09/07/2019 - 12:30
The Orientation of the Collimated Outflows of Planetary Nebula: Independence Day The discovery of collimated outflows in planetary nebulae (PNe) has changed the paradigm of PN formation. They actively participate in the nebular shaping immediately before or while fast stellar winds and D-type ionization fronts shock and swept the nebular envelope. The general properties of collimated outflows of PNe cannot be studied because projection effects do not allow us to determine their space velocities and linear sizes. The large... Jackeline Suzett Rechy Garcia & Martin A. Guerrero |
17/05/2019 - 12:30
TIDES, PLANETARY WAVES, AND ATMOSPHERIC COUPLING A growing number of studies report linkages between unrelated stratospheric and upper atmospheric phenomena. For example, stratospheric warmings correlate with ionospheric perturbations, and with reductions in polar mesospheric cloud occurrence. Understanding these so-called teleconnections is important for prediction of the near-space environment, and interpreting global change proxies. Tides and planetary waves are important agents for... Dr. Ruth Lieberman |
19/06/2019 - 11:00
SO Colloquia: Searching extended line-emission objects in wide-field surveys: The IPHAS experience One of the problems we are facing in the study of evolved low- and intermediate-mass stars such as Planetary Nebulae (PNe) is the lack of completeness. Most known PNe belong to the bright or intermediate part of the luminosity function, leaving out those at the faint end. Any global chemical, kinematical, and physical analysis of the PN population is therefore biased. In 2003 the INT Photometric Halpha Survey started scanning the... Dra. Laurence Sabin |
13/06/2019 - 12:30
SO Colloquium: Back to Orion Orion is the massive star formation region closest to the Sun and in consequence it has been studied in detail. I will present three recent results from the IRyA group on this region. The first one is the ultraprecise determination of the distance to Orion using VLBI observations of stars with non-thermal emission. The second result is a study of the kinematics of the stars with either termal or non-thermal emission. Finally, we will focus on... Dr. Luis F. Rodríguez |
06/05/2019
La ciencia, de nuevo, en la Feria del Libro Programación de ciencia en la Feria del Libro 2019 de Granada |
07/06/2019 - 12:30
The Very Large Array Sky Survey (VLASS) and the next generation Very Large Array (ngVLA) The VLASS is part of a new generation of radio sky surveys. It covers the entire sky above -40 degrees declination. Observations started with the Karl G. Jansky Very Large Array in 2017 and the first epoch covering the entire survey area will be completed by July 2019. This will be followed by two more complete passes with an anticipated completion by 2024. In comparison to previous surveys, the observations are performed at 2-4 GHz and at... Dr. Frank Schinzel |
25/04/2019 - 19:00
La primera imagen de un agujero negro El Telescopio Horizonte de Sucesos (EHT por sus siglas en inglés), un telescopio de escala planetaria, constituido por ocho radiotelescopios y forjado gracias a una colaboración internacional, fue diseñado con el objetivo de capturar las primeras imágenes de agujeros negros. En una serie de conferencias de prensa internacionales simultáneas celebradas el pasado 10 de abril, investigadores del EHT revelaban que han tenido éxito y mostraban la... José Luis Gómez |
22/04/2019
El European Planetary Science Congress 2020 se celebrará en Granada Hoy se ha difundido, en el Ayuntamiento de Granada, la propuesta de investigadores del IAA, de la ESAC y del Palacio de Congresos para que la mayor reunión europea sobre ciencias planetarias se desarrolle en Granada |
03/05/2019 - 12:30
An ionised bubble before the epoch of re-ionisation In a search for Lyman Alpha sources around two spectroscopically confirmed star forming sources in the Subaru Deep Field, we have found some 45 low luminosity star forming galaxies. We find that these sources form a proto-cluster. Moreover, they reside in an ionised bubble of at least 12000 cMpc^3. Dr. Jose Miguel Rodriguez Espinosa |
31/10/2019 - 12:30
SO-IAA Colloquium: Neutral and molecular gas outflows as tracers of the impact of radio jets Our view of the gas and its physical conditions in the central region of AGN has been enriched by the discover of fast and massive outflows of HI and molecular gas. These outflows can be driven by radiation/winds but also by the interaction of the radio plasma with the ISM. Understanding the origin and quantifying their impact requires to trace their location and derive their physical conditions (density of the gas, mass, mass outflow rate and... Dr. Raffaella Morganti |
08/04/2019
Telescopio del Horizonte de Sucesos. Presentación de resultados Este miercoles, día 10 de abril, a las 14:30 horas (hora peninsular) se podrá seguir via streaming desde el Salón de actos del IAA-CSIC la rueda de prensa de presentación de los resultados del consorcio internacional Telescopio Horizonte de Sucesos (EHT por sus siglas en inglés). La entrada es abierta a público general y libre (hasta completar aforo) |
