Observing Unique sTars and gaLactic chemIcal Evidence of the fiRst relicS
The number of identified primitive low-metallicity stars has steadily grown. Today, we know of stars with less than one ten-millionth of the solar iron content...
Operation and scientific exploitation of the AMS experiment in the IAC
The Alpha Magnetic Spectrometer (AMS-02) is a general purpose high energy particle detector that was deployed to the International Space Station (ISS) on May 19...
For more than two decades, the EU has been supporting free transnational access (TA) to existing national research infrastructures (RI). In particular, the...
OPTICON: Optical Infrared Coordination Network for Astronomy. H2020 Grant
CVOPTICON is an Integrated Infrastructure Initiative of the 6th EU I+D+i framework programme for improving the coordination of the European astronomical...
Orientatio ad sidera IV: landscape and cloudscape in astronomy
In this project, a new approach to Cultural Astronomy studies (archaeoastronomy and ethnoastronomy) will be performed, departing from a new perspective related...
Orientatio ad Sidera V: astronomy, science and heritage, a multidisciplinary approach
This project proposes a new approach to the studies of cultural astronomy (archaeoastronomy and ethnoastronomy) from a novel perspective, this time being the...
Origin and evolution of the brown dwarfs and giant planets
One of the main results obtained by the large optical and infrared sky surveys (DENIS, SDSS, 2MASS, UKIDSS, WISE) that started at the end of the last century...