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Dr Sara Saracino

Astrophysics Research Institute

Faculty of Engineering and Technology

Journal article

Wragg F, Kamann S, Saracino S, Latour M, Dreizler S, Martens S, Seth A, Vaz D, van de Ven G. 2024. Studying binary systems in Omega Centauri with MUSE. I. Detection of spectroscopic binaries Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, 535 DOI Author Url Publisher Url Public Url

Niederhofer F, Bellini A, Kozhurina-Platais V, Libralato M, Häberle M, Kacharov N, Kamann S, Bastian N, Cabrera-Ziri I, Cioni M-RL, Dresbach F, Martocchia S, Massari D, Saracino S. 2024. Hubble Space Telescope proper motions of Large Magellanic Cloud star clusters -- I. Catalogues and results for NGC 1850 Astronomy & Astrophysics, 689 DOI Author Url Publisher Url Public Url

Massari D, Aguado-Agelet F, Monelli M, Cassisi S, Pancino E, Saracino S, Gallart C, Ruiz-Lara T, Fernández-Alvar E, Surot F, Stokholm A, Salaris M, Miglio A, Ceccarelli E. 2023. Cluster Ages to Reconstruct the Milky Way Assembly (CARMA): I. The final word on the origin of NGC 6388 and NGC 6441 Astronomy and Astrophysics, 680 :A20-A20 DOI Publisher Url Public Url

Saracino S, Kamann S, Bastian N, Gieles M, Shenar T, Reindl N, Müller-Horn J, Usher C, Dreizler S, Hénault-Brunet V. 2023. A closer look at the binary content of NGC 1850 Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, 526 :299-322 DOI Author Url Publisher Url Public Url

Saracino S, Shenar T, Kamann S, Bastian N, Gieles M, Usher C, Bodensteiner J, Kochoska A, Orosz JA, Sana H. 2023. Updated radial velocities and new constraints on the nature of the unseen source in NGC1850 BH1 Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, 521 :3162-3171 DOI Author Url Publisher Url Public Url

Martocchia S, Bastian N, Saracino S, Kamann S. 2023. On the origin of UV-dim stars: a population of rapidly rotating shell stars? Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, 520 :4080-4088 DOI Author Url Publisher Url Public Url

Dalessandro E, Crociati C, Cignoni M, Ferraro FR, Lanzoni B, Origlia L, Pallanca C, Rich RM, Saracino S, Valenti E. 2022. Clues to the Formation of Liller 1 from Modeling Its Complex Star Formation History Astrophysical Journal, 940 DOI Publisher Url Public Url

Cadelano M, Ferraro FR, Dalessandro E, Lanzoni B, Pallanca C, Saracino S. 2022. Discovery of a Double Sequence of Blue Straggler Stars in the Core-collapsed Globular Cluster NGC 6256 Astrophysical Journal, 941 DOI Publisher Url Public Url

Kamann S, Saracino S, Bastian N, Gossage S, Usher C, Baade D, Cabrera-Ziri I, Mink SED, Ekström S, Georgy C, Hilker M, Larsen SS, Mackey D, Niederhofer F, Platais I, Yong D. 2022. The effects of stellar rotation along the main sequence of the 100 Myr old massive cluster NGC 1850 Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, 518 :1505-1521 DOI Author Url Publisher Url Public Url

Cadelano M, Dalessandro E, Salaris M, Bastian N, Mucciarelli A, Saracino S, Martocchia S, Cabrera-Ziri I. 2021. Expanding the Time Domain of Multiple Populations: Evidence of Nitrogen Variations in the similar to 1.5 Gyr Old Star Cluster NGC 1783 ASTROPHYSICAL JOURNAL LETTERS, 924 DOI Author Url Publisher Url Public Url

Saracino S, Kamann S, Guarcello MG, Usher CG, Bastian N, Cabrera-Ziri I, Gieles M, Dreizler S, Costa GSD, Husser T-O, Hénault-Brunet V. 2021. A black hole detected in the young massive LMC cluster NGC 1850 Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, 511 :2914-2924 DOI Author Url Publisher Url Public Url

Kamann S, Bastian N, Usher CG, Cabrera-Ziri I, Saracino S. 2021. Exploring the role of binarity in the origin of the bimodal rotational velocity distribution in stellar clusters Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, 508 :2302-2306 DOI Author Url Publisher Url Public Url

Pallanca C, Ferraro FR, Lanzoni B, Crociati C, Saracino S, Dalessandro E, Origlia L, Rich MR, Valenti E, Geisler D, Mauro F, Villanova S, Moni Bidin C, Beccari G. 2021. High-resolution Extinction Map in the Direction of the Strongly Obscured Bulge Fossil Fragment Liller 1* ASTROPHYSICAL JOURNAL, 917 DOI Author Url Publisher Url Public Url

