Table Of ContentASTROPHYSICS AND SPACE SCIENCE PROCEEDINGS
J.M. Diego
L.J. Goicoechea
J.I. González-Serrano
J. Gorgas
Editors
Highlights of Spanish
Astrophysics V
First Kodai-Trieste Workshop on
Plasma Astrophysics held in Kodaikanal,
India, August 27–September 7, 2007
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Astrophysics V
J. M. Diego
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Instituto de Física de Cantabria,
Spain
L. J. Goicoechea
Editor
Universidad de Cantabria,
Spain
J. I. González-Serrano
Editor
Instituto de Física de Cantabria,
Spain
J. Gorgas
Editor
Universidad Complutense de Madrid,
Spain
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Jose M. Diego J. Ignacio González-Serrano
Instituto de Física de Cantabria Instituto de Física de Cantabria
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Luis J. Goicoechea Javier Gorgas
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Depto. Física Moderna Depto. Astrofísica
Avda. de Los Castros, s/n Ciudad Universitaria, s/n
39005 Santander Cantabria 28040 Madrid
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Preface
Astronomy is a scientific discipline that has developed a rapid and impressive
growth in Spain. Thirty years ago, Spain occupieda purely anecdotalpresence in
the internationalcontext, but today it occupies the eighth position in the world in
publication of astronomical articles, and, among other successes, owns and oper-
atesninetypercentoftheworld’slargestopticaltelescopeGTC(GranTelescopio
Canarias).
The Eighth Scientific Meeting of the Spanish Astronomical Society (Sociedad
Espan˜olade Astronom´ıa,SEA), held in Santander in July 7–11 2008,whose pro-
ceedings are in your hands, clearly shows the enthusiasm, motivation and quality
of the present Spanish astronomical community. The event brought together 322
participants,whorepresentalmost50%ofSpanishprofessionalastronomers.This
percentage, together with the continuously increasing, with respect to previous
SEAmeetings,numberoforalpresentationsandpostercontributions(179and127
respectively),confirmsthattheSEAconferenceshavebecomeapointofreference
toassesstheinterestsandachievementsofastrophysicalresearchinSpain.
ThemostimportantandcurrenttopicsofmodernAstrophysicsweretakeninto
accountatthepreliminarymeeting,aswellasthenumberandqualityofparticipants
andtheircontributions,toselecttheinvitedspeakersandoralcontributors.Wetook
a week to enjoy the high quality contributionssubmitted by Spanish astronomers
to the Scientific Organizing Committee. The selection was difficult. We wish to
acknowledgethegentleadviceandcommitmentoftheSOCmembers.
ThecontentsoftheseProceedingsreflectthebroadinterestsoftheSpanishastro-
nomicalcommunity,but we want to emphasize two importantaspects. In the first
place, although only 15years ago our community played a passive role using the
observing facilities provided by other countries, in the last few years we have
witnessed a spectacular increase in the active participation of the community in
handlinginstrumentsandinthecreationofgroupsinourresearchcenters,mainly
propelled by the GTC enterprise and other internationalprojects. For example, in
the first volumeof HighlightsofSpanishAstrophysicsof onlyten yearsago, 15%
of the contributions were about instruments. In this volume, the contributions in
the Observatories (real and virtual) and Instrumentation category constitute 30%
of the total number. Secondly, in this meeting, for the first time, parallel sessions
devoted to Teaching and Outreach of Astronomy were organized. The success of
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these sessions, with a high numberof participants,reflects the involvementof our
communityinthecelebrationoftheInternationalYearofAstronomy2009andour
commitmenttoreturntothesocietytheknowledgethatwearegathering.
Welcoming friendsat home is always a pleasure. But welcoming abouthalf of
the Spanish astronomical community in Santander was, in addition, a challenge.
Preparationsforthisbigevent,thelargesteverorganizedinAstronomybythecom-
munityatthe Instituto deF´ısica de Cantabria (CSIC-UC) andat the Universityof
Cantabria,took abouta year and a half. Forthe LocalOrganizingCommittee,the
eventwasasuccess,andwebelievethatitwasalsoperceivedassuchbytheSpanish
astronomerswho visited Santander. A number of activities were organizedincon-
nection with the meeting, devoted mostly to enhance the link of Astronomy with
society. That included public talks, school contests, industry displays and articles
and interviews in newspapers, among other activities. We also believe this extra
componentofthemeeting,notrecordedinthisbook,wasworththeeffortthatwe
investedinit.Publishingtheproceedingsofthemeetingisthelastpartoftheactiv-
itiesoftheLOC,sothisformallyclosestheircontributiontothisseries.Wearenow
eagerly waiting to help our colleaguesin and aroundMadrid to organizethe next
onein2010.
