PIRSA ID: 24050088
Series:
Event Type: Seminar
Scientific Area(s): Cosmology
End date: 2024-05-21
Speaker(s): Lucas Valenzuela Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München (LMU)
Present-day galaxies still contain a multitude of clues about their formation histories. But which properties should we best look at and what do they actually reveal about the past? Using cosmological simulations, I will show what insights about a galaxy's formation and merger history can be gained from a diverse set of measurements. For this, I will show how the overall galaxy shapes and tidal features in the outskirts are related to the inner kinematics. These results give us indications about the correlation with the recent merger histories of the galaxies. Finally, I will discuss how early gas-rich mergers can be revealed through the ages of globular cluster populations.
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