Pallanca C, Lanzoni B, Ferraro FR, Casagrande L, Saracino S, Purohith Bhaskar Bhat B, Leanza S, Dalessandro E, Vesperini E. 2021. A New Identity Card for the Bulge Globular Cluster NGC 6440 from Resolved Star Counts* ASTROPHYSICAL JOURNAL, 913 DOI Author Url Publisher Url Public Url

Ferraro FR, Pallanca C, Lanzoni B, Crociati C, Dalessandro E, Origlia L, Rich RM, Saracino S, Mucciarelli A, Valenti E, Geisler D, Mauro F, Villanova S, Moni Bidin C, Beccari G. 2021. A new class of fossil fragments from the hierarchical assembly of the Galactic bulge Nature Astronomy, 5 :311-318 DOI Author Url Publisher Url

Dalessandro E, Varri AL, Tiongco M, Vesperini E, Fanelli C, Mucciarelli A, Origlia L, Bellazzini M, Saracino S, Oliva E, Sanna N, Fabrizio M, Livernois A. 2021. First Phase Space Portrait of a Hierarchical Stellar Structure in the Milky Way ASTROPHYSICAL JOURNAL, 909 DOI Author Url Publisher Url Public Url

Pfeffer JL, Lardo C, Bastian N, Saracino S, Kamann S. 2020. The accreted nuclear clusters of the Milky Way Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, 500 :2514-2524 DOI Author Url Publisher Url Public Url

Martocchia S, Kamann S, Saracino S, Usher CG, Bastian N, Rejkuba M, Latour M, Lardo C, Cabrera-Ziri I, Dreizler S, Kacharov N, Kozhurina-Platais V, Larsen S, Mancino S, Platais I, Salaris M. 2020. Leveraging HST with MUSE: II. Na-abundance variations in intermediate age star clusters Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, 499 :1200-1211 DOI Author Url Publisher Url Public Url

Saracino S, Kamann S, Usher C, Bastian N, Martocchia S, Lardo C, Latour M, Cabrera-Ziri I, Dreizler S, Giesers B, Husser T-O, Kacharov N, Salaris M. 2020. Leveraging HST with MUSE: I. Sodium abundance variations within the 2 Gyr-old cluster NGC 1978 Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, 498 :4472-4480 DOI Author Url Publisher Url Public Url

Cadelano M, Saracino S, Dalessandro E, Ferraro FR, Lanzoni B, Massari D, Pallanca C, Salaris M. 2020. Digging for Relics of the Past: The Ancient and Obscured Bulge Globular Cluster NGC 6256 Astrophysical Journal, 895 DOI Author Url Publisher Url Public Url

Cabrera-Ziri I, Speagle JS, Dalessandro E, Usher CG, Bastian N, Salaris M, Martocchia S, Kozhurina-Platais V, Niederhofer F, Lardo C, Larsen SS, Saracino S. 2020. Searching for globular cluster chemical anomalies on the main sequence of a young massive cluster Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, 495 :375-382 DOI Author Url Publisher Url Public Url

Saracino S, Martocchia S, Bastian N, Kozhurina-Platais V, Chantereau W, Salaris M, Cabrera-Ziri I, Dalessandro E, Kacharov N, Lardo C, Larsen SS, Platais I. 2020. Chromosome maps of young LMC clusters: An additional case of coeval multiple populations Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, 493 :6060-6070 DOI Author Url Publisher Url Public Url

Salaris M, Usher CG, Martocchia S, Dalessandro E, Bastian N, Saracino S, Cassisi S, Cabrera-Ziri I, Lardo C. 2020. Photometric characterization of multiple populations in star clusters: The impact of the first dredge-up Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, 492 :3459-3464 DOI Author Url Publisher Url Public Url

Pallanca C, Ferraro FR, Lanzoni B, Saracino S, Raso S, Focardi P. 2019. High-resolution Extinction Map in the Direction of the Bulge Globular Cluster NGC 6440 ASTROPHYSICAL JOURNAL, 882 DOI Author Url Publisher Url

Saracino S, Bastian N, Kozhurina-Platais V, Cabrera-Ziri I, Dalessandro E, Kacharov N, Lardo C, Larsen SS, Mucciarelli A, Platais I, Salaris M. 2019. An extragalactic chromosome map: the intermediate-age SMC cluster Lindsay 1 Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society Letters, 489 :L97-L101 DOI Author Url Publisher Url Public Url

