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09/06/2010 - 15:00
CGC: una Cámara de Gran Campo para el OSN El Observatorio de Sierra Nevada (OSN) cuenta con dos telescopios principales de metro y medio (T150) y noventa centímetros (T90) de apertura. En la actualidad el T90 no dispone de ningún instrumento para obtener imágenes directas. El T150, por su parte, tiene acoplada de modo permanente una cámara CCD 2048 x 2048 que permite observar un campo de unos 8 minutos de arco, lo cual resulta demasiado pequeño para... Miguel Abril Martí Sala de Juntas del Instituto de Astrofísica de Andalucía (IAA-CSIC) |
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27/05/2010 - 14:00
An overview of regional atmospheric phenomena on Mars Tbd Aymeric Spiga |
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20/05/2010 - 14:00
2009 Año Internacional de la Astronomía: un año para recordar 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. Las cifras hablan por sí solas: más de 3100 actividades organizadas por al menos 1300 entidades con la participación de miles de personas que han convertido... Montserrat Villar Martín |
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19/05/2010 - 15:00
¿Para qué (me) puede servir un GRID (del CSIC)? Desde hace unos años se está creando a nivel europeo una infraestructura de computación distribuida geográficamente (GRID). Este GRID permite solucionar problemas computacionalmente costosos o masivos y potencia la colaboración de científicos de diferentes lugares, ofreciendo las ventajas de un sistema distribuido frente a un sistema centralizado como los supercomputadores. El CSIC participa en esta... Antonio García Hernández, José Sabater Montes y Susana Sánchez Expósito Sala de Juntas del Instituto de Astrofísica de Andalucía (IAA-CSIC) |
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13/05/2010 - 14:00
PLATO: The exoplanetary system explorer 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. the step required before the final decision is taken (only two missions will be implemented). To be launched in 2018, PLATO is a third generation mission, which will take... Juan Carlos Suárez |
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06/05/2010 - 14:00
The IAA cosmic dust laboratory 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. Those dust particles play an important role in the radiative balance of the body under study. Light scattering properties of spherical particles can be easily computed from Lorenz-Mie theory. However, in the majority of the... Olga Muñoz Gómez |
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29/04/2010 - 14:00
Molecular Gas and Star Formation in Local Early-Type Galaxies The molecular gas content of local early-type galaxies is constrained and discussed in relation to their evolution. First, as part of the Atlas3D survey, we present the first complete, large (>250 objects), volume-limited survey of molecular gas in normal local early-type galaxies, obtained with the IRAM 30m telescope. In particular, we find a surprisingly high detection rate of 23%, independent of mass and environment, but dependent on the... Martin Bureau |
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28/04/2010 - 15:00
MODELADO DE GALAXIAS CON ESPECTRO DE LINEAS DE EMISIÓN DEBIDO A FORMACIÓN ESTELAR Generalmente se asume que el espectro de líneas de emisión de galaxias con formación estelar se puede modelizar mediante una única región HII. En este trabajo investigamos cuándo dicha aproximación es adecuada y cuándo el modelado se debe realizar mediante la emisión de un conjunto de diferentes regiones HII ionizadas por cúmulos de diversos tamaños. Con este fin... Marcos Villaverde Aparicio Sala de Juntas del Instituto de Astrofísica de Andalucía (IAA-CSIC) |
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27/04/2010 - 15:00
Stellar cusps in gallactic nuclei We will give a brief introduction into stellar cusps in Galactic nuclei or, more in general, around massive black holes. We will treat topics such as: What is a stellar cusp? How does it form? What does the presence or absence of a stellar cusp tell us about a galactic nucleus? Is there a stellar cusp around the black hole at the center of the Milky Way? Pau Amaro-Seoane (AEI, Potsdam) and Rainer Schoedel (IAA, Granada) Sala de Juntas del Instituto de Astrofísica de Andalucía (IAA-CSIC) |
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22/04/2010 - 14:00
Supermassive Black Holes Tbd Dr. Elena dalla Bontá |
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15/04/2010 - 14:00
ALMA/CASA: You better get ready for them! 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. I will present an overview of a couple of workshops I attended in Manchester related to ALMA and CASA, which hopefully will encourage you to think for proposals with ALMA and... Miguel Ángel Pérez Torres |
