04/10/2016 - 12:30
The VIMOS Ultra Deep Survey: galaxy formation and evolution, 13Gyr back in cosmic time The first phases of galaxy formation and evolution remain poorly understood and improved observational constraints are needed to test the theoretical picture and simulations. I will present the results from the VIMOS Ultra-Deep Survey (VUDS) Prof. Olivier Lefevre |
29/09/2016 - 12:30
Presentation of the HETH group (High Energy Transients and their Hosts) HETH (High Energy Transients and their Hosts) is one of the youngest groups at IAA, founded in 2012, and belongs to both the extragalactic and stellar department. Thanks to recent success in funding applications, both by the group and by external researchers, HETH has now grown to a group of 7 young researchers. Dr. Cristina Thöne |
19/09/2016
Visita de la Delegación de Medio Ambiente de la Junta de Andalucía al Observatorio de Sierra Nevada La visita se enmarca en un reciente acuerdo de colaboración para mejorar la calidad del cielo |
15/09/2016 - 12:30
Proxima b: What could I say you already do not know about it? This august, we have published clear evidence of a planet orbiting the nearest star to Earth, Proxima Centauri, at a distance of 1.295 parsecs (4.2 ly) and one of the best-studied low-mass star. Dr. Pedro Amado |
22/09/2016 - 12:30
Delving into the gas-phase of CALIFA galaxies to trace O and N gradients CALIFA (Calar Alto Legacy Integral Field Area survey) has provided spatially resolved optical spectra of thousands of HII regions in spiral galaxies of the Local Universe whose properties can be linked with the integrated properties of the host galaxies... Dr. Enrique Pérez Montero |
27/06/2016
El IAA acoge una jornada sobre la calidad del cielo El cielo oscuro como patrimonio o la lucha contra la contaminación lumínica constituirán algunos de los ejes de la sesión. La jornada busca crear un espacio de encuentro donde los distintos agentes implicados en la protección del cielo andaluz intercambiarán conocimiento, perspectivas y experiencias |
23/06/2016 - 12:30
Using the local gas-phase oxygen abundances to explore a metallicity-dependence in SNe~Ia luminosities In this talk I present an analysis of the gas-phase oxygen abundances of a sample of 28 galaxies in the local Universe (z<0.02) hosting Type Ia Supernovae (SNe Ia). The data were obtained with the 4.2m William Herschel Telescope (WHT). Manuel Moreno Raya |
16/06/2016 - 12:30
Space VLB interferometer RadioAstron: status and results The RadioAstron Space VLBI mission utilizes the 10-m radio telescope on-board the dedicated Spektr-R spacecraft to observe cosmic radio sources with an unprecedented angular resolution at 92, 18, 6 and 1.3 cm. Yuri Kovalev |
09/06/2016 - 12:30
Blazars: Order and Disorder Blazars are the most luminous persistent objects in the sky. They emit light across the entire electromagnetic spectrum, from low-energy radio waves to high-energy gamma-rays, and they exhibit variability on timescales that range from years down to minutes. The launch of the Fermi Large Area Telescope (LAT) in 2008 has ushered in a new era of high-energy astrophysics. Prof. Nicholas Macdonald |
03/06/2016
Este verano, súbete a un observatorio El Instituto de Astrofísica de Andalucía (IAA-CSIC) y el Instituto de Radioastronomía Milimétrica (IRAM) desea brindar a los ciudadanos la posibilidad de visitar el Observatorio de Sierra Nevada y la radioantena de 30 metros durante este verano. Ya puedes apuntarte |
30/06/2016 - 19:00
La búsqueda de nuevas Tierras En esta charla haremos un breve viaje por algunos hitos del descubrimiento exoplanetario Cristina Rodríguez López |
02/06/2016 - 12:30
Star formation and AGN activity in the most luminous LINERs in the local universe In this talk I will focus on the most luminous LINERs in the local universe, where we studied their SF and AGN activity in order to understand the LINER phenomenon in relation to star-forming galaxies and to compare their properties with those of the LINERs at z ~ 0.3. Dr. Mirjana Povic |
30/05/2016 - 03/06/2016
Blazars through Sharp Multi-Wavelength Eyes Málaga |
25/05/2016 - 12:30
ECS: Diseño y construcción de Observatorios Astronómicos ECS es una empresa de ingeniería especializada en Observatorios Astronómicos. Realiza los pertinentes estudios y evaluaciones de calidad de cielo, logística y necesidades específicas, para ubicar y diseñar el observatorio. Francisco Ángel Espartero Briceño |
19/05/2016 - 19:00
¿Cómo se forman los exoplanetas? Hasta hace relativamente poco solo teníamos un ejemplo de sistema planetario, nuestro Sistema Solar, y no podía descartarse que fuera un caso excepcional. Mayra Osorio |
19/05/2016 - 12:30
The magnetic field vector in solar chromospheric structures: the diagnostic potential of the near infrared He I 1083nm triplet The solar chromosphere is permeated by solar structures such as sunspots, surges, flare ribbons, prominences (filaments) or spicules, where non-local thermodynamic equilibrium effects dominate the state of the plasma and where the magnetic fields are expected to be much lower in intensity than in the photosphere underneath. Dr. David Orozco |
11/05/2016
