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Dr. Jakob Walcher

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Galaxies and Quasars
Scientific Staff
Office: KH/2.11
Phone: +49 331 7499 243
jwalchernothing@aip.de

Leibniz-Institut
für Astrophysik Potsdam (AIP)
An der Sternwarte 16
14482 Potsdam

Publications

Latest refereed publications, retrieved from NASA ADS:

The impact of radial migration on disk galaxy star formation histories: I. Biases in spatially resolved estimates
Minchev, I., ... Ratcliffe, B., ... Walcher, J., Khoperskov, S., Bernaldez, J. P., Marques, L., Sysoliatina, K., Chiappini, C., Steinmetz, M., de Jong, R. S., 2026
Astronomy and Astrophysics, 706, A31; published January 2026
doi:10.1051/0004-6361/202556988, NASA ADS
Participating AIP research groups: Executive Board, Extragalactic Astrophysics, Milky Way and the Local Volume, Galaxies and Quasars
Why does the Milky Way have a bar?
Khoperskov, S., Minchev, I., Steinmetz, M., Ratcliffe, B., Walcher, J. C., Libeskind, N. I., 2024
Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, 533, 4, 3975; published October 2024
doi:10.1093/mnras/stae1902, NASA ADS
The wide-field, multiplexed, spectroscopic facility WEAVE: Survey design, overview, and simulated implementation
Jin, S., ... Couto, G., ... Lam, M. I., ... Walcher, C. J., ..., 2024
Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, 530, 3, 2688; published May 2024
doi:10.1093/mnras/stad557, NASA ADS
Participating AIP research groups: Galaxies and Quasars
The Calar Alto Legacy Integral Field Area survey: extended and remastered data release
Sánchez, S. F., Galbany, L., Walcher, C. J., García-Benito, R., Barrera-Ballesteros, J. K., 2023
Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, 526, 4, 5555; published December 2023
doi:10.1093/mnras/stad3119, NASA ADS
Participating AIP research groups: Galaxies and Quasars
ISM metallicity variations across spiral arms in disk galaxies. The impact of local enrichment and gas migration in the presence of a radial metallicity gradient
Khoperskov, S., ... Minchev, I., Walcher, C. J., 2023
Astronomy and Astrophysics, 671, A56; published March 2023
doi:10.1051/0004-6361/202142581, NASA ADS
Participating AIP research groups: Milky Way and the Local Volume, Galaxies and Quasars
The SAMI Galaxy Survey: trends in [α/Fe] as a function of morphology and environment
Watson, P. J., ... Walcher, J., ..., 2022
Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, 510, 1, 1541; published February 2022
doi:10.1093/mnras/stab3477, NASA ADS
Participating AIP research groups: Galaxies and Quasars
The stellar orbit distribution in present-day galaxies inferred from the CALIFA survey
Zhu, L., ... Walcher, J. C., ..., 2018
Nature Astronomy, 2, 233; published January 2018
doi:10.1038/s41550-017-0348-1, NASA ADS
Participating AIP research groups: Galaxies and Quasars
Physical properties of galaxies: towards a consistent comparison between hydrodynamical simulations and SDSS
Guidi, G., Scannapieco, C., Walcher, J., Gallazzi, A., 2016
Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, 462, 2, 2046; published October 2016
doi:10.1093/mnras/stw1790, NASA ADS
Participating AIP research groups: Galaxies and Quasars
Ionized gas kinematics of galaxies in the CALIFA survey. I. Velocity fields, kinematic parameters of the dominant component, and presence of kinematically distinct gaseous systems
García-Lorenzo, B., ... Husemann, B., ... Walcher, J., ... Monreal-Ibero, A., ... Bekeraitė, S., Wisotzki, L., ..., 2015
Astronomy and Astrophysics, 573, A59; published January 2015
doi:10.1051/0004-6361/201423485, NASA ADS
Participating AIP research groups: Galaxies and Quasars
The nature of LINER galaxies:. Ubiquitous hot old stars and rare accreting black holes
Singh, R., ... Husemann, B., ... Walcher, J., ... Wisotzki, L., ..., 2013
Astronomy and Astrophysics, 558, A43; published October 2013
doi:10.1051/0004-6361/201322062, NASA ADS
Participating AIP research groups: Galaxies and Quasars