Astrophysical: Methods

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    Dark matter annihilation and the Galactic Centre Excess
    We compare the surface brightness profile and morphology of the Galactic Centre Excess (GCE) identified in wide-angle γ-ray maps from the Fermi-Large Area...
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    Dark Matter Decay and Annihilation in the Local Universe: Clues from Fermi
    We present all-sky simulated Fermi maps of γ-rays from dark matter (DM) decay and annihilation in the local universe. The DM distribution is obtained from a...
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    Dark matter halo concentrations in the Wilkinson Microwave Anisotropy Probe year 5 cosmology
    We use a combination of three large N-body simulations to investigate the dependence of dark matter halo concentrations on halo mass and redshift in the...
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    Data Reduction Pipeline for EMIR, the Near-IR Multi-Object Spectrograph for GTC
    EMIR (Balcells et al. 2000) is a near-infrared wide-field camera and multi-object spectrograph being built for the GTC. The Data Reduction Pipeline (DRP) will...
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    Data treatment towards the ELT age. The ESPRESSO case
    Several ambitious scientific projects are currently pushing the limits of astrophysical spectroscopy, in terms of wavelength accuracy and long-term stability...
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    Deep Blank Fields for the GTC
    The use of deep blank fields is crucial for the correct operation of the GTC. Hitherto, the list of deepest blank fields was the compilation by M. Azzaro for...
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    Deep blank-field catalogue for medium- and large-sized telescopes
    The observation of blank fields, defined as regions of the sky that are devoid of stars down to a given threshold magnitude, constitutes one of the most...
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    Deep SDSS optical spectroscopy of distant halo stars. I. Atmospheric parameters and stellar metallicity distribution
    Aims: We analyze a sample of tens of thousands of spectra of halo turnoff stars, obtained with the optical spectrographs of the Sloan Digital Sky Survey (SDSS)...
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    Deep SDSS optical spectroscopy of distant halo stars. III. Chemical analysis of extremely metal-poor stars
    Aims: We present the results of an analysis of 107 extremely metal-poor (EMP) stars with metallicities lower than [Fe/H] =- 3.0, identified in medium-resolution...