Estreno en la Palma de "La velocidad de nuestros pensamientos" con motivo del Día Internacional de la Astronomía El largometraje documental se estrenará el domingo 15 de mayo, un día después del día Internacional de la Astronomía el 14 de mayo en el marco de El Festivalito La Palma – Festival de Las Estrellas, dirigida por Nacho Chueca y producida por el Instituto de Astrofísica de Andalucía (CSIC) |
12/05/2016 - 12:30
Sgr A* and its environment: insights from X-ray observations Almost every massive galaxy has at least one super-massive black hole (SMBH) at its center. Most (>90%) of those SMBHs are quiet. Understanding the accretion of low-luminosity SMBHs represents a very important and fundamental problem in astronomy. Dr. Daniel Wang |
05/05/2016 - 12:30
Formación Estelar: ¿podemos acotar el problema? Mientras que la evolución estelar conforma un cuerpo teórico bien estructurado, incluyendo aquí las últimas fases de la misma, la formación estelar está lejos de admitir una formulación teórica predictiva que permita, conociendo las propiedades físicas de la nube molecular, pergeñar las propiedades de la futura población estelar naciente. Dr. Emilio Alfaro |
28/04/2016 - 12:30
The lifetime dilemma of evaporating black holes The standard view is that black holes exist, maybe not with all the properties of strict black holes in classical General Relativity, but sufficiently close to them that one does not need worrying in the astrophysical practice. Dr. Carlos Barceló |
21/04/2016 - 12:30
Colloquium on ERC's proposals Colloquium on ERC's proposals Drs. Alejandro Luque & Rainer Schoedel |
18/04/2016 - 12:30
Issues in star and cluster formation The upper mass stellar initial mass function is similar to the mass function of young star clusters. I argue that this is a basic result expected when gravitational focusing on scales much larger than the Jeans length operate. I will also present recent VLBI studies of Orion which yield new distance estimates. Prof. Lee Hartmann |
13/04/2016 - 12:30
Young brown dwarfs: exploring the bottom of the Initial Mass Function Brown dwarfs are the objects that bridge the realms of stars and planets, making them important benchmarks for testing star and planet formation theories. In particular, studies of brown dwarfs at young ages are crucial for understanding the mass dependence in the formation and early evolution of stars. Lda. Koraljka Muzic |
13/04/2016
El IAA participa en Desgranando Ciencia El evento de divulgación Desgranando ciencia incluye, en esta cuarta edición, un completo programa que abarca muy diversas ramas científicas, entre ellas la astrofísica. |
12/04/2016
El Instituto de Astrofísica de Andalucía participa en la feria del libro: programa de actividades Este año, la feria del libro está dedicada a la divulgación de la ciencia. El IAA y el Parque de las Ciencias, con la colaboración de Hablando de Ciencia, han preparado un programa de actividades que tendrán lugar en la carpa de la ciencia |
07/04/2016 - 12:30
CARMENES as a precursor for HIRES@E-ELT: First results at the telescope CARMENES (Calar Alto high-Resolution search for M dwarfs with Exoearths with Near-infrared and optical Échelle Spectrographs) is the next generation instrument built for the 3.5m telescope at the Centro Astronómico Hispano-Alemán (Calar Alto Observatory; CAHA, Almería, Spain). Dr. Pedro Amado |
31/03/2016 - 19:00
Presentación del documental "La velocidad de nuestros pensamientos" Presentación y proyección de fragmentos del documental sobre la luz titulado "La velocidad de nuestros pensamientos". Emilio J. García |
31/03/2016 - 12:30
Are LIGO data connected? The analysis of ultra-precise data of stellar light variations observed with satellites (CoRoT, Kepler, SoHO, etc.) has revealed some unexpected results that cannot be explained by theory. Prof. Rafael Garrido/Dr. Javier Pascual |
17/03/2016 - 12:30
OCTOCAM: A fast multi-channel imager and spectrograph proposed for the Gemini Observatory OCTOCAM has been proposed to the Gemini observatory as a workhorse imager and spectrograph that will fulfill the needs of a large number of research areas in the 2020s. Dr. Antonio de Ugarte |
10/03/2016 - 12:30
Shaking the grounds of unification: are type 1 and type 2 AGN intrinsically different? The simplest standard unified models of Active Galactic Nuclei (AGN), put forward more than 30 years ago, postulate that the diversity of observed properties of AGN can be largely explained as a viewing angle effect resulting in anisotropic nuclear obscuration. A key ingredient of these models is a homogeneous distribution of dust and gas located at tens of parsecs that obscures the AGN nuclear region from certain lines-of-sight (the ‘torus’).... Dr. Silvia Mateos |
04/03/2016 - 12:30
Multiwavelength studies of massive stars We will review the importance of multi-wavelength studies of massive stars and how each of the wavelength ranges may provide crucial and complementary information to characterize these objects. We will discuss the consistency of UV through radio studies of O stars, LBVs and WRs as well as the reliability of analyses based on a limited wavelength region. Dr. Francisco Najarro |
01/03/2016 - 12:30
