MSc Viva — Eva Silva
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1000 planets' telescope proceeds to construction
The European Space Agency validated the design of the scientific instruments of the Ariel space mission, which has an important participation of the Instituto de Astrofísica e Ciências do Espaço... read more ❯
Exoplanet in orbit of a red giant star escapes destruction
The planet 8 UMi b, also known as Halla, seems to have survived the expansion of its host star to red giant phase. This discovery, published in the prestigious journal... read more ❯
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 ❯
Projects
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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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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