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30/09/2024 - 04/10/2024
ERIS 2024 Tenth European Radio Interferometry School https://www.granadacongresos.com/eris2024 Granada |
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23/04/2024 - 18/06/2024
Scientific Presentation in Astronomy https://indico.iaa.csic.es/event/15/ Granada |
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11/03/2024 - 11/03/2024
PySnacks 7: sedcreator: the python package to build and fit spectral energy distributions https://indico.iaa.csic.es/event/10/ Granada |
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12/03/2024 - 15/03/2024
ESA's Vigil PMI instrument kick-off consortium meeting https://form.jotform.com/240521968228359 Granada |
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18/04/2025 - 12:30
TBP TBP TBP |
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14/05/2024 - 12:30
Coupling physics with MonteCarlo methods TBP Dr. Yannis Inouk Nyffenegger Péré |
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30/04/2024 - 12:30
The art of astrophysical measurements: An elementary lecture on photon counting and S/N Have you ever dared to understand how many photons are detected by your camera when you are pointing the telescope to the sky? Is the action of the spectrograph fully understood when analyzing those photons? Do typical image formation rules hold when studying the polarization of light? All these are a few examples of questions addressed by researchers when designing instruments, which are later constrained by technological capabilities. This... Dr. José Carlos del Toro Iniesta |
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11/04/2024 - 12:30
LP791-18d as a case study for outgassing rocky exoplanets Over the past three decades, the discovery of over five thousand exoplanets has opened avenues for atmospheric characterization, now feasible for a select subset through spectroscopic observations paired with Bayesian inference techniques. These exoplanetary atmospheres serve as crucial windows into planetary formation and evolutionary histories. Achieving accurate interpretations demands a comprehensive approach, advancing theory and modeling... Dr. Leonardos Gkouvelis |
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04/04/2024 - 12:30
The Earthbound Fate of Meteor Phenomena Understanding meteor phenomena is essential for promptly and effectively recovering meteorites, predicting meteor showers, studying atmospheric properties, and assessing the threat posed by space objects to both in-orbit and ground-based infrastructure. By observing and interpreting meteor phenomena, we can predict impact consequences and efficiently locate and identify surviving meteorite fragments on the ground. Through dimensional analysis,... Dr. Maria Gritsevich |
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25/04/2024 - 12:30
Artificial Intelligence in Service of Galaxy Evolution Research: A Personal Journey In this seminar, I will present my personal exploration of the application of artificial intelligence in the study of galaxy evolution. Since the early 2010s, the fields of machine learning and deep learning have undergone unprecedented development, marked by enhancements in algorithms and hardware advancements. This progress has significantly influenced various scientific domains. Concurrently, the increasing volume and complexity of data... Dr. Ginés Martínez Solaeche |
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27/02/2024 - 12:30
Unraveling the Gamma-ray emission in radiogalaxies and their jets Radio-galaxies are a minority among all extragalactic sources detected in gamma-rays, yet they have excellent potential to study particle acceleration and non-thermal emission in AGN jets. In contrast with blazars, which have jets aligned with the line-of-sight, radio-galaxies have a smaller Doppler boosting factors. The implications are important: First, the distance at which they are detectable in gamma-rays is smaller. Second, the thermal... Mireia Nievas Rosillo |
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24/01/2024 - 24/01/2024
Cosmic Dust Workshop https://www.iaa.csic.es/meetings/cosmic-dust-workshop Granada |
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21/05/2024 - 12:30
Coloquio SO: Spectroscopy's Role in Stellar Astrophysics To characterize a star, the stellar fundamental parameters such as mass, radius, metal abundance, and effective temperature should be known. Direct measurements of these parameters, especially for single stars, are quite challenging, and indirect methods are often employed to obtain these characteristics. The most effective method for determining these parameters is spectroscopy, which is an analysis technique of spectra. It allows us to... Dr. Filiz Kahraman Aliçavuş |
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09/04/2024 - 12:30
Laboratory Research on the Atmospheric Impact of Spacecraft Re-entry Debris: Perspectives and Future Challenges The rapid growth of space debris, especially in Low Earth Orbit (LEO), poses a rising risk to both space operations and Earth's atmosphere. Debris fragments, even minuscule in size, can cause significant damage due to their high orbital speeds. To mitigate risks, controlled re-entry of debris is common practice, but this introduces a new concern: the increasing mass of human-made materials injected into the atmosphere. As satellites and rocket... Dr. Antonio Ocaña |
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07/03/2024 - 12:30