Massive galaxy clusters: from relaxed to highly substructured Galaxy clusters are important in cosmology to set constraints on various parameters, but they are also intrinsically interesting, since they allow to study many physical processes. The DAFT/FADA survey of 90 clusters in the redshift range 0.4<z<0.9 has allowed us to analyse several aspects of clusters, linked with their formation. We will present here our search for substructuring and its variation with redshift. For subsamples of clusters... Florence Durret |
25/02/2016 - 19:00
¡Rayos y centellas! Un recorrido relámpago por la electricidad atmosférica en la Tierra y en el Sistema Solar Hace tres siglos, el descubrimiento de la naturaleza eléctrica de los rayos afianzó nuestra confianza en que la naturaleza podía ser comprendida mediante la investigación científica. Ahora sabemos también que los rayos afectan a la composición de nuestra atmósfera y que, además de en la Tierra, existen en Júpiter, Saturno y tal vez Venus, Urano y Neptuno. Alejandro Luque |
25/02/2016 - 12:30
Progress on the construction of the South African SKA Pathfinder (MeerKAT) and the African VLBI Network &The Australian Square Kilometre Array Pathfinder (ASKAP) Progress on the construction of the South African SKA Pathfinder (MeerKAT) and the African VLBI Network &The Australian Square Kilometre Array Pathfinder (ASKAP) Drs. Tracy Cheetham & Antony Schinckel |
23/02/2016
Square Kilometre Array (SKA) Industry Day Hoy tendrá lugar en Madrid la jornada informativa "Square Kilometre Array (SKA) Industry Day" |
18/02/2016 - 12:30
Experimental simulation of the atmospheric ablation of cosmic dust particles: implications for HPLA radar and lidar observations The inner solar system is full of interplanetary dust particles (IDPs) originating from cometary trails and collisions between asteroids. The entry and evaporation of IDPs in planetary atmospheres is related to a variety of phenomena including formation of mesospheric metal layers and clouds, and stratospheric aerosol chemistry. Dr. Juan Carlos Gómez Martín |
17/02/2016
¿Qué son las ondas gravitatorias, y por qué su hallazgo ha sido un hito histórico? Mañana a las 19 h se celebrará en el salón de actos del Instituto de Astrofísica de Andalucía (IAA) una sesión abierta al público para conocer esta nueva ventana para explorar el universo. |
11/02/2016 - 12:30
The role of magnetic field for stability in relativistic jets Relativistic jets have been observed or postulated in various astrophysical sources, including active galactic nuclei, microquasars in the galaxy and gamma-ray bursts. There are many unsolved problems related to the relativistic jets, for example, formation & acceelration, collimation, and long-term stability. The most promising mechanisms for producing and accelerating relativistic jets, and maintaining collimated structure of relativistic... Dr. Yosuke Mizuno |
04/02/2016 - 12:30
ORISON un proyecto de instrumentación astronómica estratosférica ORISON es un proyecto financiado por el H2020 de la Unión Europea, dentro de la convocatoria INFRASUPP2, coordinado desde el IAA. Su objetivo principal es estudiar la viabilidad de una infraestructura de investigación basada en globos que permitan poner, a costes razonables, instrumentación de no demasiado peso (<500 kg) en plataformas estabilizadas, a alturas estratosféricas, del orden de 40km sobre el suelo, con objeto de conseguir metas... Dr. Jose Luis Ortíz |
28/01/2016 - 19:00
Polvo Cósmico. El tamaño sí importa En astronomía, cuando hablamos de polvo nos referimos a pequeñas partículas en estado sólido compuestas, por ejemplo, de silicatos o de distintos tipos de carbón. Podemos hallar estas partículas de polvo en muy diversos escenarios en el universo, donde su interacción con la luz estelar nos proporciona imágenes espectaculares. Olga Muñoz |
28/01/2016 - 12:30
Spectro-interferometry study of red supergiants Red supergiant stars (RSGs) are cool and massive stars that evolve toward Wolf-Rayet stars and supernovae. They have extended atmospheres and strong stellar winds, which lead to significant mass loss. Currently, the mechanisms that explain the large observed atmospheric extensions are open to debate. The estimation of the fundamental parameters of these stars and their location in the HR diagram are very important for calibrating the... Dr. Belén Arroyo-Torres |
17/12/2015 - 18:00
Los enanos del Sistema Solar En 2006 la Unión Astronomica Internacional definió el término planeta y planeta enano. Nuestro sistema solar ahora está compuesto de 8 planetas y 5 planetas enanos que son Ceres, Plutón, Eris, Makemake y Haumea. Esta charla estará centrada en la descripción de estos cuerpos, los candidatos a planetas enanos que existen y discutiremos la increíble diversidad que hay entre estos cuerpos. Durante 2015 dos naves robot obtuvieron datos sobre Plutón y... René Duffard |
14/12/2015 - 11:30
Challenges of the Doppler technique in the presence of stellar noise for the detection of Earth-like exoplanets The Doppler method is still the most efficient one in detecting exoplanets around nearby stars which are amenable for further characterization. In particular, planets as small as the Earth can in principle be detected in hot orbits around sun-like stars (G and K dwarfs), and warm to temperate orbits around M-dwarfs (M<0.5 sun) in orbital periods from a few days to tens of days. Unfortunately, these time-scales are plagued with structured... Dr. Guillem Anglada-Escude |
03/12/2015 - 13:30
