The Solar Orbiter mission was selected by ESA for the M1 slot within the Cosmic Vision program with a launch date in 2018. This proposal corresponds to the period of 2017-2020 and includes the integration of the SO/PHI instrument in the platform, the launch, and the two first years of commissioning prior to the first scientific operation orbits

This project is the natural continuation of the Coordinated Projects AYA2007-67752, AYA2010-21322 and AYA2013-48226 that were carried out by the Instituto de Astrofísica de Canarias (IAC), the Universidad Complutense de Madrid (UCM) and the Universitat de Valencia (UV). The fundamental objective of this proposal is to keep on deepening in our

Understanding the climate of our planet Earth is one of the greatest challenges in Science today. Much is still to be learned for example, on the variations of Earths albedo, or on external forcing factors, such as changes in the solar radiation. To truly go in depth into these open questions one may need to step out, view the Earth as a planet and

This research project aims to join efforts and consolidate the cooperation of a group of researchers with deep-rooted expertises and skills in different areas close or directly related to the AGN phenomenon, and with important national and international collaborations. We plan to make significant contributions to the resolution of some of the most

Ramón y Cajal contract to develop his research work in the specific research project “The integrated galactic stellar initial mass function - connecting resolved and unresolved stellar populations”.

This subproject aims to contribute with for scientific and technical work for the IACs contributions to the PLATO 2.0 mission is requested. This includes engineering work during the B2 phase, to be completed in July 2017 with the PDR, and during phase C, to finish in 2018 with the CDR, in addition to acquisitions of LLI (Long Lead Items) during