The IAC researcher and a Research Professor of the Spanish Higher Council for Scientific Research (CSIC), Javier Trujillo Bueno, has managed to win an ERC Advanced Grant, whose purpose is to support projects of world-wide scientific excellence, which will allow him to carry out pioneering research for 5 years on the polarization of solar radiation and the magnetic activity in the solar atmosphere. This is the first time that a Spanish scientist has obtained an ERC Advanced Grant in the field of “Science of the Universe”.
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The dynamical properties of these asteroids, observed spectroscopiccally for the first time using the Gran Telescopio CANARIAS (GTC), suggest a possible common origin and give a clue to the existence of a planet beyond Pluto, the so-called “Planet Nine”.
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These results, published by a team led from the Instituto de Astrofísica de Canarias, and obtained using the OSIRIS instrument on the Gran Telescopio CANARIAS (GTC), will help us to understand the evolution of this type of objects.
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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 Telescopio CANARIAS (GTC). The results are published today in Nature. ( Video on YouTube)
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The specialized Journal The Astrophysical Journal Letters (ApJL) is publishing today, in its on-line version, a study led by the Institute of Astrophysics of the Canaries (IAC) in which the researchers have identified a type of giant stars (AGB which means Asymptotic Giant Branch) of the second generation, and rich in aluminium, in four globular clusters with a range of metallicities and ages in the Milky Way. The detection of these stars on the giant branch of the well known Hertzsprung-Russell (HR) diagram is what is expected according to theoretical models of stellar evolution, and
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