Presence and future of adaptive optics at the ESO VLT In this brief talk I will present the current and near-future adaptive optics (AO) capabilities of ESO's VLT. I will report on a recent meeting at ESO, where we discussed science cases for future AO instrumentation at the VLT in the era of the E-ELT. Probably within the next year, the science cases for a 3rd generation AO instrument (to arrive at the VLT in ~ 2025) will be laid down in a white paper. The goal of my talk is to get the IAA... Rainer Schoedel |
27/11/2015
La red española de telescopios robóticos BOOTES inaugura su estación en México El proyecto, liderado por astrónomos del Instituto de Astrofísica de Andalucía (IAA-CSIC), completa con el telescopio Javier Gorosabel su cobertura del cielo en el hemisferio Norte |
26/11/2015 - 18:00
Marte: emisiones de metano, de agua y de noticias En los últimos 12 meses se han acumulado varias noticias científicas sobre Marte de gran impacto y en cierta medida inesperadas, como el (re)descubrimiento de metano en su atmósfera, y la muy probable existencia de agua fundida en el subsuelo. Además se han sucedido propuestas pseudocientíficas como Mars One y el estreno de la esperada película "Marte" (The Martian), vestidas ambas de un aparente realismo científico. Miguel Ángel López Valverde |
26/11/2015 - 13:30
Following the posterior with the ALHAMBRA survey The probability distribution functions (PDFs) provided by photometric redshift codes such as BPZ are a powerful tool for galaxy evolution studies. Despite of their potential, only a few studies in the literature attempt to use the full PDFs in their analysis and we are still learning how to make the most of them. We present the latests PDF advances from the ALHAMBRA survey, focusing in the estimation of the B-band luminosity function. We... Carlos López-Sanjuan |
12/11/2015 - 13:30
High Spatial Resolution 2D Nebular Abundances in Disk Galaxies Galaxies evolve through the changes that face their various components such as the gas, dust, stars, and dark matter. Gas and dust are prime ingredients for the formation of new stars, and thereafter the massive stars newly formed will quickly modify the chemical composition of galaxies whereas low mass stars will take more time to contribute to the interstellar gas enrichment. Beside the stars, other processes occurring during the galaxies... Laurie Rousseau-Nepton |
12/11/2015
Estreno del documental "La velocidad de nuestros pensamientos" Esta tarde tendrá lugar el estreno del documental "La velocidad de nuestros pensamientos", escrito y producido por Emilio J García (IAA-CSIC) y Nacho Chueca, de Lipssync Media Lab, con motivo de la celebración en 2015 del Año Internacional de la Luz. El estreno, que tendrá lugar a las 21 h en la Biblioteca de Andalucía, forma parte de una serie de actividades de divulgación organizadas por el Instituto de Astrofísica de Andalucía para celebrar... |
29/10/2015 - 18:00
Color y vida ¿Qué es el color? ¿Cómo se produce el color en la naturaleza? ¿Cómo usan el color los seres vivos? Veremos qué es y cómo se percibe el color: un poco de física, química, anatomía, fisiología, neurología y psicología son necesarias para entender cabalmente el color. Enrique Pérez Jiménez |
08/10/2015 - 14:30
Dissecting a rare galaxy merger (the Hummingbird) with radio and mm-observations The Bird is a luminous infrared galaxy product of a triple merger. Previous infrared observations have shown that the ongoing star formation in the least massive of the components (the head) outshines that of the mprimary nuclei (the heart and the body). This clashes with the commonly accepted major merger scenario in which the SF is expected to be higher in central compact regions. Here I will present preliminary results... Cristina Romero-Cañizales |
24/09/2015 - 14:30
Test In Space, your opportunity to experiment in orbit Traditionally, experimentation in space has consisted in limited, expensive, long-term and complicated projects with hard requirements and restrictions. Currently, new space increases the possibilities to experiment in space for researchers from all kind of fields and, with TEST IN SPACE, this is also simple and fast. If you are interested in investigation under real space environment, you can just propose it to TEST IN SPACE. TEST IN SPACE... tbd |
17/09/2015 - 14:30
Baryon Acoustic Oscillations and the Expansion History of the Universe The tiny inhomogeneities left over from the inflationary phase seeded the early Universe with primordial density perturbations. The photon-baryon fluid reacted to these perturbations by forming spherical pressure waves known as baryon acoustic oscillations (BAO). These waves propagated through the primordial plasma until the Universe became transparent to radiation, effectively stopping the dragging of the baryons by the photons. This left... A. J. Cuesta, on behalf of the BOSS Collaboration |
11/09/2015 - 14:30
Untold Stories of Andromeda: A Multi-wavelength View of The Nuclear Environment in M31 The Andromeda galaxy (M31), which harbors the nearest LINER and the closest stellar bulge accessible in the optical, is an ideal laboratory for studying the physical regulation of galactic nuclei, and in turn the co-evolution of super-massive black holes and their host galaxies. I will provide an overview of the stellar and interstellar components of the M31 bulge, as well as its dormant but otherwise well-known SMBH, M31*. I will introduce... Prof. Zhiyuan Li |
