News type: Research news

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    Determination of the range of masses for the compact object in binary r-X 2S 0921-630
    The range of masses for the compact object in binary r-X 2S 0921-630 has been determined (between 2.0-4.3 solar masses), consistent with a massive neutron star...
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    DEVELOPMENT OF HIGH SPATIAL RESOLUTION SYSTEMS.
    Un instrumento cute-SCIDAR, desarrollado por el IAC, se ha probado recientemente (Nov 2007) con éxito en el Observatorio del Paranal. Este instrumento...
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    Development of the IAC-STAR public programme
    A public programme (IAC-STAR) has been developed for generating of HR and C-M synthetic diagrams to investigate problems of star formation and population...
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    Diffuse interstellar bands in proto-fullerene circumstellar environments.
    Fullerenes and fullerene-related molecules have been proposed as explanations for unidentified astronomical features such as the intense UV absorption band at...
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    Discovered one of the brightest distant galaxies so far known
    In the phenomenon of gravitational lensing, predicted by Einstein's General Theory of Relativity, the mass of a galaxy acts on the light of a more distant...
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    Discovery of a massive supercluster system at z=0.47
    Superclusters are the largest over-dense, relatively isolated systems in the cosmic web. They provide us invaluable information about the large-scale structure...
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    Discovery of a massive black hole companion to a B-type star from radial velocity measurements
    All stellar-mass black holes have hitherto been identified by X-rays emitted from gas that is accreting onto the black hole from a companion star. These systems...
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    Discovery of a young and massive stellar cluster: Spectrophotometric near-infrared study of Masgomas-1.
    Recent near-infrared data have contributed to the discovery of new (obscured) massive stellar clusters and massive stellar populations in previously known...
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    Discovery of a young forming planet around the nearby star AU Mic
    AU Microscopii (AU Mic) is the second closest pre-main-sequence star, at a distance of 9.79 parsecs and with an age of 22 million years . AU Mic possesses a...