Many ellipticals contain nuclear disks of dust and gas. Some ellipticals contain nuclear disks of stars that are distinct from the rest of the galaxy. We show that the dwarf E2 galaxy NGC 4486A contains both – it is a “Rosetta stone" object that tells us how nuclear disks evolve. Its properties suggest that, as accreted gas dissipates and settles toward the center, it forms stars and builds a s...

While it is well known that there a significant amount of conserved charges in the initial state nuclear collisions, production these due to gluon splitting has yet be thoroughly investigated. The ICCING (Initial Conserved Charges Nuclear Geometry) algorithm reconstructs quark distributions, providing strange, baryon, and electric charges, by sampling given model for g → qq¯ function over energ...