11/08/2015 - 13/08/2015
XXIX IAU General Assembly, Focus Meeting 10: Stellar explosions in an ever-changing environment Hawaii |
25/06/2015 - 17:00
CALIFA: un legado andaluz universal CALIFA es un catografiado de 600 galaxias cercanas que se ha desarrollado en el modo de campo integral con el instrumento PMAS/PPaK instalado en el telescopio 3.5m de Calar Alto (Almería). CALIFA es un proyecto pionero y constituye una muestra ideal para investigar como se forman los bulbos y discos de las galaxias. Los datos obtenidos con CALIFA proporcionan además un gran legado para la comunidad astronómica, y sitúan a CALIFA en una posición... Rosa González Delgado |
24/06/2015 - 16:30
Autoorganización, propiedades emergentes y algoritmos genéticos La naturaleza tiene una forma muy eficaz de producir individuos capaces de adaptarse a ambientes cambiantes y de resolver problemas complejos. En esta charla hablaremos de como podemos inspirarnos en esto para realizar algoritmos que resuelvan tareas que de otro modo serían imposibles, y por el contrario, también veremos como con reglas muy sencillas podernos replicar el comportamiento de sistema muy complejos. Pablo Galindo Salgado - Sala de Juntas del Instituto de Astrofísica de Andalucía (IAA-CSIC) |
17/06/2015 - 14:30
Into Darkness: the seek for pulsars in the Galactic Centre Pulsars are highly-magnetized rotating neutron stars that emit beams of electromagnetic emission. They are unique astronomical laboratories, not only because they are the most magnetized, densest, directly-observable objects in the Universe, but also because they act as extremely precise clocks located all over the Galaxy. The variety of science enabled by pulsars is very broad, from, e.g., limits on the Equation-of-... Pablo Torne |
17/06/2015 - 09:00
Presentación y visita guiada al laboratorio de scattering del IAA En el laboratorio CoDuLab (Cosmic Dust Laboratory) investigamos algunas propiedades físicas del polvo que podemos encontrar en atmósferas planetarias y cometarias. En esta charla presentaremos el laboratorio, la motivación del mismo y algunas de las muestras con las que trabajamos. Una vez acabada la charla se hará una visita al mismo Jesús Escobar Cerezo - Sala de Juntas del Nuevo Edificio (IAA-CSIC) |
15/06/2015 - 14:30
The influence of dynamics on airglow and constituents in the terrestrial mesopause region In the terrestrial atmosphere, the mesopause region (~90 km height) is a transition region between the inviscid lower/middle atmosphere and the geomagnetically forced geospace. It is a region of strong dynamical forcing and where several constituents vary strongly with height one of which is atomic oxygen. Airglow, which is the result of naturally occurring chemiluminescence in the mesopause region involving exothermic reactions associated... Prof. William Ward |
11/06/2015 - 14:30
Ubiquitous magnetic flux emergence in the Sun: a fundamental process The fundamental process of magnetic flux emergence happens continuously and everywhere over the solar surface, hence the ubiquitousness. No matter which spatial (granular, supergranular, active region) and temporal scale we look at buoyant magnetic field coming from the convection zone pierces the photosphere in the form of two opposite polarities and travels upwards through the solar atmosphere. We will describe the general characteristics... Ada Ortiz Carbonell |
09/06/2015 - 14:30
Massive Star Formation at the Puerto Varas Workshop The recent decades have witnessed major advances in our understanding of the formation of solar-mass stars. However, the formation mechanisms of stars at the extremes of the mass range, that is, on one hand very massive stars and in the other brown dwarfs, remain poorly understood. I will summarize the main results presented in a recent meeting on massive star formation that took place in Puerto Varas,... Luis F. Rodriguez |
28/05/2015 - 17:00
Historia del descubrimiento de la gestación de un jet protoestelar Hace dieciocho años descubrimos de forma casual una protoestrella, o embrión estelar, con unas diez veces más masa que el Sol. José María Torrelles |
28/05/2015 - 14:30
Observing the onset of outflow collimation in a massive protostar: assembling the puzzle The current paradigm of star formation through accretion disks, and magnetohydrodynamically driven gas ejections, predicts the development of collimated outflows, rather than expansion without any preferential direction. We present radio continuum observations of the massive protostar W75N(B)-VLA 2, showing that it is a thermal, collimated ionized wind and that it has evolved in 18 years from a compact source into an elongated one. This... José María Torrelles |
24/05/2015 - 28/05/2015
Polarization in the Sun, the Solar System, and Beyond Granada |
21/05/2015 - 22/05/2015
Amazing science with CARMENES Granada |
18/05/2015 - 23/05/2015
3rd SOLARNET School on "Solar Magnetic Fields: Modeling and Measuring Techniques" Granada |
14/05/2015 - 14:30
