Partially ionized plasmas are found across the Universe in many different astrophysical environments. They constitute an essential ingredient of the solar...
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PublicaciónPartially Ionized Plasmas in Astrophysics
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PublicaciónPASS - a Permanent All Sky Survey for the detection of transits
A project to survey the entire visible sky for the presence of transits by extrasolar planets is presented. The experiment would consist of one or two fixed...
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CharlaPLATO: The ESA Cosmic Vision planetray system characterizer
I present a general overview of the PLAnetary Transits and Oscillations of stars (PLATO) space mission. PLATO was approved by ESA’s Science Programme Committee...
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NoticiaReunión científica del cazador de exoplanetas CARMENES
Durante esta semana ha tenido lugar, en las instalaciones de IACTEC en La Laguna (Tenerife, España), la XIX reunión científica de CARMENES, una colaboración de...
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CharlaRevealing planet migration and detection of terrestrial planets with improved spectroscopic tools
Spectroscopic observations of stars do not only provide us with valuable information about the stars themselves, but over the last years such observations have...
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NoticiaSARA SEAGER: “En 10 años tendremos la capacidad de encontrar vida en un exoplaneta”
Esta profesora, del Instituto Tecnológico de Massachusetts (MIT), lidera el desarrollo de una nueva generación de telescopios espaciales para la detección de...
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PublicaciónScanning the population of planetary systems around stars with wide brown dwarf companions
Stars with wide brown dwarf companions that host exoplanets are extremely rare, as only four were reported to date. Different theories propose that planets can...
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CharlaSearch for weak periodic signals buried in noisy time series using modern Bayesian methods: secondary eclipses in Kepler light curves
Detection and characterisation of weak periodic signals from noisy time series is a common problem in many different fields of astrophysics. Here I detail one...
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PublicaciónSearching for technosignatures in exoplanetary systems with current and future missions
Technosignatures refer to observational manifestations of technology that could be detected through astronomical means. Most previous searches for...