SO colloquium: Stars and their close-by planets: clues of magnetic interactions Stars interact with their close-in planets through the gravitational and magnetic fields and with their radiation. After a general introduction to those interactions, I shall review some observational clues of magnetic star-planet interactions considering data obtained in the optical, X-ray, and radio domains. Based on a stellar force-free coronal field or the excitation of Alfven waves by an orbiting planet, some analytical models will be... Dr. Antonino Francesco Lanza |
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21/03/2024 - 12:30
The Local Volume Mapper, state of the art The LVM, one of the three surveys that conform the SDSS-V project, is the first Integral Field Spectroscopy survey of the Local Group, including and unique mapping of the Milky Way. It started survey operations in October 2023, with some early science observations on cheery-peaked targets, and the first observations on the foreseen survey itself. I present here the status of the survey, including the state of the major contributions from the IA... Dr. Sebastián Sánchez |
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14/03/2024 - 12:30
SO Colloquium: Spatially resolved spectroscopy properties of low-redshift galaxies We summarize here some of the results reviewed recently by Sanchez (2020) and Sanchez et al. (2021) comprising the advances in the comprehension of galaxies in the nearby universe based on integral field spectroscopic galaxy surveys. We review our current knowledge of the spatially resolved spectroscopic properties of low-redshift star-forming galaxies (and their retired counterparts) using results from the most recent optical integral field... Dr. Sebastián Sánchez |
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19/02/2024 - 23/02/2024
English for Academic Purposes https://indico.iaa.csic.es/event/11/ Granada |
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19/03/2024 - 16:30
Recent Progress in Understanding Solar Flare Magnetism using Data-Driven Simulations and Statistical Analysis of Vector Magnetic Fields Continuous vector magnetic-field measurements by the Helioseismic and Magnetic Imager (HMI) onboard the Solar Dynamics Observatory (SDO) allowed us to run data-driven simulations of solar eruptions and perform statistical studies of magnetic-fields for many flares. In this talk I will review new aspects of flare magnetism discovered using SDO data, including progress in data-driven simulations and statistical studies of magnetic-reconnection... Dr. María Kazachenko |
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07/05/2024 - 12:30
Journey into the Galactic Heart: Illuminating the Enigma of the Nuclear Star Cluster and the Nuclear Stellar Disc. The innermost regions of most galaxies are characterised by the presence of extremely dense nuclear star clusters, which sometimes appear together with larger stellar structures known as nuclear stellar discs. Understanding the relation between nuclear star clusters and nuclear stellar discs is challenging due to the large distance towards other galaxies which limits their analysis to integrated light. In this context, the Milky Way’s centre,... Francisco Nogueras Lara |
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08/02/2024 - 12:30
The Transient High-Energy Sky and Early Universe Surveyor (THESEUS) The Transient HIgh-Energy Sky and Early Universe Surveyor (THESEUS) is a mission concept developed by a large European collaboration under study by ESA since 2018 and currently one of the three candidate M7 mission for a launch in mid '30s. THESEUS aims at fully exploiting Gamma-Ray Bursts for investigating the early Universe and as key phenomena for multi-messenger astrophysics. By providing an unprecedented combination of X-/gamma-ray... Dr. Lorenzo Amati |
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18/01/2024 - 12:30
A Year Beyond the Horizon: Advancing Our Understanding of M87* with New EHT Observations. In this presentation, we introduce the first follow-up Event Horizon Telescope (EHT) observations of M87*, taken a year after the epoch-making first image. The enhanced imaging, facilitated by additional antennas, increased data rates, and new imaging techniques, not only provides greater detail but also enables us to study the dynamics of the black hole within a year. Due to the embargo, specific results are not included in this abstract, but... IAA-CSIC EHT group |
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03/10/2024 - 12:30
Posible coloquio SO escuela interferometria TBP TBP |
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15/04/2024 - 12:30
Astronomy with Neutrino Telescopes In recent decades, high-energy neutrinos of astrophysical origin have become integral members of the multi-messenger astronomy community. Neutrino telescopes have a very particular way to observe the sky, with characteristics different from any other telescope. They are capable of continuously observing the entire sky simultaneously, yet they also necessitate the accumulation of a significant amount of statistical data. IceCube reported the... Agustín Sánchez Losa |
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29/02/2024 - 12:30
SO Colloquium: Eyes on the Invisible: Charting New Horizons with the Event Horizon Telescope The Event Horizon Telescope (EHT) collaboration has captured the first-ever image of a black hole's event horizon in the galaxy M87, and more recently, in the supermassive black hole at the center of our Milky Way, SgrA*. These images, consistent with Kerr black holes as described by General Relativity, provide the strongest evidence to date for the existence of supermassive black holes in galaxy nuclei. Notably, the first polarization images of... Dr. Avery Broderick |
