Galaxies: individual studies

Several researchers in the GECO team are working on the study of individual galaxies, or small numbers of galaxies in the nearby universe, for which it is possible to obtain multi-wavelength observations that show us details of the physical processes at work in the galaxies.

This is the case, for example, of the galaxies in the Virgo cluster, where we can see the gas torn from the galaxies by the dense environment in which they reside. Deep images also allow the study of little-known classes of galaxies such as low surface brightness galaxies, or ultra-diffuse galaxies. Finally, numerical modelling of galaxy evolution is also used in the team to understand the nature of the processes at work in the formation of these galaxies, or of structures such as bars and bulges of spiral galaxies.