Start year
1988
Organizational Unit
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General
Members
Principal investigator
Pablo
Rodríguez Gil
Project staff
Manuel Ángel
Pérez Torres
Tariq
Shahbaz
Dr.
Vikram Dhillon
Ignacio
González Martínez-Pais
Montserrat
Armas Padilla
Teodoro
Muñoz Darias
Jorge
Casares Velázquez
María Jesús
Arevalo Morales
Carlos
Lázaro Hernando
Collaborators
Dr.
B. T. Gänsicke
Dr.
T. R. Marsh
Dr.
R. Iglesias Marzoa
Dr.
M. López Morales
Dr.
P. Abraham
Dr.
D. Steeghs
Dr.
E. Breedt
Dr.
L. Schmidtobreick
Dr.
J. M. Corral Santana
Dr.
S. B. Potter
Dr.
W. Skidmore
Dr.
P. Hakala
Prof.
P. G. Jonker
Dr.
K. S. Long
Dr.
G. Sala
Dr.
Nancy Elías de la Rosa
Dr.
M. Hernanz
Results
- Many white dwarf stars show signs of having accreted smaller bodies, implying that they may host planetary systems. A small number of these systems contain gaseous debris discs, visible through emission lines. We found a stable 123.4-minute periodic variation in the strength and shape of the Ca II emission line profiles originating from the debris disc around the white dwarf SDSS J122859.93+104032.9. We interpret this short-period signal as the signature of a solid-body planetesimal held together by its internal strength. Results published in Science.
- Discovery of a giant bubble-like shell around M31N 2008–12a, the recurrent nova with the shortest eruption recurrence period (one year). Results published in Nature.
- A fast GTC/OSIRIS spectrophotometric study of the white dwarf WD 1145+017 has been published in Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society that reports confirmation of the evolution of the periodic transits that occur every 4.5 hours. The deepest transit detected to date has been modelled with six equally spaced fragments of the disrupting planetesimal.
- In 2018 an International Time Programme for follow-up of gravitational wave events was awarded (PI Jonker, SRON, The Netherlands). Several members of the projects are co-Is. Rodríguez-Gil will serve as chair on the Executive Committee.
Scientific activity
Related publications
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SDSS unveils a population of intrinsically faint cataclysmic variables at the minimum orbital periodGänsicke, B. T. et al.
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Observations of the 599 Hz Accreting X-Ray Pulsar IGR J00291+5934 during the 2004 Outburst and in QuiescenceTorres, M. A. P. et al.
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HS 2325+8205 - An Ideal Laboratory for Accretion Disk PhysicsPyrzas, S. et al.
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Evidence for a black hole in the X-ray transient XTE J1859+226Corral-Santana, J. M. et al.
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A flickering study of nova-like systems KR Aur and UU AqrDobrotka, A. et al.
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The kinematics of the quadrupolar nebula M 1-75 and the identification of its central starSantander-García, M. et al.
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An eclipsing post-common-envelope binary in the field of the Kepler missionAlmenara, J. M. et al.
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Variability of the blazar 4C 38.41 (B3 1633+382) from GHz frequencies to GeV energiesRaiteri, C. M. et al.
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The outburst and nature of two young eruptive stars in the North America/Pelican Nebula ComplexKóspál, Á. et al.
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The 2008 Outburst of EX Lup—Silicate Crystals in MotionJuhász, A. et al.
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Near-infrared study of the stellar population of Sh2-152Ramírez-Alegría, S. et al.
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Mid-infrared Spectral Variability Atlas of Young Stellar ObjectsKóspál, Á. et al.
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Infrared and Optical Polarimetry around the Low-mass Star-forming Region NGC 1333 IRAS 4AAlves, Felipe O. et al.
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HH 223: a parsec-scale H2 outflow in the star-forming region L723López, R. et al.
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A Peculiar Young Eruptive Star in the Dark Cloud Lynds 1340Kun, M. et al.
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