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11/01/2024 - 12:30
MOSAIC: the high multiplex and multi-IFU spectrograph for the ELT MOSAIC is the planned multi-object spectrograph for the 39m Extremely Large Telescope (ELT). Conceived as a multi-purpose instrument, it offers both high multiplex and multi-IFU capabilities at a range of intermediate to high spectral resolving powers in the visible and the near-infrared. In this talk I will showcase the key science cases that drive the top-level requirements and the adopted instrument architecture. With a planned first light in... Dr Ruben Sanchez-Janssen |
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24/10/2023 - 25/10/2023
ANDES technical meeting https://www.iaa.csic.es/meetings/andes-technical-meeting Granada |
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23/10/2023 - 24/10/2023
100 x Science: Seven questions that will change the world https://www.granadacongresos.com/100xciencia7 Granada |
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14/10/2023 - 14/10/2023
PySnacks 5: ASTROALIGN https://indico.iaa.csic.es/event/8/ On line |
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25/01/2024 - 12:30
Stellar population studies in the J-PAS survey The Javalambre Physics of the Accelerating Universe Astrophysical Survey (J-PAS) is a large scale multi-filter survey that has started to observe 8500 deg² of the northern sky with 54 narrow-band filters in the optical range (3500-9600Å). In our Galaxy Evolution group at IAA-CSIC, we aimed at developing and testing methodologies in order to perform stellar populations studies using this kind of data. More precisely, I will introduce our SED-... Dr. Luis Alberto Díaz García |
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19/12/2023 - 12:30
Fundamental Physics From Ground-Based Gamma-Rays Observations Crucial topics in fundamental physics, such as the existence of new particles, or violations of the Lorentz Invariance arising at the Planck scale, can be effectively tackled in the cosmic environment, by means of ground-based observations in the VHE gamma-ray band. This includes both Particle showers detectors, such as LHAASO and Imaging Atmospheric Cherenkov Telescopes, such as MAGIC, H.E.S.S., or the forthcoming CTA and ASTRI Mini-Array. I... Dr. Giacomo Bonnoli |
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02/10/2023 - 02/10/2023
Near-Infrared Interferometry https://indico.iaa.csic.es/event/7/ Granada |
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16/01/2024 - 12:30
UGR bureocrazy for dummies: PhDs fight back Every year we all wonder about the UGR bureaucracy: did we miss something? how could we have known in advance? Let's face it, it's a mess. To try to help us all, especially those who are just starting, I would like to invite everyone interested to a seminar dedicated to understanding what the PhDs have to go through every year (paperwork related), where to find the proper information, who to contact in case of doubt and how to go through the PhD... Teresa Toscano |
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27/11/2023 - 01/12/2023
Severo Ochoa Advanced School on Star Formation https://www.granadacongresos.com/starform2023 Granada |
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16/11/2023 - 17/11/2023
Severo Ochoa Basics of Neural Networks 2023 https://indico.iaa.csic.es/event/4/ Granada |
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31/10/2023 - 12:30
Outflows from low to high luminous AGNs Outflows are believed to play a major role in the evolution of galaxies and are said to be ubiquitous within the active galactic nuclei (AGN) population. However, we still lack a comprehensive view of their properties and impact in their host galaxies and the surrounding medium. If we focus on the low luminosity part of the AGN family, in particular in low ionisation nuclear emission-line regions (LINERs), the impact of outflows is still largely... Laura Hermosa Muñoz |
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03/10/2023 - 12:30
Young massive clusters in the Gaia era After the detection of gravitational waves and the realisation of the wide diversity among core-collapse supernova explosions, Interest in massive stars has been rekindled. Young open clusters are our natural laboratories to explore the lives and deaths of massive stars, and most of our current understanding comes from their study. Until recently, we have been strongly limited by practical difficulties and small number statistics. Most open... Dr. Ignacio Negueruela |
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26/09/2023 - 12:30
Coloquio SO: Extracting stellar populations and (mainly) emission line information out of S-PLUS photometry We present tests of a new method to simultaneously estimate stellar population and emission line (EL) properties of galaxies out of S-PLUS photometry. The technique uses the AlStar code, updated with an empirical prior which greatly improves its ability to estimate ELs using only the survey's 12 bands. The tests compare the output of (noise-perturbed) synthetic photometry of SDSS galaxies to properties derived from previous (STARLIGHT-based)... Dr. Roberto Cid Fernandes |
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30/11/2023 - 12:30
SO Colloquium: Studying star-formation in 'collisional' galaxies with MUSE Galaxies in pre- and post-collisional stages are an excellent laboratory to study the evolution of galaxies, particularly the triggering and suppression of star formation on galactic scales before and after such interactions. In order to analyze the star formation triggered in these systems, we started a series of studies on 'collisional' galaxies with available integral field spectroscopy (IFS) observations. We use Very Large Telescope (VLT)... Dr. Victor Mauricio A. Gómez González |
