News type: Research news

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    Researchers from the IAC discover that dark matter experiences forces beyond gravity
    The existence of dark matter is probably one of the fundamental mysteries of modern science and unraveling its nature has become one of the primary goals of...
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    Resolving an event-horizon-scale structure around the supermassive black hole of a lensed quasar
    The one-way frontier around a black hole is the event horizon from which nothing can escape.  Close to it, strong effects of gravity and exotic physics are...
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    Resolving the Internal Magnetic Structure of the Solar Network.
    We analyze the spectral asymmetry of Stokes V (circularly polarized) profiles of an individual network patch in the quiet Sun observed by Sunrise/IMaX. At a...
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    Resolving the nuclear dust distribution of the Seyfert 2 galaxy NGC 3081.
    We report far-infrared (FIR) imaging of the Seyfert 2 galaxy NGC 3081 in the range 70- 500 μm, obtained with an unprecedented angular resolution, using the...
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    Rubidium-rich Asymptotic Giant Branch stars in the Magellanic Clouds.
    We have identified for the first time extragalactic rubidium-rich Asymptotic Giant Branch (AGB) stars in low metallicity environments such as the Magellacnic...
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    Scientific results with the QUIJOTE-MFI wide survey: The anomalous microwave emission in our Galaxy and M31
    In the 90s, the COBE satellite discovered that not all the microwave emission from our Galaxy behaved as expected. Part of this signal was later assigned to a...
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    Search and characterization of T-type planetary mass candidates in the Sigma Orionis cluster .
    The proper characterization of the least massive population of the young Sigma Orionis star cluster is required to understand the form of the cluster mass...
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    Search for and analysis of IR clouds
    LIRIS, the IR imaging camera and spectrograph built by the IAC, is giving life to new projects. During 2006 advances were made in the search for and analysis of...
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    Seismic constraints on rotation of Sun-like star and mass of exoplanet.
    Rotation is thought to drive cyclic magnetic activity in the Sun and Sun-like stars. Stellar dynamos, however, are poorly understood owing to the scarcity of...