Browsing by Author "Tissera, Patricia"
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- ItemBaryon effects on void statistics in the EAGLE simulation(2017) Paillas Villavicencio, Enrique; Lagos, Claudia D. P.; Padilla, Nelson; Tissera, Patricia
- ItemCharacterisation of compact stellar systems in the Coma cluster of galaxies(2021) Ángel Ángel, Simón Andrés; Puzia, Thomas H.; Tissera, Patricia; Goudfrooij, Paul; Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile. Instituto de AstrofísicaWe present the Coma Cluster Core PrOject (C3PO), a deep, high resolution and contiguous mosaic survey of the inner ⇡ 150 square arcminutes of the core of the Coma Cluster. The region was tiled by 21 HST/WFC3 pointings and was observed in F336W from the UVIS channel, and F160W from the IR channel. Using this data, and combining this with archival data in F475W and F814W taken previously in programs led by some of our team members, we study the compact stellar systems of said cluster. We separate those systems from background galaxies and foreground stars guided by a nearUV/visible/near-IR colour-colour diagram, obtaining more than 9000 objects. From our selection, we study the globular cluster luminosity function in our available bands, finding values of the turn-over magnitude of 26.2 mag for F814W, 27.3 mag for F475W, and 25.8 in F160W. We recover the blue and red GC populations found by Peng et al. [138], finding similar relative abundances and spatial distribution. We do not recover the colour distribution found by Madrid et al. [119] because their extremely red objects are not present in our data, most likely due to the inclusion of the u band. For the first time with such diagnostic power, age and metallicity are derived for distant GCs. 60% of our GC sample falls inside the range of our SSP models, finding an age-metallicity relation that does not correlate with any single colour, but is rather dependant on pairs of colours. The age and metallicity also do not correlate strongly with spatial distribution or environment. Colour-colour relations with visible (gi) colours show differences with varying environment, which may indicate differences in star formation history and chemical enrichment history. The dataset also contains a large number of UCDs, and the method can be easily expanded to also find NSCs.
- ItemCharacterization of the VVV Survey RR Lyrae Population across the Southern Galactic Plane(2017) Minniti, D.; Dekany, Istvan; Majaess, Daniel; Palma, Tali; Pullen, Joyce; Rejkuba, Marina; Alonso-García, Javier; Catelan, Márcio; Hempel, Maren; Zoccali, Manuela; Contreras Ramos, Rodrigo Andrés; Gonzalez, Oscar A.; Irwin, Mike; Lucas, Philip W.; Saito, Roberto K.; Tissera, Patricia; Valenti, Elena
- ItemEvolution of Chemical Patterns During Major Mergers(2025) Jara Ferreira, Francisco Eduardo; Tissera, Patricia; Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile. Instituto de AstrofísicaEl estudio de la evolución química de las galaxias es clave para comprender su formación y desarrollo, especialmente en fusiones e interacciones. Estas afectan la composición química y estructura de las galaxias al inducir flujos de gas, estallidos de formación estelar y redistribución de elementos. En esta tesis, se analizan las poblaciones estelares en 12 simulaciones no cosmológicas con el código P-Gadget3, explorando diferentes modelos de Delay Time Distribution (DTD) para supernovas tipo Ia y condiciones iniciales (galaxias aisladas con y sin barra y una fusión masiva).El análisis del plano [Fe/H]–[O/Fe] revela una doble trayectoria en las simulaciones de galaxias fusionando, con loops formados en la interacción y en episodios tardíos de formación estelar. Los modelos DTD correspondientes a SD, DD y Pritchet muestran una evolución química más dinámica, mientras que el modelo Bimodal atenúa los loops. Adicionalmente, hemos probado métodos analíticos y filogenéticos para identificar huellas químicas de fusiones masivas, encontrando diferencias claras entre galaxias aisladas y fusionadas. Estos resultados sugieren la existencia de patrones químicos característicos de galaxias que han pasado por una fusión masiva, abriendo la posibilidad de la aplicación de este análisis en observaciones y simulaciones que incluyan cosmología.
