Laser frequency combs (LFCs) are well on their way to becoming the next-generation calibration sources for precision astronomical spectroscopy 1-6. This development is considered key in the hunt for low-mass rocky exoplanets around solar-type stars whose discovery with the radial-velocity method requires cm s -1 Doppler precision 7. In order to

Entre los grandes avances de la astronomía observacional de la última década se encuentra la misión espacial Gaia, la cual proporciona las posiciones, paralajes y movimientos propios más precisos hasta la fecha. Con más de mil millones de fuentes observadas, Gaia supone un incremento en tres órdenes de magnitud respecto a su predecesor Hipparcos

Aims: Our objective is to identify analogues of gas giant planets, but located as companions at wide separations of very young stars. The main purpose is to characterise the binarity frequency and the properties of these substellar objects, and to elucidate their early evolutionary stages. Methods: To identify these objects, we cross correlated the

Recent developments of transition-edge sensors (TESs), based on extensive experience in ground-based experiments, have been making the sensor techniques mature enough for their application on future satellite cosmic microwave background (CMB) polarization experiments. LiteBIRD is in the most advanced phase among such future satellites, targeting

Several recent studies have shown that the Vela OB2 region hosts a complex constellation of sub-populations with ages in the range 10 to 50 Myr. Such populations might represent the best example of the outcome of clustered star formation in giant molecular clouds (GMCs). We use Gaia DR2 data over an area of 40 deg radius around the open cluster

During their soft state edge-on black hole transients show blue-shifted absorption lines in their X-ray spectra due to hot and equatorial disk winds. Blue-shifted absorption lines have also been discovered in optical and ultraviolet(UV). These features must be produced in an outflow, but the physical conditions required to form them are very