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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Projects: National Funding
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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A synergetic approach to the study of the Milky Way, its stars and planets using ultra-precise, space-based photometry
New insights on stellar interiors physics and evolution are being made possible by asteroseismology, the study of stars by means of their natural
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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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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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Portuguese Regional Ionosphere ModEl (PRIME)
This project aims at developing a prototype for an empirical model to forecast total electron content (TEC) variations across Portugal in response to
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