Monguió i Montells, Maria (Date of defense: 2013-11-22)
The main purpose of this thesis is to map the radial variation of the stellar density for the young stellar population in the Galactic anticenter direction in order to understand the structure and ...
Antoja Castelltort, M. Teresa (Date of defense: 2010-04-30)
One of the most intriguing features of the stellar velocity distribution in the solar neighbourhood is the existence of moving groups. At present, the origin of these kinematic structures is far from ...
Czekaj, Maria A. (Date of defense: 2012-10-22)
The understanding of the origin and evolution of the Milky Way is one of the primary goals of the Gaia mission (ESA, launch autumn 2013). In order to study and analyse fully the Gaia data it will be ...
Roca Fàbrega, Santi (Date of defense: 2014-11-26)
Simulations have shown to be one of the best tools to study properties of galactic large scale structures and their effects on to the local kinematics of stars. The aims of this thesis are: i) To obtain ...
Abedi, Hoda (Date of defense: 2015-02-27)
We explore the possibility of detecting and characterising the warp of the stellar disc of our Galaxy using synthetic Gaia data and two available proper motion catalogues namely UCAC4 and PPMXL. We ...
Ribas, Salvador J., 1978- (Date of defense: 2016-01-27)
Aquesta tesi doctoral se centra en l'estudi de la contaminació lumínica tant en zones urbanes com en zones protegides de Catalunya. S'entén per contaminació lumínica qualsevol efecte advers produït per ...