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 …
A few weeks ago couple of months ago I gave a small talk during the journal club of the Astronomy group at the University of Crete (on 20/Oct/2017) about the most recent gravitational wave detection (GW170817) corresponding to a neutron star merger. As I have been involved in a couple …
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 …
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 …
I think it had everything: – waking up early to go to the bank, – then go to the university and finalize some aspects of my talk (as a final contribution), – go for lunch with the whole group, – return to the university, – to say goodbye to people, …
Every Monday the IFA-UV organizes a meeting that starts with a short (or longer) presentation of 20 mins. The whole process requires the active participation by the students to present the speaker, control, the discussion, while there is also a feedback given by the audience to the speaker. This is …
The idea of this post came to me on my second or third day in Chile when I noticed its flag on some boats. As today is my last day at work, perhaps it is the best (and last) opportunity to make a post about it. (So, practically it is …
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 …
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 …
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 …