Search Results - "Portinari, L"
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Towards stellar effective temperatures and diameters at 1 per cent accuracy for future surveys
Published in Monthly notices of the Royal Astronomical Society (01-04-2014)“…The apparent size of stars is a crucial benchmark for fundamental stellar properties such as effective temperatures, radii and surface gravities. While…”
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The colours of the Sun
Published in Monthly notices of the Royal Astronomical Society (01-04-2006)“…We compile a sample of Sun-like stars with accurate effective temperatures, metallicities and colours (from the ultraviolet to the near-infrared). A crucial…”
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The Formation of Fossil Galaxy Groups in the Hierarchical Universe
Published in The Astrophysical journal (10-09-2005)“…We use a set of 12 high-resolution N-body/hydrodynamical simulations in the ACDM cosmology to investigate the origin and formation rate of fossil groups (FGs),…”
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On the mass-to-light ratio and the initial mass function in disc galaxies
Published in Monthly notices of the Royal Astronomical Society (21-01-2004)“…A low mass-to-light (M/L) ratio for the stellar component of spiral galaxies (M/L≲ 1 in the I band) is advocated by various dynamical arguments and by recent…”
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Can a standard initial mass function explain the metal enrichment in clusters of galaxies?
Published in The Astrophysical journal (01-04-2004)“…It is frequently debated in literature whether a "standard" initial mass function (IMF)-meaning an IMF of the kind usually adopted to explain the chemical…”
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Simulating galaxy clusters – I. Thermal and chemical properties of the intracluster medium
Published in Monthly notices of the Royal Astronomical Society (11-09-2006)“…We have performed a series of N-body/hydrodynamical (treesph) simulations of clusters and groups of galaxies, selected from a cosmological volume within a…”
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Δ Y/Δ Z from fine structure in the main sequence based on Hipparcos parallaxes
Published in Monthly notices of the Royal Astronomical Society (11-08-1998)“…The slope ΔY/ΔZ is a quantity of interest in relation to stellar evolution, the initial mass function and the determination of the primordial helium abundance…”
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Erratum: Simulating galaxy clusters – I. Thermal and chemical properties of the intracluster medium
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Accurate fundamental parameters for lower main-sequence stars
Published in Monthly notices of the Royal Astronomical Society (21-11-2006)“…We derive an empirical effective temperature and bolometric luminosity calibration for G and K dwarfs, by applying our own implementation of the Infrared Flux…”
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On the mass-to-light ratio of the local Galactic disc and the optical luminosity of the Galaxy
Published in Monthly notices of the Royal Astronomical Society (01-11-2006)“…We measure the volume luminosity density and surface luminosity density generated by the Galactic disc, using accurate data on the local luminosity function…”
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Mass to Light Ratio, Initial Mass Function, and Chemical Evolution in Disk Galaxies
Published in Publications of the Astronomical Society of Australia (2004)“…Cosmological simulations of disk galaxy formation, when compared to the observed Tully–Fisher relation, suggest a low mass to light (M/L) ratio for the stellar…”
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Galaxy Formation: Cold Dark Matter, Feedback, and the Hubble Sequence
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Role of impurities in the 5.16 eV optical absorption band of Ge-doped silica
Published in Journal of non-crystalline solids (01-08-1997)“…The optical absorption band at 5.16 eV and the related photoluminescence were investigated in Ge-doped silica samples as a function of the Ge content to study…”
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Simulating galaxy clusters – III. Properties of the intracluster stars
Published in Monthly notices of the Royal Astronomical Society (21-02-2005)“…Cosmological (Λ-cold dark matter) treesph simulations of the formation and evolution of galaxy groups and clusters have been performed. The simulations invoke…”
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The Tully–Fisher relation and its evolution with redshift in cosmological simulations of disc galaxy formation
Published in Monthly notices of the Royal Astronomical Society (01-03-2007)“…We present predictions on the evolution of the Tully–Fisher (TF) relation with redshift, based on cosmological N-body/hydrodynamical simulations of disc galaxy…”
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Primordial helium and delta-Y/delta-Z from H II regions and from fine structure in the main sequence based on Hipparcos parallaxes
Published in Space science reviews (01-04-1998)“…The primordial helium abundance, Y(P), is important for cosmology, and the ratio delta-Y/delta-Z of the changes relative to primordial abundances constrains…”
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Star formation and chemical evolution in smoothed particle hydrodynamics simulations: a statistical approach
Published in Monthly notices of the Royal Astronomical Society (11-03-2002)“…In smoothed particle hydrodynamics (SPH) codes with a large number of particles, star formation as well as gas and metal restitution from dying stars can be…”
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On the Galactic disc age–metallicity relation
Published in Monthly notices of the Royal Astronomical Society (01-06-1998)“…A comparison is made between the age–metallicity relations obtained from four different types of studies: F and G stars in the solar neighbourhood, analysis of…”
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Simulating galaxy clusters—II. Global star formation histories and the galaxy populations
Published in Monthly notices of the Royal Astronomical Society (11-08-2005)“…We performed N -body + hydrodynamical simulations of the formation and evolution of galaxy groups and clusters in a Λ cold dark matter cosmology. The…”
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On the mass-to-light ratio and the initial mass function in disc galaxies
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