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 …
In a recent Nature (Shara et al. 2017, Nature, 548, 558) letter, the authors found that a current dwarf nova is actually the Nova Scorpii AD 1437, recorded by Korean astronomers at that time. What is interesting is that they managed to trace both the dwarf nova’s position and the …
Yesterday, I had finally the opportunity to give a seminar talk at the Instituto de Física y Astronomía de la Universidad de Valparaíso, where I am currently based (and only for about a month more …) “What have we learned from observations of B[e] Supergiants ?” Abstract: B[e] Supergiants are …