An international team of researchers, among them scientists from the Instituto de Astrofísica de Canarias (IAC), has confirmed the primitive origen of an old...
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NewsAstronomers find the origin of one of the oldest stars in the Milky Way
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TalkObserving 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...
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ConferenceXXXIII 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...
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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...
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News11th 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...
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NewsA 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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NewsA 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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NewsA 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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NewsA 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...