ASKAP Commissioning and Early Science The Australian Square Kilometre Array Pathfinder (ASKAP) is a new generation low frequency (700-1800 MHz) interferometer capable of a wide instantaneous field of view of 30 square degrees, which is realised with the Phased Array Feed (PAF) technology. The first stage of the instrument, which consists of 6 first generation PAFs and is called Boolardy Enigeering Test Array (BETA), has been brought into operations... Maxim Voronkov |
11/05/2015 - 13/05/2015
Workshop estallidos 2015: census and fundamental properties of star-forming galaxies Granada |
06/05/2015 - 15:00
Observaciones radiointerferométricas de discos de transición Los discos de transición son discos protoplanetarios con cavidades o huecos en sus zonas internas. Se han sugerido varios mecanismos para explica estas cavidades. El más aceptado y apoyado tanto por simulaciones como por observaciones es el del vaciado de material debido a la interacción gravitatoria del disco con un planeta recién formado. En esta charla explicaré cuáles son los rasgos observacionales característicos de los diferentes... Enrique Macías - Sala de Juntas del Instituto de Astrofísica de Andalucía (IAA-CSIC) |
30/04/2015 - 17:00
Agujeros negros: observando lo invisible Un agujero negro absorbe todo lo que está a su alrededor, incluida la luz, por lo podríamos decir que es un objeto invisible. Sin embargo, sí pueden detectarse sus efectos debido al intenso campo gravitatorio que genera. Antxon Alberdi |
30/04/2015 - 14:30
Seven Solutions: industria para las grandes infraestructuras científicas en Granada Seven Solutions es una compañía tecnológica con amplia experiencia diseño de electrónica, software empotrado y mecánica. Colabora con empresas como Indra, Thales, Cibernos, Siemens o National Instruments. Seven Solutions cuenta con una dilatada experiencia en el campo de la industria de la ciencia, participando activamente en iniciativas open hardware como el OHWR.org.... Javier Díaz Alonso |
16/04/2015 - 14:30
The San Pedro Mártir observatory and its UBVRI photometric survey of Galactic clusters A short presentation of the San Pedro Martir Observatory will be given including its astroclimatic characteristics and its projects for the near future. I will then present the current status of our ongoing survey aimed at generating a homogeneous catalogue of physical parameters of stellar clusters in our Galaxy. It is expected that this data will allow the study of the properties of the galactic disk more accurately and reliability, helping... Raul Michel Murillo |
09/04/2015 - 14:30
Ionized gas in the CALIFA galaxies We present here the most recent results we have obtained in our exploration of the gas abundances using the IFU data from the CALIFA survey. Using our own developed tools we have extracted the ionized gas properties of ~10.000 HII regions, in order to explore: (i) the relation between these properties and those of the host galaxies and the underlying stellar population; (ii) the local relation between the gas... Sebastian Sanchez |
26/03/2015 - 18:00
Astronomía y literatura ¿Tiene sentido esta mezcla? A tenor de las páginas que ya existen en la red, incluso parece que la idea está muy extendida. ¿Qué hace la Astronomía y qué hace la Literatura? En ambos casos, el científico y el escritor tratan de darnos su visión del mundo, son aproximaciones humanas a un entorno desconocido y a veces desconcertante. El primero trata de explicar, el segundo de conmover, pero ambos conmueven y explican. Emilio J. Alfaro y Susana Escudero |
26/03/2015 - 13:30
FROM ALHAMBRA TO JAVALAMBRE. A SCIENTIFIC PROJECT The Observatorio Astrofísico de Javalambre, with its 2 very wide field telescopes has been purposely built to conduct large scale surveys. The use of medium-narrow band filters, pioneered by the ALHAMBRA project, will produce a low resolution spectrum of every pixel in the sky. The first defined projects, J-PLUS@T80 and J-PAS@T250 are driven by the study of the nearby Universe and the study of dark energy... Prof. Mariano Moles Villamate |
25/03/2015 - 17:00
Charla especial en recuerdo a Manuel Félix. El fotón viajero: un paseo por los planetas. Manuel Félix Herrera Gómez hizo el Trabajo Fin de Máster (TFM) con el grupo de José Luis Ortiz y empezó su tesis en el grupo de Manuel Lopez Puertas. Con motivo de recordar su memoria los estudiantes de doctorado del Instituto de Astrofísica de Andalucía hemos querido que las charlas realizadas por nosotros lleven su nombre. Además, en 2003 tuvo lugar el descubrimiento del asteroide 2003 ES desde el Observatorio de Sierra Nevada,... Francisco José Pozuelos Romero, Estela del Mar Fernández Valenzuela y Zaira Modroño Berdiñas - Salón de Actos del Instituto de Astrofísica de Andalucía (IAA-CSIC) |
12/03/2015 - 13:30
AirPlay Service The Computer Center has launched a new service called AirPlay with aim of provide the users the projection of multimedia contents via wireless (WiFi). This will allow to make presentations from laptops or mobile devices without the need of any wiring connection, contributing greater ease and mobility to the speaker. In this seminar will explain the configuration and use procedures of the AirPlay service for devices with Android, iOS, OS X,... Francisco Manuel Bayo Muñoz |
05/03/2015 - 13:30
