Research
Nuclear Star Clusters
A high occurrence of nuclear star clusters in faint Coma galaxies, and the role of mass and environment
Showing that the nucleation fraction in Coma over three decades in dwarf galaxy luminosity is higher than inany other known environment.
E. J. B. Zanatta, R. Sánchez-Janssen, A. L. Chies-Santos, R. S. de Souza, and J. P. Blakeslee (MNRAS, 2021)
Nuclear star clusters in the Shapley Supercluster: the role of environment in the nucleation of galaxies within the largest mass concentration in the nearby universe
Investigating the role of environment in galaxy nucleation studying galaxies in three clusters within the Shapley Supercluster (A3558, A1736 and A3571).
E. J. B. Zanatta, R. Sánchez-Janssen, A. L. Chies-Santos, R. S. de Souza, and J. P. Blakeslee (in prep.)
Globular Clusters
Exploring the influence of alpha-enhanced SSP models to reproduce the observed colours of globular clusters in high-density environments
Investigating the stellar populations of GCs in M87 and NGC3311/NGC3309 with state-of-the-art SSP models and deep photometry from optical to NIR.
E. J. B. Zanatta, A. L. Chies-Santos, A. Vazdekis, M. Beasley, M. Hilker, I. Georgiev, et al. (in prep.)
Chromodynamical Model of Lenticular Galaxies
Unravelling the origins and evolution of Lenticular (S0) galaxies using kinematics of Globular Clusters and Planetary Nebulae.
E. J. B. Zanatta, A. Cortesi, A. L. Chies-Santos, D. A. Forbes, A. J. Romanowsky, A. B. Alabi, L. Coccato, C. Mendes de Oliveira, J. P. Brodie, and M. Merrifield (MNRAS, 2018)
Low Surface Brightness (LSB) Galaxies
Low surface brightness dwarf galaxies around the low density environment of our closest S0 NGC3115
Characterisation of faint dwarf galaxies in the system of NGC3115.
A. L. Chies-Santos, C. Furlanetto, M. Canossa, R. Flores-Freitas, W. Schoenell, E. J. B. Zanatta, R. Overzier, B. Santiago, A. Pieres, E. Balbinot, K. A. Alamo-Martinez (in prep.)