News

September 2023

The Final INSPIRE Data Release paper is out: https://arxiv.org/pdf/2309.12966.pdf
Check out the amazing results based on the full sample! We defined a Degree of relicness based on the 52 UMCGs... 9 "extreme" objects with DoR>0.7 formed almost the totality of their stellar mass at high-z

June 2023

The Final INSPIRE Data Release is in preparation! Stay tuned!

April 2023

The Data Release 2, presenting results on additional 21 systems, for a total of 40, is now publicly available on the ESO Science Portal!!! Check out also the accompanying paper: D'Ago et al. 2023

March 2023

The INSPIRE observations are complete! All 52 UCMGs have been fully observed by ESO!

7 April 2022

The Data Release 2, presenting results on additional 21 systems, for a total of 40, is underway!!!

14-18 March 2022

A very exciting meeting at the Sexten Center for Astrphysics : 'COsmic Nuggets, a feast of compact and massive galaxies across the Universe" (https://www.sexten-cfa.eu/event/cosmic-nuggets/special) brought together many expert in the field of UMCGs! Stay tuned for the proceedings!

11 January 2022

The INSPIRE Team wishes everybody a HAPPY NEW YEAR! Observations are proceeding well and we will soon have a new data release... stay tuned!!!

25 July 2021

The INSPIRE Data Release 1 paper is now accepted for publication on A&A!

24 March 2021

The INSPIRE Data Release 1 is public!!! You can find the spectra on the first 19 objects on the ESO Science Portal. Here the ESO announcement.

We have confirmed a total of 10 relics, of which 4 extreme!!! Check the paper for more details!

1 December 2020

A total of 18 galaxies have now complete observations delivered by ESO!!

64 of the 154 hrs of observations are concluded and the data has been reduced already. The analysis of the spectra that will be released as INSPIRE Data Release I will start soon!

12 November 2020

GREAT NEWS: The first INSPIRE Paper is OUT!!! The pilot paper, presenting results on the first three objects with complete observations has now been accepted for publication by A&A.

22 July 2020

The INSPIRE Pilot Paper has been submitted... soon on astroph!

30 June 2020

A very exciting special Session on “Compact passive and massive galaxies across the Universe” was held at the the European Astronomical Society Annual Meeting 2020

22 June 2020

The first paper presenting the survey and results on a pilot program will be submitted soon!!!

29 February 2020

42/82 hours of observations have been completed and the other 70hrs for the next semester are ready to be executed! 17 objects have been observed and 13 already completed... we are starting to work on a first paper presenting the survey and the results on the first confirmed relic at z~0.3!!!

31 December 2019

25/82 hours of observations have been completed. 11 objects have been observed and 8 already completed... Stay tuned!!! :)

14 November 2019

Data reduction on J0224-3143 and J0321-3213 is on its way...! The good news is that the spectra look pretty good! The necessary signal-to-noise ratio to perform detailed stellar population has been achieved and the spectroscopic redshift confirmed!

31 October 2019

Another 3 OBs have been delivered!

22 October 2019

The first Observation Block has been observed by ESO!

31 October / 1 November 2019

Another 3 OBs have been delivered!