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Index
Unit Overview 5
IA Management 6
Visitor Program at the Institute for Astrophysics and Space Sciences 7
Incentive Program for the Training of Excellence of Young Researchers in Astrophysics and Space Sciences 7
IA-ON 4 9
The IA team (2017) 10 Origin and Evolution of Stars and Planets Group 10 Galaxies, Cosmology, and the Evolution of the Universe Group 11 Instrumentation and Systems Group 12 Interface to Science 12
Research Projects/Programmes 13 Projects focused on scientific activities: 13 Projects focused on communication and outreach: 15
Scientific Output and Activities 16
Origin and Evolution of Stars and Planets 19 Towards the detection and characterisation of other Earths 20 Towards a comprehensive study of stars 24
Galaxies, Cosmology, and the Evolution of the Universe 27 The assembly history of galaxies resolved in space and time 29 Unveiling the dynamics of the Universe 33
Instrumentation and Systems 36 Space and Ground Systems and Technologies 40
Science Communication 41
The Portuguese ALMA Centre of Expertise 44
Scientific Output 47 Books 47 Published articles 47 Proceedings 53 National Scientific Communications 54 4 | IA ACTIVITY REPORT 2017
International Scientific Communications 55 Seminars at IA 59 Organization of Conferences 61 Observing runs 61 Outreach talks 62 Reports 64 External seminars by IA researchers 65 PhD Completed 66 MSc Projects Completed 66 BSc Traineeships/Projects completed 66
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Unit Overview
The Instituto de Astrofísica e Ciências do Espaço (IA) is a research infrastructure with a national dimension, embodying a bold vision for the development of Astronomy, Astrophysics and Space Sciences in Portugal. This is the largest research unit of this area in Portugal, being responsible for the majority of the national productivity in international ISI journals in the area of Space Sciences. This is one of the scientific areas with the highest relative impact factor and highest average number of citations per article for Portugal.
IA’s mission is to foster research with the highest impact in the field of astrophysics and space sciences and to support teaching and training of young researchers and students in close collaboration with the Universities of Lisbon and Porto. It also aims to promote wide-ranging science communication activities that enhance public understanding of the Universe and our place in it, as well as awareness of the importance of research in this field.
Our vision is to achieve international leadership in key areas of astrophysics and space sciences, taking full advantage and realising the potential created by the national membership of the European Space Agency (ESA) and the European Southern Observatory (ESO). This is done through state-of- the-art research, enabled by our leading participation in strategic international ground- and space- based projects and missions.
IA has a demonstrated ability to drive major astronomical projects, at all development levels: scientific and technical definition, instrument concept and design, construction and commissioning, and scientific exploitation. This has been particularly obvious in 2017, with IA’s strategic projects having successfully passed major milestones – key examples are ESPRESSO, which achieved first light after an intensive commissioning effort from our team, MOONS, which passed its Final Design Review and moved into the construction phase, and EUCLID, which with a new reference survey produced by our team is moving at full speed for a 2021 launch date. Such developments show the robustness of our strategy and the huge potential that our already excellent activity keeps generating, generating exciting prospects for personal, institutional, and national research evolution.
In the following pages we provide an overview of IA’s activity during 2017, a necessarily brief summary of the huge productivity the Institute keeps generating.
For IA’s Executive Board José Afonso, Jarle Brinchmann, Elisa Delgado, Nelson Nunes, (current executive board) Nuno Santos, João Lima, Alexandre Cabral (members of the previous executive board)
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IA Management
In 2017, the IA was led by the Executive Board (EB) composed of 2 members from the Porto node (João Lima and Nuno C. Santos) and 2 members from the Lisbon node (José Afonso and Alexandre Cabral). The head of the EB, José Afonso, is the coordinator of the research unit. The EB was elected by the Scientific Council (SC) on its meeting on the 3rd of February 2015 and the structure has been kept unchanged since. This follows the normal functioning of the research unit, since according to the internal regulations the EB is elected for a period of 3 years.
In 2017, the EB has met every two weeks to coordinate the scientific and management activities of the IA strategic plan. On a monthly basis these meetings also include thematic line and group leaders, and the leader of the Science Communication Group as well as the responsible for the communication and outreach team. Contacts with the two management institutions (CAUP and FFCUL) were also done whenever needed.
Following the internal regulations of IA, the EB communicates with the Scientific Council via regular meetings. In 2017, the SC met on the 17th of March. The participants in Porto and Lisbon connected via videoconference system to avoid unnecessary travel costs. In this meeting details of the IA-ON4 meeting (see below) were also discussed, as this constitutes an important opportunity to address the Institute’s status and strategy with members of the Scientific Council. The IA-ON4 would take place in Lisbon, on the 30th and 31st of October 2017.
