Eventos

After a short introduction to modern infrared long baseline interferometry, I will present the results of two actual projects of mine, dealing with dust around stars and AGN.

GROND stands for Gamma-Ray Burst Optical/Near-Infrared Detector. It is a 7-channel imager developed by the Max-Planck-Institut for extraterrestrial Physics in Garching, Germany, with contributions from the Thueringer Landessternwarte Tautenburg, Germany.

CARMENES is a study for a next-generation instrument for the 3.5m telescope at the Calar Alto Observatory that will be built by an international consortium. CARMENES stands for Calar Alto high-Resolution search for M dwarfs with Exo-Earths with a Near-infrared Echelle Spectrograph.

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Based on talks presented at the "Jornada ESO 2009", held on 22 September 2009, I will provide a brief overview of some statistical data related to ESO and particularly the role of Spain within ESO.

We will present the current status of the PANIC project. This instrument will be the first to be built inside the Spanish-German consortium signed between MPIA and IAA for the development of new instrumentation for the Calar Alto Observatory.

A concise survey of light scattering by small dust particles in the atmospheres and surface layers of various Solar System bodies, comets, the interplanetary medium, and in planetary rings is presented. Current issues and recent developments are emphasized.

Las dos estrellas mas brillantes de la LMC en este momento son dos VLA en estado de erupción. Radcliffe 127 (R127) había sido una estrella de tipo Ofpe antes de 1980.

Both a dense stellar cluster and streamers of gas and dust coexist within the central parsec of the Milky Way Galaxy, in the deep potential well of the 4 million MSun black hole at the position of the radio source SgrA*.

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145 países participantes. En España, más de 2000 actividades ya celebradas y más de 1000 entidades participantes.

En esta charla pretendo dar una visión global de la misión Sunrise, de sus propósitos científicos y de su desarrollo tecnológico.

Asteroids that come close to the Earth´s orbit (near-Earth asteroids, or NEAs) are targets of different sample-return space missions, providing us with material from their surfaces.

I will present my personal list of the 25 most important and influential discoveries in astronomy of the 20th century. I will analyse the papers that reported these discoveries by the year they occurred, the age of the discoverers and the country where the people worked.

Black hole mass and Eddington ratio estimates for quasars are of fundamental interest to astrophysicists and cosmologists. Comparisons of high and low redshift quasar properties are of special interest.

I will present the PPAK Integral Field Spectroscopy (IFS) Nearby Galaxies Survey: PINGS, a 2-dimensional spectroscopic mosaicking of 17 nearby disk galaxies in the optical wavelength range.

I will present an astrometric catalogue of positions and proper motions derived from the "Carte du Ciel" plates, San Fernando zone, which has a mean epoch 1901.4 and a limiting magnitude V~15. Digitization has been made using a conventional flatbed scanner.

I will describe a new program at Mt John that aims to find Earth-mass planets orbiting either alpha Cen A or B, which are solar type stars in a well known binary. We are measuring precise radial velocities using the Hercules spectrograph, which I will describe.