04/04/2019 - 12:30
Is there still hope for discovering new physics in the Euclid era? The new generation of cosmological surveys like DESI, J-PAS and Euclid will measure the effect of dark energy on the expansion history of the universe. They will obtain optical and NIR spectra for tens of millions of galaxies and quasars, constructing a 3-D map spanning the nearby universe to 10 billion light-years, and will provide an accurate determination of the distance-redshift relation. I will review the latest distance scale measurements... Dr. Francisco Prada |
28/03/2019 - 19:00
Supervientos: huracanes galácticos Los supervientos galácticos, fenómenos comunes en las galaxias, son capaces de liberar una extraordinaria cantidad de energía y transportar material a grandes distancias. Su influencia sobre la galaxia anfitriona puede resultar de gran importacia, hasta el punto de que la formación de estos “huracanes galácticos” puede, incluso, determinar la vida de las galaxias. El estudio de estos fenómenos nos aporta algunas claves para resolver los enigmas... Sara Cazzoli |
27/06/2019 - 12:30
Stellar Tidal Streams in Nearby Galaxies as Dark Matter Probes Mergers and tidal interactions between massive galaxies and their dwarf satellites are a fundamental prediction of the Lambda-Cold Dark Matter cosmology. These events are thought to influence galaxy evolution throughout cosmic history and to provide important observational diagnostics of nonlinear structure formation. Thin stellar streams in the Milky Way and Andromeda galaxies are spectacular evidence for satellite disruption at the... Dr. David Martinez-Delgado |
21/03/2019 - 12:30
Primer Plan de igualdad del IAA El objetivo de esta charla es presentar a todo el Instituto el I Plan de Igualdad de género. Plantearé las motivaciones y necesidades de contar con un plan de igualdad en un instituto de investigación, cuando ya el CSIC está preparando su III Plan de Igualdad. Revisaré los objetivos y marco de actuación de los planes del CSIC y mi visión de cómo el nuestro se hace para complementar algunas acciones no contempladas dentro de esa estructura... Dra. Josefa Masegosa |
26/02/2019
Convocatoria de los premios Granada, Ciudad de la Ciencia y La Innovación Promovidos por la "Mesa por la Ciencia", que coordina el Ayuntamiento de Granada y en la que participa el IAA, los galardones “Granada, Ciudad de la Ciencia y la Innovación” se crean con el objetivo de reconocer y divulgar la actividad científica en el ámbito de la ciudad de Granada |
18/06/2018 - 12:30
Large-IFS for CAHA & LUCA: Local Universe from Calar Alto LoI for new instruments for 3.5m Telescope F. Prada, E. Perez-Jimenez, R. Gonzalez Delgado, R. Garcia Benito |
07/02/2019
Día Internacional de la Mujer y la Niña en la Ciencia El Instituto de Astrofísica de Andalucía se suma a la celebración del Día Internacional de la Mujer y la Niña en la Ciencia, que busca visibilizar la labor científica de las mujeres y fomentar las vocaciones en las niñas |
19/02/2019 - 12:00
Instrument development at the AAO The AAO is a consortium of three Australian instrumentation groups, based at Macquarie University, University of Sydney, and the Australian National University. Collectively, the consortium has delivered hundreds of instrument projects for astronomy, for our own telescopes and internationally. We have particular expertise in fibre positioners and fibre systems, spectrographs, astro-photonics, and adaptive optics. I will give an... Jon Lawrence |
09/05/2019 - 12:30
Nonlinear dynamics of space and astrophysical plasmas Solar atmosphere and solar wind provide a unique laboratory for understanding the nonlinear dynamics of space and astrophysical plasmas. A quantitative analysis of the reconnection condition and the degree of intermittency reveals that rope–rope magnetic reconnection is the most likely site for genesis of interplanetary intermittency turbulence in this event. The dynamic pressure pulse resulting from this reconnection triggers the onset of a... Prof. Abraham Chian |
28/03/2019 - 12:30
CTA: the Cherenkov Telescope Observatory for VHE Gamma Ray astronomy The Cherenkov Telescope Array (CTA), currently in construction, shall be the Cherenkov Telescope Observatory for VHE Gamma Ray Astronomy, and shall provide crucial data for the understanding of the extreme universe in the recently open multimessenger era. The goals and characteristics of the project will be reviewed, and the current status and plans presented. In addition, the crucial role of the Spanish community in this project will be... Manel Martinez |
16/05/2019 - 12:30
Active Galactic Nuclei and their large-scale structure: an eROSITA mock catalogue I will present in this talk a methodology to construct mock catalogs for X-ray selected AGN samples based on dark matter only N-body simulations. With this method, we predict observed AGN magnitudes in the UV, optical and NIR bands, by adopting a set of empirical spectral energy distributions. Dr. Johan Comparat |
25/04/2019 - 12:30