As defined in 2016, the IA Advisory Board includes Francesco Pepe (University of Geneva, Switerland, specialist in instrumentation and exoplanet research), Moira Jardine (University of St. Andrews, Scotland, specialist in stellar astrophysics), Yannick Mellier (IAP, France, specialist in galaxies and cosmology), and Mark McCaughrean (ESA, specialist in star formation and public outreach activities). The first meeting of the advisory board took place on the 19th of May 2017, with a final report produced during June. 2017 IA ACTIVITY REPORT | 7
In 2017, the EB kept the 3 group leaders as defined in 2015: Origin and Evolution of Stars and Planets (Margarida Cunha), Instrumentation and Systems (Alexandre Cabral), and Galaxies, Cosmology, and the Evolution of the Universe (Polychronis Papaderos). The Science Communication Group, which has been working since the initial days of IA and has been fundamental for our success, has been formally included as part of the IA Scientific Management Structure. Its leadership has been unchanged, with Daniel Folha and João Retrê coordinating the science communication activities. The leaders of each thematic line also remained unchanged: Towards a Comprehensive study of stars (Mário Monteiro), Towards the detection and characterization of other Earths (Nuno C. Santos), Space and Ground Systems and Technologies (Manuel Abreu), Unveiling the dynamics of the Universe (Francisco Lobo), and The assembly history of galaxies resolved in space and time (José Afonso).
Visitor Program at the Institute for Astrophysics and Space Sciences
The Visitor Program at the Institute for Astrophysics and Space Sciences, initiated at IA in 2016, has continued during 2017. It was established to attract senior scientists to work in IA for periods from 1 week to 1 month (http://www.iastro.pt/ia/visitorProgram.html), in order to contribute to the IA’s excellence in research by promoting the interaction of IA’s researchers and PhD students with internationally recognised scientists working in areas considered strategic for IA’s development. Applications for this program are permanently open, with the evaluation process taking place once every 4 months. In 2017 the program supported the visit of:
– José Beltran Jimenez (Université d’Aix-Marseille), between February 3 and 28;
– Douglas Gough (University of Cambridge), between May 17 and June 16;
– Benoit Mosser (LESIA), between October 5 and 12;
– Andrew Liddle (University of Edinburgh), between May 15 and June 14.
Incentive Program for the Training of Excellence of Young Researchers in Astrophysics and Space Sciences
The Incentive Program for the Training of Excellence of Young Researchers in Astrophysics and Space Sciences was established to attract young undergraduate students to IA by offering them the possibility to work on small research projects (http://www.iastro.pt/training/bicProgram.html) for the period of three months. The first 9 fellowships (5 in Porto and 4 in Lisbon) started in March 2017, after selection from 33 applications. The list of fellowships and selected programs was as follows:
– Joao Villas-Boas, “Chromospheric emission as a proxy for stellar activity: a tool for the detection of exoplanets” (supervisors: Joao Lima, Pedro Figueira);
– Hugo Ferreira, “Search for transiting planets in K2 light curves” (supervisor: Susana Barros); 8 | IA ACTIVITY REPORT 2017
– Marlise Fernandes, “A complete understanding of the Far InfraRed sources detected with the ESA mission Herschel" (supervisor: Ciro Pappalardo);
– Pedro Ribeiro, “Starburst activity and extended ionized gas emission in blue compact galaxies” (supervisors: Jean Michel Gomes, Polychronis Papaderos);
– Ricardo Arana, “Exploring quasar properties at the Edge of the Universe” (supervisor: José Afonso)
– Duarte Magano, “Testes da universalidade das leis da física” (supervisor: Carlos Martins);
– Catarina Alves, “Cartografando o lado escuro do universo” (supervisor: Carlos Martins);
– Ana Ribeiro, “Extending General Relativity using black holes” (supervisor: Diego Rubiera- Garcia);
– Nuno Gonçalves, “How old is the Universe?“ (supervisor: Diego Rubiera-Garcia).
In late 2017 a second Call was opened, leading to 7 fellowships (5 in Lisbon and 2 in Porto), selected from 22 applications. The selected students and projects, which would start in March 2018, are listed below:
– João André Baeta Dias, “Estudo das atmosferas planetárias com base em espectros de alta resolução” (supervisor: Pedro Machado);
– Catarina Isabel Sousa Alves Rocha, “Development of a new method for the determination of the ages of stars (part 1: diagnostics of the stellar cores)” (supervisors: Margarida Cunha, Mario João Monteiro).
