Scope: Science and Technology

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    TESS, Spitzer and the GTC detect a planet orbiting a white dwarf for the first time
    With data from NASA’s TESS satellite, from the now retired Spitzer Space Telescope, and the Gran Telescopio Canarias (GTC) an international team of astronomers...
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    Testing Einstein's equivalence principle at early cosmological epochs with quasar observations
    We perform a new test of Einstein's Equivalence Principle which, for the first time, extends to very early cosmological epochs (we have studied its validity in...
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    Testing fundamental physics with ESPRESSO
    Many of the most basic and important physical phenomena are determined by a set of “fundamental constants”, whose values are experimentally known to high...
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    Testing the extreme acceleration mechanisms in the supermassive black holes neighborhood
    Blazars, Active Galactic Nuclei (AGN) whose relativistic jets point in the direction of the Earth, dominate the VHE (VHE, E>100 GeV) gamma-ray extragalactic sky...
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    The "Visiting Researchers" programme of the Occident Foundation strengthens the commitment to attract prestigious scientific personnel to the IAC
    Nine internationally renowned specialists in the field of astrophysics have participated this year in the "Visiting Researchers" programme of the Occident...
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    The agreement for the construction of the ANDES instrument on the ELT is signed
    The European Southern Observatory (ESO) has signed an agreement with an international consortium of institutions, including the Instituto de Astrofísica de...
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    The ALISIO-1 satellite shows its efficiency in following the eruptions of the Mexican volcano Popocatépetl
    During commissioning the Canary satellite ALISIO-1 proves its efficiency by observing phenomena in over 100 regions of the world The first Canary satellite, led...
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    The atmosphere of a new ultra hot Jupiter is analysed
    The combination of observations made with the CARMENES spectrograph on the 3.5m telescope at Calar Alto Observatory (Almería), and the HARPS-N spectrograph on...
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    The changing-look optical wind of the flaring X-ray transient Swift J1858.6-0814
    The large amount of mass and angular momentum carried by disc winds makes them key processes to understand accretion onto compact objects, such as black holes...