Scope: Severo Ochoa

  • News
    Astronomers find the origin of one of the oldest stars in the Milky Way

    An international team of researchers, among them scientists from the Instituto de Astrofísica de Canarias (IAC), has confirmed the primitive origen of an old...

  • 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...

  • Conference
    XXXIII Canary Islands Winter School of Astrophysics: Astroparticle Physics and Cosmology

    The XXXIII Canary Islands Winter School of Astrophysics, organized by the Instituto de Astrofísica de Canarias (IAC), focuses onAstroparticle Physics and...

  • Talk
    (Almost) Thirty Years of the Sq-Polytropic Connection – An Overview on Some Basic Aspects of the Sq-based Therostatistics

    Almost thirty years ago, we pointed out that there is a connection between the Sq-non additive entropies, introduced by Tsallis in 1988, and the polytropic...

  • News
    11th February, on-line activities to encourage scientific careers for younger girls

    For a further year the IAC is celebrating the International Day of Women and Girls in Science with activities to encourage the interest of the younger girls in...

  • News
    A chromospheric resonance cavity in a sunspot mapped with seismology

    Sunspots are intense collections of magnetic fields that pierce through the Sun’s photosphere, with their signatures extending upwards into the outermost...

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    A crucial test for astronomical spectrograph calibration with frequency combs

    Laser frequency combs (LFCs) are well on their way to becoming the next-generation calibration sources for precision astronomical spectroscopy. This development...

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    A dense ultra-short period sub-Earth planet transiting a nearby red dwarf star

    Ultrashort-period (USP) exoplanets have orbital periods shorter than 1 day. Precise masses and radii of USP exoplanets could provide constraints on their...

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    A dwarf irregular galaxy caught in transition

    Leo I is one of the youngest dwarf spheroidal (dSph) galaxies in the Local Group. Its relative isolation, extended and complex star formation history (SFH), and...