Understanding the obscuring torus and the nuclear star formation of AGN using GTC/CanariCam observations The fueling of black holes occurring in active galactic nuclei (AGN) is fundamental to the evolution of galaxies. AGN themselves are largely explained in the context of a unified theory, by which a geometrically and optically thick torus of gas and dust obscures the AGN central engine. The torus intercepts a substantial amount of flux from the central engine and and reradiates it in the infrared. There are still many... Almudena Alonso-Herrero |
26/02/2015 - 18:00
¿Por qué nos importan las formas de las galaxias? Las galaxias aparecen en el universo con formas distintas (unas son más esféricas, otras elípticas, espirales, o totalmente irregulares), y con una gran diversidad de estructuras (bulbos, discos, barras nucleares, brazos espirales, anillos, colas, etc). Estudiar estas propiedades morfológicas de las galaxias es justamente uno de los parámetros clave para entender cómo se forman y evolucionan. Mirjana Povic |
19/02/2015 - 13:30
FORMATION AND EVOLUTION OF COSMIC DUST: THE NANOCOSMOS PROJECT Evolved stars are the factories of cosmic dust. This dust is made of tiny grains that are injected into the interstellar medium and plays a key role in the evolution of astronomical objects from galaxies to the embryos of planets. However, the fundamental processes involved in dust formation and evolution are still a mystery. The aim of the NANOCOSMOS project is to take advantage of the new ... J. Cernicharo, C. Joblin & J.A. Gago |
16/02/2015 - 13:30
Activity and Evolution of Oort Cloud Comets Comets formed early in the evolution of the solar system while material was accreting to form planets. When proto-planets became large enough, a population of comets was dynamically ejected into the Oort cloud. Comets entering the inner solar system for the first time are called dynamically new comets. These objects have not been heated by the Sun and retain some of the most primordial material available for observation in the solar system... Dr. Dennis Bodewits |
29/01/2015 - 18:00
Historia de un planeta canijo (o elogio de la soberbia)” La misión Solar Orbiter ocupa el lugar M1 del programa Cosmic Vision de la ESA. Se trata de una nave que orbitará el Sol con órbitas muy elípticas cuya mínima distancia al Sol será tan pequeña como la del radio medio de la órbita de Mercurio: tan solo un 30 % de la distancia entre la Tierra y el Sol. Dichas órbitas, además, se elevarán del plano de la eclíptica hasta 35º con lo que ofrecerán una visión inédita de los polos del Sol. Jose Carlos del Toro Iniesta |
18/12/2014 - 18:00
Visitamos un cometa. El éxito de la misión Rosetta Tras recorrer casi seis mil cuatrocientos millones de kilómetros a través del Sistema Solar, la sonda Rosetta (ESA) ha completado varios hitos en la exploración espacial: despertó con éxito tras meses en hibernación, se colocó en órbita en torno al cometa 67P/Churyumov-Gerasimenko y liberó un módulo robótico, Philae, que se posó sobre el núcleo del cometa... Pedro J. Gutiérrez y José Juan López Moreno |
11/12/2014 - 13:30
Structural properties of isolated galaxies Distinct components of galaxies are products of internal and environmental processes throughout their lifetimes. Disentangling these processes is an important issue for understanding how galaxies form and evolve. In this context isolated galaxies represent a fruitful population to explore as they should be mainly affected by internal processes (minimal merger/accretion/tidal effects). I will present the structural analysis of a representative... Mirian Fernández Lorenzo |
04/12/2014 - 13:30
GLORIA: Global Robotic Intelligent Array for e-science GLORIA is an FP7 project (UE-funded in 2011-14) hosted by 14 institutions (including several Spanish OPIs and Universities) based on a collaborative web 2.0 which allows to access 14 robotic telescopes worldwide with a diameter in the range 0.25-0.60 m. The goal is to grant the GLORIA users community (from citizens to amateur astronomers) participation in Citizen Science activities. To achieve this, experiments have... Prof. Dr. Alberto J. Castro-Tirado |
04/12/2014 - 13:30
GLORIA: Global Robotic Intelligent Array for e-science Dr. Alberto J. Castro-Tirado |
28/11/2014 - 17:00
75 aniversario CSIC. Sesión con cinco investigadores Para conocer mejor al principal organismo público de investigación en España, hablarán sus protagonistas, algunos de los científicos y científicas que en el hacen investigación. CSIC |
27/11/2014 - 13:30
Energetic transients as a part of time domain astronomy in TMT era Study of energetic cosmic explosions as a part of time domain astronomyis one of the key areas that could be pursued with upcoming Giant segmented optical-IR telescopes with a very large photon collecting area applying cutting edge technology. Existing 8-10m class telescopes have been helpful to improve our knowledge about Core-Collapse Supernovae, Gamma-ray Bursts and nature of their progenitors and explosion... S. B. Pandey |
24/11/2014 - 13:30
First results from SDSS IV - MaNGA Large spectroscopic surveys of nearby galaxies (like the Sloan Digital Sky Survey) have shaped our understanding of galaxy evolution. However, to gain insight into the processes shaping the various galactic sub-components, a three-dimensional view (giving access to both spatial and spectral information) is necessary. In recent years, integral field spectroscopy (IFS) surveys of the nearby Universe (Sauron, CALIFA, Sami) are filling in this... Francesco Belfiore |
