Scope: SO Research

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    Astrophysicists from the IAC discover an intense wind in the neighbourhood of a black hole
    The observations of V404 Cygni, which went into outburst in 2015 after more than 25 years of quiescence, were made with the OSIRIS instrument on the Gran...
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    Calibrating the Rossby number, a key parameter to study the magnetic activity of stars
    In a star like the Sun, surface magnetic activity results from the interaction between rotation, convection, and magnetic field. One of the key parameters to...
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    Caught in the act: the winds driven by supermassive black holes directly impact star formation
    Patricia Bessiere, a researcher at the Instituto de Astrofísica de Canarias (IAC), has led research which has used data from the KECK telescope in Hawaii to...
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    CHEOPS unexpectedly detects a unique exoplanet
    The exoplanet satellite hunter CHEOPS of the European Space Agency (ESA), in which the Instituto de Astrofísica de Canarias (IAC) is participating along with...
  • Conference
    China-Spain collaboration on astronomical high-resolution spectroscopy
    Conference organized by the Instituto de Astrofísica de Canarias (IAC) , in collaboration with the Gran Telescopio Canarias (GTC) and the National Astronomical...
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    Collision of C-type Ryugu’s parent body with a rocky object
    Hayabusa2’s optical navigation camera (ONC) found many anomalously bright boulders on the dark surface of the carbonaceous (or C-type) asteroid Ryugu...
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    Colouring asteroid Bennu
    The main objective of the NASA OSIRIS-REx mission is the collection of material from the surface of primitive asteroid (101955) Bennu, and to bring it back to...
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    Confirming new physics in space
    The interstellar medium is an excellent laboratory to test physical processes that cannot be reproduced in Earth-based laboratories. In this study several...
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    Cosmic amorphous dust in the interstellar medium as a possible explanation for the Anomalous Microwave Emission
    The main emission mechanisms of the interstellar medium (ISM) in the spectral range between the radio and the far infrared are very well characterised and...