Cosmic Dust in Planetary Atmospheres In this seminar I will describe the results of a large study designed to determine the input rate of cosmic dust to the terrestrial atmosphere, using a self-consistent treatment of cosmic dust from the outer solar system to the Earth’s surface. John Plane |
13/03/2019 - 12:30
Signatures of a jet cocoon in early spectra of a supernova associated with a gamma-ray burst Thanks to a detailed observational monitoring and an accurate spectral synthesis analysis of the early phases of SN 2017iuk, we conclude that these features originate from the mildly relativistic hot cocoon that is generated by the GRB ultra-relativistic jet, while it is expanding and decelerating into the medium surrounding the progenitor star. Dr. Luca Izzo |
31/01/2019 - 19:00
Metano en Marte: ¿de qué estamos hablando? Revisamos las evidencias de la existencia de metano en Marte y sus posibles implicaciones José Juan López Moreno |
08/01/2019
100 HORAS DE ASTRONOMÍA en el IAA Este año 2019, la Unión Astronómica Internacional (IAU- https://www.iau.org/), el máximo organismo internacional en Astronomía, cumple 100 años. Por este motivo a lo largo del año se van a realizar toda una serie de eventos y actividades de divulgación astronómica. En el IAA tendrá lugar una jornada de puertas abiertas el próximo 11 de enero |
10/01/2019 - 12:30
The road to the Square Kilometre Array New and existing facilities operating at submm-to-m wavelengths are shedding new light on the formation of planets, black holes, and even the first galaxies. These telescopes provide the test bed for the technological advancements required to build the next generation of large radio telescopes, like the Square Kilometre Array (SKA). Dr. Jeff Wagg |
07/03/2019 - 12:30
High-velocity Molecular Clouds near the Galactic Center The central region of our Galaxy contains a huge amount of molecular gas. This region is often referred to as the "central molecular zone (CMZ)". The recent ALMA observations toward this HVCC revealed orbital motions around an invisible massive object, which is probably an intermediate-mass black hole. Yuhei Iwata |
13/12/2018 - 19:00
Inteligencia artificial y big data: el poder de los datos Inteligencia artificial y big data: el poder de los datos. Conferencia de divulgación Francisco Herrera |
13/02/2019 - 12:30
THOT: Dating stars Life, planets, exoplanetary systems, stars, and our galaxy evolve with time, and the best and sometimes only way for understanding this evolution is dating stars. THOT is a Marie Curie Project devoted to gathering and updating all the stellar dating techniques into a single computational tool. In this presentation, I will present some of the most promising techniques for stellar dating, and show the current main contributions of this project (... Dr. Andres Moya |
29/11/2018 - 19:00
La constante de Hubble-Lemaître: ¿de verdad es una constante? La Unión Astronómica Internacional recomendaba recientemente, tras un debate abierto, que el ritmo de expansión del universo, denominado tradicionalmente "constante de Hubble", se denomine a partir de ahora "constante de Hubble-Lemaître". Emilio J. Alfaro |
15/11/2018 - 12:30
The habitability of stagnant-lid Earths around dwarf stars We show that Earth-like stagnant-lid planets allow for habitable surface conditions within a continuous habitable zone that is dependent on interior composition. Dra. Mareike Godolt |
08/11/2018 - 12:30
What we (don't) know about the trans-Neptunian objects The first trans-Neptunian object was discovered in 1930 and we waited over 60 years to discover the second one. The discovery of Albion (a.k.a. 1992QB1) enticed the minor bodies community to characterize the new population, called collectively as trans-Neptunian objects (TNOs). Today we know the existence of over 2,000 objects and counting. Nevertheless, it seems that we have reached our technological limitation in terms of observational studies... Dr. Alvaro Alvarez-Candal |
25/10/2018 - 19:00
El puzzle de Arp299. Agujeros negros que devoran estrellas En enero de 2005 se detectaba, en el núcleo de la galaxia en proceso de fusión Arp 299-B, un brillante destello que se consideró una explosión supernova. Sin embargo, diez años de observaciones en distintas longitudes de onda han permitido presenciar cómo la región luminosa se alargaba y expandía, y concluir que se trata de un chorro de material expulsado por el agujero negro supermasivo central de la galaxia tras desgarrar una estrella. Miguel Ángel Pérez-Torres |
29/11/2018 - 12:30
Spirals, rings and arcs around evolved stars We searched the complete archive of the HST and Spitzer to characterise rings and arcs around evolved low-mass stars (AGB stars, proto-PNe and PNe), study their physical properties and address their formation mechanisms. In this talk, we present the observational results of our survey, the predictions of simple radiation-hydrodynamic simulations as well as the future of the project. Dr. Jesús Toala |
22/11/2018 - 12:30
Time variable processes of Sagittarius A*, the massive black hole at the centre of the Milky Way Date: 22/11/2018 . 12:30 hrs Speaker: Dr. Gunther Witzel Affiliation: Max-Planck-Institute for Radioastronomy, Bonn, Germany. Dr. Gunther Witzel |
07/02/2019 - 12:30