– Luís Atayde, “Cosmological tests of theories beyond General Relativity" (supervisors: Nelson Nunes and Noemi Frusciante);
– Hugo Manuel Duarte Martins, “Galaxy satellites in the Hubble Ultra Deep Field" (supervisors: Fernando Buitrago, Israel Matute);
– José Matos, “Impacto cosmológico da observação da expansão do universo em tempo real” (supervisor: Carlos Martins);
– Gonçalo Martins Domingues, “Simulação numérica de ruído em sensores CCD” (supervisor: Manuel Abreu);
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IA-ON 4
The IA-ON meetings are a fundamental annual event that promotes scientific discussion between the researchers and fosters a debate between the researchers and coordination on outreach, management issues and strategic lines of the Institute. In 2017, the 4th Internal workshop (IA-ON 4) took place in Lisbon on the 30th and 31st of October, at the campus of the Fundação Calouste Gulbenkian. As stated in the internal announcement, “The IA-ON4 meeting marks another internal annual meeting of the IA team, where the progress of the research, outreach, and management activities will be discussed. With the participation of all IA members, IA-ON4 will be a major opportunity to discuss the IA’s strategy and make further improvements, as well as to foster synergies between IA groups across all activity areas”.
The IA-ON 4 had an attendance of most of its team as 83 members participated in the meeting. The highlights of the year were shared with the whole team, some presented by the younger researchers and two SWOT analysis were produced. The various thematic lines had the opportunity to have their splinter meeting where an update on their research was made and plans for the future were set.
The IA-ON model is regarded as extremely useful and fundamental to maintain an excellent research environment and foster synergies between groups, and will certainly be continued in 2018.
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The IA team (2017)
Origin and Evolution of Stars and Planets Group
Researchers (PhDs) Others Alberto Negrão Akinsanmi Babatunde (MSc Student / PhD Daniel F. M. Folha* student, starded PhD in oct. 2017) Elisa Delgado-Mena Alexandros Antoniadis Karnavas (PhD student, joined in oct. 2017) Fátima López Martínez Ana C. S. Rei (PhD student) Gabriella Gilli Andressa C. S. Ferreira (PhD student) Isa M. Brandão Ângela R. G. Santos (PhD student, finished PhD João J. G. Lima in jun. 2017) João Lin Yun Benard Nsamba (PhD student) João Gomes da Silva (joined in nov. 2017) Daniel Thaagaard Andreasen (PhD student) Jorge Filipe S. Gameiro Guilherme D. C. Teixeira (PhD student) Jorge M. C. Grave (left in oct. 2017) Jason J. Neal (PhD student)* Margarida S. Cunha João D. R. Camacho (MSc Student / PhD student, Maria Teresa V. T. Lago starded PhD in oct. 2017) Mário J. P. F. G. Monteiro João Guilherme (Msc student, joined in sept.2017) Mathieu Vrard João P. S. Faria (PhD student) M. S. Nanda Kumar Jorge H. C. Martins (PhD student) Nuno C. Santos José Silva (MSc student) Olivier Demangeon Liliana Novais (joined in nov. 2017) Pedro M. Palmeirim Luís Filipe Pereira (PhD student) Pedro Machado Luisa M. Serrano (PhD student) Pedro Figueira* Lupércio B. Bezerra (PhD student) Pedro T. P. Viana Miguel Silva (PhD student) Rui Agostinho* Paola A. Quitral Manosalva (PhD student) Sérgio A. G. Sousa* Paulina M. Zaworska (PhD student) Susana C. C. Barros Pedro I. T. K. Sarmento (PhD student) Tiago Campante (joined in sept. 2017) Raquel M. G. Albuquerque (PhD student) Vardan Zh. Adibekyan Ruben Gonçalves (PhD student) Vítor M. M. Costa Saeed Hojjatpanah (PhD student)
Solène C. Ulmer-Moll (PhD student)*
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Galaxies, Cosmology, and the Evolution of the Universe Group