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21/09/2023 - 12:30
SO Colloquium: Testing black hole structure with very-long-baseline interferometry Black holes hold a tremendous discovery potential, and experiments such as the Event Horizon Telescope and its next generation upgrade could provide important cues about their structure. New physics beyond general relativity can modify the structure of black holes and leave imprints on image features, for instance changing the separation between photon rings or generating additional sets of photon rings. Both cases motivate the study of the... Dr. Raul Carballo |
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14/09/2023 - 12:30
X-ray emission from Symbiotic Stars: a stellar window to the Astrophysics of AGN Symbiotic stars (SySts) are binary systems in which a white dwarf (WD) accretes material from a red giant star. X-ray studies of SySts reveal an apparent variety of processes which would suggest different origins. In this talk I will briefly review our current knowledge of the X-ray properties of SySts (their classification and physical parameters), in particular I will describe the iconic systems R Aqr and CH Cyg. Finally I will present our... Dr. Jesús Toalá |
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09/10/2023 - 12:30
SO Colloquium: The demographics of small exoplanets The diversity of the exoplanet population is beyond our imagination. The more than 5000 known exoplanets vastly differ in mass, size, orbital period, dynamics, and host type. Demographic studies, however, aim to find patterns in the population that inform us about their origin, composition, and evolution. Among these features, perhaps the most surprising is the abundance of planets with no analog in the solar system, also known as sub-Neptunes.... Dr. Rafael Luque |
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16/11/2023 - 12:30
SO Colloquium: The evolution of the accretion process: investigating the protostellar phase to constraints planet formation The accretion process is responsible for the mass building during the star formation phase, but our knowledge of this phenomenon is still not totally understood. On one side, the magnetospheric accretion scenario describes the accretion on pre-main sequence (Class II/III) low-mass stars. However, most of the material is supposed to be accreted during the earliest stages, i.e. the protostellar phase (Class 0/I), when the forming star and its disk... Dr. Fiorellino, Eleonora |
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09/10/2023 - 11/10/2023
SO/PHI team meeting https://www.iaa.csic.es/meetings/sophi-team-meeting Granada |
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24/10/2023 - 13:00
The Galactic Center seen with MeerKAT During its inauguration, the MeerKAT released, to date, the most detailed image of the centre of the Galaxy at L-band (1.28 GHz). Since then, the data have been exploited for various scientific research. One such exploitation was to produce a high resolution mosaic of the Galactic centre. From this mosaic came a catalogue of newly discovered unresolved point sources. Over 1500 sources were identified, of which 20 are steep spectrum point... Dr. Isabella Rammala |
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29/12/2024 - 12:30
Stellar Tidal Streams as cosmological diagnostics with the ARRAKIHS ESA mission TBP Dr. David Martinez-Delgado |
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06/07/2023 - 13:00
La acreditación Severo Ochoa-IAA 2023-2027 To be provided Dr. Isabel Márquez |
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19/10/2023 - 17:00
SO Webloquium: Feeding and Feedback: How to Make a Starburst and What that Means for the Host Galaxy The cycle of star formation governs the evolution of galaxies. In some local galaxies, the star formation rate in their centers are much higher than other normally star-forming galaxies and may be more similar to galaxies at earlier cosmic times. I present observational results from two archetypal nearby starburst galaxies: NGC253 and M82. First, I will discuss how gas flows to the center of NGC253 along its bar to fuel the extreme burst of... Dr. Rebecca C. Levy |
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23/11/2023 - 12:30
SO Colloquium: The transition between super-Earths and sub-Neptunes: Interior and atmosphere modelling of the low-mass planet population Low-mass exoplanets are showing a diversity in their densities, ranging from silicate-dominated super-Earths to volatile-rich sub-Neptunes. We have developed a coupled interior-atmosphere model that estimates the composition and interior structure of super-Earths and sub-Neptunes assuming water and CO2 atmospheres. The applications of the model include the homogenous analysis of a sample of multi-planetary systems, as well as the assessment of... Dr. Lorena Acuña |
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26/10/2023 - 12:30
SO Colloquium: Multi-fluid solar chromosphere The solar chromosphere is the boundary layer between the interior and exterior of the Sun, routing the origins of the coronal heating. New large-aperture solar telescopes, such as the future 4-meter European Solar Telescope or American DKIST, have among their primary focus observations of chromospheric magnetic fields. The correct interpretation of solar data requires sophisticated theories. The solar chromosphere is made of strongly stratified... Dr. Elena Khomenko |
