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    AO real-time control using open source and COTS components
    Adaptive optics systems rely on a real-time control system which is responsible for receiving wavefront sensor information and computing and applying the...
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    Astro-African memories
    A young just married couple of Astrophysicist decided going to Kenya for they honeymoon. There, they meet Dr. Dismas Simiyu at Meru University, in Meru town...
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    Exploring the nature of hot exoplanet atmospheres
    Planetary transits have proven to be one of the most efficient means of finding planets outside the Solar system, counting over 2500 exoplanet discoveries...
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    Forecasting the Precipitable Water Vapour above the Canary Islands observatories
    Can weather models be helpful for astronomers? In this talk, I do a revision of the state-of-the-art in numerical weather prediction models and its specific...
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    Galaxies in the low-surface-brightness Universe - the new frontier in galaxy evolution studies
    A new era of observational surveys that are both deep and wide is poised to revolutionise our understanding of galaxy evolution, by enabling, for the first time...
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    Gamma-ray bursts and their X-ray and optical afterglow
    Gamma-Ray Bursts (GRBs) are the most powerful sources of electromagnetic radiation in the Universe. There are many open questions about their origin and their...
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    Helium Emissions as a Probe for Plasma Temperatures.
    The strongest He II emission in the visible spectral range, at 4686 A, is for the first time observed at a spectral resolution sufficiently high for a line...
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    How to publish (and write) an impactful paper in Nature Astronomy and beyond
    Nature Astronomy, launched in January 2017, is a new research journal published by Springer Nature. Sitting alongside our sister journal Nature, we aim to...