Who's Who

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Group Members, Research Topics

• Antonio Mampaso --- Physics of Bipolar Nebulae

• Arturo Manchado --- planetary nebulae (morphology, kinematics, chemical abundances, central stars), post-AGB stars (multiwavelength studies), OH-IR stars (near-infrared monitoring), hot stars in M31 and M33.

• Romano Corradi --- planetary nebulae: bipolar, microstructures - symbiotic stars: nebulae - spiral galaxies: RT modelling of dust

• Luis Cuesta --- Kinematics of planetary nebulae; The Owl Nebula

• Martin Guerrero --- Multi-shell planetary nebulae; stellar evolution; planetary nebulae - chemical abundances, kinematics and morphology.

• Emanuel Vassiliads --- Stellar evolution, asymptotic giant branch stars, planetary nebulae, photoionisation modelling, Magellanic Clouds, Hubble Space Telescope.

• Victoriano Ortega --- Ionization stratification in planetary nebulae.

• Rafael Manso --- Planetary nebulae, morphology, microstructures.

• Regina Aznar --- Planetary nebulae, morphology, orientation of axisymmetric nebulae in the Galactic plane.

• Eva Villaver --- a new bipolar PN, kinematics of FLIERS

• Hugo Schwarz --- Astronomer in Charge of the NOT; Research - symbiotics, PNe especially bipolars (which in our heart of hearts we all know are made by binaries...), morphology, abundances, and distance determinations; Techniques: polarimetry, anything to do with seeing improvement.

• Don Pollacco (Isaac Newton Group) --- Binary systems, etinction distances to planetary nebulae

• Colin Aspin (Nordic Optical Telescope) --- Senior Staff Astronomer at the NOT.

Email Info

Snail Mail

Instituto de Astrofisica de Canarias    Phone: +34 22 605200
Calle Via Lactea S/N                      Fax: +34 22 605210
E-38200 La Laguna, Tenerife
Spain

Hugo Schwarz and Colin Aspin can be reached at the NOT:

Nordic Optical Telescope                Phone: +34 22 425470 (sea level office)
Apartado 474                              Fax: +34 22 425475 (sea level office)
E-38700 Sta. Cruz de La Palma           Email: hschwarz@nospam.not.iac.es
Canarias, SPAIN                                caa@nospam.not.iac.es

Don Pollaco can be reached at the ING:

Don Pollacco                         Phone: +34 22 405646 (Mountain) 
Isaac Newton Group                          +34 22 425437 (Sea-level)
Apartado 368                         Fax:   +34 22 405655 (Mountain)         
Santa Cruz de La Palma                      +34 22 425401 (Sea-level)
Tenerife 38780                       email: dlp@nospam.ing.iac.es
Canary Islands, Spain