The visible survey spectrometers, VIMOS and FLAMES, have need in successful operation for nearly a decade. and within the next few weeks these will be joined by...
ESO is an intergovernmental organization for astronomy founded in 1962 by five countries. It currently has 14 Member States in Europe with Brazil poised to join...
Estado de la instrumentación de los telescopios del ORM/OT para los próximos semestres
Se revisará el estado de los instrumentos instalados en los telescopios del Observatorio del Roque de Los Muchachos (ORM) y del Observatorio del Teide (OT). Se...
Estudios genéticos de los antiguos pobladores de las Islas Canarias
El aura de misterio que rodea a aborígenes canarios ha fascinado desde siempre a la comunidad científica. Muchos estudios han tratado de establecer el origen...
Ethics in science: on fiascos that are unconscious lapses, and fiascos which are conscious cheating.
There are many cases in the scientific literature where published results are shown to be "fiascos". Most of them are due to lapses, unconscious mistakes in the...
Evidence for secular evolution of disc structural parameters in barred galaxies
I will address the effects of bar-driven secular evolution in discs by comparing their properties in a sample of nearly 700 barred and unbarred massive galaxies...
Evidence for sub-populations in Globular Clusters - their properties and relations with the cluster properties
The last few years have witnessed a growing amount of empirical evidence pointing to the existence of multiple stellar populations in some Galactic globular...
Evolution of barred galaxies. A model for the Milky Way bar and bulge in this context
Among the different effects of secular evolution of galaxies we find how bars influence enormously their host galaxies. For many years now, it is known how the...