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The edge of the Milky Way's star-forming disc: Evidence from a 'U-shaped' stellar age profile featured image

The edge of the Milky Way's star-forming disc: Evidence from a 'U-shaped' stellar age profile

We leveraged reliable age and distance estimates from LAMOST-DR3 and APOGEE-DR17+AstroNN combined with Gaia data to perform a detailed analysis of the stellar age distribution in …

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The Galactic bulge exploration: V. The secular spherical and X-shaped Milky Way bulge featured image

The Galactic bulge exploration: V. The secular spherical and X-shaped Milky Way bulge

In this work, we derive systemic velocities for 8456 RR Lyrae stars. This is the largest dataset of these variables in the Galactic bulge to date. In combination with Gaia proper …

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The chemical and spatial variations of the bulge's velocity ellipsoids featured image

The chemical and spatial variations of the bulge's velocity ellipsoids

We study the velocity ellipsoids in an N-body$+$SPH (smooth particle hydrodynamics) simulation of a barred galaxy which forms a bar with a BP bulge. We focus on the 2D kinematics, …

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The Galactic bulge exploration: IV. RR Lyrae stars as tracers of the Galactic bar: 3D and 5D analysis and extinction variation featured image

The Galactic bulge exploration: IV. RR Lyrae stars as tracers of the Galactic bar: 3D and 5D analysis and extinction variation

RR Lyrae stars toward the Galactic bulge are used to investigate whether this old stellar population traces the Galactic bar. Although the bar is known to dominate the mass in the …

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VizieR Online Data Catalog: Galactic bar/bulge traced by RRLs (Prudil+, 2025)

In this study, we have analyzed the spatial and transverse velocity distribution of RR Lyrae stars toward the Galactic bulge. We utilized data from OGLE-IV, Gaia, VVV, and VHS …

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The interplay between accretion, downsizing, and the formation of box/peanut bulges in TNG50 featured image

The interplay between accretion, downsizing, and the formation of box/peanut bulges in TNG50

Using a large-scale, high-resolution magnetohydrodynamics cosmological simulation, we identify bars and box/peanut bulges and the galactic properties which determine their …

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Steven Gough-Kelly
The interplay between accretion, downsizing, and the formation of box/peanut bulges in TNG50 featured image

The interplay between accretion, downsizing, and the formation of box/peanut bulges in TNG50

From the TNG50 cosmological simulation we build a sample of 191 well-resolved barred galaxies with stellar mass $\mbox{$\log (M_{\star }/\mathrm{M}_{\odot })$}\gt 10$ at z = 0. We …

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Roman with Rubin

Steven Gough-Kelly and Rachel Street argue in favour of maximising the science return of major facilities

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Steven Gough-Kelly

Modelling the Internal Evolution of Barred Galaxies

Simulations of barred galaxies give us insights into bar-driven internal evolution that separates stellar populations spatially and kinematically but requires sufficient resolution …

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Steven Gough-Kelly