I revisit the claim of Dark Energy detection after stacking CMB data on the angular position of voids and superclusters in Sloan Data. I examine the...
Hablaré de tres caprichos. El primero pretende responder a la pregunta: ¿Existen lentes magnéticas en el Cosmos? El segundo trata de un problema de Milagro...
We present recent theoretical and empirical results concerning the accuracy of Cepheid distance estimates based on optical and near-infrared (NIR) Period...
Characterization of stars (with and without planets) from Hubble absolute flux spectrophotometry
This talk shows an spectrophotometric analysis of HD 209458 and 18 A type stars. We have used absolute flux spectrophotometry obtained with the Hubble Space...
Characterizing the circum/inter-galactic medium in emission around z~2-3 quasars
The exquisite sensitivity of MUSE on VLT/ESO together with the recent discovery of Enormous (>200 kpc) Lyman-Alpha Nebulae (ELAN) around radio-quiet z~2-3...
Chemical Cartography in the Milky Way with SDSS/APOGEE
The SDSS Apache Point Observatory Galactic Evolution Experiment (APOGEE) has collected high resolution near-IR spectra of several hundred thousand stars across...
Chemical composition of cosmic dust in the solar vicinity
Cosmic dust is an elusive component of the interstellar medium (ISM) because it is difficult to be observed. Despite the dust is a key ingredient in the...