Publications of Matias Blaña

Feng, Z.-X.; Li, Z.; Shen, J.; Gerhard, O.; Saglia, R. P.; Blaña, M.; Li, H.; Jing, Y.: Bar-driven Gas Dynamics of M31. The Astrophysical Journal 963 (1), 22 (2024)

Alig, C.; Prieto, A.; Blaña, M.; Frischman, M.; Metzl, C.; Burkert, A.; Zier, O.; Streblyanska, A.: The accretion mode in sub-eddington supermassive black holes: getting into the central parsecs of Andromeda. The Astrophysical Journal 953 (1), 109 (2023)

Feng, Z.-X.; Li, Z.; Shen, J.; Gerhard, O.; Saglia, R. P.; Blaña, M.: Large-scale hydrodynamical shocks as the smoking-gun evidence for a bar in M31. The Astrophysical Journal 933 (2), 233 (2022)

Gajda, G.; Gerhard, O.; Blaña, M.; Zhu, L.; Shen, J.; Saglia, R. P.; Bender, R.: Unravelling stellar populations in the Andromeda Galaxy. Astronomy and Astrophysics 647, A131 (2021)

Blaña, M.; Burkert, A.; Fellhauer, M.; Schartmann, M.; Alig, C.: Dwarfs in the Milky Way halo outer rim: first infall or backsplash satellites? Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society 497 (3), pp. 3601 - 3622 (2020)

Bhattacharya, S.; Arnaboldi, M.; Caldwell, N.; Gerhard, O.; Blaña, M.; McConnachie, A.; Hartke, J.; Guhathakurta, P.; Pulsoni, C.; Freeman, K. C.: The survey of planetary nebulae in Andromeda (M 31) - II. Age–velocity dispersion relation in the disc from planetary nebulae. Astronomy and Astrophysics 631, A56 (2019)

Blaña Díaz, M.; Gerhard, O.; Wegg, C.; Portail, M.; Opitsch, M.; Saglia, R.; Fabricius, M.; Erwin, P.; Bender, R.: Sculpting Andromeda – made-to-measure models for M31’s barand composite bulge: dynamics, stellar and dark matter mass. Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society 481 (3), pp. 3210 - 3243 (2018)

Saglia, R. P.; Opitsch, M.; Fabricius, M. H.; Bender, R.; Blaña, M.; Gerhard, O.: Stellar populations of the central region of M 31. Astronomy and Astrophysics 618, A156, pp. 1 - 21 (2018)

Opitsch, M.; Fabricius, M. H.; Saglia, R. P.; Bender, R.; Blaña, M.; Gerhard, O.: Evidence for non-axisymmetry in M 31 from wide-field kinematics of stars and gas. Astronomy & Astrophysics 611, A38 (2018)

Domínguez, R.; Fellhauer, M.; Blaña, M.; Farias, J. P.; Dabringhausen, J.: How fast is mass segregation happening in hierarchically formed embedded star clusters? Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society 472 (1), pp. 465 - 474 (2017)

Blaña Díaz, M.; Wegg, C.; Gerhard, O.; Erwin, P.; Portail, M.; Opitsch, M.; Saglia, R.; Bender, R.: Andromeda chained to the box – dynamical models for M31: bulge and bar. Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society 466 (4), pp. 4279 - 4298 (2017)

Domínguez, R.; Fellhauer, M.; Blaña, M.; Farias, J. P.; Dabringhausen, J.; Candlish, G. N.; Smith, R.; Choque, N.: Could Segue 1 be a destroyed star cluster? – a dynamical perspective. Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society 461 (4), pp. 3630 - 3638 (2016)

Farias, J. P.; Smith, R.; Fellhauer, M.; Goodwin, S.; Candlish, G. N.; Blaña, M.; Dominguez, R.: The difficult early stages of embedded star clusters and the importance of the pre-gas expulsion virial ratio. Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society 450 (3), pp. 2451 - 2458 (2015)

Blaña, M.; Fellhauer, M.; Smith, R.; Candlish, G. N.; Cohen, R.; Farias, J. P.: Life and death of a hero – lessons learned from modelling the dwarf spheroidal Hercules: an incorrect orbit? Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society 446 (1), pp. 144 - 159 (2015)

Blaña Díaz, M. A.: Dynamics of the bar and the bulge of the Andromeda galaxy (M31). Dissertation, 162 pp., Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München, München, Germany (2018)