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PhD Thesis

Understanding the extreme classes of dwarf galaxies (link), Teymoor Saifollahi, University of Groningen, 2022

Main Publications

(First Author publications)

Euclid: Early Release Observations — Interplay between dwarf galaxies and their globular clusters in the Perseus galaxy cluster (ADS), Teymoor Saifollahi, Ariane Lançon, et al. (184 more co-authors), submitted to Astronomy and Astrophysics (A&A), 2025

Euclid: Early Release Observations — Globular clusters in the Fornax galaxy cluster, from dwarf galaxies to the intracluster field (ADS), Teymoor Saifollahi, Karina Voggel, Ariane Lançon, et al. (196 more co-authors), Astronomy and Astrophysics (A&A), 2025

Mining archival data from wide-field astronomical surveys in search of near-Earth objects (ADS), Teymoor Saifollahi, Saifollahi, Gijs Verdoes Kleijn, Rees Williams, Marco Micheli, Toni Santana-Ros, Ewout Helmich, Detlef Koschny, Luca Conversi, Astronomy and Astrophysics (A&A), 2023 (in the media: astronomie.nl)

Implications for galaxy formation models from observations of globular clusters around ultra-diffuse galaxies (ADS), Teymoor Saifollahi, Dennis Zaritsky, Ignacio Trujillo, Reynier Peletier, Johan Knapen, Nicola Amorisco, Michael Beasley, Richard Donnerstein, Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, 2022

Ultra-compact dwarfs beyond the centre of the Fornax galaxy cluster: hints of UCD formation in low-density environments (ADS), Teymoor Saifollahi, Joachim Janz, Reynier F. Peletier, Michele Cantiello, Michael Hilker, Steffen Mieske, Edwin A. Valentijn, Aku Venhola, Gijs Verdoes Kleijn, Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, 2021

The number of globular clusters around the iconic UDG DF44 is as expected for dwarf galaxies (ADS), Teymoor Saifollahi, Ignacio Trujillo, Michael A Beasley, Reynier F. Peletier, Johan H. Knapen, Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, 2021 (in the media: space.com, Youtube)

(selected co-author publications)

Euclid: Early Release Observations of diffuse stellar structures and globular clusters as probes of the mass assembly of galaxies in the Dorado group (ADS), M. Urbano, P. A. Duc, T. Saifollahi et al. (106 more co-authors), Astronomy and Astrophysics (A&A), 2025.

Euclid preparation. Detecting globular clusters in the Euclid survey (ADS), Euclid Collaboration: K. Voggel, A. Lançon, T. Saifollahi et al. (259 more co-authors), Astronomy and Astrophysics (A&A), 2025.

Euclid: Early Release Observations — Programme overview and pipeline for compact- and diffuse-emission photometry (ADS), J.-C. Cuillandre, E. Bertin, E., M. Bolzonella, H. Bouy, S. Gwyn, S. Isani, M. Kluge, O. Lai, A. Lançon, D. A. Lang, R. Laureijs, T. Saifollahi, M. Schirmer, C. Stone, et al. (251 more co-authors), Astronomy and Astrophysics (A&A), 2025.

Detection of extragalactic ultra-compact dwarfs and globular clusters using explainable AI techniques (ADS), M. Mohammadi, J. Mutatiina, T. Saifollahi, K. Bunte, Journal of Astronomy and Computing, 2022

All Publications (32 in total on ADS – last update: April 2025)