Mars UV atmospheric emissions In this talk we will summarize our recent analysis of observations performed by the instrument SPICAM on the Mars Express mission on the dayside of the planet, and by the instrument IUVS on board MAVEN on the nightside of the planet. Dr. Francisco González Galindo |
13/12/2018 - 12:30
RESULTS FROM THE RADIOASTRON AGN POLARIZATION KSP: A LIMB-BRIGHTENED JET IN 3C273 The RadioAstron active galactic nuclei (AGN) polarization Key Science Project (KSP) aims at exploiting the unprecedented angular resolution provided by RadioAstron to study jet launching/collimation and magnetic-field configuration in AGN jets. The targets of our KSP are some of the most powerful blazars in the sky. I will present observations at 1.4 GHz and 22 GHz of 3C273, performed in 2014, designed to reach a maximum baseline of... Gabriele Bruni |
12/04/2019 - 12:30
Imaging a black hole with the Event Horizon Telescope We have imaged the shadow of the central black hole in the radiogalaxy M87. This required assembling the Event Horizon Telescope, a global VLBI array observing at a wavelength of 1.3 mm capable of achieving an angular resolution of 20 microarcsecond (uas). We have resolved the central region of M87 into an asymmetric bright emission ring with a diameter of 42+-3 uas, which is circular and encompass a central depression in brightness with a flux... Dr. Jose Luis Gómez |
17/01/2019 - 12:30
AGN TORUS DETECTABILITY AT SUB-MILLIMETER WAVELENGTHS: WHAT TO EXPECT FROM ALMA CONTINUUM DATA In this talk I will show you a study on the detectability of the emission associated with the AGN dusty structure at sub-mm wavelengths using ALMA, in a theoretical and observational way. Dr. Alice Pasetto |
24/01/2019 - 12:30
Observing Planet Formation with the VLA in the era of ALMA In only four years, ALMA has radically changed the field of planet formation. We are currently obtaining very detailed images of the dust emission in protoplanetary disks with an unprecedent sensitivity and high angular resolution. Dr. Carlos Carrasco |
21/02/2019 - 12:30
Planck Cosmological Legacy: the next CMB polarization experiments The results and products derived from the third and final release of data from the Planck mission will be reviewed with emphasis on the implications for cosmology. Prof. Enrique Martinez |
27/09/2018 - 12:30
ASKAP and HI in Galaxies I will divide my talk into three parts, starting with an overview of CSIRO’s Australia Telescope National Facility (ATNF), especially our telescopes (ASKAP... Baerbel Koribalski |
18/10/2018 - 12:30
An unusual autumn Elevated Stratopause Event (ESE) IAA Seminar Date: 18/10/2018 . 12:30 hrs Speaker: Dr. Maya Garcia Comas Dr. Maya García Comás |
11/10/2018 - 12:30
The planetary nebula HuBi 1, a rebel with a cause Planetary nebulae, the descendants of low- and intermediate-mass stars, have characteristic onion-like ionization structure, with the highest ionization species closer to the central star. This is true for all planetary nebulae, but HuBi 1, which shows an inverted ionization inner shell. There is a reason for this oddity, a peculiar stellar evolution of its central star, which makes HuBi 1 the missing link of the population of cool C-rich... Dr. Martin Guerrero |
06/09/2018 - 12:30
Optical spectroscopy of local type-1 AGN LINERs The Balmer emission originated in the broad line region (BLR) of active galactic nuclei (AGNs) could be either weak and difficult to detect, or even absent, for low luminosity AGNs, as low ionization nuclear emission-line regions (LINERs). This makes LINERs challenging to fit in the AGN unification scheme. Moreover, a long debate can be found in the literature proposing different ionization sources at the origin of optical emission lines and no... Dr. Sara Cazzoli |
25/10/2018 - 12:30
The Arp299B-AT1 puzzle: First resolved imaging of a tidal disruption event Date: 25/10/2018 . 12:30 hrs Speaker: Dr. Miguel Angel Pérez-Torres Affiliation: IAA-CSIC, Spain Dr. Miguel Angel Pérez-Torres |
25/06/2018
Este verano, súbete a un observatorio Abierto el plazo de reservas para las visitas de verano al Observatorio de Sierra Nevada y a la radioantena de 30 metros IRAM |
28/06/2018 - 19:00
¡Haumea me hizo un guiño! El increíble planeta enano Haumea Un guiño estelar a 7600 millones de kilómetros: el increible planeta enano Haumea Pablo Santos Sanz |
28/06/2018 - 12:30
Extreme quasars at high redshift The study of the AGN accreting close to the Eddington limit (L/LEdd~1) has taken an important role, due to their potential use as standard candles for cosmological applications. With the purpose to understand the physics of extreme quasar, we perform a spectroscopic analysis of a sample of highly accreting quasars at high redshift (z~2–3). Our sample were observed with the OSIRIS spectrograph on the GTC 10.4 m telescope located at the... Dr. Maryloli Martinez Aldama |
13/09/2018 - 12:30
The peculiar case of the active galactic nuclei in PBC J2333.9-2343 Under unification schemes, active galactic nuclei (AGN) can be explained by orientation effects. However, some sources show properties at different frequencies that led to incongruent classifications and cannot be explained by such unification scheme. This is the case of PBC J2333.9-2343; its optical spectrum is of a type 2 AGN but its X-ray spectrum does not show signs of absorption, and in the radio it has many features typical of a blazar but... Dr. Lorena Hernández-García |