Researchers (PhDs) Others Alberto Rozas-Fernández Ana C. O. Leite (PhD student) Andrew J. Humphrey Ana S. Paulino Afonso (PhD student) Andrew R. Liddle (joined in may 2017) Bruno J. C. B. Barros (PhD student) António C. da Silva* Fernando Moucherek (PhD student, left in aug. Carlos J. A. P. Martins 2017) Catarina Lobo Francisco T. O. Cabral (PhD student) Cirino Pappalardo Iris P. Breda (PhD student) Diego Rubiera-Garcia Ismael Ayuso (PhD student) Fernando Buitrago Ivan Rybak (PhD student) Francisco S. N. Lobo José Ricardo Correia (PhD student) Ippocratis Saltas (left in june 2017) Leandro S. M. Cardoso (PhD student, finished PhD in june 2017) Ismael Tereno* Leyla Seyed Ebrahimpour (PhD student) Israel Matute Marckelson S. Silva (PhD student) Jarle Brinchmann Sandra N. Reis (PhD student) Jean Michel Gomes Sandy Gonçalves Morais (PhD student) José Afonso Sara Pérez Sánchez (PhD student) José Pedro Mimoso Stergios Amarantidis (PhD student) Lara G. Sousa Vasco M. C. Ferreira (PhD student) Leandro Cardoso (finished the PhD in jun. 2017)
Maria de los Ángeles Moliné Marina Cortês Martina Vicinanza (joined in nov. 2017) Mercedes Martin-Benito Nelson J. Nunes Noemi Frusciante Paulo Crawford Paulo Maurício de Carvalho Patricio Lagos (left in july 2017) Pedro Pina Avelino Polychronis Papaderos Rui Agostinho* Silvio Lorenzoni Sonia Anton (left in oct. 2017) Tiago Barreiro Tom C. Scott
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Instrumentation and Systems Group
Researchers (PhDs) Others Alexandre Cabral António Joaquim Marques de Oliveira David C. Alves Bachar Wehbe (PhD student) Elena Duarte Catarina de Jesus Eira Silva Mendes Ismael Tereno* Filipe Duarte Sousa Velosa João Dinis Jason J. Neal (PhD student)* João Coelho João David (MSc student) José M. Rebordão João Manuel Sousa Águas (left in aug. 2017) Manuel Abreu Mahmoud Hayati Pedro Figueira* Manuel Monteiro* Sérgio A. G. Sousa* Pedro Manuel Fonseca Nunes dos Santos Solène C. Ulmer-Moll (PhD student)*
Tiago Magalhães (PhD student)
Interface to Science
Science Communication Group Administration and Services Ana Alves Argentina Pereira Daniel F. M. Folha* Carlos M. A. Santos Filipe A. L. Pires Elsa M. P. P. Silva Ilídio André P. M. Costa Eva Lopes (joined in april 2017) João Retrê Manuel Monteiro* Paulo J. T. Pereira Nelma A. Silva (left in july 2017) Pedro O. J. Pedrosa Sandra M. F. Homem Ricardo S. S. C. Reis Teresa Vareta Sérgio Pereira Ribeiro
Researchers that work in more than one group are marked with (*).
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Research Projects/Programmes
During 2017, there were 16 funded projects in IA, which provided most of the funds available for research related expenses, as well as for outreach and basic expenses.
Projects focused on scientific activities:
The research projects that in 2017 were supported by national and European funds are:
(i) Projects funded by the European Commission (EC):
SELGIFS – Study of emission line galaxies with integral field spectroscopy – IRSES (PIRSES-GA-2013-612701) PI no IA: Polychronis Papaderos [start date: 1st October 2013 – end date: 30th September 2017]
ORIGINS – Origins and evolution of life on Earth and in the Universe (Trans-Domain COST Action TD1308) PIs no IA: Nuno Santos & Filipe Gameiro [start date: 15th May 2014 – end date: 14th May 2018]
CANTATA – Cosmology and Astrophysics Network for Theoretical Advances and Training Actions (COST Association Cost Action CA-15117) PI: Ruth Lazkoz. Management Committee: José Pedro Mimoso [start date: 8th April 2016 – end date: 7th April 2020]
(ii) Research projects funded by Fundação para a Ciência e a Tecnologia (FCT):
The Gaia-ESO census of the Milk Way: unlocking the secrets of stellar populations (GES) (PTDC/FIS-AST/7073/2014 & POCI-01-0145-FEDER-016880) PI: Vardan Adibekyan [start date: 1st July 2016 – end date: 30th June 2019]
Overcoming today’s challenges in the quest for other Earths (QUEST) (PTDC/FIS- AST/1526/2014 & POCI-01-0145-FEDER-016886) PI: Nuno Santos [start date: 1st July 2016 – end date: 31th July 2018]
Characterizing the smallest planet hosts (IF/00849/2015/CP1276/CT0003) PI: Elisa Delgado Mena [start date: 1st January 2017 – end date: 31th December 2021]
Zoom-In ON hIgh-mass Star forMation (ZIONISM) (IF/00956/2015/CP1273/CT0002) PI: Nanda Kumar [start date: 15th December 2016 – end date: 14h December 2021] 14 | IA ACTIVITY REPORT 2017
Resolving galaxy evolution (IF/01654/2014/CP1215/CT003) PI: Jarle Brinchmann [start date: 30th June 2015 – end date: 29th June 2020]
