Probing the early Universe with gravitational Wave Background
We will review both theoretical and obsevational aspects of gravitational wave backgrounds of cosmological origin. We will present a classifcation of...
Rapid Orbital Decay in the 12.75-minute Binary White Dwarf J0651+2844
We report the detection of orbital decay in the 12.75-minute, detached binary white dwarf (WD) SDSS J065133.338+284423.37 (hereafter J0651). Our photometric...
Rol de la transferencia de masa en binarias de objetos compactos
Understanding the properties, formation, and evolutionary path of high- mass star systems is a fundamental research topic in stellar astrophysics. Under certain...
SDSS J163030.58+423305.8: a 40-min orbital period detached white dwarf binary
We report the discovery of a new detached, double white dwarf (WD) system with an orbital period of 39.8 min. We targeted SDSS J163030.58+423305.8 (hereafter...
Searching for electromagnetic counterparts to gravitational-wave merger events with the prototype Gravitational-Wave Optical Transient Observer (GOTO-4)
We report the results of optical follow-up observations of 29 gravitational-wave (GW) triggers during the first half of the LIGO-Virgo Collaboration (LVC) O3...
SOAR/Goodman Spectroscopic Assessment of Candidate Counterparts of the LIGO/Virgo Event GW190814
On 2019 August 14 at 21:10:39 UTC, the LIGO/Virgo Collaboration (LVC) detected a possible neutron star-black hole merger (NSBH), the first ever identified. An...
The afterglow and kilonova of the short GRB 160821B
GRB 160821B is a short duration gamma-ray burst (GRB) detected and localized by the Neil Gehrels Swift Observatory in the outskirts of a spiral galaxy at z = 0...
The new observational O/Fe vs Fe/H relationship in halo dwarfs is analyzed in terms of a model of chemical evolution for the solar neighborhood. The role of...
We present new radial velocity and X-ray observations of extremely low mass (ELM, ~0.2 M &sun;) white dwarf (WD) candidates in the Sloan Digital Sky Survey Data...