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Dr. Lara Cullinane

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I'm a postdoc at the AIP working with Maria-Rosa Cioni.

My work involves looking in detail at the photometric, kinematic, and chemical properties of resolved stellar populations in nearby galaxies in order to trace their history, and learn more about the processes that drive their evolution across cosmic time. My current reserch focusses on the Magellanic Clouds; I'm co-PI of the 4MOST consortium survey One Thousand and One Magellanic Fields (1001MC), and I aim to trace the effects of interactions between the Clouds by analysing the kinematics and abundances of their stellar populations, particularly in the outskirts.

Dwarf Galaxies and the Galactic Halo
Leibniz Junior Research Group Leader
Office: LH/1-14
Phone: +49 331 7499 663
lcullinanenothing@aip.de

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

Publications

Latest refereed publications, retrieved from NASA ADS:

Detailed Chemical Abundance Analysis of the Brightest Stars in the Turranburra and Willka Yaku Stellar Streams
Webber, K. B., ... Cullinane, L. R., ..., 2026
The Astrophysical Journal, 998, 1, 114; published February 2026
doi:10.3847/1538-4357/ae2d59, NASA ADS
Participating AIP research groups: Dwarf Galaxies and the Galactic Halo
Chemodynamics of Boötes I with S5: Revised Velocity Gradient, Dark Matter Density, and Galactic Chemical Evolution Constraints
Sandford, N. R., ... Cullinane, L. R., ..., 2026
The Astrophysical Journal, 998, 1, 47; published February 2026
doi:10.3847/1538-4357/ae2fe5, NASA ADS
Participating AIP research groups: Dwarf Galaxies and the Galactic Halo
Hubble Space Telescope proper motions of Large Magellanic Cloud star clusters: II. Kinematic structure of young and intermediate-age clusters
Niederhofer, F., Cullinane, L., ... Kacharov, N., ... Cioni, M.-R. L., ..., 2026
Astronomy and Astrophysics, 705, A94; published January 2026
doi:10.1051/0004-6361/202557397, NASA ADS
Kinematical Modeling of the Resolved Stellar Outskirts of M32: Constraints on Tidal Stripping Scenarios
Escala, I., ... Cullinane, L. R., ..., 2025
The Astrophysical Journal, 991, 1, 31; published September 2025
doi:10.3847/1538-4357/adf63c, NASA ADS
Participating AIP research groups: Dwarf Galaxies and the Galactic Halo
The VMC survey: LIV. The internal kinematics of the Large Magellanic Cloud with new VISTA observations
Vijayasree, S., Niederhofer, F., Cioni, M.-R. L., Cullinane, L., ... Kacharov, N., ..., 2025
Astronomy and Astrophysics, 700, A279; published August 2025
doi:10.1051/0004-6361/202453145, NASA ADS
Discovery of a Weak CN Spectral Absorption Feature in Red Supergiant Stars in the Andromeda (M31) and Triangulum (M33) Galaxies
Guhathakurta, P., ... Cullinane, L. R., ..., 2025
The Astrophysical Journal, 987, 2, 203; published July 2025
doi:10.3847/1538-4357/adcc2c, NASA ADS
Participating AIP research groups: Dwarf Galaxies and the Galactic Halo
Flipping of the Tidal Tails of the Ophiuchus Stream due to the Decelerating Galactic Bar
Yang, Y., ... Cullinane, L. R., ..., 2025
The Astrophysical Journal, 984, 2, 189; published May 2025
doi:10.3847/1538-4357/adc57c, NASA ADS
Participating AIP research groups: Dwarf Galaxies and the Galactic Halo
S5: New insights from deep spectroscopic observations of the tidal tails of the globular clusters NGC 1261 and NGC 1904
Awad, P., ... Cullinane, L. R., ..., 2025
Astronomy and Astrophysics, 693, A69; published January 2025
doi:10.1051/0004-6361/202451930, NASA ADS
Participating AIP research groups: Dwarf Galaxies and the Galactic Halo
Elemental Abundances in And XIX from Coadded Spectra
Cullinane, L. R. et al., 2024
The Astrophysical Journal, 972, 2, 133; published September 2024
doi:10.3847/1538-4357/ad5f2e, NASA ADS
Participating AIP research groups: Dwarf Galaxies and the Galactic Halo