Gravitational Lensing in the Universe with Euclid (IF/01518/2014) PI: Ismael Tereno [start date: 30th June 2015 – end date: 29th June 2020]
Towards characterization of Earth-like exoplanets (IF/00028/2014/CP1215/CT0002) PI: Sérgio Sousa [start date: 1st May 2015 – end date: 30th April 2020]
The future of Extrasolar Planets: new instrumentation for new science (IF/01037/2013/CP1191/CT0001) PI: Pedro Figueira [start date: 1st January 2014 – end date: 31th January 2018]
Probing the Physics of the Dark Universe with Euclid (IF/01135/2015) PI: António da Silva [start date: 2nd November 2016 – end date: 1st November 2021]
Dark Couplings (IF/00852/2015) PI: Nelson Nunes [start date: 1st October 2016 – end date: 30th September 2021]
(iii) Infrastructure funded projects (FCT):
R&D Units: Instituto de Astrofísica e Ciências do Espaço (UID/FIS/04434/2013 & POCI- 01-0145-FEDER-007672) PI: José Afonso [start date: 1st January 2015 – end date: 31th December 2018]
(iv) Doctoral programme (FCT):
Doctoral Network in Space Sciences (PhD::SPACE) (PD/00040/2012) PI: Mário João Monteiro [start date: 1st October 2013 – end date: 31th December 2020]
(v) Cooperation projects funded by Gabinete de Relações Internacionais da Ciência e do Ensino Superior (FCT) and by Conselho de Reitores das Universidades Portuguesas
Understanding the nature of pulsations and the physics of the Ap stars (FCT/CNRS: PICS 2014) 2017 IA ACTIVITY REPORT | 15
PI no IA: Margarida Cunha [stat date: 1st January 2015 – end date: 31th December 2017]
Characterizing Earth-like planets around small stars (Programa Pessoa - Acordo entre Portugal e França 2015-2016) PI no IA: Pedro Figueira [start date: 1st January 2015 – end date: 31th March 2017]
Acreção versus emissão em torno de Objetos Estelares Jovens (YSO's) (Programa de Ações Universitárias Integradas Luso-Francesas/PAUILF 2017: TC-16/17) PI no IA: João Lima [star date: 1st January 2017 – end date: 31th December 2017]
Projects focused on communication and outreach:
During 2017, there were 3 funded outreach projects in IA, which provide funds available for outreach related expenses. These were:
Ciência Viva no Verão em Rede 2017 (CV: 24-2017) PI: Daniel Folha [start date: 1st July 2017 – end date: 15th October 2017]
Astrocamp2017 (CV: 2016-90/800) PI: Carlos Martins [start date: 1st June 2017 – end date: 15th September 2017]
Ciência Viva no Laboratório – Ocupação Científica de Jovens nas Férias 2017 (CV: 25- 2017) PI: Carlos Martins [start date: 16th July 2017 – end date: 31th July 2017]
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Scientific Output and Activities
The overall scientific output of IA in 2017 was (see Appendix for details):
137 19 110 Papers in refereed Papers in Communications in Journals Proceedings international meetings
50 31 79 Communications in Seminars in other Seminars organized national meetings institutions at IA
82 7/2 33 Public Outreach MSc/PhD thesis Observing talks completed runs
14 2 12 Organization Books Reports of conferences
The outcome of this productivity is illustrated in the plots below. While the productivity remains at a very high level, it is worth addressing the decrease in some of these indicators, such as the number of refereed papers published or communications in international meetings, with respect to 2016.
The number of published papers has decreased between 2016 (167) and 2017 (137) by 18%, similarly to the decrease observed in the number of communications in international meetings (21%). Such a behaviour cannot be separated from the negative evolution of manpower throughout 2015 and 2016, reaching a minimum in late 2016/early 2017 (43.6 FTE on the 31st December 2016, the lowest point since 2012). As already pointed out in the 2016 Activity Report, recent years have seen a lack of opportunities to hire new young postdocs, a situation that has been continuing during 2017. Also, delays in hiring of advanced researchers (Researcher FCT Call) contributed to a significant decrease in IA’s manpower. Only by late 2016 the contracts pertaining the 2015 Researcher FCT Call started to be signed, helping to start reversing this situation.