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07/04/2010 - 15:00
La PPN M 2-56: rápida evolución nebular gobernada por múltiples eyecciones post-AGB La etapa de Nebulosa Protoplanetaria (PPNe) o post-AGB comienza cuando las estrellas, con masas en la Secuencia Principal (SP) entre 0.6-8 masas solares, abandonan la Rama Asintótica de las Gigantes (AGB) y termina cuando alcanzan la fase de Nebulosa Planetaria (PNe). La duración de esta etapa de la evolución estelar es muy breve, de ~1000 años, sin embargo en ella se producen cambios radicales que afectan tanto a... Clara Cortijo Ferrero Sala de Juntas del Instituto de Astrofísica de Andalucía (IAA-CSIC) |
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18/03/2010 - 13:00
Unfolding Properties of Mass Loss at the Tip of the Asymptotic Giant Branch In the final stages of stellar evolution low- to intermediate-mass stars lose their envelope in increasingly massive stellar winds. Matter, which has been processed inside these stars, is thereby returned to the interstellar medium, and mass loss also determines properties of subsequent planetary nebulae. In order to obtain properties of winds at the tip of the asymptotic giant branch we observed weak halos of a set of planetary nebulae in the... Christer Sandin |
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17/03/2010 - 16:00
El arco iris como medidor de distancias cosmológicas. Comenzando con una breve introducción histórica, me gustaría aprovechar esta sesión CCD para presentaros, de una forma sencilla, qué son, por qué surgen, para qué se utilizan y por qué se han convertido en una herramienta tan importante los famosos “photometric redshifts”, en el marco de la cosmología moderna. Curvaturas, geometrías, dilataciones espacio... Alberto Molino Benito Sala de Juntas del Instituto de Astrofísica de Andalucía (IAA-CSIC) |
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16/03/2010 - 13:00
OCTOCAM: A fast multichannel camera and spectrograph for the 10.4m GTC 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. An imaging mode will allow to observe a field of 2'x2' in all ugrizJHK bands, with the possibility to observe at time resolutions of up to 10 ms, while the spectroscopic... Antonio de Ugarte Postigo |
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11/03/2010 - 13:00
Size matters This is a talk I gave last October in Freiburg as the opening key-note lecture of the "1st EAST-ATST Workshop". The American ATST (Advanced Technology Solar Telescope) and the European EST (European Solar Telescope) are projects for designing and building the new generation of large-aperture, solar telescopes. Both of the 4-m class constitute a technological breakthrough and promise a significant step forward in our understanding of... José Carlos del Toro Iniesta |
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08/03/2010 - 10/03/2010
8th Workshop 'Estallidos de formación estelar' Granada |
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04/03/2010 - 13:00
Structure and kinematics of the Milky Way's nuclear star cluster 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. In this talk I will focus on the most recent results of research on the structure and kinematics of the Milky Way's nuclear star cluster. Adaptive optics imaging is a... Rainer Schoedel |
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25/02/2010 - 13:00
Testing spectral models for Stellar Populations High spectral resolution evolutionary synthesis models have become a routinely used ingredient in extragalactic work, and as such deserve thorough testing. Star clusters are ideal laboratories for such tests. In this talk I apply the spectral fitting methodology to a sample of clusters, mainly from the Magellanic Clouds and spanning a wide range in age and metallicity, fitting their integrated light spectra with a suite of modern evolutionary... Rosa González Delgado |
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24/02/2010 - 16:00
e-Ciencia de la A a la Z Al hablar de e-Ciencia es complicado no mencionar los Grids. Al hablar de Grid es fácil relacionar con computación. Pero podemos ampliar este concepto pues, al fin y al cabo, un Grid viene a ser una malla que conecta cosas. Estas cosas están distribuidas geográficamente e interconectadas en red. De esta forma podemos tener no solo Grids de computación, sino también de datos o instrumentos, e incluso... Mamen Argudo Fernández (IAA) Sala de Juntas del Instituto de Astrofísica de Andalucía (IAA-CSIC) |
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19/02/2010 - 18:00
