Departures from Local Thermodynamical Equilibrium in stellar atmospheres and their impact on the interpretation of astronomical observations
An sizable fraction of present-day astrophysics is based on physical models of stellar atmospheres, which allow us to interpret observations of planets, stars...
Design, manufacture and putting into orbit of DRAGO: a near-infrared earth observation camera
Within ALISIO project, which started in 2018, a new instrument called DRAGO is being developed. DRAGO is an Earth Observation camera, valid for operation in a...
Detecting farside active regions with Deep Learning
The identification of active regions in the far-side of the Sun by analyzing the oscillations on the Earth-side is one of the most impressive results from local...
Detection and characterization of Earth-like planets in nearby stars
Based on statistics provided by the Kepler space mission and searches performed with Doppler techniques, super-Earth and Earth-like exoplanets (Rp ~ 0.8-2 times...
Development of Big Data toos for the study of variable stars in galaxies with LSST data
The objective of this proposal is the development of data analysis tools in preparation for the scientific exploitation of LSST, the largest mapping project of...
Development of the FRIDA control software during the Integration and Testing phases
The FRIDA instrument is an integral field spectrograph and camera, both designedto work in high spatial resolution, at the diffraction limit of GTC (Gran...
EMIR, the common user near-infrared camera and multiobject spectrograph in the GTC, is currently in operation in the middle of its Scientific Verification phase...
First detection and characterization of the gas feeding star formation around nearby galaxies observed with MUSE
Using the publicly available cosmological fields of MUSE, we plan to detect the gas that feeds star formation in nearby galaxies. It would be the first time...