The plots also show that the accumulated number of citations per paper kept an increasing trend (middle panel), likely reflecting the coherent IA scientific strategy that has been explored throughout recent years. Finally, the number of citations to papers published by IA researchers (lower panel) did not significantly change with respect to the 2015 value. 2017 IA ACTIVITY REPORT | 17
Publications and communications by year
Articles Proceedings Communications Books
400 2 350 0 2 300 2 195 143 250 1 0 0 104 161 200 1 99 81 85 36 12 75 33 150 25 19 2 2 29 28 40 28 100 58 167 27 145 154 18 123 133 137 50 99 115 67 60 0 2008 2009 2010 2011 2012 2013 2014 2015 2016 2017
Figure 1: Time evolution of some scientific productivity indicators.
Researchers (FTE)
60 54.9 49.9 50.1 47.4 49 50 43.6 41.5 40 32 28.1 30 25.2
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Figure 2: FTE estimated average of dedication during the year of the members at IA on the 31st of December 2017 18 | IA ACTIVITY REPORT 2017
9038 Citations in ISI 8681
7621 7223
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4716 4314
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2008 2009 2010 2011 2012 2013 2014 2015 2016 2017
Figure 3: Citations in ISI on published articles per year.
Accumulated impact
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Figure 4: Accumulated impact is the ratio between the sum of the number of citations up until a given year since 1990 and the sum of the number of papers up to the same year (as of June 2018).
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Report from the Group Origin and Evolution of Stars and Planets
During 2017 the group on the Origin and Evolution of Stars and Planets continued to dedicate a significant part of its scientific efforts towards the fulfilling of commitments that the team had previously assumed in the context of the development of major ground-based projects and space-based missions, including the ESPRESSO (ESO), HIRES@E-ELT (ESO), SPIrou (CFHT), and NIRPS (ESO) projects, and the Plato (ESA), CHEOPS (ESA), and TESS (NASA) missions. Along with these, the team continued to dedicate a significant share of its time to the exploitation of data from state-of-the- art instruments, particularly in relation to planet search programmes and to stellar characterisation and modelling.
Between October 24th to 26th, the team organised the PLATO week 5, which brought to Porto 126 researchers involved in the preparation of the ESA's medium-class mission PLAnetary Transits and Oscillations of stars (PLATO). In addition, smaller meetings were organised related to the development of the infrared spectrograph NIRPS and the preparation for the ESA's small-class mission CHEOPS. The group has also continued to work towards the consolidation of the interaction between the thematic lines "Towards the detection and characterisation of other Earths" and "Towards a comprehensive study of stars". Regular meetings, with a periodicity of one every three months, have been organised, gathering together all members from the two thematic lines. In addition, members of both thematic lines often participated in the weekly Journal clubs and meetings that are organised by each thematic line.
The distribution of group members amongst the two thematic lines has been kept even and a number of group researchers continue to contribute effectively to both research lines. During 2017, 2 researchers have left the group and 3 new researchers have joined. Moreover, 4 students have started their PhD under the supervision of members of the group during the same year.
Margarida Cunha Group Leader
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Report from the Thematic Line Towards the detection and characterisation of other Earths
In 2017, Planetary System research at IA kept its main focus on its two major branches: Exoplanet research and Solar System atmospheres.
Exoplanet research in IA focused on several complementary aspects: 1) the search and characterization of exoplanets using state-of-the-art radial velocity data, including the mass measurement of planets previously detected by the transit method; 2) the detection of planets using high precision transit photometry from space missions (e.g. K2); 3) the study of astrophysical sources of noise for the detection and characterization of planets as well as methods to correct them; 4) the study of planet-host stars as a way to characterize the planets, their properties, and their formation processes; 5) the statistical study of planet properties as well as the relation with the properties of the host stars; 6) the study of exoplanet atmospheres using broad band photometry and high resolution spectroscopy.
We stress our leadership position in several planet search programs with instruments such as ESO/HARPS (including one ESO Large Program lead by the IA team), HARPS-N@TNG, and OHP/SOPHIE.