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28/06/2023 - 12:30
Un universo de diversidad: historias LGTBI en el mundo de la razón y la ciencia El neurólogo Ben Barres, que murió hace unos pocos años, escribió un texto en Nature muy interesante sobre ciencia y género y en él decía: "The progress of science increasingly depends on the global community, but only 10% of the world’s population is male and caucasian. To paraphrase Martin Luther King, a first-class scientific enterprise cannot be built upon a foundation of second-class citizens." Él era transexual. El mundo de la ciencia,... Dr. Javier Armentia |
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28/09/2023 - 12:30
A VLTI view of Massive Young Stellar Objects (MYSOs) The formation of massive stars, objects with masses larger than 8 times solar, is central to both stellar astronomy and galactic evolution. In recent years, significant progress has been made in understanding the formation of high-mass young stellar objects (MYSOs; i.e. M∗ ≥ 8 M⊙, Lbol ≥ 5 x 103 L⊙. The latest observational and theoretical studies present evidence that HMYSOs are born in the same way as their low-mass counterparts, via disc... Dr. Maria Koutoulaki |
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05/03/2024 - 12:30
SO colloquium: A new digitized age of SETI – interferometric commensal observations and machine learning The search for technosignatures - remotely observable indicators of advanced extraterrestrial life - addresses one of the most profound questions in science: are we alone in the universe as intelligent life? The Breakthrough Listen program is leading the most concerted search for extraterrestrial intelligence (SETI) effort to-date through radio and optical surveys of nearby stars, nearby galaxies and the Milky Way galactic plane, thus... Dr. Cherry Ng |
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20/07/2023 - 12:30
Near-Infrared Observations of Clustered Massive Star Formation in Outflowing Region AFGL 5180 Massive stars are significant throughout the universe, as they impact their surroundings from the early stages of their formation until they die in the form of supernova. Observations in the near-infrared (NIR) of the bright and large-scale (~pc) jets which young stars ubiquitously produce during their formation process can place important constraints on the phenomenon of massive star formation. Here, we present a detailed NIR view of the star-... Sam Crowe |
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06/06/2023 - 12:30
Aperture Masking Interferometry with the JWST In this talk, I will present how the aperture masking interferometric (AMI) mode of the JWST works. I will describe the main characteristics of this mode. In particular, I will show some of the advantages of the mode complementary to standard imaging and coronagraphic observations. I will also introduce the basic principles of the AMI data analysis, including the extraction of the interferometric observables and their interpretation with... Dr. Joel Sanchez Bermudez |
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13/07/2023 - 11:00
Solar Orbiter: An example of an international collaboration Solar Orbiter is a space mission of international collaboration between ESA (European Space Agency) and NASA. Solar Orbiter was launched on February 9th 2020 from Cape Canaveral, FL onboard of an Atlas V 411 rocket. This event signified the success of the diplomatic, economical, technological, and scientific effort of many countries and two space agencies to achieve a common goal. The outcomes from this mission will aid to the scientific... Dr. Teresa Nieves Chinchilla |
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24/05/2023 - 26/05/2023
QUANTUM FIELD THEORY IN CURVED SPACETIMES WORKSHOP II https://sites.google.com/view/qftcsworkshop2023/home Granada |
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15/05/2023 - 19/05/2023
20th Electromagnetic and Light Scattering Conference https://www.granadacongresos.com/els2023 Almuñecar |
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09/11/2023 - 12:00
Studying magnetic fields, dynamics, and fundamental physics near a black hole with current and future mm-VLBI instruments The Event Horizon Telescope (EHT) has imaged the black hole shadows of the supermassive black hole at the center of the galaxy M87 (M87*) and at the center of the Milky Way (Sgr A*). Polarimetric imaging of M87* with the EHT enabled significantly stronger inferences on the black hole and accretion parameters than total intensity data alone. Geometric modeling was a central tool for studying the structure of M87* and Sgr A* in total intensity. In... Dr. Freek Roelofs |
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02/04/2024 - 12:30
Single-photon gig in Betelgeuse’s occultation In the realm of astronomical exploration, cutting-edge technologies are indispensable. Single-Photon Avalanche Diode (SPAD) sensors offer unparalleled precision, enabling the detection of individual photons with remarkable timing resolution. However, the current use of single-pixel SPAD devices poses limitations on spatially-resolved imaging in astronomy. Enter two-dimensional SPAD detectors, revolutionizing observation capabilities and enabling... Dr. Francisco Prada |
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16/05/2023 - 12:00
Seminario Centro de Cálculo Nueva infraestructura de cálculo del IAA Centro de Cálculo |
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24/04/2023 - 28/04/2023
CTAC/CTAO General Meeting https://www.granadacongresos.com/ctac-ctao Granada |