Pulsating stars harbouring planets In this talk, I present a review of the current status of the very recent line of research linking stellar seismology and exoplanet search. I give a summary of the main exoplanet searching techniques and a general overview of stellar seismology. Some examples of the synergies between these two lines will also be given. If a star harbouring planets is found to be pulsating, our knowledge of the physical characteristics of these planets is... Andrés Moya Bedón |
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16/02/2010 - 12:00
Extragalactic research with the Virtual Observatory Nowadays, following years of technological development, Virtual Observatory standards, resources, and services became powerful enough to help astronomers making real science on everyday basis. An astronomer is able to combine ``online'' VO-enabled parts with ``offline'' research stages including dedicated data processing and analysis, observations, numerical simulations. I will present three VO-science projects combining VO and non-VO blocks,... Igor Chilingarian |
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11/02/2010 - 13:00
Observational constrains to galaxy evolution from the distribution of integrated stellar ages and metallicities in spiral galaxies I will present new results on the integrated stellar populations of bulges, bars and disks of spiral galaxies from long-slit spectroscopic observations. We have derived the ages and metallicities using both the whole spectra and stellar line-strength indices along the bar and bulges for a sample of 20 disk galaxies and derived the populations in the disks of four galaxies using GEMINI spectroscopic data. We find, in the distribution of stellar... Isabel Pérez Martín |
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04/02/2010 - 13:00
First results of the Fermi Large Area Telescope The Fermi Large Area Telescope (Fermi LAT) is a pair conversion telescope sensitive to photons in the energy range 30 MeV to >300 GeV. It was launched on June 11th 2008 and has now been successfully operating for over a year and made breakthrough discoveries in high energy astrophysics. In this seminar I will give an overview of the results from Fermi LAT and the implication it has had in astrophysics and astro-particle physics. Gudlaugur Johannesson |
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03/02/2010 - 11:00
Amoniaco en regiones de formación estelar masiva con condiciones extremas Hoy en día se piensa que se comprende bastante bien el proceso mediante el cuál se forman las estrellas de baja masa, sin embargo a día de hoy aún se sabe muy poco acerca de la formación de estrellas de alta masa. Los Nucleos Moleculares Calientes (NMC) se han propuesto como una de las etapas más tempranas en la formación de una estrella de alta masa, se piensan que en su interior ya existe una... Juan Manuel Mayén Gijón (IAA-CSIC) Sala de Juntas del Instituto de Astrofísica de Andalucía (IAA-CSIC) |
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28/01/2010 - 13:00
The Galactic O-Star Spectral Survey (GOSSS) I present a large-scale spectral survey that is currently obtaining spectra of all known Galactic O stars down to B=13 with R=3000. The project includes additional observations of subsamples with [a] multi-epoch spectroscopy with R=40000, [b] flux-calibrated optical spectroscopy, and [c] high-spatial-resolution imaging. The main part of GOSSS is based on data from OSN, CAHA, and LCO. I will describe the current status of the survey and present... Jesús Maíz Apellániz |
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21/01/2010 - 13:00
The First 3mm Polarimetric Survey of Radio Loud AGN Relativistic jets in AGN are the most energetic and among the most powerful astrophysical objects known so far. Their relativistic nature provides them the ability to emit profusely in all spectral ranges from radio wavelengths to TeV gamma-rays, as well as abrupt variability in all time scales (from hours to years). After an extended review of the present knowledge of these objects, but paying particular attention to blazars, the main results... Iván Agudo Rodríguez |
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19/01/2010 - 16:00
Manejo básico de IDL IDL es un lenguaje de programación de alto nivel ampliamente extendido en el campo de la Astrofísica. Este seminario está enfocado a todos aquellos que se estén iniciando en IDL, y pretende introducirnos en el amplio abanico de posibilidades que éste ofrece para la lectura, análisis, procesado, técnicas de almacenamiento y representación de los datos científicos. Sin olvidar el... Javier Peralta Calvillo (IAA-CSIC) Sala de Juntas del Instituto de Astrofísica de Andalucía (IAA-CSIC) |
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19/01/2010 - 20/01/2010
