Searching for Missing Baryons with WMAP and PLANCK
About half the baryons in the local Universe could be in the form of a Warm Hot Intergalactic Medium (WHIM). If a large fraction of the gas is ionized, it could...
Numerical simulations have played a crucial role in the development of modern cosmology and in the establishment of LCDM. In this talk, I will review the main...
SkyMAD: Building galaxy mock catalogs for large surveys
The accelerated expansion of the Universe discovered in the late 90's has opened one of the most intriguing questions of modern physics. To help to understand...
SPICA: A Cryogenic Infrared Telescope for ESA's Next Medium-Class Science Mission (M5)
In 2016, an international consortium led by SRON (Netherlands) in close collaboration with Japan (JAXA) and with important Spanish participation (CAB, INTA and...
Stellar black holes at the dawn of the Universe: cosmological implications
The so called "dark ages" of the universe began about 400.000 years after the Big Bang as matter cooled down and space became filled with neutral hydrogen for...
Almost all cosmologists accept nowadays that the redshift of the galaxies is due to the expansion of the Universe (cosmological redshift), plus some Doppler...