El curso tendrá un carácter eminentemente práctico. Tras una breve serie de presentaciones sobre el proyecto Observatorio Virtual y las herramientas de análisis...
The huge (but forgotten) population of weak line galaxies in the SDSS: AGN or just retired galaxies
This talk is divided into two related parts. First, we will call your attention to a basic, but often overlooked worrying fact, and presents ways of dealing...
The Iranian National Observatory project and its science case
The plan of the Iranian National Observatory (INO) is to build within the next 5 years an active 3 meter telescope with a possible adaptive secondary on a...
The Mg/Fe characterisation of MILES library for stellar population
The current databases of empirical star spectra for modelling single-aged stellar populations (SSPs) generally do not chemically characterize their stars...
The Sloan Digital Sky Survey: News and Prospects from the IAC
This has been an exciting year for the SDSS-III collaboration. BOSS has made spectacular progress and it is running 6 months ahead of schedule. APOGEE has...
SuperWASP is the UK's leading extra-solar planet detection program, having detected 22 of the 52 transiting planets known to date. This stems from the...
I've heard many times about the Virtual Observatory, but what really is VO? Is it just for IT people?, for data centres?, for astronomers?, for everybody? Who...
VO Tools: an overview on Virtual Observatory tools
The Virtual Observatory is an international initiative on standardizing astronomical data and protocols, as well as the development of scientific tools...