Probing our Galaxy from the Center to the outskirts

Project Information

VEGA_P

Grant agreement ID: 101002511

DOI

10.3030/101002511

EC signature date 20 January 2021

Start date 1 September 2022

End date 31 August 2027

Funded under

• EXCELLENT SCIENCE - European Research Council (ERC)

Total cost

€ 1 999 827,00

EU contribution

€ 1 999 827,00

Coordinated by

UNIVERSITEIT LEIDEN
Netherlands

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Publications

Peer reviewed articles (18)

Stellar-mass black holes in the Hyades star cluster?

Author(s): S Torniamenti, M Gieles, Z Penoyre, T Jerabkova, L Wang, F Anders
Published in: Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, Issue 524, 2023, Page(s) 1965-1986, ISSN 0035-8711
Publisher: Blackwell Publishing Inc.
DOI: 10.1093/mnras/stad1925

The wide-field, multiplexed, spectroscopic facility WEAVE: Survey design, overview, and simulated implementation

Author(s): Shoko Jin, Scott C Trager, Gavin B Dalton, J Alfonso L Aguerri, J E Drew, Jesús Falcón-Barroso, Boris T Gänsicke, Vanessa Hill, Angela Iovino, Matthew M Pieri, Bianca M Poggianti, D J B Smith, Antonella Vallenari, Don Carlos Abrams, David S Aguado, Teresa Antoja, Alfonso Aragón-Salamanca, Yago Ascasibar, Carine Babusiaux, Marc Balcells, R Barrena, Giuseppina Battaglia, Vasily Belokurov, Thomas
Published in: Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, Issue 530, 2024, Page(s) 2688-2730, ISSN 0035-8711
Publisher: Blackwell Publishing Inc.
DOI: 10.1093/mnras/stad557

Searching for stars ejected from the Galactic Centre in DESI

Author(s): Sill Verberne, Sergey E. Koposov, Elena Maria Rossi, Zephyr Penoyre
Published in: Astronomy & Astrophysics, Issue 701, 2025, Page(s) A58, ISSN 0004-6361
Publisher: Springer Verlag
DOI: 10.1051/0004-6361/202555939

Disappearing thermal X-ray emission as a tell-tale signature of merging massive black hole binaries

Author(s): Krauth, Luke Major, Davelaar, Jordy, Haiman, Zoltán, Westernacher-Schneider, John Ryan, Zrake, Jonathan, MacFadyen, Andrew
Published in: Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, 2023, ISSN 0035-8711
Publisher: Blackwell Publishing Inc.

Double progenitor origin of the S-star cluster

Author(s): Sill Verberne, Elena Maria Rossi, Sergey E. Koposov, Zephyr Penoyre, Manuel Cavieres, Konrad Kuijken
Published in: Astronomy & Astrophysics, Issue 696, 2025, Page(s) A218, ISSN 0004-6361
Publisher: Springer Verlag
DOI: 10.1051/0004-6361/202554247

<i>Gaia</i> DR3 detectability of unresolved binary systems

Author(s): Alfred Castro-Ginard, Zephyr Penoyre, Andrew R. Casey, Anthony G. A. Brown, Vasily Belokurov, Tristan Cantat-Gaudin, Ronald Drimmel, Morgan Fouesneau, Shourya Khanna, Evgeny P. Kurbatov, Adrian M. Price-Whelan, Hans-Walter Rix, Richard L. Smart
Published in: Astronomy &amp; Astrophysics, Issue 688, 2024, Page(s) A1, ISSN 0004-6361
Publisher: Springer Verlag
DOI: 10.1051/0004-6361/202450172

Dynamics of recaptures, ejections, and mergers of stellar mass binaries over multiple encounters with Sgr A*

Author(s): Biancamaria Sersante, Zephyr Penoyre, Elena Maria Rossi
Published in: Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, Issue 544, 2025, Page(s) 1688-1709, ISSN 0035-8711
Publisher: Blackwell Publishing Inc.
DOI: 10.1093/mnras/staf1766

The most luminous AGN do not produce the majority of the detected stellar-mass black hole binary mergers in the local Universe

