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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News2023 DZ2 asteroid will not collide with Earth, study finds
An international scientific team, in which researchers from the Instituto de Astrofísica de Canarias (IAC) participate, confirms that the asteroid, discovered...
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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...