- ItemModelling of resolved scaling relations in simulated galaxies(2023) Cornejo Cárdenas, Anell; Tissera, Patricia; Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile. Instituto de AstrofísicaWe developed a new numerical tool, called SpecGSG (i.e. Spectra Generator of Simulated Galaxies), which aims to generate synthetic spectra of simulated galaxies in order to improve comparisons between simulations and observations. Through this code we can obtain spatially resolved spectral information that considers the contribution of stellar populations and the nebular emission produced by gas close to young stellar populations. A fundamental aspect of this tool, and what differentiates it from other previous works (e.g., Nanni et al. 2022), is that the nebular emission is calculated based on the properties of the gas surrounding recently born stellar populations. This code allowed us to study both the intrinsic properties of the simulations and the properties we derived from their synthetic spectra. From the intrinsic properties of the simulations we found an anti-correlation between the ionization parameter and gas metallicity. Additionally, we used SpecGSG to recover spatially resolved scaling relations using the synthetic spectra generated from the simulated galaxies in local regions. In particular, we focused on two scaling relations: (1) the spatially resolved star-forming main sequence (rSFMS), i.e. the relationship between the Star Formation Rate surface density (ΣSFR) and the stellar mass surface density (Σ∗), and (2) the spatially resolved mass-metallicity relation (rMZR), i.e. the relationship between the gas-phase metallicity and Σ∗. From these synthetic spectra, we found that the metallicity has a first dependence on Σ∗ and a second dependence on ΣSFR. This agrees with results obtained in observations of galaxies. Therefore, SpecGSG allows us to calculate the properties of the simulations from a more observational way, improving comparisons between observational and simulation data. At the moment, SpecGSG only implements a simple model of dust that downgrades the spectra due to its presence in the star-forming regions. The treatment of dust attenuation and re-emission along the line of sight between each emitting source and the observer, will be implemented in a future work.
- ItemRevealing the properties of void galaxies and their assembly using the EAGLE simulation(2022) Rosas-Guevara, Yetli; Tissera, Patricia; Lagos, Claudia del P.; Paillas, Enrique; Padilla, NelsonWe explore the properties of central galaxies living in voids using the EAGLE, cosmological hydrodynamic simulations. Based on the minimum void-centric distance, we define four galaxy samples: inner void, outer void, wall, and skeleton. We find that inner void galaxies with host halo masses < 10(12) M-circle dot have lower stellar mass and stellar mass fractions than those in denser environments, and the fraction of galaxies with star formation (SF) activity and atomic hydrogen (H I) gas decreases with increasing void-centric distance, in agreement with observations. To mitigate the influence of stellar (halo) mass, we compare inner void galaxies to subsamples of fixed stellar (halo) mass. Compared to denser environments, inner void galaxies with M-* = 10([9.0-9.5]) M-circle dot have comparable SF activity and H I gas fractions, but the lowest quenched galaxy fraction. Inner void galaxies with M-* = 10([9.0-10.5]) M-circle dot have the lowest H I gas fraction, the highest quenched fraction and the lowest gas metallicities. On the other hand, inner void galaxies with M-* > 10(10.5) M-circle dot have comparable SF activity and H I gas fractions to their analogues in denser environments. They retain the highest metallicity gas that might be linked to physical processes that act with lower efficiency in underdense regions such as AGN (active galaxy nucleus) feedback. Furthermore, inner void galaxies have the lowest fraction of positive gas-phase metallicity gradients, which are typically associated with external processes or feedback events, suggesting they have more quiet merger histories than galaxies in denser environments. Our findings shed light on how galaxies are influenced by their large-scale environment.
- ItemThe central spheroids of milky way mass-sized galaxies(2018) Tissera, Patricia; Machado, Rubens E.; Carollo, Daniela; Minniti, D.; Beers, Timothy C.; Zoccali, Manuela; Meza, Andres
- ItemThe stellar metallicity gradients in galaxy discs in a cosmological scenario(2016) Tissera, Patricia; Machado, Rubens E. G.; Sánchez Blazquez, Patricia; Pedrosa, Susana E.; Sánchez, Sebastián F.; Snaith, Owain N.; Vilchez, José N.