White Dwarfs in Close Binaries: A Systematic Search for Mass Transfer Systems and Supernova Ia Progenitors
White dwarfs are the evolutionary end point of the vast majority of stars (97 per cent),where a large fraction of systems, around 25 per cent, are close enough...
White Dwarfs in Close Binaries: A Systematic Search for Mass-transfer Systems and Supernova Ia Progenitors in the APOGEE Survey
We have created a new and unique database, the APOGEE-Galaxy Evolution Explorer (GALEX)-Gaia catalog, to study white dwarfs in close binaries, and, in...
We present accurate and deep multiband B,R,Hα data for the globular cluster ω Cen collected with the Advanced Camera for Surveys on HST. The photometric...
White dwarfs with infrared excess within 100 pc: Gaia and the Virtual Observatory
The infrared excess shown by white dwarfs can be an indicator of a low-mass substellar companion, like a brown dwarf or even an exoplanet. In this work, we...
Why are Massive O-rich AGB Stars in our Galaxy not S-stars?
We present the main results derived from a chemical analysis carried out on a large sample of galactic O-rich AGB stars using high resolution optical...
Why we need to measure turbulent magnetic fields in HII regions
We have measured the emission line profiles in Hα from populations of HII regions in nearby spiral galaxies, and extracted their non-thermal line widths. These...
The authors present results of a search for wide companions to halo subdwarfs of known metallicity. They have taken CCD I-band frames in order to detect faint...
Wide FastCam: a wide field imaging camera for the TCS
The FastCam instrument, jointly developed by the IAC and the UPCT, allows, in real-time, acquisition, selection and storage of images with a resolution that...