The stellar spectroscopic sequence has now been extended into very cool objects bridging the gap between low-mass stars and classical planets. Those objects...
GTC spectroscopic study of stellar clusters in M81
The nearby spiral galaxy M81 contains a population of 3 kinds of stellar clusters - super star clusters, globular clusters and fuzzy clusters. Over the past few...
I present the online and the offline data reduction system for OSIRIS, the optical multi-mode instrument for GranTeCan. The software is written in Python and...
GTC/OSIRIS spectroscopic confirmation of the first L dwarf in Praesepe
Fundamental properties of brown dwarfs, such as luminosity and effective temperature, evolve with age. Large samples of spectroscopically-confirmed substellar...
Habitability of Terrestrial-Mass Planets in the Habitable Zone of Red Dwarfs
The ubiquity of M dwarfs, combined with the relative ease of detecting terrestrial-mass planets around them, has made them prime targets for finding and...
HaGS: a survey of star forming galaxies in the local Universe
I will present results from a survey of the star formation properties of nearby galaxies, using H alpha narrow-band imaging. The first half of the talk will...
High contrast and high resolution optical imaging from the ground: results from FASTCAM at NOT and WHT
Developed since 2006 by the IAC and UPCT, FASTCAM is an optical camera which takes advantage of recently available low noise and fast read-out CCDs (with...
High-resolution optical spectroscopy for everyone: want a PEPSI?
The demand of high-res spectroscopy had seen a tremendous increase after the discovery of exoplanets. Such instruments are now among the standard equipment of...