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24/04/2023 - 28/04/2023
Galactic Center Workshop 2023 https://www.granadacongresos.com/gcw2023 Granada |
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25/04/2023 - 12:30
SO colloquio: Theoretical models for the formation and evolution of Ultra-Cool Dwarf planetary systems Rocky planets located in the habitable zones around very low-mass objects are ideal targets for searching for life outside our Solar System. In order to better understand their formation and evolution, N-body simulations are needed. These simulations are developed assuming a star close to the substellar mass limit as the central object. The simulations include tidal and general relativistic effects that incorporate the contraction and evolution... Dr. Mariana Sánchez |
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11/05/2023 - 12:30
Off-centre supermassive black holes in bright central galaxies Supermassive black holes (SMBHs) are believed to reside at the centre of massive galaxies such as brightest cluster galaxies (BCGs), the most massive galaxies which can be found in today's Universe. However, as BCGs experienced numerous galaxy mergers throughout their history, the central BH can be significantly kicked from the central region by these dynamical encounters. By combining the Illustris-TNG300 simulations and orbital integration... Dr. Aline Chu |
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05/10/2023 - 12:30
SO colloquium: A Light in the Dark - Massive Star Birth Through Cosmic Time Massive stars are important throughout the universe, but their formation remains poorly understood. I review current understanding of how massive stars form in our Galaxy, in particular examining observational tests of various predictions of Core Accretion and Competitive Accretion theories. Finally, I discuss how massive star formation may have been different in the very early universe and how the first stars may have become supermassive... Dr. Jonathan C. Tan |
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01/06/2023 - 12:30
SO webloquio: The impact of stellar composition: from galactic chemical evolution to planet formation The characterization of solar-type stars is fundamental for various fields in astrophysics, including exoplanet detection and the chemical evolution of our Galaxy. In particular, the determination of chemical abundances for stars at different metallicities and ages provides us with a key insight on how and when the various chemical elements were formed within the Galaxy. The chemical trends observed in different parts of the Galaxy (thin disk,... Dr. Elisa Delgado Mena |
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04/05/2023 - 12:30
SO colloquio: Pulsar astrophysics in the era of large surveys History tells us that with new telescopes and new data processing techniques come new discoveries and breakthroughs in pulsar astrophysics. Despite nearly 55 years since their discovery, fundamental open questions remain in almost all areas of research. Examples include the birth properties and environments, the magnetic field configuration and evolution, the interactions of the superfluid interior with the solid crust, the processes of... Dr. Aris Karastergiou |
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28/03/2023 - 12:30
International Asteroid Impact Defense Collaboration The defense of our planet against asteroid impacts counts on international collaboration. NASA's OSIRIS-REx and Japan's Hyabusa2 spacecraft studied two potentially hazardous asteroids Bennu & Ryugu and bring samples back to Earth. NASA's DART, Italy's LICIACube and ESA's Hera spacecraft test a method of planetary defense against asteroids. Dr. Humberto Campins |
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16/03/2023
The visit to the IAA-CSIC of its External Scientific Advisory Board (ESAB) is over On March 14 and 16, the External Scientific Advisory Board (ESAB), composed of internationally recognized researchers, visited the IAA-CSIC facilities to review the activities of the IAA and to provide advice on future actions. |
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08/05/2023 - 10/05/2023
IAA-CSIC Severo Ochoa SKA Open Science School https://www.granadacongresos.com/skaopenscience Granada |
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20/06/2023 - 12:30
Radio continuum halos in nearby galaxies and the CHANG-ES project About a decade ago, the upgrade from the classic Very Large Array into the EVLA, i.e. the Karl G. Jansky Very Large Array (VLA), made it possible to observe fainter radio continuum emission than ever before. The project Continuum Halos in Nearby Galaxies - an EVLA Survey (CHANG-ES, PI: J. Irwin) has allowed us to probe gaseous halos of 35 edge-on galaxies with arcsecond details and faint microJansky/beam sensitivities, and to begin answering... Theresa Wiegert |
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22/06/2023 - 12:30
SO colloquium: X-ray Polarimetry: a New Window to the Universe Polarimetry is a very important technique for understanding magnetic fields and high-energy processes in the Universe. While we have been studying polarization in the radio and optical side of the electromagnetic spectrum for decades, what happens at higher energies has, until recently, eluded us. In 2021 NASA finally launched the first X-ray polarimeter, the Imaging X-ray Polarimetry Explorer - IXPE, offering us a completely new window to the... Dr. Yannis Liodakis |
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27/04/2023 - 12:00