Thismeetingwaspossiblethankstothefinancialsupportofgovernmentalinsti-
tutions,universities,researchcentersandprivateSpanishcompanies.TheSocietyis
indebtedtothehostinstitutions(theInstitutodeF´ısicadeCantabriaandtheUniver-
sityofCantabria),andtothewonderfulandfriendlycityofSantander,anditscity
council,formakingusfeelathome.Itwasawonderfulexperience.
Jose´ MiguelRodr´ıguezEspinosa-SEAPresident Jose´ M.Diego
EmilioJ.Alfaro-ChairmanoftheSOC LuisJ.Goicoechea
XavierBarcons-ChairmanoftheLOC Jose´ IgnacioGonza´lezSerrano
JavierGorgas
Editors
Contents
PartI PlenarySessions
NewInsightsintoX-rayBinaries................................................. 3
J.Casares
OSIRIS:FinalCharacterizationandScientificCapabilities.................. 15
JordiCepa
GravitationalLenses:AnUpdate ................................................ 27
EmilioE.Falco
FirstScientificResultsfromtheALHAMBRA:Survey....................... 39
A.Ferna´ndez-Soto
MagneticFingerprintsofSolarandStellarOscillations....................... 51
ElenaKhomenko
TheSearchforGravitationalWaves:OpeningaNewWindow
intotheUniverse ................................................................... 65
AliciaM.Sintes
PartII SeaPrize
Formation,Evolutionand Multiplicity of Brown Dwarfs
andGiantExoplanets.............................................................. 79
J.A.Caballero
PartIII GalaxiesandCosmology
AnOverviewoftheCurrentStatusofCMBObservations.................... 93
R.B.Barreiro
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TheAnisotropicRedshiftSpaceGalaxyCorrelationFunction:
DetectionontheBAORing .......................................................103
EnriqueGaztan˜agaandAnnaCabre
UKIDSS:SurveyingtheSkyintheNear-IR ....................................111
E.A. Gonza´lez-Solares, B.P. Venemans, R.G. McMahon,
S.J. Warren, D.J. Mortlock, M. Patel, P.C. Hewett, S. Dye,
R.G.Sharp,andtheUKIDSSCollaboration
GalaxiesHostingAGNActivityandTheirEnvironments.....................119
IsabelMa´rquezandJosefaMasegosa
TheQUIJOTECMBExperiment................................................127
J.A. Rubin˜o-Mart´ın,R. Rebolo,M.Tucci,R. Ge´nova-Santos,
S.R.Hildebrandt,R.Hoyland,J.M.Herreros,F.Go´mez-Ren˜asco,
C.Lo´pezCaraballo,E.Mart´ınez-Gonza´lez,P.Vielva,D.Herranz,
F.J.Casas,E.Artal,B.Aja,L.delaFuente,J.L.Cano,E.Villa,
A.Mediavilla,J.P.Pascual,L.Piccirillo,B.Maffei,G.Pisano,
R.A. Watson, R. Davis, R. Davies, R. Battye, R. Saunders,
K.Grainge,P.Scott,M.Hobson,A.Lasenby,G.Murga,C.Go´mez,
A.Go´mez,J.Arin˜o,R.Sanquirce,J.Pan,A.Vizcargu¨enaga,and
B.Etxeita
PartIV TheGalaxyandItsComponents
The ABDoradusSystemRevisited: The DynamicalMass
ofABDorA.........................................................................139
J.C. Guirado, I. Mart´ı-Vidal, J.M. Marcaide, L.M. Close,
J.-F.Lestrade,D.L.Jauncey,S.Jime´nez-Monferrer,D.L.Jones,
R.A.Preston,andJ.E.Reynolds
SpectrophotometrywithGaia ....................................................147
C.Jordi,J.M.Carrasco,C.Fabricius,F.Figueras,andH.Voss
The Least Massive (Sub)Stellar Component
oftheMilkyWay...................................................................155
E.L.Mart´ın,V.J.S.Be´jar,H.Bouy,J.Licandro,B.Riaz,F.Rodler,
L.Valdivielso,R.Deshpande,andR.Tata
A Pilot Survey of Stellar Tidal Streams
inNearbySpiralGalaxies.........................................................163
David Mart´ınez–Delgado,R. Jay Gabany,Jorge Pen˜arrubia,
Hans-Walter Rix, Steven R. Majewski, IgnacioTrujillo, and
