The last evolutionary stage of about 97 per cent of the stars in the Milky Way is the white dwarf phase: a remnant stellar core sustained by electron degeneracy...
-
PublicationEVOLVED PLANETARY SYSTEMS AROUND WHITE DWARFS: PROBING INTO THE ULTIMATE FATE OF THE SOLAR SYSTEM
-
PublicationEXPLORING THE COSMOS THROUGH A LENS: SEARCHING FOR STRONGLY-LENSED SUPERNOVAE IN TIME-DOMAIN SURVEYS
La constante de Hubble (H0) es un parámetro crítico en cosmología que define propiedades esenciales del universo, como su tamaño, edad, tasa de expansión y...
-
PublicationFORMATION AND EVOLUTION OF EARLY-TYPE DWARF GALAXIES: A TWO-DIMENSIONAL PERSPECTIVE
Dwarf elliptical galaxies (dEs) are the most common galaxy class in dense environments, outnumbering all other classes combined. Their low masses make them...
-
PublicationGALAXIES WITH MULTIPLE BARS: CONSTRAINTS ON THEIR FORMATION SCENARIOS
Much of current astrophysical research is aimed at addressing one key issue: how galaxies form and evolve. We still do not fully understand the evolutionary...
-
PublicationGLOBULAR CLUSTERS AS TRACERS OF THE HIERARCHICAL FORMATION OF THE MILKY WAY
One of the main challenges for current cosmology is the conciliation, in a single theory, of the formation of large-scale structures in the Universe and the...
-
PublicationIMPACTO DE LA FORMACION ESTELAR EN GALAXIAS COMPACTAS AZULES
Este trabajo está centrado en el estudio de los brotes de formación estelar (FE) de una muestra de Galaxias Enanas Compactas Azules (BCDs), la interacción de...
-
PublicationLA GALAXIA ANFITRIONA DE LAS GALAXIAS COMPACTAS AZULES
Las Galaxias Compactas Azules (BCGs) son objetos caracterizados por evidenciar intensos brotes de formación estelar que dominan gran parte de la luz que...
-
PublicationMASSIVE OBSCURED CLUSTERS IN THE MILKY WAY
This thesis comprises of a full search in our galaxy for the hidden population of massive stars using the near-infrared photometry with a novel method and a...
-
PublicationMICROLENSING OF AGN SPECTRA
Quasars are considered to be the most luminous subclass among Active Galactic Nuclei. Although they appear to be distributed everywhere in the Universe, only a...