El Futuro de la Astrofísica de muy altas energías a través del Open Science: Oportunidades con el Cherenkov Telescope Array Observatory (CTAO) El jueves 27 de abril a las 12:00 CEST, el Cherenkov Telescope Array Observatory (CTAO) y el Instituto de Astrofísica de Andalucía (IAA-CSIC) celebrarán un evento gratuito y abierto para investigadores interesados en la Ciencia Abierta y posibles sinergias con el CTAO, así como para estudiantes de grado, máster y doctorado que deseen desarrollarse profesionalmente en el campo de la Astrofísica de muy altas energías. El seminario, que tendrá... Dr. Roberta Zanin, Dr. Juan Cortina, Dr. Rubén López Coto y Dr. Francisco Colomer |
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02/03/2023 - 12:30
J-PAS: a survey for tracing the role that star formation and environment play in galaxy evolution The processes that explain the evolution of galaxies from the blue cloud to the red sequence are still under discussion. Internal processes, named as mass-quenching, because they are linked to the galaxy mass or AGN feedback, could be responsible of the rapid quench of the star formation in galaxies. Besides the stellar mass, the evolution of the galaxy populations is also a function of the environment. Unlike the mass quenching, the... Dr. Rosa González Delgado |
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04/10/2021 - 08/10/2021
Asymmetrical Planetary Nebulae 8 e-2021 http://apn8.iaa.csic.es Granada |
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13/04/2023 - 12:30
Coloquio SO: A holistic approach to exoplanet spectroscopy During the last two decades, multiple observation techniques have enabled the study of exoplanet atmospheres, informing us about their chemical composition, thermal distribution and transport processes. The most successful techniques include low-resolution transit and eclipse spectroscopy, phase curves, and high-resolution Doppler spectroscopy. In all cases, the extraction of the atmospheric signal presents a challenge, being comparable to or... Guiseppe Morello |
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07/03/2023 - 12:30
Sub-milliarcsecond astronomy with Imaging Atmospheric Cherenkov Telescopes The angular size of a star is a critical factor in determining its basic properties. Together with the distance, it provides the physical diameter of the star which can be used to yield luminosity and mass estimates. Direct measurement of stellar angular diameters is difficult: at interstellar distances stars are generally too small to resolve by any individual imaging telescope. This fundamental limitation can be overcome by several methods... Dr. Tarek Hassan |
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21/04/2023 - 12:30
Gamma rays as cosmic ray tracers: how can CTAO contribute to the cosmic ray physics Gamma-ray emission produced by interactions of cosmic rays with interstellar matter and radiation fields is a probe of non-thermal particles in galaxies. After decades of instrumental improvements in the field of gamma-ray astronomy, different scales and environments are now accessible and their gamma-ray observations reveal several properties of cosmic rays, especially in our Galaxy. I will provide a short review of the status of the subject... Roberta Zanin |
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23/03/2023 - 12:30
SO coloquio: Investigating the impact of quasar feedback on the central kiloparsecs of galaxies Active galactic nuclei (AGN) feedback is the effect that nuclear activity produces in the interstellar and circumgalactic medium of galaxies. Different modes of AGN feedback, which can be broadly divided into radiative/quasar and kinetic/radio, are now considered key processes in the evolution of massive galaxies by regulating black hole and galaxy growth. Indeed, a wealth of observational evidence demonstrates that feedback from supermassive... Dr. Cristina Ramos Almeida |
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16/02/2023 - 12:00
School visit School visit Sara Garcia. |
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16/03/2023 - 12:30
An observational study of massive star forming regions at radio wavelengths In their early stages, massive stars have a profound impact on their hosting cloud as reflected by signposts like shocks, bars and shells of swept material resulting from prominent stellar winds, or photo-ionized (HII) regions produced by energetic irradiance. This activity must be taken into account in the study of the mechanism of formation of either massive stars or nearby lower mass companions affected by such harsh conditions. It is known... Josep Maria Masqué |
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09/03/2023 - 12:30
When accretion is as vital as extreme: from massive young stars to binary black holes Accretion is vital for understanding the properties of a number of astrophysical objects, including massive young stars and black holes. For the former, accretion drives the stellar mass growth and multiplicity through gas fragmentation. It also powers strong outflows that regulate the interstellar medium. For black holes, only accretion allows for electromagnetic detection. Hence, the multi-messenger astronomy, for which the loudest sources of... Dr. Raphael Mignon-Risse |
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23/02/2023 - 12:30
ALMA: Planned Sensitivity Upgrades, and Molecular Gas Imaging of a z=0.376 HI-Detected Galaxy This talk will cover two distinct topics in progress, one programmatic and the other science: I will first discuss the ALMA Wideband Sensitivity Upgrade (WSU), and then I'll talk about ALMA followup of the highest redshift HI detection in the COSMOS HI Large Extragalactic Survey (CHILES) made with the first 178 hours of observing. With regard to the WSU, the ALMA Project is embarking on a partner-wide initiative to at least double, and... Dr. Jennifer Donovan Meyer |
