Dynamos, the drivers of solar and stellar activity
Following Cowling's anti-dynamo theorem of 1933, there was a long period during which the very existence of dynamos was unclear. Even with the emergence of...
El IAC recibe este otoño a un nuevo grupo de personal investigador dentro del programa de Visitantes de Fundación Occident
El programa Investigadores Visitantes Fundación Occident del Instituto de Astrofísica de Canarias (IAC) sigue su curso con la recepción de un nuevo grupo de...
El IAC y la Fundación Occident apuestan por el fomento del intercambio de talento científico
El Instituto de Astrofísica de Canarias (IAC) sigue afianzando su liderazgo investigador y de atracción de talento científico con el programa “ Investigadores...
Galactic Globular Clusters: Why should we care about them?
Galactic globular clusters have always been at the crossroad of several investigations in both Stellar and Galactic Astrophysics. For long time, they have been...
IAC collaborator Sebastián Francisco Sánchez, new director of the LVM project
The international consortium Sloan Digital Sky Survey-V (SDSS-V) has appointed Dr Sebastián Francisco Sánchez, researcher at the Institute of Astronomy of the...
Magnetic Flux, Heating, & Flaring: Clues from the Sun for Other Stars & Systems
On the Sun, the presence of magnetic flux at the photosphere is closely linked to (1) steady heating of the overlying atmosphere and (2) transient brightenings...
Magnetic reconnection in partially ionized plasmas
The phenomenon of magnetic reconnection in a magnetized plasma has been a subject of numerous studies over the past several decades in a variety of contexts...