We present a detailed study of the evolution of the Galactic black hole transient GRS 1716-249 during its 2016-2017 outburst at optical (Las Cumbres Observatory...
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PublicationA Multiwavelength Study of GRS 1716-249 in Outburst: Constraints on Its System Parameters
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PublicationChemical composition of secondary stars in LMXBs: implications on the progenitors of black holes and neutron stars
Recent studies of chemical abundances of secondary stars in low mass X-ray binaries have opened a new window to obtain information on the progenitors of black...
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PublicationDynamical Confirmation of a Black Hole in MAXI J1820+070
We present time-resolved 10.4 m Gran Telescopio Canarias and 4.2 m William Herschel Telescope intermediate resolution spectroscopy of the X-ray transient MAXI...
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PublicationEcho Tomography of Sco X-1 using Bowen Fluorescence Lines
We present preliminary results of a simultaneous X-ray/optical campaign of the proto-typical LMXB Sco X-1 at 1-10 Hz time resolution. Lightcurves of the high...
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PublicationHunting for eclipsing Post Common Envelope Binaries from SDSS
We give an overview of a project aiming to identify new eclipsing post common envelope binaries from the Sloan Digital Sky Survey. This work focuses on the...
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PublicationIndirect evidence for an active radio pulsar in SAX J1808.4-3658 during quiescence
Millisecond radio pulsars are neutron stars that have been spun-up by the transfer of angular momentum during the low-mass X-ray binary phase. The transition...
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NewsNew source of lithium production found in the Universe
A team of researchers from the Instituto de Astrofísica de Canarias (IAC), the University of Manchester and the Norwegian University of Science and Technology...
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PublicationOptical counterpart of the XTE J0929-314 in quiescence: constraints on the magnetic field
We present VLT observations of the optical counterpart of th X-ray millisecond pulsar XTE J0929-314 in quiescence. We detected a very faint candidate in...
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PublicationPhase Resolved Blue Spectroscopy of SS433
Despite more than 20 years of study, we still possess only limited constraints on the fundamental properties of SS433. With the exception of the 13d period...