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30/03/2023 - 12:30
Preparation and Asteroseismic exploitation of the PLATO Mission Thanks to ultra-precise space missions, we are living an era of big scientific discoveries in the stellar and planetary physics fields. PLATO will capitalise on the developments of successful past missions such as CoRoT, Kepler/K2, TESS and CHEOPS that studied stars and their planetary systems. PLATO will detect and characterise terrestrial exoplanets at orbits up to the habitable zone of solar-type stars. Transit measurements and... Dr. Javier Pascual |
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30/01/2023 - 12:30
SO Coloquio: Dirty Dancing: piercing the dusty environment of merging supermassive black holes It is a posit of modern astrophysics that most massive galaxies host a super- massive black hole (millions to billions of times more massive than the Sun). These black holes affect the evolution of galaxies well beyond their gravitational sphere of influence (which does not extend wider than 1/1000th of the typical galaxy linear size). In turn, the evolution of galaxies affects the growth of black holes through, e.g., galaxy merging.... Matteo Guainazzi |
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02/11/2022 - 04/11/2022
VIII Meeting on Fundamental Cosmology https://home.iaa.csic.es/fundcosmo22/ Granada |
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18/10/2022 - 21/10/2022
IAA Severo Ochoa Meeting: Addressing key astrophysical questions from Granada https://www.granadacongresos.com/severoochoa Granada |
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09/09/2022 - 11/09/2022
41st European Symposium on Occultation Projects (ESOP) https://iota-es.de/esop41/index.php Granada |
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30/01/2023 - 01/02/2023
VI Meeting of AGN Research in Spain in the Era of the New Observatories https://www.granadacongresos.com/agn2023 Granada |
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12/01/2023 - 12:30
CARMENES-PLUS: a technical upgrade for CARMENES and the impact on its science CARMENES is a dual (VIS: 550 to 950 nm; NIR: 950 to 1700 nm) high-resolution spectrograph installed at the 3.5 m telescope at the Calar Alto Observatory (CAHA, Almería, Spain). The NIR channel spectrograph uses the radial-velocity method for detecting exoplanets around low-mass stars. Thus, a high thermal stability is required in the NIR cooling system to achieve a high precision in radial velocities. The cooling system was originally conceived... Roberto Varas González |
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25/05/2023 - 12:30
SO colloquio: To be black, or not? Observational tests of strong field gravity are improving rapidly. This allows us to test whether the compact objects observed in the sky are truly black holes as described in general relativity or some other "exotic" objects. These tests, however, require exquisite theoretical modeling of black holes as well as their alternatives. This talk will discuss two such examples: the impact of the astrophysical environment on black holes and the... Dr. Béatrice Bonga |
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24/11/2022 - 12:30
SO webloquio: The Milky Way Nuclear Star Cluster The Milky Way nuclear star cluster (NSC) is located within the nuclear stellar disc (NSD) in the Galactic centre. The NSC and NSD are distinct structures of the Milky Way, but also connected to the larger Milky Way structures, e.g. via the inflow and outflow of gas, and the infall of star clusters. Our knowledge of the larger Milky Way structures, Galactic disc, bulge and halo, has expanded in recent years through surveys and dedicated missions... Dr. Anja Feldmeier |
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07/11/2022 - 12:30
The ASTRI Mini-Array and its Science The ASTRI Collaboration is building at the Teide Astronomical Observatory in Tenerife an array of 9 small Cherenkov telescopes capable of observing with good flux sensitivity, energy and angular resolution the gamma-ray sky above an energy threshold of several hundreds of GeV. The ASTRI telescopes adopt a dual-mirror Schwarzschild-Couder optical design. Entrapped amidst the two mirrors the ASTRI camera, based on silicon photon-multipliers... Dr. Giacomo Bonnoli |
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29/11/2022 - 12:30
TARSIS: the Tetra-Armed IFU at Calar Alto designed for the CATARSIS galaxy cluster exploration In this talk I will present the design of the Integral Field Unit TARSIS, recently selected to be the next generation multi-object spectrograph for the 3.5m telescope at Calar Alto. In addition, I will describe the scientific goals of CATARSIS, the galaxy cluster exploration that will be carried out in the first years of the operation of TARSIS. Dr. Jorge Iglesias |
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15/11/2022 - 12:30
The effect of pre-processing on the stellar population content of early-type dwarf galaxies According to the CDM model, galaxy clusters grow through the accretion of individual galaxies and galaxy groups. Thus, it is a true challenge to distinguish the possible role of the present-day host halo from that of previous ones, in the transformation of accreted galaxies. Dwarf early-type galaxies (dEs) are often regarded as statistically meaningful testbeds for investigating environmental effects mainly due to their high number density and... Dr. Bahar Bidaran |