Context. One of the long-term goals of exoplanet science is the atmospheric characterization of dozens of small exoplanets in order to understand their...
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PublicationLarge Interferometer For Exoplanets (LIFE). I. Improved exoplanet detection yield estimates for a large mid-infrared space-interferometer mission
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PublicationLiverpool telescope 2: a new robotic facility for rapid transient follow-up
The Liverpool Telescope is one of the world's premier facilities for time domain astronomy. The time domain landscape is set to radically change in the coming...
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PublicationLucky imaging speckle statistics applied to halo suppression
In ground based astronomy, the Lucky Imaging (LI) technique consists of selecting the best quality pictures among those that have been taken with a short...
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PublicationMEGARA: The future IFU and MOS of the 10.4 m GTC
In these proceedings we summarize the characteristics and current status of MEGARA, the future optical IFU and MOS for the 10.4 m GTC. MEGARA is being built by...
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PublicationMid-IR cosmological spectrophotometric surveys from space: Measuring AGN and star formation at the cosmic noon with a SPICA-like mission
We use the SPace Infrared telescope for Cosmology and Astrophysics (SPICA) project as a template to demonstrate how deep spectrophotometric surveys covering...
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PublicationModelling astronomical adaptive optics - I. The software package CAOS
The software package CAOS (code for adaptive optics systems) described in this paper is a software ensemble of modules designed for end-to-end simulation of...
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PublicationMultiwavelength monitoring of GRS 1915+105
Since its discovery in 1992, the superluminal X-ray transient GRS 1915+105 has been extensively observed in an attempt to understand its behavior. We present...
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PublicationOptical seeing at La Palma Observatory. 2: Intensive site testing campaign at the Nordic Optical Telescope
The results of an intensive site testing assessment campaign, held at the Observatorio del Roque de los Muchachos (ORM) (La Palma) during four nights on July...
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PublicationOptical seeing at La Palma Observatory. I - General guidelines and preliminary results at the Nordic Optical Telescope
The results of one night of observations corresponding to an intensive site assessment campaign, held at the Observatorio del Roque de los Muchachos (La Palma)...