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  • Aina Palau receives the 2024 Michoacan State Science Prize
    2024/10/03

    Dr. Aina Palau Puigvert, researcher at the Institute of Radio Astronomy and Astrophysics (IRyA) at UNAM, Campus Morelia, was presented today with the 2024 Michoacan State Science Prize in the Female State Researcher subcategory, by Dr. Alejandra Ochoa Zarzosa, director of the Institute of Science, Technology and Innovation of the State of Michoacán (ICTI), and Dr. Gabriela Molina Aguilar, the State’s Secretary of Education.

  • Aina Palau Puigvert, 2024 Michoacán State Science Prize
    2024/09/07

    Dr. Aina Palau Puigvert was awarded the 2024 Michoacán State Science Prize, in the State Researcher Subcategory.

  • IRyA and ICTI sign agreement to support international ngVLA conference
    2024/09/05

    The international conference “Follow the Monarchs: A Journey to Explore the Cosmos at (Sub)milliarcsecond Scales with the ngVLA” will benefit from a financial support of $65,000 Mexican pesos from the Institute of Science, Technology and Innovation of the State of Michoacán (ICTI). An agreement for this was signed between the ICTI and the Institute of Radio Astronomy and Astrophysics (IRyA) on August 27.

Latest publication

  • Gravity or turbulence? - VI. The physics behind the Kennicutt-Schmidt relation
    Ballesteros-Paredes, Javier; Zamora-Avilés, Manuel; Román-Zúñiga, Carlos; Palau, Aina; Cervantes-Sodi, Bernardo; Gutiérrez-Dávila, Karla; Camacho, Vianey; Jiménez-Andrade, Eric; Gazol, Adriana
    2024/10, Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, 534, 1043

  • Next Colloquium

    2024/10/10
    Luis Lomelí-Nuñez, UFRJ
    Host: Rosa González-Lópezlira
    Stellar clusters are some of the most visible characteristics in galaxies. Studies have found that late-galaxies show two distinct populations of stellar clusters (e.g. Simanton et al. 2015a), an older component (globular clusters) and another younger one (open clusters). Studying the different populations of star clusters in galaxies can give us clues about the evolution and current state of galaxies (Pérez et al. 2013). In the framework of the hierarchical model of galaxy formation, the current state of galaxies is preceded by a great history of interactions and mergers of smaller elements. A consequence of this model of galaxy formation is a continuous formation of stars, therefore stellar clusters of all ages in galaxies should be observed. The detection and observational studies of stellar clusters has focused in old clusters (e.g., Zepf & Ashman 1993, Ashman & Zepf 1998, Brodie & Strader 2006 and references in) and in young clusters (e.g, Larsen & Richtler 1999, Bica et al. 2003). Recently, with the help of the HST, works about a new star clusters class has been done (e.g., Whitmore et al. 1999 (Antennae), Mayya et al. 2008 (M82), Santiago-Cortés et al. 2010 (M81) ), which have explored a new class of stellar clusters: super stellar clusters (SSC). These have characteristics similar to the globular clusters (mass, compactibility, etc.) and being the main candidates of an evolutionary state previous to the GCs they are essentially intermediate age clusters. In this seminar we will talk about the properties of the different stellar clusters.

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