Astrophysical: Gravitational waves

  • Talk
    Observing the polarized microwave sky: 10 years of the QUIJOTE experiment

    I will review the status of the QUIJOTE (Q-U-I JOint TEnerife) experiment, a project led from the IAC with the aim of characterising the polarisation of the...

  • Publication
    A 12 Minute Orbital Period Detached White Dwarf Eclipsing Binary

    We have discovered a detached pair of white dwarfs (WDs) with a 12.75 minute orbital period and a 1315 km s-1 radial velocity amplitude. We measure the full...

  • Publication
    A Gemini snapshot survey for double degenerates

    We present the results from a Gemini snapshot radial-velocity survey of 44 low-mass white-dwarf candidates selected from the Sloan Digital Sky Survey (SDSS)...

  • News
    A mechanism for removing dark matter from galaxies has been found

    The small fraction of dark matter in the galaxy NGC1052-DF4 has worried the astronomical community for several years. Now a team of researchers from the...

  • Publication
    A new gravitational wave verification source

    We report the discovery of a detached 20-min orbital period binary white dwarf (WD). WD 0931+444 (SDSS J093506.93+441106.9) was previously classified as a WD +...

  • News
    Charla pública: «Ondas gravitacionales. Los sonidos del Universo»

    Mañana viernes, 22 de noviembre, a las 19 horas, en el Museo de la Ciencia y el Cosmos, de Museos de Tenerife, tendrá lugar la charla divulgativa “Ondas...

  • News
    Does the merger of two black holes emit light? The Subaru+GTC collaboration tries to answer this question

    A team led by researchers from the Instituto de Astrofísica de Canarias (IAC) and the National Astronomical Observatory of Japan (NAOJ) has made, with the Gran...

  • Publication
    Erratum: The afterglow and kilonova of the short GRB 160821B

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    First gravitational-wave burst GW150914: MASTER optical follow-up observations

    The Advanced LIGO observatory recently reported the first direct detection of the gravitational waves (GWs) predicted by Einstein & Sitzungsber. We report on...