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Cuspy no more: cored dwarf galaxies in high resolution hydrodynamical...
Title: Cuspy no more: how outflows affect the central dark matter and baryon distribution in ΛCDM galaxies Author: F. Governato, A. Zolotov, A. Pontzen, C. Christensen, S.H. Oh, A.M. Brooks, T. Quinn,...
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A look-alike of z~2 galaxies in our backyard
• Title: A Nearby Analog of z~2 Compact Quiscent Galaxies with a Rotating Disk • Authors: Fangzhou Jiang, Pieter van Dokkum, Rachel Bezanson, Marijn Franx • First Author’s Institution: Department of...
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Witnessing the murder of a star
Title: An ultraviolet-optical flare from the tidal disruption of a helium rich stellar core Authors: S. Gezari, R. Chornock, A. Rest, M. E. Huber, K. Forster, E. Berger, P. J. Challis, J. D. Neill, D....
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The Fate of the Milky Way
A series of three interesting papers appeared today on astro-ph presenting a very exciting result: researchers at the Space Telescope Science Institute are finally able to predict with great precision...
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Too many galaxy pairs in the Local Group?
Title: Galaxy Pairs in the Local Group Authors: Azadeh Fattahi, Julio F. Navarro, Else Starkenburg, Christopher R. Barber, Alan W. McConnachie First Author’s Institution: Department of Physics and...
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First discovery of X-ray emission from young stars in the Small Magellanic Cloud
Paper Title: Discovery of X-ray emission from young suns in the Small Magellanic Cloud Authors: L. M. Oskinova, W. Sun, C. J. Evans, V. Hénault-Brunet, Y.-H. Chu, J. S. Gallagher III, M. A. Guerrero,...
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Jobs for Astronomers: careers beyond the academic horizon
Today we are very happy to host a post by Ioanna Arka, who did her PhD in high energy/plasma astrophysics at the Max Planck Institut for Nuclear Physics of Heidelberg (Germany), and then got a...
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Tidal tails of dwarf galaxies on different orbits around the Milky Way
Title: Tidal tails of dwarf galaxies on different orbits around the Milky Way Authors: Ewa L. Lokas, Grzegorz Gajda, Stelios Kazantzidis First authors’ institution: Nicolaus Copernicus Astronomical...
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The mass assembly of Milky Way-like galaxies
Title : The assembly of Milky way-like galaxies since z~2.5 Authors: Pieter G. van Dokkum, Joel Leja, Erica June Nelson, Shannon Patel, Rosalind E. Skelton,Ivelina Momcheva, Gabrial Brammer,Katherine...
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Enhanced star formation in interacting galaxies: how far does it reach?
Title: Galaxy pairs in the Sloan Digital Sky Survey – VI. The orbital extent of enhanced star formation in interacting galaxies Authors: David R. Patton, Paul Torrey, Sara L. Ellison, J. Trevor Mendel,...
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