20/09/2018 - 12:30
Slender CaiiH fibrils observed by SUNRISE II The special observing conditions of the SUNRISE observatory allow obtaining observations in the UV with unprecedented temporal stability and spatial resolution. On its second scientific flight, the Sunrise Filter Imager (SUFI) was used to record a time series of narrow-band intensity images in the CaiiH line for approximately one hour at a cadence of 7 seconds. This unique dataset enabled us to characterize the morphological properties of 598... Dr. Ricardo Gafeira |
08/10/2018 - 11/10/2018
14th EVN Symposium & Users Meeting Granada |
24/05/2018 - 19:00
Sonificación, la sinfonía de las estrellas En esta charla introduciremos el sonido como superposición de ondas mecánicas cuyas frecuencias dependen del tamaño y de las propiedades de la cuerda o cavidad del instrumento que la produce. Comentaremos la analogía entre una estrella y un instrumento musical. Javier Pascual y Sebastiano de Franciscis |
28/05/2018 - 30/05/2018
VI Meeting on Fundamental Cosmology Granada |
17/05/2018 - 12:30
The Empirical Grounds of Supernova-Gamma-ray Burst connection I will review the status of the SN-GRB connection. Present data suggest that SNe associated with GRBs form a heterogeneous class of objects including both bright and faint Hypernovae. Some of the special conditions requested by a massive star to become a GRB are discussed. Prof. Massimo Della Valle |
14/06/2018 - 12:30
PLATO: de cazar a domesticar sistemas planetarios Today, stellar and planetary physics enjoy an unprecedented boost thanks to space technology. From the first missions such as MOST and CoRoT, to Kepler / K2 and the recently launched TESS, hundreds of new exoplanets have been detected by photometric transits, and thousands more are to be confirmed. The main objective of these missions are to find new planetary systems, around other stars similar to our Sun. Logical detection bias due to... Dr. Juan Carlos Suárez |
07/06/2018 - 12:30
Physical and statistical properties of High Frequency Peaked blazars In the class of active galactic nuclei (AGNs), blazars are the most extreme objects, with their relativistic jets closely aligned to our line-of-sight. The emission of blazars is mostly non-thermal, spanning the entire electromagnetic spectrum, and is often linearly polarized providing us with important insights on the magnetic field structure. An emerging radio-loud AGN population is represented by high synchrotron peaked (HSP) blazars,... Dr. Lico |
10/09/2018 - 13/09/2018
HINODE - 12 THE MANY SUNS Granada |
10/05/2018 - 12:30
Stellar activity blurring our insight into the properties of exoplanets Stellar activity can provide important information regarding the structure, evolution, and the atmosphere of the stars, as well as their magnetic filed and mechanisms that generate them. On the other hand stellar activity introduces severe astrophysical noise in the collected data in the quest for what might be called Earth 2.0. In this talk, I will present main obstacles and difficulties which stellar activity poses on the detection and... Dr. Mahmoudreza Oshagh |
26/04/2018 - 12:30
Lightning – from Its Base to Space Lightning has been studied for centuries with surprisingly meager progress since the early breakthroughs of Franklin. There are numerous reasons for this lack of progress: lightning is complex, it is very energetic with large peak power - hard for in-situ probes to survive, it is spatially and temporally sparse – hard to place a sensor in an optimal location. However, modern technological advances and innovations have led to new remote... Prof. Hugh Christian |
18/04/2018 - 12:30
Recreating the Early Mass-Loss Histories of pre Planetary Nebulae Hubble images of the amazing symmetries of young planetary nebulae have captured the imagination of the public. Scientifically, unravelling the physics of their ejection histories is the ultimate goal. I will present detailed surprisingly simple hydro outflow models that capture both the present shapes and the flow kinematics of several and very disparate nebulae. Prof. Bruce Balick |
13/04/2018 - 12:30
Observatorio Astrofísico de Javalambre: a dedicated facility for large sky surveys The Observatorio Astrofísico de Javalambre (OAJ) is an astronomical infrastructure conceived to carry out large sky, multi-filter astronomical surveys from the Northern hemisphere. It is fundamentally structured around two large field-of-view (FoV) telescopes and their corresponding panoramic instrumentation for direct imaging. OAJ main telescopes are the Javalambre Survey Telescope (JST/T250), a 2.55m telescope with a FoV of 3 deg diameter, and... Dr. Antonio Marín-Franch |
21/03/2018 - 10:00
