Moving boundaries (PoleMotion)
During the last decades, there has been a rapid secular drift of the northern magnetic dip pole. This project will conduct an investigation
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Projects: Funded Project
Space Debris Laboratory of the University of Coimbra (SpaDeLab)
SpaDeLab — Space Debris Laboratory of the University of Coimbra is an interdisciplinary project for the study of space debris, involving the Institute
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AM Radio Signal Datalogger (AMANDA)
(Portuguese only) Com o aumento da dependência da nossa sociedade na tecnologia baseada no espaço, ações que tornem esta infraestrutura mais resiliente são
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Space Weather Modeling: A Coupled Ionosphere-Thermosphere Physics-Based Approach
This project aims to develop an open-source physics-based model of the ionosphere-thermosphere system in order to enable real-time forecasting of neutral and charged
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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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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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Stellar rotation and magnetism in the era of ultra-precise space-based photometry
Stellar brightness variations result from the contribution of different stellar phenomena at different timescales. For solar-type stars, at long timescales the brightness variations
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Shedding a new light on outstanding problems in stellar physics with ultra-precise space-based photometry
The last decade has witnessed a dramatic advance in stellar physics research driven by exquisite space-based seismic data now available for thousands of
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Precise characterization of exoplanets with Cheops
Cheops is the first ESA mission dedicated to the characterization of known transiting exoplanets by means of ultra-high-precision photometry of bright stars. Data
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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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