts of Bar-driven Shear and Shocks on Star Formation
Published in The Astrophysical journal (01-06-2024)“…Abstract Bars drive gas inflow. As the gas flows inward, shocks and shear occur along the bar dust lanes. Such shocks and shear can affect the star formation…”
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The outer low-α disc of the Milky Way – I: evidence for the first pericentric passage of Sagittarius?
Published in Monthly notices of the Royal Astronomical Society (01-01-2024)“…ABSTRACT Phase-space data, chemistry, and ages together reveal a complex structure in the outer low-α disc of the Milky Way. The age-vertical velocity…”
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The dual origin of the Galactic thick disc and halo from the gas-rich Gaia–Enceladus Sausage merger
Published in Monthly notices of the Royal Astronomical Society (01-09-2020)“…ABSTRACT We analyse a set of cosmological magnetohydrodynamic simulations of the formation of Milky Way-mass galaxies identified to have a prominent radially…”
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Evidence from APOGEE for the presence of a major building block of the halo buried in the inner Galaxy
Published in Monthly notices of the Royal Astronomical Society (01-01-2021)“…ABSTRACT We report evidence from APOGEE for the presence of a new metal-poor stellar structure located within ∼4 kpc of the Galactic Centre. Characterized by a…”
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Chemodynamical Signatures of Bar Resonances in the Galactic Disk: Current Data and Future Prospects
Published in The Astrophysical journal (01-08-2022)“…Abstract The Galactic disk exhibits complex chemical and dynamical substructure thought to be induced by the bar, spiral arms, and satellites. Here, we explore…”
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Did the Gaia Enceladus/Sausage merger form the Milky Way’s bar?
Published in Monthly notices of the Royal Astronomical Society (13-05-2024)“…ABSTRACT The Milky Way’s last significant merger, the Gaia Enceladus/Sausage (GES), is thought to have taken place between $8\hbox{ and }11\, \mathrm{Gyr}$…”
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SDSS-IV MaNGA: The link between bars and the early cessation of star formation in spiral galaxies
Published in Monthly notices of the Royal Astronomical Society (01-11-2020)“…ABSTRACT Bars are common in low-redshift disc galaxies, and hence quantifying their influence on their host is of importance to the field of galaxy evolution…”
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Time Inference with MUSE in Extragalactic Rings (TIMER): properties of the survey and high-level data products
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Overview and public data release of the augmented Auriga Project: cosmological simulations of dwarf and Milky Way-mass galaxies
Published in Monthly notices of the Royal Astronomical Society (01-08-2024)“…ABSTRACT We present an extended suite of the Auriga cosmological gravo-magnetohydrodynamical ‘zoom-in’ simulations of 40 Milky Way-mass haloes and 26 dwarf…”
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The effects of AGN feedback on the structural and dynamical properties of Milky Way-mass galaxies in cosmological simulations
Published in Monthly notices of the Royal Astronomical Society (13-05-2022)“…ABSTRACT Feedback from active galactic nuclei (AGNs) has become established as a fundamental process in the evolution of the most massive galaxies. Its impact…”
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How many components? Quantifying the complexity of the metallicity distribution in the Milky Way bulge with APOGEE
Published in Monthly notices of the Royal Astronomical Society (01-11-2020)“…ABSTRACT We use data of ∼13 000 stars from the Sloan Digital Sky Survey/Apache Point Observatory Galactic Evolution Experiment survey to study the shape of the…”
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Closing the gap: secular evolution of bar-induced dark gaps in the presence of thick discs
Published in Monthly notices of the Royal Astronomical Society (05-08-2024)“…ABSTRACT The presence of dark gaps, a preferential light deficit along the bar minor axis, is observationally well known. The properties of dark gaps are…”
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The prevalence of pseudo-bulges in the Auriga simulations
Published in Monthly notices of the Royal Astronomical Society (11-11-2019)“…ABSTRACT We study the galactic bulges in the Auriga simulations, a suite of 30 cosmological magneto-hydrodynamical zoom-in simulations of late-type galaxies in…”
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Chasing the impact of the Gaia-Sausage-Enceladus merger on the formation of the Milky Way thick disc
Published in Monthly notices of the Royal Astronomical Society. Letters (01-02-2024)“…ABSTRACT We employ our Bayesian Machine Learning framework BINGO (Bayesian INference for Galactic archaeOlogy) to obtain high-quality stellar age estimates for…”
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An ever-present Gaia snail shell triggered by a dark matter wake
Published in Monthly notices of the Royal Astronomical Society (04-07-2023)“…ABSTRACT We utilize a novel numerical technique to model star formation in cosmological simulations of galaxy formation – called superstars – to simulate a…”
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Exploring the diversity and similarity of radially anisotropic Milky Way-like stellar haloes: implications for disrupted dwarf galaxy searches
Published in Monthly notices of the Royal Astronomical Society (09-08-2023)“…ABSTRACT We investigate the properties of mergers comparable to the Gaia–Sausage–Enceladus (GSE) using cosmological hydrodynamical simulations of Milky…”
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