Main Belt Comets: Status Report of the Monitoring Large Programme at ESO
A status report of the 4-years long ESO Large Program, aimed at monitoring and characterizing Main Belt Comets. The program is 50% completed. Some of the MBCs...
maKe Atoms Simple (KAS): A Tool to Create, Combine, and Manipulate Model Atoms
Part of the input data required for all NLTE codes include information of the atomic species of interest via the so called model atoms. These are often not...
Making a robust, reliable, and a highly available DIMM seeing monitor
During the last 20 years, many DIMM instruments have been developed to measure astronomical seeing. The IAC has been involved in several projects to run...
Making MILES better for stellar population modelling
In order to build more realistic single stellar population (SSP) models with variable α-enhancement, we have recently determined [Mg/Fe] in a uniform scale with...
Astronomers nowadays have a wealth of sophisticated publishing software at their fingertips, but are they achieving acceptable standards of presentation?
Making the Most of Transmission Spectra in Light of Stellar Activity: Needs Identified by ExoPAG's Study Analysis Group 21
Transmission spectroscopy, a method for studying exoplanetary atmospheres by measuring the wavelength-dependent radius of a planet as it transits its star...
Manufacturing, integration, and testing of ELMER structure and mechanisms
ELMER is an optical instrument for the GTC designed to observe between 3650 and 10000 Armstrong. The observing modes for the instrument at Day One shall be...