8th TESS/15th Kepler Asteroseismic Science Consortium Workshop
The workshop will take place from 15-19 July 2024 at the Faculty of Sciences of the University of Porto (FCUP), Porto, Portugal. Online participation will also be possible.
Latest news
First ‘glory’ on hellish distant world?
Led by an Instituto de Astrofísica e Ciências do Espaço researcher, the team used ESA's Cheops space telescope to observe potential signs of the rainbow-like ‘glory effect’ in the... read more ❯
Tiniest “starquakes” ever detected
At a distance of 11.9 light years, Epsilon Indi (ε Indi) is an orange dwarf star (also known as a K dwarf) with 71% of the Sun’s diameter. An international... read more ❯
Ultraviolet light from massive stars may prevent the formation of giant planets
Huge superluminous stars may force young stars of low mass to live nearly alone, without the company of giant planets, according to a study led by Olivier Berné, of the... read more ❯
Rare giant exoplanets discovered around giant stars
In two recent scientific papers, led by Instituto de Astrofísica e Ciências do Espaço researchers, several "jupiters" were found around giant and intermediate mass stars, a type of stars were... read more ❯
Activities
Upcoming activities
Porto Summer School on Asteroseismology: From Pixels to Stellar Ages
This is an international advanced school, addressing topics at the forefront of research in stellar physics, namely, asteroseismology.
European Space Weather Week 2024
The European Space Weather Week (ESWW) is the main annual event in the European Space Weather and Space Climate calendar.
Projects
ANDES@ELT
ANDES (ArmazoNes high Dispersion Echelle Spectrograph) is the planned high-resolution (R ~ 100,000) spectrograph for ESO’s Extremely Large Telescope (ELT) operating at visible
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SPIRou@CFHT
SPIRou (SPectropolarimètre InfraROUge) is a near-infrared spectropolarimeter and high-precision velocimeter for the Canada-France-Hawaii Telescope (CFHT). It is a near-infrared fiber-fed, double-pass cross-dispersed spectrograph, based
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Ariel
Ariel (Atmospheric Remote-sensing Infrared Exoplanet Large-survey) is the M4 mission in ESA’s Cosmic Vision long-term plan, being expected to launch in 2029. During
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Unravelling the mystery of substellar object formation
There are at least 100 billion brown dwarfs and rogue planets in our galaxy. Several theories related to processes of their formation have
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