Author(s): Niccolò Veronesi, Elena Maria Rossi, Sjoert van Velzen
Published in: Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, Issue 526, 2023, Page(s) 6031-6040, ISSN 0035-8711
Publisher: Blackwell Publishing Inc.
DOI: 10.1093/mnras/stad3157

Radial velocities from <i>Gaia</i> BP/RP spectra

Author(s): Sill Verberne; Sergey E. Koposov; Elena Maria Rossi; Tommaso Marchetti; Konrad Kuijken; Zephyr Penoyre
Published in: Astronomy & Astrophysics, Issue 5, 2024, Page(s) 684, A29, ISSN 0004-6361
Publisher: Springer Verlag
DOI: 10.1051/0004-6361/202348406

Multiwavelength analysis of Fermi-LAT blazars with high-significance periodicity: detection of a long-term rising emission in PG 1553+113

Author(s): Peñil, P., Westernacher-Schneider, J. R., Ajello, M., Domínguez, A., Buson, S., Otero-Santos, J., Marcotulli, L., Torres-Albà, N., Zrake, J.
Published in: Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, 2024, ISSN 0035-8711
Publisher: Blackwell Publishing Inc.

Improved constraints on Galactic Centre ejection of hypervelocity stars based on novel search method

Author(s): Sill Verberne, Elena Maria Rossi, Sergey E Koposov, Tommaso Marchetti, Konrad Kuijken, Zephyr Penoyre, Fraser A Evans, Dimitris Souropanis, Clár-Bríd Tohill
Published in: Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, Issue 533, 2024, Page(s) 2747-2761, ISSN 0035-8711
Publisher: Blackwell Publishing Inc.
DOI: 10.1093/mnras/stae1888

Dynamical thin disks

Author(s): Westernacher-Schneider, John Ryan
Published in: Physical Review D, 2023, ISSN 2470-0010
Publisher: American Physical Society
DOI: 10.1103/physrevd.107.043003

III: insights on a possible companion to Sgr A*

Author(s): F A Evans; A Rasskazov; A Remmelzwaal; T Marchetti; A Castro-Ginard; E M Rossi; J Bovy
Published in: Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, 2023, Page(s) 525(1), 561-576, ISSN 1745-3933
Publisher: Blackwell Publishing
DOI: 10.1093/mnras/stad2273

Eccentric Minidisks in Accreting Binaries

Author(s): Westernacher-Schneider, John Ryan, Zrake, Jonathan, MacFadyen, Andrew, Haiman, Zoltán
Published in: The Astrophysical Journal, 2023, ISSN 0004-637X
Publisher: University of Chicago Press
DOI: 10.3847/1538-4357/ad1a17

The evolved population

Author(s): F A Evans; T Marchetti; E M Rossi
Published in: Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, Issue 6, 2022, Page(s) 517(3), 3469 - 3484, ISSN 1745-3933
Publisher: Blackwell Publishing
DOI: 10.1093/mnras/stac2865

Constraints on the Galactic Centre environment from <i>Gaia</i> hyper-velocity stars

Author(s): F A Evans, T Marchetti, E M Rossi
Published in: Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, Issue 512, 2022, Page(s) 2350-2364, ISSN 0035-8711
Publisher: Blackwell Publishing Inc.
DOI: 10.1093/mnras/stac495

the search for fast hypervelocity stars and constraints on the galactic centre environment

Author(s): Tommaso Marchetti; Fraser A Evans; Elena Maria Rossi
Published in: Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, Issue 5, 2022, Page(s) 515(1), 767 - 774, ISSN 1745-3933
Publisher: Blackwell Publishing
DOI: 10.1093/mnras/stac1777

AGN flares as counterparts to LIGO/Virgo mergers: no confident causal connection in spatial correlation analysis

Author(s): Niccolò Veronesi, Sjoert van Velzen, Elena Maria Rossi
Published in: Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, Issue 536, 2025, Page(s) 3112-3122, ISSN 0035-8711
Publisher: Blackwell Publishing Inc.
DOI: 10.1093/mnras/stae2787