These studies, and the strategy that was chosen, has in mind the exploitation of data from state-of- the-art instruments, such as HARPS (including one ESO Large Program lead by the IA team), HARPS- N, and SOPHIE, as well as data that will come from future instruments and space missions. These latter include ESPRESSO (ESO-VLT), that will start operations in October 2018, as well CHEOPS (ESA, 2019), SPIROU (CFHT, 2018), NIRPS (ESO-3.6-m, 2019), Plato (ESA, 2026), and HIRES (ESO/E-ELT, 2026). In all these instruments and missions the team has major participations (e.g. Co- PIship and Board membership), and in all cases, we are responsible for scientific tasks as well as part of the data reduction/analysis pipelines (among other HW and SW participations responsibility of the Instrumentation team in IA). Also worth mentioning is our participation (one CoPI) in the solar telescope for HARPS (HELIOS), to be installed in early 2018, and that will allow us to study the influence of solar activity on high precision radial velocities.
In the 2018-2020 horizon, this strong participation will allow us to be in a privileged position inside the various consortia to exploit the valuable data coming from these projects: 273 guaranteed nights of observations (GTO) with ESPRESSO at the VLT, 80% of the time of the CHEOPS ESA mission, as well as 725 nights of GTO for the NIRPS consortium. To these, the SPIROU consortium will add between 500 and 700 GTO nights. This main focus of our participation in these projects will reinforce the existing strategy, and allow the team to be in the forefront of exoplanet detection and characterization. Further ahead, our secured participation in the ESA-PLATO and ESO-HIRES (E- ELT) projects guarantee our international leadership role beyond 2026 (funding for PLATO was awarded through the national contribution to PRODEX/ESA).
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On the Solar System side, research mainly focused on solar-system planet atmospheres and with clear synergies with the exoplanet side. The recent selection by ESA (already in 2018) of the space mission ARIEL, focused on the study of exoplanet atmospheres, shows that this strategy was correct. IA is presently participating in the ARIEL consortium and in 2018 the team will procure to reinforce its participation.
Furthermore, the team continued his studies of the atmospheres of Venus, Mars, Saturn, and Jupiter. As example, we can highlight the use of space-based observations (from the missions Akatsuki and Venus Express for Venus, and from Cassini for Jupiter and Saturn) to perform dynamical studies based on cloud tracking techniques (UV and IR) and for the detection and characterization of atmospheric waves, as well as the use of ground-based observations (VLT/UVES for Saturn, HARPS- N/TNG and CFHT/ESPaDOnS for Venus) and their related high-resolution spectra in order to retrieve wind velocities using our Doppler velocimetry method (long-slit and fiber-fed techniques).
Scientific Highligths for 2017:
1) A team of astronomers led by researchers at IA was able to determine the precise mass of two small exoplanets orbiting the star HD 106315. These two planets were previously detected by the Kepler satellite (NASA) with the transit method, which allowed researchers to determine the diameter of the planets. The obtained values allowed the team to derive precise densities for the planets. The values indicate that planet c has a thick hydrogen-helium envelope, while a detailed investigation of planet b, using planetary interior models, indicates at up to 50% of rocky material and 9 - 50% of water, making it a water world. This planetary system showcases the diversity in the composition of planets, and since they transit a bright star, it will be possible to study their atmospheres. This discovery also demonstrates the capacity of the team to analyse all the data chain, from planet detection to its complete characterization.
Mass-radius relationship for different compositions of small planets. Taken from Barros et. al, 2017
2) Evidence was discovered that giant planets orbiting other stars can be divided in two distinct populations. Using a catalogue of stellar parameters for stars with planets (SWEET- 22 2017 IA ACTIVITY REPORT
Cat) maintained and updated in IA, the team discovered hints for the existence of two separate formation mechanisms for giant exoplanets. The analysis of the metallicities of the planet host stars suggests that giant planets such us Jupiter and its larger mass cousins form in different environments, and make two distinct populations. While objects smaller than about 4 Jupiter masses show a strong preference for metal-rich stars, in the 4 to 20 Jupiter mass range host stars tend to be more metal-poor and more massive, suggesting that these massive giant planets form with a different mechanism than their lower mass brothers. This result was highlighted by the journal Astronomy & Astrophysics.
Planet mass vs metallicity for the analysed stars. In the plot one can see the position of the two populations of giant planets. Taken from Santos et al. 2017
3) Culminating years of hard preparation work, the team participated in the first commissioning and first light of the ESPRESSO spectrograph in ESO-VLT. This historic event took place in December 2017, and allowed the team to make the first tests of the instrument on sky (on real astronomical targets). This moment also intensified the scientific preparation of the ESPRESSO GTO science program, whose start is expected in October 2018. In this respect, and among other activities, the team was responsible for the construction of the ESPRESSO survey catalogue, including the best targets to search for low mass, rocky planets in the habitable zone of other solar-type stars.
