This volume documents the contributions presented at the Seventh Scientific Meeting of the Spanish Astronomical Society (Sociedad Espa?±ola de Astronom?a, SEA). The event bought together 301 participants who presented 161 contributed talks and 120 posters, the greatest numbers up to now. The fact that most exciting items of the current astronomical research were addressed in the meeting proofs the good health of the SEA, a consolidated organization founded fifteen years ago in Barcelona. Two plenary sessions of the meeting were devoted to the approved entrance of Spain as a full member of the European Southern Observatory (ESO) and to the imminent first light of the greatest telescope in the world, the GTC (Gran Telescopio de Canarias), milestones that will certainly lead the Spanish Astronomy in the next future.
Author(s): Francesca Figueras, Josep Miquel Girart, Margarita Hernanz, Carme Jordi
Edition: 1
Year: 2007
Language: English
Pages: 367
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Contents......Page 5
Preface......Page 9
Organizing Committees and Sponsors......Page 11
List of Participants......Page 13
Session I: Spain in ESO......Page 21
Youth, Accretion, and Mass Loss at the End of the Main Sequence......Page 22
The European Extremely Large Telescope......Page 34
Gamma Ray Bursts: Lighthouses of the Universe......Page 48
The VIMOS VLT Deep Survey (VVDS)......Page 60
Session II: Science with GTC......Page 68
Galaxy Surveys in the Era of Large Ground-Based Observatories......Page 69
The GTC 10 m Telescope: Getting Ready for First Light......Page 80
OSIRIS: Status and Science......Page 87
EMIR, the GTC NIR Multiobject Imager-Spectrograph......Page 97
CanariCam: Instrument Status and Frontier Science......Page 107
Session III: S.E.A. prizes......Page 119
Radiative Transfer in Molecular Lines. Astrophysical Applications......Page 120
The Star Formation History of Early-type Galaxies as a Function of Environment......Page 132
Session IV: Galaxies and cosmology......Page 143
Galaxy Evolution in Galaxy Clusters: Diffuse Light in the Virgo Cluster......Page 144
The Quest for Obscured AGN at Cosmological Distances: Infrared Power-Law Galaxies......Page 156
AMIGA: A New Model of Galaxy Formation and Evolution......Page 169
The Innermost Regions of Active Galactic Nuclei – From Radio to X-rays......Page 177
Gaussian Analysis of the CMB with the Smooth Tests of Goodness of Fit......Page 189
Dark Matter in Galaxy Clusters......Page 197
Cosmology with the Largest Scale Structures: Probing Dark Energy......Page 204
Observational Cosmology at High Redshift......Page 212
An Hα Approach to the Evolution of the Galaxy Population of the Universe......Page 220
Session V: The Galaxy and its components......Page 228
Multi-Wavelength Astronomy and the Unidentified γ-ray Sources......Page 229
The Disc and Plane of the Milky Way in the Near Infrared......Page 241
AGB Stars: Nucleosynthesis and Open Problems......Page 249
Studying Galaxy Formation and Evolution from Local Group Galaxies......Page 257
Gaia: A Major Step in the Knowledge of Our Galaxy......Page 265
Cepheus A, a Laboratory for Testing and Opening New Theories on High-mass Star Formation......Page 273
Session VI: The Sun and planetary systems......Page 279
A Look into the Guts of Sunspots......Page 280
Earth-like Exoplanets. Darwin: Stellar Targets and Precursor Science......Page 288
How the Comet 9P/Tempel 1 has Behaved Before, During, and After the Deep Impact Event......Page 295
Heliospheric Energetic Particle Variability Over the Solar Cycle......Page 303
Two Years of Saturn's Exploration by the Cassini Spacecraft: Atmospheric Studies......Page 311
A New Way for Exploring Solar and Stellar Magnetic Fields......Page 319
Session VII: Observatories and instrumentation......Page 327
The MAGIC Telescopes (and Beyond...)......Page 328
Present and Future of Astronomy at the Observatorio del Teide......Page 337
Prospects for the William Herschel Telescope......Page 345
VO Science. The Spanish Virtual Observatory......Page 351
Appendix: Table of Contents of the CD-Rom......Page 359
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Z......Page 373