III Reunión sobre e-Ciencia Andaluza Granada |
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14/01/2010 - 13:00
Radio Supernovae: A Window into the Heart of Starburst Galaxies High-resolution radio observations of the nuclear regions of Luminous and Ultraluminous Infrared Galaxies (ULIRGs) have shown that their radio structure consists of a compact high surface-brightness central radio source inmersed in a diffuse low brightness circumnuclear halo. While the central components could be associated with AGNs or compact star-forming regions, where radio supernovae are exploding, it is well known that the circumnuclear... Antxón Alberdi |
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10/12/2009 - 13:00
eXtreme Multiplex Spectrograph for the 3.5m Calar Alto telescope We'll describe the design and science case for the XMS spectrograph at the prime focus of the 3.5-m Calar Alto telescope that can deliver at least 4000 MOS slits simultaneously over a 1-deg field. This extreme multiplex capability means that 25000 galaxy redshifts can be measured in a single night, opening up the possibilities for large galaxy redshift surveys out to z~1 to study galaxy evolution by estimating galaxy group and cluster masses,... Francisco Prada & Santiago Becerril |
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09/12/2009 - 16:00
Métodos Monte Carlo: ¿qué son? ¿para qué sirven? Hágase el suyo en media hora Los métodos Monte Carlo son la forma más exacta de modelar un sistema microscópico (en el sentido estadístico), pero su coste computacional los han relegado al último puesto de la lista de opciones viables durante años. Sin embargo, todos tenemos ya sobre nuestras mesas un ordenador con al menos dos núcleos, cada uno de ellos con más potencia que una carísima estación de... Daniel Guirado Rodríguez (IAA-CSIC) Sala de Juntas del Instituto de Astrofísica de Andalucía (IAA-CSIC) |
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03/12/2009 - 13:00
Tracing dust at the edge of destruction: NIR observations of YSO transitional disks and nearby AGN with the Keck interferometer 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. Based on observations with the Keck interferometer, we could show that the infrared-excess in transitional YSO class II disks typically derives from circumstellar disk material, and not from a close companion star. Disk dissipation induced by planet formation now appears to... Jörg-Uwe Pott |
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26/11/2009 - 13:00
GROND: A multi-channel imager on La Silla 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. GROND is mounted at the 2.2m telescope on La Silla since mid 2007. A short overview is given about the instrument, its operation, and its scientific achievements. Sylvio Klose |
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24/11/2009 - 26/11/2009
OSIRIS (ROSETTA, ESA) Full Team Meeting 2009 Granada |
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19/11/2009 - 13:00
CARMENES, a next-generation instrument for the CAHA 3.5-m telescope 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. Since M dwarfs have low effective temperatures (Teff < 4000 K), our spectrograph is designed to operate in the optical red and the near infrared, where they emit... Pedro J. Amado |
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12/11/2009 - 13:00
An extremely prolific supernova factory in the buried nucleus of a starburst galaxy Tbd Miguel Ángel Pérez Torres |
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11/11/2009 - 16:00
Científicos y periodistas, ¿condenados a entenderse? Avanzamos hacia sociedades basadas en el conocimiento, donde el público demanda mayor y mejor información científico-técnica. Entre los obstáculos para la difusión de una información científica de calidad se encuentra la falta de entendimiento entre la propia fuente de información -por lo general, los científicos- y los llamados ‘traductores’ del mensaje -los... María Teresa Bermúdez Villaescusa(IAA-CSIC) Sala de Juntas del Instituto de Astrofísica de Andalucía (IAA-CSIC) |
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05/11/2009 - 13:00
ESO: a brief overview 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. I will also provide a brief overview of the current status of ESO telescopes and available instruments as well as upcoming developments, like ALMA/E-ELT. Rainer Schoedel |
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29/10/2009 - 13:00
PANIC: current status 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. PANIC is a wide-field infrared imager for the Ritchey-Chrétien focus of the Calar Alto 2.2m and 3.5m telescopes. The camera optical design is a folded single optical train that images the sky onto the focal... Matilde Fernández, Julio F. Rodríguez, Conchi Cárdenas y José M. Ibáñez |
