Recent Talks

Shortly after the discovery of the first extra-solar planet, many studies showed that stars hosting giant planets have significant metallicity excess when compared with the stars without known giant planets. Curiously, this strong metallicity-giant planet correlation is not found for the lowest mass planets. On the other hand studies aimed to clarify whether the planet-hosting stars are different from stars without planets in their content of individual elements (other than iron) yielded contradictory results. I will review the most recent results by discussing the importance of individual light and heavy elements for the formation and evolution of planets. I will also present the latest results about the role of metallicity on the architecture of planets.

The Observatorio Astrofísico de Javalambre (hereafter OAJ) is a new Spanish astronomical facility devoted to carry out large sky multi-filter surveys with two telescopes of large field-of-view (FoV): the Javalambre Survey Telescope (JST), a 2.5m with 3deg FoV, and the Javalambre Auxiliary Survey Telescope (JAST), an 80cm with 2deg FoV. Both telescopes are equipped with panoramic cameras that amount to 1.3Gpix and are able to host more than 80 different filters simultaneously. During the first years of operation, the OAJ will be mostly devoted to conduct the Javalambre Physics of the Accelerating Universe Astrophysical Survey (J-PAS) and the Javalambre Photometric Local Universe Survey (J-PLUS). J-PAS will observe 8.500deg2 of the sky visible from Javalambre with a set of 54 narrow-band contiguous optical filters plus 5 broader ones, performing in the end as a low resolution IFU of the Northern hemisphere. It will provide unprecedented spectral energy distributions for every pixel of the sky, and ultimately for more than 200 million galaxies. J-PLUS is now beginning to observe the same sky area of J-PAS with 12 narrow, intermediate and broad-band filters aimed to provide the photometric calibration of J-PAS and unprecedented multicolor data for many fields of the Astrophysics. Both J-PAS and J-PLUS will provide powerful 3D views of the Universe that will be made publicly available to the community as legacy projects. In this talk I will present the OAJ and the J-PAS and J-PLUS projects, describing the survey strategies and their main scientific objectives and capabilities.

Lecture 5:
- Data Analysis with the Fermi-LAT
- Maximum Likelihood
- Gamma-ray Catalogs and why we need them

Lecture 6: Pulsar timing as a tool for fundamental physics (b)
- Direct detection of gravitational waves
- Constraints on nuclear matter interactions
- Investigations of globular clusters, ism, galactic B-field

Lecture 5: Pulsar timing as a tool for fundamental physics (a)
- Constraints to general relativity
- The case of the Double pulsar
- Constraints to general theories of gravity

Lecture 6:
- Neutron-star binaries
- Ultra-luminous X0ray sources
- Lags and reverberation mapping

Lecture 3: Pulsar timing concepts [isolated pulsars]
- Timing observation procedure
- Barycentering the data at infinite frequency
- Timing model

Lecture 4: Pulsar timing concepts [binary pulsars]
- Classical orbit laws
- Relativistic effects
- Binary corrections to the timing model of an isolated pulsar

Lecture 4:
- Data structure for the Fermi-LAT
- Temporal signatures in Fermi data
- Concerns for data analysis of time-variable sources

Lecture 5:
- BH parameters
- Generagl Relativity tests
- AGN connection