Category: Ricerca

The inner disk of the Milky Way is the region of the disk of our Galaxy within about 26000 light years from its center. This region is of particular interest, since it lies between the bulge and the outer disk of the Milky Way. However, a few studies of the stellar clusters in the inner disk exist to date, despite

To date, more than 4000 exoplanets (planets orbiting around other stars) have been confirmed. These planets belong to different groups depending on their properties. Some of these families, such as gaseous giants or rocky planets, are present in our Solar System, while others, such as super-Earths and Hot Jupiters, are missing. Besides, there are strong indications that the properties of

There is no static star in the Universe. Stars move around the center of their galaxy, or they move together with other stars born from the same parental cloud, or they orbit around other stars in binary or multiple systems. Besides, stars with planets can oscillate in our sky while they orbit around the center of mass in common with

T Tauri stars are young (typically younger than 10 million years) stars surrounded by a protoplanetary disk, which is a disk of gas and dust orbiting around the star and that eventually can evolve in planetary systems. Despite these stars have already accreted most of their mass, they can still accrete some mass from their protoplanetary disks. The accretion process