Towards the characterization of planetary atmospheres and the search for life: Cheops, Carmenes
Understanding the climate of our planet Earth is one of the greatest challenges in Science today. Much is still to be learned for example, on the variations of...
Towards the understanding of the late stages of stellar evolution and the formation of complex organic molecules
Most of the stars (M < 8 solar masses, Ms) end their lives with a phase of strong mass loss on the Asymptotic Giant Branch (AGB), just before they form...
Training grants Juan de la Cierva: Call 2018. Guillaume Thomas
In the framework of the Subprograma Estatal de Formación and the Subprograma Estatal de Incorporación, of the Programa Estatal de Promoción del Talento y su...
The Transiting Exoplanet Survey Satellite (TESS) is a NASA mission that started scientific operations in July 2018. Over two years it will cover the entire sky...
Unveiling the missing populations of X-ray binaries: dormant black holes and ultra-compact systems
X-ray binaries are excellent laboratories to study the physics of relativistic stars. On the one hand, they provide robust evidence for the existence of black...
Unveiling the Properties of Stellar Fosils in the Local Group Environment
The main objective of this project is the study of the primeval star formation in nearby systems. In particular, we will address this research in three...