ESO - Research Area: STELLAR POPULATIONS

Research Area: STELLAR POPULATIONS

Topics covered in this research area

Subject in this research area aim at understanding the stellar content of nearby star clusters and galaxies with the goal of understanding their formation and evolution history.

Resolved and unresolved star cluster (formation, stellar content, destruction)
Resolved stellar populations in the Local Group and nearby galaxies
Dwarf galaxies (stellar content and dynamics)
Nearby galaxies (integrated light, dynamics, central objects)

Thesis topics offered on Stellar Populations

*Thesis topic*	Thesis supervisor(s)
Discovery and characterisation of Pre Main Sequence stars in southern star forming regions	Giacomo Beccari and Leonardi Testi
Planetary Nebulae and HII regions in the Elliptical Galaxy NGC 5128	Marina Rejkuba and Jeremy Walsh (Home page)
Resolved stellar populations in near-IR	Marina Rejkuba
Next generation Fornax Cluster surveys	Michael Hilker
Obscured star cluster population in the Milky Way	Valentin Ivanov

Scientific Staff in Garching working on Stellar Populations

Coccato, Lodovico

Evolution of Galaxies and the ISM · Stellar Populations · Faculty

Galactic kinematics and dynamics
Stellar galaxy halos
Intracluster light
Stellar populations
Kinematic decoupling in galaxies
Extragalactic Planetary Nebulae
3D spectroscopy
Supermassive black holes

Personal Homepage

Emsellem, Eric

Stellar Populations · Evolution of Galaxies and the ISM · Faculty

Galactic dynamics
Early-type galaxies
Stellar populations
3D spectroscopy
Numerical simulations
Data analysis softwares

Hilker, Michael

Stellar Populations · Evolution of Galaxies and the ISM · Faculty

Dwarf galaxies in galaxy clusters
Extragalactic globular clusters
Stellar populations
Element abundances of galactic globular clusters

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Ivanov, Valentin

Planets and Star Formation · Stellar Populations · Faculty

Transiting exoplanets
Nearby brown dwarfs and low mass stars
Milky Way structure and star clusters

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Beccari, Giacomo

Planets and Star Formation · Stellar Populations · Stellar Structure and Evolution · Faculty

Pre-main Sequence Stars in massive star-burst Clusters
Stellar Population in Clusters
Stellar dynamics in Globular Clusters
Exotica in Globular Clusters (BSS, MSP, IMBH)
Resolved stellar populations in dSph

Humphreys, Liz

Cosmology and the Early Universe · Planets and Star Formation · Stellar Populations · Stellar Structure and Evolution · Faculty

Central Parsecs of AGN
High-Mass Star Formation
Evolved Star Mass Loss
Millimetre and Submillimetre Astronomy

Kuntschner, Harald

Stellar Populations · Faculty

Galaxy formation and evolution
Stellar populations of early-type galaxies
Extragalactic globular clusters
Integral-field spectroscopy

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Rejkuba, Marina

Stellar Populations · Faculty

Resolved stellar populations in nearby galaxies
Extragalactic globular clusters
Variable stars
Centaurus A = NGC 5128

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Romaniello, Martino

Stellar Populations · Faculty

Stellar populations in nearby Galaxies
Distance measurements
Star formation and early stellar evolution

Valenti, Elena

Stellar Populations · Stellar Structure and Evolution · Faculty

Resolved stellar populations
Star Clusters
Galactic Bulge
Chemical Abundances
Adaptive optics - NIR Imaging and Spectroscopy

Man, Allison (Wing Shan)

Evolution of Galaxies and the ISM · Cosmology and the Early Universe · Stellar Populations · Fellows

The quenching of star formation in massive galaxies
Quiescent galaxies at high-redshift: formation & evolution; stellar populations & ISM; structures & dynamics
Galaxy mergers: observations & simulations
Strong gravitational lensing

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McLeod, Anna

Stellar Populations · Planets and Star Formation · Students