20/11/2014 - 13:00
An ALMA view on the compact obscured nuclei of luminous IR galaxies Until recently, the study of the molecular interstellar medium of galaxies has been mostly focused on a few, relatively abundant, molecular species. Recent attempts at modeling the molecular emission of active galaxies have shown that standard high-density tracers do not provide univocal results and are not able to discriminate between different relevant environments (e.g., star-formation vs AGN). Spectral lines surveys allow us to explore... Francesco Costagliola |
13/11/2014 - 13:30
Unveiling the Massive Stars in the Galactic Centre Because of the proximity, the Galactic Centre is an unique lab for studies of the interplay between stars, ISM and super massive black holes in galactic nuclei. The central 200 pc of the Galactic Centre includes 4x10^7 molecular clouds and has a star formation rate of ~0.03 M/yr. Three young, massive and compact star clusters were found and includes around 100 massive stars, which shape the nearby ISM. However, the... Dr. Hui Dong |
30/10/2014 - 18:00
La cuna de la vida: cómo se forman las estrellas y los planetas Hace casi veinte años que se descubrió el primer exoplaneta, pero desde mucho antes los astrónomos que estudiamos cómo se forman la estrellas ya teníamos evidencias de que otras estrellas como el Sol podían estar rodeadas de sistemas planetarios. Las estrellas se forman a partir del colapso de nubes enormes de gas y polvo. En este proceso, la estrella acaba rodeada de un disco en rotación a su alrededor. Mayra Osorio |
30/10/2014 - 13:30
The non-thermal universe at the highest energies: TeV gamma-ray astronomy with the MAGIC telescope Some os the most violent processed in the universe present a non-thermal spectrum reaching energies of several tens of TeV. Due to the low fluxes at these energies, we need a technique capable to achieve collection areas of the order of the km^2. This can be reached by the Imaging Atmospheric Cherenkov technique and MAGIC is one of the main detectors for performing ground-based observations using this technique. It consists of two 17m... Rubén López-Coto |
23/10/2014 - 23/10/2014
Spanish SKA Day Granada |
22/10/2014 - 14:30
High Frequency Astrometry and Pulsar Studies with the Korean VLBI Network Maria Rioja will report on the Korean VLBI Network (KVN), the first dedicated mm-VLBI array. The 3 telescopes have an innovative multifrequency receiver that allows for simultaneous observations at 22, 43, 86 &129GHz. With care these can be phase referenced to allow astrometry at these frequencies. I will show our first results of phase referencing at 132GHz and the path to compatible global VLBI. Richard Dodson will discuss a... María Rioja and Richard Dodson |
17/10/2014 - 09:30
Monte Carlo models of the dust environment of a sample of comets from the Oort Cloud to the outer main asteroid belt En esta tesis presentamos nuestros estudios realizados sobre diferentes familias cometarias. Veremos resultados sobre la Familia de Júpiter, población a la que pertenece el objetivo de la actual misión Rosetta, el 67P/C-G. Estudios llevados a cabo para poder determinar el mecanismo de activación de los misteriosos cometas del Cinturón Principal, los cuales podrían encerrar las claves para entender... Francisco Pozuelos - Sala de Juntas del Instituto de Astrofísica de Andalucía (IAA-CSIC) |
16/10/2014 - 14:30
The Fingerprint of a Galactic Nucleus: A Multi-Wavelength, High-Angular Resolution, Near Infrared Study of the Centre of the Milky Way The centre of the Milky Way is the only galactic nucleus and the most extreme astrophysical environment that we can examine on scales of milli-parsecs. It is therefore a crucial laboratory for studying galactic nuclei and their role in the context of galaxy evolution. Yet, suitable data that would allow us to examine the stellar component of the Galactic Centre exist for less than 1% of its projected area. This ERC-funded research programme... Dr. Rainer Schödel |
15/10/2014 - 15:00
X-ray emission from hot bubbles in Nebulae around Evolved Stars I present the observational and numerical results of my phd thesis developed in the past three years. These results account for high-quality X-ray observations of diffuse X-ray emission in Wolf-Rayet nebulae and planetary nebulae (PNe) in comparison with optical and infrared observations. Our numerical simulations were tailored to study the formation, evolution, and X-ray emission from PNe. These results help us study the role of instabilities... Jesús A. Toalá - Sala de Juntas del Instituto de Astrofísica de Andalucía (IAA-CSIC) |
15/10/2014 - 14:30
OCTOCAM: Proposal for a multichannel imager and spectrograph with high-time-resolution capabilities for the 8.1m Gemini telescopes OCTOCAM is a multichannel imager and spectrograph that we will be proposing in the months to come for the 8.1m Gemini telescopes, in response to a call for feasibility studies of new instruments that has been recently opened. It will use dichroics to split the incoming light to obtain simultaneous observations in 8 different bands, from the ultraviolet to the near infrared. In its imaging mode, it will have a field of view of around 3'x3... Dr. Antonio de Ugarte Postigo |