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27/10/2009 - 28/10/2009
Primer Curso Práctico de la Red Temática SVO Granada |
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22/10/2009 - 14:00
Light Scattering in the Solar System 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. Special attention is given to experimental and numerical approaches for solving problems of light scattering by non-spherical dust particles. Key areas for further research are pointed out... Prof. J.W. Hovenier |
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21/10/2009 - 10:00
Perturbaciones en las observaciones. Ruido en sismología estelar En cualquier observación intervienen factores no deseados que perturban las medidas y pueden falsear los datos. Puesto que el ruido constituye una barrera entre teoría y observación el conocimiento de las características del ruido que afecta a cada observación suele ser crucial en el trabajo de una buena parte de los astrofísicos. En esta charla se quiere dar una visión general del problema... Javier Pascual Granado (IAA-CSIC) Sala de Juntas del Instituto de Astrofísica de Andalucía (IAA-CSIC) |
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15/10/2009 - 14:00
Las variables luminosas azules de la Gran Nube de Magallanes en acción: La evolución estelar masiva en tiempo real 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. En 1982 se descubrió que estaba entrando en una erupción de VLA, enseñándonos por primera vez la relación entre esos dos tipos de objetos peculiares. Estos eventos consisten en una expansión de la estrella y/o un eyección de una capa que reprocesa la luz ultravioleta hacia el rango... Nolan Walborn |
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30/09/2009 - 10:00
Búsqueda de axiones mediante observaciones gamma de AGNs distantes Axion Like Particles (ALPs), postulated to solve the strong-CP problem in Particle Physics, may play a crucial role in the correct interpretation of gamma-ray astronomical observations as well as in the solution of the dark matter problem. They are predicted to couple with photons in the presence of magnetic fields, which may lead to a significant change in the observed spectra of gamma-ray sources such as AGNs. Indeed, this mechanism could... Miguel Ángel Sánchez-Conde (IAA-CSIC) Sala de Juntas del Instituto de Astrofísica de Andalucía (IAA-CSIC) |
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24/09/2009 - 14:00
he central parsec of the Milky Way: shocks, outflows and young stars 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*. A number of features in the local interstellar medium (ISM) reveal that there is a great deal of interaction going on at the Galactic Center (GC), building up evidence for the existence of outflow(s) in the central 0.5 pc. The... Koraljka Muzic |
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17/09/2009 - 14:00
Oscurecimiento en LINERs Tbd. Josefa Masegosa Gallego |
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10/09/2009 - 14:00
8 meses del Año Internacional de la Astronomía 145 países participantes. En España, más de 2000 actividades ya celebradas y más de 1000 entidades participantes. Tras ocho meses de celebración, y gracias a la implicación de miles de personas, el Año Internacional de la Astronomía ha dado lugar a la mayor red de divulgación científica que ha existido nunca. Hablaré de la evolución que ha seguido esta conmemoración durante este periodo, las principales iniciativas que se han impulsado a nivel... Montserrat Villar Martín |
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02/07/2009 - 14:00
Sunrise: una revisión previa a la ciencia En esta charla pretendo dar una visión global de la misión Sunrise, de sus propósitos científicos y de su desarrollo tecnológico. En particular me centraré en IMaX, el magnetógrafo solar en el cual ha participado con éxito el IAA (CSIC), tanto en su definición científica como siendo responsable de toda la electrónica y software del instrumento. Describiré aspectos del diseño y fabricación, así como presentaré abundante material gráfico de la... José Carlos del Toro Iniesta |
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25/06/2009 - 14:00
Asteroids as the parent bodies of meteorites: compositional differences and size-dependent transport mechanisms 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. Besides, we can also analyze the composition of meteorites in the laboratory, and run dynamical models that give us information about the source regions of NEAs and, consequently, the meteorites. By means of mineralogical analysis of their reflectance spectra,... Julia de León Cruz |