MEGARA @ GTC: performance review and commissioning results MEGARA, the optical multi-object spectrograph (MOS) for the GTC 10m telescope, has been developed by a Consortium whose partners are UCM, INAOE, IAA-CSIC and UPM. MEGARA has 2 observing modes on sky: (a) a central IFU 12.5” x 11.3” of 567 fibers, complemented with 8 x 7-fiber bundles for sky subtraction, and (b) a MOS mode with 92 robotic positioners, covering a total FoV of 3.5' x 3.5'. MEGARA provides intermediate-to-high spectral resolution (... Dr. Jorge Iglesia |
21/06/2018 - 12:30
Blazar Science with POLAMI: Polarimetric Monitoring of AGN at Millimeter Wavelengths A pioneering long term program at the IRAM 30m Telescope dubbed POLAMI (Polarimetric Monitoring of AGN with Millimetre Wavelengths) observes the 4 Stokes parameters of the continuum emission at 3.5 and 1.3 mm, with a time sampling of ~2 weeks for the ~40 brighter sources in the northern sky. The XPOL polarimeter, connected to different heterodyne receiver sets, has been used since the beginning of our observations. In this talk I will introduce... Dr. Iván Agudo |
12/04/2018 - 12:30
The J-PAS and J-PLUS large sky surveys: an unprecedented view of the Universe in multi-colors The Observatorio Astrofísico de Javalambre (OAJ), managed and operated by the Centro de Estudios de Física del Cosmos de Aragón (CEFCA), is mostly devoted to conduct large sky multi-filter surveys with two large field of view telescopes of 2.5m and 80cm and their respective panoramic instrumentation. The main survey to be carried out in the next years is J-PAS (Javalambre Physics of the Accelerating Universe Astrophysical Survey). Conceived as a... Dr. Javier Cenarro |
22/02/2018 - 19:00
IFMIF-DONES: instalación de un acelerador de partículas en Granada Granada podría ser sede de una de las instalaciones de física nuclear más singulares y avanzadas a nivel mundial. Esta instalación, IFMIF-DONES, tiene como objetivo final el análisis del comportamiento de materiales bajo condiciones extremas de irradiación de neutrones. Javier Praena |
05/04/2018 - 12:30
ESERO Spain, del espacio al aula Un proyecto de la ESA acogido en el Parque de las Ciencias para fomentar las vocaciones científico-tecnológicas en las primeras etapas educativas, haciendo uso del contexto del espacio. Manuel Roca & Domingo Escutia |
22/06/2018 - 12:30
What do environments can tell us about supernovae? The advent of Integral Field Spectroscopy (IFS) applied to supernova (SN) environmental studies have shown the potential of this technique to directly characterize the galactic environmental parameters at SN locations, compare them to those at different locations of the galaxy, and put constraints on progenitor stars for different SN types. Here, I will summarize past works and present ongoing efforts, including the PISCO compilation and the... Dr. Luis Galbany |
22/03/2018 - 12:30
Carbon Chemistry in Carbon-rich AGB stars The chemistry of carbon in evolved stars will be discussed from the observational and chemical modelling point of view. From the photosphere of the central star to the external layers of the circumstellar envelope different chemical processes allow the formation of different carbon molecules, among them carbon clusters and carbon chain radicals. The chemistry if not completely understood as many reactions are involved in the formation of... Prof. José Cernicharo |
24/05/2018 - 12:30
On the ultra-compact dwarf galaxy-nuclear star cluster connection Ultra-compact dwarf galaxies (UCDs) are predominatly found in the cores of nearby galaxy clusters, regions that are dominated by early-type galaxies, among them nucleated dwarf ellipticals. One of the favourite scenarios for the origin of UCDs is that they are isolated nuclei from threshed dwarf galaxies or maybe also from disrupted late-type spiral galaxies that fell into the clusters. In this scenario one would expect to find super... Dr. Michael Hilker |
30/01/2018
Día Internacional de la Mujer y la Niña en la Ciencia El Instituto de Astrofísica de Andalucía se suma a la celebración del Día Internacional de la Mujer y la Niña en la Ciencia, que busca visibilizar la labor científica de las mujeres y fomentar las vocaciones en las niñas |
15/02/2018 - 12:30
Can CALIFA tell us something about the cosmic evolution of the star formation rate and stellar mass of the Universe? We investigate the cosmic evolution of the absolute and specific star formation rate (SFR, sSFR) of galaxies as derived from a spatially-resolved study of the stellar populations in a set of nearby galaxies from the CALIFA survey. The results show again the uniqueness of the CALIFA survey to characterize the cosmic evolution of the spatially- resolved SFR and stellar mass of galaxies. Also the success of the fossil record of the stellar... Prof. Rosa González |
25/01/2018 - 19:00
Astrofísica con ondas gravitacionales: una nueva ventana al universo En 2015, después de décadas de infructuoso trabajo, tuvo lugar la primera detección de ondas gravitacionales provenientes de la fusión de dos agujeros negros, confirmando las predicciones hechas por Albert Einstein cien años atrás. En 2017 se alcanzó un nuevo hito con la observación de forma simultánea de ondas gravitacionales y electromagnéticas generadas en un mismo evento, en este caso la fusión de dos estrellas de neutrones, abriéndose así... Antonio de Ugarte |
