Kepler asteroseismology has played an important role in the characterization of host stars and their planetary systems. Target selection biases, however, meant that this synergy would remain mostly confined to main-sequence stars. The advent of TESS has since lifted this restriction, enabling the systematic search for transiting planets around

The second phase of the APOGEE survey is providing near-infrared (near-IR), high-resolution, high signal-to-noise spectra of stars in the halo, disc, bar, and bulge of the Milky Way. The near-IR spectral window is especially important in the study of the Galactic bulge, where stars are obscured by the dust and gas of the disc in its line of sight

We compute the expected sensitivity on measurements of optical depth to reionization for a ground-based experiment at Teide Observatory. We simulate polarized partial sky maps for the GroundBIRD experiment at the frequencies 145 and 220 GHz. We perform fits for the simulated maps with our pixel-based likelihood to extract the optical depth to

Aims: The aim of the project is to identify wide common proper motion companions to a sample of spectroscopically confirmed M and L metal-poor dwarfs (also known as subdwarfs) to investigate the impact of metallicity on the binary fraction of low-mass metal-poor binaries and to improve the determination of their metallicity from the higher-mass

White dwarfs with emission lines from gaseous debris discs are among the rarest examples of planetary remnant hosts, but at the same time they are key objects for studying the final evolutionary stage of planetary systems. Making use of the large number of white dwarfs identified in Gaia Data Release 2 (DR2), we are conducting a survey of planetary

We investigate the properties of pulsating variable stars in two galaxies at the edge or nearby the Local Group: VV 124 and KKr 25, located at ∼1.3 and ∼2 Mpc, respectively. We have identified well populated samples of RR Lyrae stars and Cepheids in both systems. We discuss how these can be used to trace the properties of different stellar