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Year: <span>2017</span>

Year: 2017

New paper on the circumstellar environment of the B[e] supergiant LHA 120-S 35

Resolving the clumpy circumstellar environment of the B[e] supergiant LHA 120-S 35 Andrea F. Torres, Lydia S. Cidale, Michaela Kraus, María L. Arias, Rodolfo H. Barbá, Grigoris Maravelias, Marcelo Borges Fernandes B[e] supergiants (SGs) are massive post-main-sequence stars, surrounded by a complex circumstellar (CS) environment. The aim of this work …

New Paper on star clusters in the Small Magellanic Cloud

The distribution and ages of star clusters in the Small Magellanic Cloud: Constraints on the interaction history of the Magellanic Clouds T. Bitsakis, R. A. Gonzalez-Lopezlira, P. Bonfini, G. Bruzual, G. Maravelias, D. Zaritsky, S. Charlot, V. H. Ramirez-Siordia We present a new study of the spatial distribution and ages …

The first neutron star merger

A new era, of multi-messenger astronomy (combining gravitational waves, particles, photons), has been born today. LIGO/VIRGO plus 70 teams around the world announced the first detection of colliding neutron stars, which means that a gravitational wave detection (GW170817) triggered the observations using almost everything available (from gamma rays to radio …

Proper acknowledgments

From a friend with a similar interest in martial arts. He noticed the following acknowledgment (by Zeng & Sasselov 2013, PASP, 125, 227): We acknowledge partial support for this work by NASA cooperative agreement NNX09AJ50A (Kepler Mission science team). We would like to thank Michail Petaev and Stein Jacobsen for …

New paper on the circumstellar environment of MWC 137

Resolving the circumstellar environment of the Galactic B[e] supergiant star MWC 137 from large to small scales Michaela Kraus, Tiina Liimets, Cristina E. Cappa, Lydia S. Cidale, Dieter H. Nickeler, Nicolas U. Duronea, Maria L. Arias, Diah S. Gunawan, Mary E. Oksala, Marcelo Borges Fernandes, Grigoris Maravelias, Michel Cure, Miguel …

Tough days the last days

A couple of hectic weeks finished on last Friday. After two trips to La Serena to observe from the magnificent facilities at CTIO and LCO (posts still pending since there is an overwhelming amount of photos and videos!), I had an intense week to finalize the paper I am preparing …