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  • Planets have life: IRyA’s Astronomy Fridays
    2026/04/22

    Planets have life; yes, you read that right. Well, it is more like planets have a life: they are born, grow, and live around their star, sometimes for a very long time and sometimes not so long. And sometimes planets die too. But there could also be life on planets. What might this life be like? Where is it? Have we found it yet?

  • IRyA and the Nuevo Laredo Technological University sign agreements for the ngVLA
    2026/04/06

    Academic collaboration is vital for the development of science, technology, and innovation in Mexico. Therefore, on March 25, 2026, representatives from UNAM Morelia and the Technological University of Nuevo Laredo (UTNL) signed two agreements.

  • New book written at IRyA, a global reference in star formation
    2026/02/27

    A new specialized book could become a global reference for the field of star formation. Written by Enrique Vázquez Semadeni, a researcher at UNAM Morelia, the book explores how gas flows in our galaxy and how this leads to the birth of new stars.

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  • Decoupling the AGN outflow and star-forming disc kinematics in the nuclear region of NGC 7582 with JWST NIRSpec and MIRI/MRS
    Veenema, Oscar; Thatte, Niranjan; Rigopoulou, Dimitra; García-Bernete, Ismael; Alonso-Herrero, Almudena; Pereira-Santaella, Miguel; Audibert, Anelise; Bellocchi, Enrica; Bunker, Andrew J.; Campbell, Steph; Combes, Francoise; Davies, Richard I.; Donnan, Fergus R.; García-Burillo, Santiago; Gonzalez Martin, Omaira; Hermosa Muñoz, Laura; Hicks, Erin K. S.; Hoenig, Sebastian F.; Labiano, Alvaro; Levenson, Nancy A.;
    2026/06, Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, 548, stag785

  • Next Colloquium

    2026/05/21
    Eric Jimenez, IRyA
    Host: Ramandeep Gill
    Radio continuum surveys provide a dust-unbiased view of star formation and supermassive black hole growth across the peak epoch of galaxy assembly at 0<z<5. By pushing the sensitivity and angular-resolution limits of the Karl G. Jansky Very Large Array (VLA), our team has obtained some of the deepest and highest-resolution radio continuum images ever produced, opening a unique window onto the radio emission of distant galaxies. In this talk, I will present deep multi-frequency VLA surveys of the GOODS-N and EGS fields reaching sub-μJy sensitivities and sub-arcsecond resolution at 3–10 GHz. After summarizing the available data products and survey characteristics, I will highlight several science applications enabled by combining these radio datasets with observations from HST, JWST, and major ground-based facilities. These include evidence for enhanced inverse Compton losses in high-redshift galaxies, the discovery of some of the most distant radio sources currently known, and new constraints on the multifrequency radio morphologies of galaxies out to z~4, helping to establish radio continuum emission as a robust tracer of dust-obscured star formation across cosmic time. I will also discuss recent constraints on the radio properties of the “little red dots” identified in deep JWST surveys, illustrating the growing synergy between next-generation radio continuum observations and large multiwavelength survey programs in shaping our understanding of galaxy evolution.

    Spotlight on Research

    #1: A dying galaxy triggers the birth of new stars
    2022/01/30

    What caused our Sun to be born? A recent paper by researchers from the Instituto de Radioastronomía y Astrofísica (IRyA) suggests that the answer may lie in a small satellite galaxy that is slowly being devoured by our larger Milky Way Galaxy.

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