3rd Iberian Space Science Summer School (i4s)
3rd edition of the Iberian Space Science Summer School (i4s) series.
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Latest news
The Sun is a normal star after all
6th of april 2023 – With data from Kepler (NASA), Gaia (ESA) and SOHO (NASA/ESA) satellites, a team1, led by Instituto de Astrofísica e Ciências do Espaço (IA2) researcher Ângela... read more ❯
IA astronomers featured in "Women in Science 2023"
The forth edition of the book Mulheres na Ciência (Women in Science) adds two more researchers from Instituto de Astrofísica e Ciências do Espaço (IA), to a list that already... read more ❯
Astronomers discover irregularities in the core of red giants
Red giants are dying stars, in advanced stages of stellar evolution, which have depleted the hydrogen in their cores. In this work1, published today in Nature Communications, a team2 of astronomers... read more ❯
IA co-organized Sub-Saharan Africa advanced astronomy school
The first edition of the Sub-Saharan Africa Astronomy Summer School (SSAASS), which took place between the 19th and 30th of September, in Uganda, had the participation of two researchers from... read more ❯
Activities
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Stars Day 2.5
Second instalment of the Stars Day x.5 series, a mid-edition with a predominantly social character.
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Stars Day 2022
2022 edition of Stars Day, an annual science meeting highlighting the work conducted by Group members and fostering debate.
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Projects
Using Ap stars as LABoratories for probing chemical transport mechanisms, with ultra-precise space-based photometry (ApLAB)
Over the last decades, asteroseismology has blossomed thanks to the ultra-precise, space-based photometric time series acquired by satellites such as CoRoT (France/ESA; 2006-2012),
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Cool Stars in the near-Infrared (CSI)
This project takes advantage of our privileged access to the Guaranteed Time Observations (GTO) data from the NIRPS (Near InfraRed Planet Searcher) spectrograph
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Star-exoplanet compositional link: Towards realistic characterisation of terrestrial planets (EXO-TERRA)
Over the last decade, noticeable advances were made in the modelling of the internal properties of terrestrial planets. It is, for instance, known
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SSA P3-SWE-XXXVII SWE Products for Southern Europe – Phase 1 (PROSE)
This project will focus on enhancing and maturing space weather assets in Southern Europe, building on the results of the preceding SSA studies
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Exploring the red side of cool stars with exoplanets
The determination of accurate and precise stellar parameters and chemical abundances of M dwarfs is of prime importance to the study of Galactic
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