We describe Castalia, a proposed mission to rendezvous with a Main Belt Comet (MBC), 133P/Elst-Pizarro. MBCs are a recently discovered population of apparently...
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PublicationThe Castalia mission to Main Belt Comet 133P/Elst-Pizarro
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NewsThe comet NEOWISE from the Canaries
During the month of July we will be able to see comet c/2020 F3 (NEOWISE) with the naked eye from the Canaries and from the Peninsula.
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PublicationThe cometary contribution to planetary impact rates
We use statistics on the nuclear magnitudes of Jupiter Family comets to derive the number of km-sized members with perihelion distances less than 2 AU. When...
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PublicationThe Dust Environment of Main-Belt Comet P/2010 R2 (La Sagra)
We present a model of the dust environment of Main-Belt Comet P/2010 R2 (La Sagra) from images acquired during the period 2010 October-2011 January. The tails...
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PublicationThe Dust Environment of Main-Belt Comet P/2012 T1 (PANSTARRS)
The Main-Belt Comet P/2012 T1 (PANSTARRS) has been imaged using the 10.4 m Gran Telescopio Canarias and the 4.2 m William Herschel Telescope at six epochs in...
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PublicationThe dust tail of Comet C/1999 T1 McNaught-Hartley
A numerical method to compute cometary dust tail brightnesses has been developed. The method, analogous in many ways to the inverse Monte Carlo method proposed...
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PublicationThe Effect of Seeing Variations in Time-Series CCD Inner Coma Photometry of Comets: A New Correction Method
Time series CCD photometry of the inner coma of active comets has been used over the last twenty years to determine the rotation period of their nucleus...
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PublicationThe First Post-Kepler Brightness Dips of KIC 8462852
We present a photometric detection of the first brightness dips of the unique variable star KIC 8462852 since the end of the Kepler space mission in 2013 May...
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NewsThe Gran Telescopio Canarias obtains the visible spectrum of C/2019 Q4 (Borisov), the first confirmed interstellar comet
The spectrum acquired by GTC of interstellar comet C/2019 Q4 (Borisov) reveals that this object has a surface composition not unlike that found in Solar System...