In my presentation I will give a short introduction to the science of extrasolar planets, in particular the technique of transit, eclipse and phasecurve spectro...
Dr Roger Hoyland has been working at the IAC for the last 21 years on the Cosmic Microwave Background Experiments. He started out as a research assistant at...
Sobre la planimetría ortogonal en la Roma antigua: ¿astronomía frente a geometría?, el método de la 'variatio'
En el mundo romano, a la hora de crear una nueva ciudad, un parcelario rural, un campamento, era necesario tener el parabien de los dioses, hecho que se...
Software development for the analysis of meteor and asteroid data
In this talk, I will briefly introduce Slovak instrument AMOS - all-sky meteor orbit system. We designed and developed a GUI tool for calculating and...
The solar abundance of chemical elements play an important role in addressing such important issues as the formation, structure, and evolution of the Sun and...
Helioseismology is about 40 years old, still a young science. It has been a tremendous success providing many more results than initially expected, including...
Solar-like oscillating stars: Combining seismology from Kepler photometry with HERMES high-resolution spectroscopy
Asteroseismology is a powerful tool to study stellar structure and dynamics as well as their evolution. The Kepler space telescope provides unprecedented...
SONG: an observational new facility at Observatorio del Teide for stellar observations
The SONG SONG (Stellar Observations Network Group) project is a worldwide initiative to design and build a global network of 1m telescopes (6 to 8 nodes) to...