Saracino S, Dalessandro E, Ferraro FR, Lanzoni B, Geisler D, Cohen RE, Bellini A, Vesperini E, Salaris M, Cassisi S, Pietrinferni A, Origlia L, Mauro F, Villanova S, Bidin CM. 2019. A panchromatic view of the bulge globular cluster NGC 6569 Astrophysical Journal, 874 DOI Author Url Publisher Url Public Url

Dalessandro E, Lardo C, Cadelano M, Saracino S, Bastian N, Mucciarelli A, Salaris M, Stetson P, Pancino E. 2018. IC 4499 revised: Spectro-photometric evidence of small light-element variations Astronomy & Astrophysics, 618 DOI Author Url Publisher Url Public Url

Saracino S, Dalessandro E, Ferraro FR, Lanzoni B, Origlia L, Salaris M, Pietrinferni A, Geisler D, Kalirai JS, Correnti M, Cohen RE, Mauro F, Villanova S, Bidin CM. 2018. On the use of the main sequence knee (saddle) to measure globular cluster ages The Astrophysical Journal, 860 DOI Author Url Publisher Url Public Url

Dalessandro E, Saracino S, Origlia L, Marchetti E, Ferraro FR, Lanzoni B, Geisler D, Cohen RE, Mauro F, Villanova S. 2016. GeMS/GSAOI PHOTOMETRIC AND ASTROMETRIC PERFORMANCE IN DENSE STELLAR FIELDS The Astrophysical Journal, 833 :111-111 DOI Publisher Url

Saracino S, Dalessandro E, Ferraro FR, Geisler D, Mauro F, Lanzoni B, Origlia L, Miocchi P, Cohen RE, Villanova S, Bidin CM. 2016. ULTRA-DEEP GEMINI NEAR-INFRARED OBSERVATIONS OF THE BULGE GLOBULAR CLUSTER NGC 6624* The Astrophysical Journal, 832 :48-48 DOI Publisher Url

Saracino S, Dalessandro E, Ferraro FR, Lanzoni B, Geisler D, Mauro F, Villanova S, Bidin CM, Miocchi P, Massari D. GEMINI/GeMS OBSERVATIONS UNVEIL THE STRUCTURE OF THE HEAVILY OBSCURED GLOBULAR CLUSTER LILLER 1. The Astrophysical Journal, 806 :152-152 DOI Publisher Url

Chapters

Costa G, Chruślińska M, Klencki J, Broekgaarden FS, Rodriguez CL, Joseph TD, Saracino S, Costa G, Chruślińska M, Klencki J, Broekgaarden FS, Rodriguez CL, Joseph TD, Saracino S. 2024. Chapter 1 Stellar black holes and compact stellar remnants Black Holes in the Era of Gravitational-Wave Astronomy :1-148 Elsevier DOI

preprint

Costa G, Chruślińska M, Klencki J, Broekgaarden FS, Rodriguez CL, Joseph TD, Saracino S. 2023. Stellar Black Holes and Compact Stellar Remnants arXiv DOI

Massari D, Aguado-Agelet F, Monelli M, Cassisi S, Pancino E, Saracino S, Gallart C, Ruiz-Lara T, Fernández-Alvar E, Surot F, Stokholm A, Salaris M, Miglio A, Ceccarelli E. 2023. Cluster Ages to Reconstruct the Milky Way Assembly (CARMA) I. The final word on the origin of NGC6388 and NGC6441 arXiv DOI

Cadelano M, Ferraro FR, Dalessandro E, Lanzoni B, Pallanca C, Saracino S. 2022. Discovery of a double sequence of blue straggler stars in the core-collapsed globular cluster NGC 6256 arXiv DOI

Dalessandro E, Crociati C, Cignoni M, Ferraro FR, Lanzoni B, Origlia L, Pallanca C, Rich RM, Saracino S, Valenti E. 2022. Clues to the formation of Liller 1 from modeling its complex star formation history arXiv DOI

Cadelano M, Dalessandro E, Salaris M, Bastian N, Mucciarelli A, Saracino S, Martocchia S, Cabrera-Ziri I. 2021. Expanding the time domain of multiple populations: evidences of nitrogen variations in the ~1.5 Gyr old star cluster NGC 1783 arXiv DOI

Pallanca C, Ferraro FR, Lanzoni B, crociati C, Saracino S, Dalessandro E, Origlia L, Rich MR, Valenti E, Geisler D, Mauro F, Villanova S, Bidin CM, Beccari G, -- . 2021. High-resolution extinction map in the direction of the strongly obscured bulge fossil fragment Liller 1 arXiv DOI

Pallanca C, Lanzoni B, Ferraro FR, Casagrande L, Saracino S, Bhat BPB, Leanza S, Dalessandro E, Vesperini E, -- . 2021. A new identity card for the bulge globular cluster NGC 6440 from resolved star counts arXiv DOI

