This page lists funded projects (national funding, European funding, and cooperation projects) (co-)led by Group members, as well as missions/instruments in which we are strongly involved. Listed funded projects have a closing date no earlier than 1 Jan 2021 (for older projects, please follow this link).
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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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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Space Weather Awareness Training Network (SWATNet)
SWATNet is an H2020 Marie Skłodowska-Curie Actions (MSCA) Innovative Training Network (ITN). The project brings together nine beneficiaries (including the University of Coimbra)
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Revealing the Milky Way with Gaia (MW-GAIA)
MW-GAIA will provide European leadership in understanding the Galaxy, its stars and planets, enhance the potential of the community in its scientific exploitation
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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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EST
The European Solar Telescope (EST) is a project aimed at designing, constructing, and operating the largest solar telescope ever built in Europe. With
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Past projects
Breaking through outstanding problems in stellar evolution with ultra-precise space-based photometry (BreakStarS)
The last decade has witnessed a dramatic change in stellar astrophysics research as a result of the launch of space missions — such
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Characterizing the smallest planet hosts
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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Zoom-In ON hIgh-mass Star forMation
The theory of high-mass star formation predicts specific features, namely, the formation of near-equal binary systems, radiative Rayleigh-Taylor instabilities, and bloated photospheres. The
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