MichaelPohlen
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MassiveYoungStellarClustersintheMilkyWay..............................171
IgnacioNegueruela
PartV TheSunandtheSolarSystem
The Impact of Energetic Particle Precipitation
ontheEarth’sAtmosphere........................................................181
B. Funke, M. Lo´pez-Puertas, M. Garc´ıa-Comas,
D.Bermejo-Pantaleo´n,G.P.Stiller,andT.vonClarmann
Marco Polo: Hunting and Capture of Material
fromaPrimitiveAsteroid.........................................................191
JavierLicandro
PartVI ObservatoriesandInstrumentation
TheDUNEMission ................................................................203
F.J.Castander
TheNordicOpticalTelescope.....................................................211
AnlaugAmandaDjupvikandJohannesAndersen
TheSpaceTelescopeforUltravioletAstronomyWSO-UV....................219
AnaI.Go´mezdeCastro,B.Shustov,M.Sachkov,N.Kappelmann,
M.Huang,andK.Werner
ScienceintheSpanishVirtualObservatory.....................................227
EnriqueSolano
PartVII TeachingandOutreachofAstronomy
Contributions of the Spanish Astronomical Society
totheInternationalYearofAstronomy2009...................................237
B.Montesinos
Confieso que Divulgo. Reflexionesy Experiencias de una
Astrof´ısica...........................................................................241
I.Rodr´ıguezHidalgo
PartVIII AbstractsoftheContributionsintheOnlineExtraMaterials
GalaxiesandCosmology ..........................................................251
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VIMOS-VLTTwo-DimensionalKinematicsofLocalLuminous
InfraredGalaxies...................................................................253
JuliaAlfonso-Garzo´n,AnaMonreal-Ibero,SantiagoArribas,
andLuisColina
Recovering the Real-Space Correlation Function
fromPhotometricRedshiftSurveys..............................................255
PabloArnalte-Mur,AlbertoFerna´ndez-Soto,VicentJ.Mart´ınez,
andEnnSaar
ProbingOuterDiskStellarPopulations.........................................257
JuditBakos,IgnacioTrujillo,andMichaelPohlen
DeconstructingtheK-BandNumberCounts...................................259
G.Barro,J.Gallego,P.G.Pe´rez-Gonza´lez,M.C.Eliche-Moral,
M.Balcells,V.Villar,N.Cardiel,D.Cristobal-Hornillos,A.Gilde
Paz,R.Guzma´n,R.Pello´,M.Prieto,andJ.Zamorano
ExtremelyCompactMassiveGalaxiesat1:7<z<3..........................261
FernandoBuitrago,IgnacioTrujillo,andChristopherJ.Conselice
Cold Dark Matter Halos Based on Collisionless
Boltzmann–PoissonPolytropes...................................................263
J. Calvo, E. Florido, O. Sa´nchez, E. Battaner, J. Soler, and
B.Ruiz-Granados
Use of Neural Networks for the Identification of New
z(cid:2)3:6QSOsfromFIRST–SDSSDR5...........................................265
R. Carballo, J.I. Gonza´lez-Serrano, C.R. Benn, and
F.Jime´nez-Luja´n
IntegralField Spectroscopyof LocalLuminous Compact
BlueGalaxies:NGC7673,aCaseStudy ........................................267
A.Castillo-Morales,J.Gallego,J.Pe´rez-Gallego,R. Guzma´n,
C.Garland,D.J.Pisano,F.J.Castander,N.Gruel,andJ.Zamorano
BlueMassiveStarsinNGC55:AFirstQuantitativeStudy...................269
N. Castro, A. Herrero, M. Garcia, C. Trundle, F. Bresolin,
W.Gieren,G.Pietrzynski,R.-P.Kudritzki,andR.Demarco
AMorphologicalStudyofSigma-DropGalaxies...............................271
S.Comero´n,J.H.Knapen,andJ.E.Beckman