14/12/2017 - 19:00
Matemáticas y música: la construcción de la belleza Hablar de construcción de la belleza en música es algo natural. Sin embargo, conectar esto con las matemáticas es menos evidente. En realidad, las relaciones entre música y matemáticas son muy estrechas. Las matematicas han acompañado todo el desarrollo histórico de la teoría musical. Y las estructuras matemáticas ofrecen y han ofrecido un verdadero lenguaje para la composición musical. En esta charla veremos cómo la construcción de la belleza... Pieralberto Sicbaldi |
11/12/2017
Desgranando Ciencia IV Alrededor de 150 investigadores y expertos en divulgación científica se dan cita para explicar al público la ciencia más actual de la forma más increíble. |
15/03/2018 - 12:30
Navigating the Universe : « Cosmic Flows » program I will present the evolution of the “Cosmic Flows” program spanning ten years of research since its inception in 2006. From CF1 to the latest CF3 data-set, an order of magnitude in the number of observational galaxy distances is gained, meanwhile the cosmographied volume is multiplied by 150. A theoretical framework has been developed so as to accommodate and analyze the data. This includes the Bayesian reconstruction tools of the Wiener filter... Professor Hélène Courtois |
07/03/2018 - 12:30
Mesa redonda: "Luces y sombras en la carrera científica de las mujeres. Hacia una igualdad efectiva entre hombres y mujeres." Componentes de la mesa: Laly Gallego, contratada predoctoral Marta González, contratada postdoctoral Rosa González, primera profesora de investigación del IAA Rosa de Castro, gestora de proyectos europeos Nuria Rico, profesora de la ETS de Ingenierías Informática y de Telecomunicaciones de la UGR. Lucia Estevan, contratada FPU de la UGR y activista de la plataforma @huelga8mgranada Coordina: Isabel Márquez, vicedirectora del IAA Mesa redonda |
22/02/2018 - 12:30
LIGHT AND SHADOW IN THE GALACTIC CENTER The luminous S-star cluster in the Galactic center allows us to study the physics close to a super-massive black hole including distinctive dynamical tests of general relativity. Our best estimates for the mass of and the distance to Sgr A* is currently obtained using the three shortest period stars. Additionally, we aimed at a new and practical method to investigate the relativistic orbits of stars in the gravitational field near Sgr A... Prof. Andreas Eckart |
30/11/2017 - 19:00
Y el dolor nos cayó del cielo Recorrido histórico y alegórico del dolor, que comenzará con referencias del Génesis y culminará revisando las dolencias de los astronautas Ignacio Velázquez Rivera |
25/01/2018 - 12:30
Diffuse Ionized Gas in CALIFA (and MaNGA) galaxies We use spatially resolved spectroscopy from the CALIFA survey to study the nature of the line emitting gas in galaxies of different Hubble types, focusing on the separation of star-forming (SF) regions from those better characterized as diffuse ionized gas (DIG). The diagnosis is carried out in terms of the equivalent width of Ha (W_Ha). Three nebular regimes are identified: (1) Regions where W_Ha... Dr. Roberto Cid Fernandes |
20/11/2017 - 24/11/2017
Little Workshop on Large Scale Structure Granada |
18/01/2018 - 12:30
Dust belts around Proxima Centauri. First results from a multi-department project at the IAA In this talk I will present the results of an exploratory program we carried out at the ALMA Observatory soon after the discovery of a terrestrial planet candidate in a temperate orbit around Proxima Centauri, the star closest to our Sun. Our ALMA observations reveal the presence of a belt of dust orbiting the star at distances ranging between 1 and 4 au, approximately. This dust might trace a small-scale analog to our solar system's Kuiper Belt... Dr. Guillem Anglada |
16/11/2017 - 12:30
Surprising characteristics of the dwarf planet Haumea revealed by a stellar occultation The solar system currently contains 8 planets and 5 dwarf planets. Among the 5 dwarf planets, 4 of them dwell in the transneptunian region, and among the transneptunian dwarf planets, the only one that remained poorly characterized was Haumea. This was because all other dwarf planets had been visited by spacecraft or had produced stellar occultations which allowed us to determine some of their basic physical properties with accuracy. The only... Dr. Jose Luis Ortíz |
16/10/2017 - 20/10/2017
Astrorob 2017 - Fifth Workshop on Robotic Autonomous Observatories Mazagón (Huelva) |
30/11/2017 - 12:30
GRB 170817A: a peculiar low-luminosity short gamma-ray burst associated with a NS-NS merger gravitational wave signal Short-duration gamma-ray bursts (sGRBs) have long been proposed to be produced in systems involving the coalescence of double neutron stars (NS-NS), and the observations of sGRB afterglows and host galaxies are consistent with such a conjecture. Based on the estimated event rate density derived from previously observed sGRBs at cosmological distances, the chance of detecting a sGRB within a small volume for detectable NS-NS mergers by advanced... Dr. Binbin Zhang |
02/11/2017 - 12:30
