Scope: SO Research

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    Astronomers find the origin of one of the oldest stars in the Milky Way
    An international team of researchers, among them scientists from the Instituto de Astrofísica de Canarias (IAC), has confirmed the primitive origen of an old...
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    Observing the polarized microwave sky: 10 years of the QUIJOTE experiment
    I will review the status of the QUIJOTE (Q-U-I JOint TEnerife) experiment, a project led from the IAC with the aim of characterising the polarisation of the...
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    2023 DZ2 asteroid will not collide with Earth, study finds
    An international scientific team, in which researchers from the Instituto de Astrofísica de Canarias (IAC) participate, confirms that the asteroid, discovered...
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    A chromospheric resonance cavity in a sunspot mapped with seismology
    Sunspots are intense collections of magnetic fields that pierce through the Sun’s photosphere, with their signatures extending upwards into the outermost...
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    A crucial test for astronomical spectrograph calibration with frequency combs
    Laser frequency combs (LFCs) are well on their way to becoming the next-generation calibration sources for precision astronomical spectroscopy. This development...
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    A dense ultra-short period sub-Earth planet transiting a nearby red dwarf star
    Ultrashort-period (USP) exoplanets have orbital periods shorter than 1 day. Precise masses and radii of USP exoplanets could provide constraints on their...
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    A dwarf irregular galaxy caught in transition
    Leo I is one of the youngest dwarf spheroidal (dSph) galaxies in the Local Group. Its relative isolation, extended and complex star formation history (SFH), and...
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    A giant planet candidate transiting a white dwarf
    Astronomers have discovered thousands of planets outside the Solar System, most of which orbit stars that will eventually evolve into red giants and then into...
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    A nearby transiting rocky exoplanet that is suitable for atmospheric investigation
    We detect a transiting rocky planet with an orbital period of 1.467 days around the nearby red dwarf star Gliese 486. The planet Gliese 486 b is 2.81 Earth...