Dalessandro E, Varri AL, Tiongco M, Vesperini E, Fanelli C, Mucciarelli A, Origlia L, Bellazzini M, Saracino S, Oliva E, Sanna N, Fabrizio M, Livernois A. 2021. First phase space portrait of a hierarchical stellar structure in the Milky Way arXiv DOI

Ferraro FR, Pallanca C, Lanzoni B, Crociati C, Dalessandro E, Origlia L, Rich RM, Saracino S, Mucciarelli A, Valenti E, Geisler D, Mauro F, Villanova S, Bidin CM, Beccari G. 2020. A new class of fossil fragments from the hierarchical assembly of the Galactic bulge arXiv DOI

Cabrera-Ziri I, Speagle JS, Dalessandro E, Usher C, Bastian NJ, Salaris M, Martocchia S, Kozhurina-Platais V, Niederhofer F, Lardo C, Larsen SS, Saracino S. 2020. Searching for globular cluster chemical anomalies on the main sequence of a young massive cluster arXiv DOI

Cadelano M, Saracino S, Dalessandro E, Ferraro FR, Lanzoni B, Massari D, Pallanca C, Salaris M. 2020. Digging for relics of the past: the ancient and obscured bulge globular cluster NGC6256 arXiv DOI

Saracino S, Martocchia S, Bastian N, Kozhurina-Platais V, Chantereau W, Salaris M, Cabrera-Ziri I, Dalessandro E, Kacharov N, Lardo C, Larsen SS, Platais I. 2020. Chromosome maps of young LMC clusters: An additional case of coeval multiple populations arXiv DOI

Salaris M, Usher C, Martocchia S, Dalessandro E, Bastian N, Saracino S, Cassisi S, Cabrera-Ziri I, Lardo C. 2020. Photometric characterization of multiple populations in star clusters: The impact of the first dredge-up arXiv DOI

Saracino S, Bastian N, Kozhurina-Platais V, Cabrera-Ziri I, Dalessandro E, Kacharov N, Lardo C, Larsen SS, Mucciarelli A, Platais I, Salaris M. 2019. An Extragalactic Chromosome Map: The intermediate age SMC Cluster Lindsay 1 arXiv DOI

Pallanca C, Ferraro FR, Lanzoni B, Saracino S, Raso S, Focardi P. 2019. High-resolution extinction map in the direction of the bulge globular cluster NGC 6440 arXiv DOI

Saracino S, Dalessandro E, Ferraro FR, Lanzoni B, Geisler D, Cohen RE, Bellini A, Vesperini E, Salaris M, Cassisi S, Pietrinferni A, Origlia L, Mauro F, Villanova S, Bidin CM. 2019. A panchromatic view of the bulge globular cluster NGC 6569 arXiv DOI

Dalessandro E, Lardo C, Cadelano M, Saracino S, Bastian N, Mucciarelli A, Salaris M, Stetson P, Pancino E. 2018. IC4499 revised: spectro-photometric evidence of small light-element variations arXiv DOI

Saracino S, Dalessandro E, Ferraro FR, Lanzoni B, Origlia L, Salaris M, Pietrinferni A, Geisler D, Kalirai JS, Correnti M, Cohen RE, Mauro F, Villanova S, Bidin CM. 2018. On the use of the main sequence knee (saddle) to measure globular cluster ages arXiv DOI

Dalessandro E, Saracino S, Origlia L, Marchetti E, Ferraro FR, Lanzoni B, Geisler D, Cohen RE, Mauro F, Villanova S. 2016. GeMS/GSAOI photometric and astrometric performance in dense stellar fields arXiv DOI

Saracino S, Dalessandro E, Ferraro FR, Geisler D, Mauro F, Lanzoni B, Origlia L, Miocchi P, Cohen RE, Villanova S, Bidin CM. 2016. Ultra-deep GEMINI near-infrared observations of the bulge globular cluster NGC 6624 arXiv DOI

Saracino S, Dalessandro E, Ferraro FR, Lanzoni B, Geisler D, Mauro F, Villanova S, Bidin CM, Miocchi P, Massari D. 2015. GEMINI/GeMS observations unveil the structure of the heavily obscured globular cluster Liller 1 arXiv DOI

Conference publication

Dalessandro E, Saracino S, Origlia L, Marchetti E, Ferraro FR, Lanzoni B, Geisler D, Mauro F. 2016. GeMS/GSAOI performances from a user perspective Marchetti E, Close LM, Véran J-P. SPIE Proceedings, SPIE Astronomical Telescopes + Instrumentation 9909 :99095V-99095V DOI Publisher Url

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