Luciana Bianchi
Johns Hopkins University
608 Papers
12.8K Citations
Luciana Bianchi is an academic researcher from Johns Hopkins University. The author has contributed to research in topics: Galaxy & Star formation. The author has an hindex of 115, co-authored 596 publications. Previous affiliations of Luciana Bianchi include Space Telescope Science Institute & European Space Research and Technology Centre.
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Papers
Project AMIGA: Distance and Metallicity Gradients Along Andromeda's Giant Southern Stream from the Red Clump
Roger E. Cohen,Jason S. Kalirai,Karoline M. Gilbert,Puragra Guhathakurta,Molly S. Peeples,Nicolas Lehner,Thomas M. Brown,Luciana Bianchi,Kathleen A. Barger,John M. O'Meara +9 more
TL;DR: In this article, the horizontal branch red clump (RC) was characterized using unbinned maximum likelihood fits to luminosity functions (LFs) from observed color-magnitude diagrams (CMDs).
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Studying Large and Small Scale Environments of Ultraviolet Luminous Galaxies
Antara Basu-Zych,David Schiminovich,Sebastien Heinis,Roderik Overzier,Timothy M. Heckman,Michel Zamojski,Olivier Ilbert,Anton M. Koekemoer,Tom A. Barlow,Luciana Bianchi,Tim Conrow,Jose Donas,Karl Forster,Peter G. Friedman,Young-Wook Lee,Barry F. Madore,D. Christopher Martin,Bruno Milliard,Patrick Morrissey,Susan G. Neff,R. Michael Rich Samir Salim,Mark Seibert,Todd Small,Alexander S. Szalay,Ted K. Wyder,Sukyoung K. Yi +25 more
TL;DR: In this article, a rare subset of UVLGs, those with the highest FUV surface brightnesses, are believed to be local analogs of high redshift Lyman break Galaxies (LBGs) and are called Lyman Break Analogs (LBAs).
Extragalactic Astronomy: From Pioneers to Big Science
Roberto Rampazzo,Mauro D'Onofrio,Simone Zaggia,James Lattis,Martha P. Haynes,Riccardo Giovanelli,V. E. Karachentseva,Malcolm S. Longair,Per-Olof Lindblad,Alvio Renzini,Reinaldo R. de Carvalho,N. Kaifu,Jonathan Bland-Hawthorn,S. G. Djorgovski,Luciana Bianchi,Daniela Calzetti,Giuseppina Fabbiano,Francoise Combes,Cesare Chiosi,Jack W. Sulentic +19 more
- 27 Jul 2016
TL;DR: In the beginning of the nineteenth century, one of the scientific issues driving the research of astronomers, like the Herschels, was to test if all the nebulae can be resolved into stars.
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Signatures of recent star formation in ring S0 galaxies
A. Marino,Luciana Bianchi,Roberto Rampazzo,David A. Thilker,Francesca Annibali,Alessandro Bressan,Lucio M. Buson +6 more
TL;DR: In this paper, the stellar populations of ring and/or arm-like structures in a sample of S0 galaxies using GALEX far-and near-ultraviolet imaging and SDSS optical data were quantitatively characterized.
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