W170817/GRB 170817A/AT2017gfo: A Tryptich of Rosetta Stones for Compact Object Astrophysics On the 17th of August 2017, an astronomical event occurred which represents a watershed in our understanding of neutron stars. The LIGO and Virgo gravitational-wave observatories detected the first compact binary inspiral produced by two neutron stars, which was followed about two seconds later by a short GRB, labelled GRB 170817A, detected by the GBM instrument on Fermi. The detection by all three GW observatories allowed the error region to be... Dr. David Alexander Kann |
11/01/2018 - 12:30
Dynamics and properties of gas at the Center of the Galaxy In the central parsec of the Milky Way Galaxy the environment of the super-massive black hole (SMBH) presents a complicated composition that includes a very young star cluster mixed with qby tidally stretched clouds of ionized gas (the Minispiral). The Galactic Center's inner few tens of arcseconds have been observed at high resolution with Keck for 20 years, with the primary goal of monitoring stars orbiting the SMBH. This unique baseline of... Dr. Anna Ciurlo |
26/10/2017 - 19:00
Simetrías en Granada: indagando en la estructura de la belleza Las simetrías forman parte latente, y en ocasiones patente, de la naturaleza y la materia. Álvaro Martínez Sevilla |
19/10/2017 - 12:30
Bringing science to kids and general public at the Observatoire de la Côte d'Azur It is important to transmit the science developed in a research institution to the public. This transmission helps to increase the scientific culture of the general public, and also can help to awake scientific vocations in the kids. During this talk I will present several actions carried out at the Observatoire de la Côte d'Azur (Nice, France), to bring astronomy to the school children and also to the general public. I will talk about the... Dr. Olga Suarez |
26/10/2017 - 12:30
The Supernovae that Accompany Gamma-ray bursts Energetic supernovae have been seen to occur at the same spatial locations as long-duration gamma-ray bursts (GRBs). These so-called gamma-ray burst supernovae (GRB-SNe) are bright and energetic, and their spectra indicate that material within in the supernova outflow moves at tens of thousands of kilometres per second. The first GRB-SN was observed in 1998, with only 50 in the intervening years. Over the past two decades, the physical... Dr. Zach Cano |
05/10/2017 - 12:30
Dust evolution in the interstellar medium Dust grains play a crucial role in many physical and chemical processes in the interstellar medium (ISM) and in protoplanetary disks (PPDs). In the ISM, dust properties influence, for example, the formation and temperature of the major molecules in molecular clouds. It is therefore important to characterise the grain size, structure, shape and material composition in all phases of the ISM. Observations of the dust SED and extinction give... Dr. Melanie Köehler |
26/09/2017
La Noche de tod@s Este viernes, 29 de septiembre, en el Paseo del Salón de Granada más de 300 investigadores mostrarán a la ciudadanía la ciencia pública que se realiza en esta ciudad. |
23/11/2017 - 12:30
Fighting in Maya ruins: Data Engineering, Data Science, computation clusters and the trans-neptunian search tool IAA is sitting under a gold mine of data, achieved in past observing campaigns, that will be increased with the data coming from next instrumentation. A tool that can exploit the wealth beneath our feet is the Engineering and Data Science (EDS). This lecture will introduces the EDS and its application on preliminary analysis on a concrete astronomical problem: the search of trans-neptunian objects. Two of the tools used in this analysis will... Dr. Rafael Morales |
09/11/2017 - 12:30
Conclusions after the first work of Master's degree in Data Science at the IAA Advanced algorithms of automatic learning and/or massive data processing, applied to astronomical data, promise to provide very pleasant surprises. Both types of algorithms are part of the field of Data Science research. Taking advantage of the fact that Granada has a worldwide reference group in Data Science (Soft Computing and Intelligent Information Systems http://sci2s.ugr.es/, directed by Francisco Herrera), a collaboration with the IAA... Dr. Rafael Morales |
27/09/2017 - 12:30
High-z proto-clusters with the GTC The study of high-z proto-clusters are important for constraining several cosmological parameters. These clusters are hard to find as they do no yet emit the strong X-ray emission typical of the local clusters. These proto-clusters are however found either around strong QSO’s or more often around strong star-forming galaxies. Incidentally, they are also found around strong sub-millimetre galaxies. We have undertaken a search for Lyα sources... Prof. Jose Miguel Rodríguez-Espinosa |
23/10/2017 - 25/10/2017
Spanish X-ray Astronomy 2017: the path towards Athena Granada |
31/07/2017
Llega la lluvia de estrellas de las Perseidas El Instituto de Astrofísica de Andalucía (IAA-CSIC) y el Observatorio de Calar Alto participan en dos propuestas de divulgación relacionadas con la lluvia de estrellas |
25/09/2017 - 28/09/2017
Dust and Ice Particles Spectroscopy and Scattering Granada |