We present a new code for fitting radial velocities of stellar binaries and exoplanets using an Adaptive Simulated Annealing (ASA) global minimisation method. ASA belongs to the family of Monte Carlo methods and its main advantages are that it only needs evaluations of the objective function, it does not rely on derivatives, and the parameters

The amount of energy coming into the Earth's climate system is the combination of two parameters: solar constant, and Earth's albedo (or reflectance). Our main goal in this work is to record an absolutely-calibrated global albedo time series. The albedo can be determined by alternative observations of the bright and dark sides of the Moon. The

COrE+ has been proposed to ESA as a medium-class mission for investigating, within the framework of the ESA Cosmic Vision program, a set of important scientific questions that require high sensitivity, full-sky observations of the sky emission at wavelengths ranging from millimeter-wave to the far-infrared. Its main scientific objective is to

Context. Stars are born together from giant molecular clouds and, if we assume that the priors were chemically homogeneous and well-mixed, we expect them to share the same chemical composition. Most of the stellar aggregates are disrupted while orbiting the Galaxy and most of the dynamic information is lost, thus the only possibility of

The unified model for Active Galactic Nuclei (AGN) accounts for a variety of observational differences in terms of viewing geometry alone. However, from the fitting of high spatial resolution infrared (IR) data with clumpy torus models, it has been hinted that the immediate dusty surroundings of Type-1 and 2 Seyfert nuclei might be intrinsically

We present the first single-burst stellar population models in the infrared wavelength range between 2.5 and 5 μm which are exclusively based on empirical stellar spectra. Our models take as input 180 spectra from the stellar IRTF (Infrared Telescope Facility) library. Our final single-burst stellar population models are calculated based on two