Eventos

We present a representative SED for low-luminosity AGNs, built from high-spatial resolution data for the LINERs and faint Seyferts in the sample.

GO-IRS stands for "GTC Optical Intermediate Resolution Spectrograph". It is the answer of a big team of over 100 experienced researchers and engineers from the University of Florida, China and Spain to the recent call for new instrumentation for the 10.4 m Gran Telescopio Canarias (GTC).

According to the standard model of particle physics, fundamental constants, at least their low-energy limits, should be independent of time and location. Many fundamental constants of physics and astronomy are well defined locally.

The SKA, composed of several hundreds of 3 different types of antennas with separations up to 3000 km, and up to 200 square degrees FOV, can be considered as the largest, most sensitive, and most difficult radio telescope ever to be built.

Las fuentes Ultra-luminosas en rayos X (ULXs, del inglés Ultra-luminous X-ray sources) pueden ser la población que conecta los agujeros negros de nuestra Galaxia (<1000 MSol) y los objetos supermasivos en el centro de las galaxias (1E+05-1E+08 MSol).

The Initial Mass Function (IMF) has been derived by a variety of methods.

It has been long debated whether the magnetic field configuration at the central region of our Galaxy is toroidal or poloidal.

X-ray and gamma-ray flares are a common occurrence in blazars, active galactic nuclei with relativistic plasma jets that are pointing almost directly at us.

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Hemos dicho adiós al Año Internacional de la Astronomía (AIA-IYA2009). En España nos propusimos organizar un Año de la Astronomía con un nivel de excelencia acorde con la magnífica evolución que esta rama de la ciencia ha tenido en nuestro país en las últimas décadas y lo hemos conseguido.

I present a general overview of the PLAnetary Transits and Oscillations of stars (PLATO) space mission. PLATO was recently approved by ESA’s Science Programme Committee, together with Euclid and Solar Orbiter missions, to enter the so-called definition phase, i.e.

Dust particles exist in a wide variety of scenarios ranging from the Earth's atmosphere to other planetary and cometary atmospheres in the Solar System, interplanetary medium, reflection nebulae, circumstellar disks, etc.

The molecular gas content of local early-type galaxies is constrained and discussed in relation to their evolution.

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ALMA is going to start its Early Science Observations during 2011 and a Call for Early Science with its compact array will be issued at the end of this year. At the same time, CASA, the software that ALMA users will have at their disposal, is being continuously developed.

In the final stages of stellar evolution low- to intermediate-mass stars lose their envelope in increasingly massive stellar winds.

OCTOCAM is a high time-resolution multi-channel instrument that is being proposed for the 10.4m GTC telescope. It will perform simultaneous observations in 8 bands, covering the complete spectrum from the ultraviolet (u-band) to the near infrared (K-band) in a single exposure.

This is a talk I gave last October in Freiburg as the opening key-note lecture of the "1st EAST-ATST Workshop".

The Galactic center is a unique target for studying the properties of the nuclei of galaxies in general. The supermassive black hole, Sagittarius A*, that is located at the dynamical center of the Milky Way is surrounded by the densest and most massive star cluster of our Galaxy.