4) The first scientific evidence on Venus of a wind circulation between the equator and the poles, also named meridional wind, was gathered by an international team led by the IA team. This result was published in the scientific journal Icarus, a reference publication in the field of Solar System research.
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Thematic line meetings and Journal Clubs
In 2017, as for the previous years, the IA-planet line maintained a regular journal club and team meeting schedule. Team meetings are organized on a monthly basis. Journal clubs are more frequent, and usually done every week. All team meetings and Journal Clubs are done using a videoconference link (ZOOM), so that all members can attend.
We also organised our annual meeting outside the institute (called "2-DEMOC"), that in 2017 took place in Braga, where the team strategy (both scientific and organisational) was discussed using a SWOT analysis.
Worth mentioning also is the fact that team members actively participated in different public outreach activities, including "IAstro Junior" (co-organized with the magazine Visão) and several Ignite IAstro events throughout the country.
Nuno Santos Thematic Line Leader
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Report from the Thematic Line Towards a comprehensive study of stars
The main goal of this thematic line is to understand the details of the structure and evolution of stars of low and intermediate masses, from the early stages of star formation to late stages of evolution. It also covers the study of rotation and activity both in Young Stellar Objects (YSOs) and in main-sequence stars, as well as to the modelling of star-disk interactions in the former.
Part of the work of the team continues to be centred on the exploitation of seismic data acquired with the NASA satellite Kepler (launched in 2009, and now operating as K2), as well as on the determination of the global properties of stars in the context of the team's participation in the Gaia- ESO survey.
Simultaneously, the team is getting prepared for the exploitation of future asteroseismic data from the NASA satellite TESS (to be launched in 2018), in relation to which the team leads one of the working groups establish by the Tess Asteroseismic Science Consortium (TASC). Following the adoption by ESA (in 2017) of the mission PLATO, the team is actively participating in the implementation of the work in the stellar part of the mission, in the context of which is leading a work package on seismic diagnostics and participates in several others.
Scientific Highligths for 2017:
1) The team edited and published two books, one for the proceedings of the conference organised in the Azores under the EU SPACE project SPACEINN. This is a online volume in EPJWoC (https://www.epj-conferences.org/articles/epjconf/abs/2017/29/contents/contents.html) with 69 original articles. The other volume, edited by team members, and published by Springer (http://www.springer.com/us/book/9783319593142), is a collection of review articles by the lectures of the IVth Azores International Advanced School in Space Sciences entitled "Asteroseismology and Exoplanets: Listening to the Stars and Searching for New Worlds". The book compiles the contributions from 18 invited lecturers, including a number of hands-on tutorials, addressing topics at the forefront of scientific research being conducted in the fields of asteroseismology and exoplanetary science, two fields of modern astrophysics that share many synergies and resources.
2) One major issue is to characterize the spatial distribution of star formation and its relation to ionized regions throughout the inner Galactic plane. The team has lead a comprehensive statistical analysis of about 70000 star-forming objects located in the vicinity of 1360 HII bubble regions structures throughout the Galactic plane, with the goal of analysing the feedback effect of massive stars on star-formation. This work allowed to reveal a clear evolutionary trend where more evolved star-forming objects are found spatially located near the centre, while younger star-forming objects are found at the edge of the bubbles. Derived ages of the HII bubbles and their formation efficiencies suggest that star-formation process may be accelerated due to the feedback of massive stars. 2017 IA ACTIVITY REPORT | 25
Bubble distribution in Galactocentric coordinates with their respective diameter and age. The black solid curves represent the position of the four Galactic spiral arms. Taken from Palmeirim et al. 2017.
3) The team also lead a validation study on how asteroseismology of dScuti stars may be used to determine their surface gravity with a precision much better than any spectroscopic method being used. Such a ground-breaking demonstration has been achieved by using observations of these type of stars in eclipsing binaries for which we know the mass and the radius. This result may be important to resolve the difficulty that the complex seismic spectrum of these stars has posed for the last decade due to the high precision photometric data from space. It can have a high impact on the study of physics and models of intermediate mass stars in and near the main sequence.
Surface gravities obtained from the analysis carried out in this work versus Log g from the binary analysis. Green and black dots represent the calculated values with and without the bolometric correction, respectively. Taken from Garcia Hernandez et al. 2017.
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4) The team lead a major study on the chemical abundances of 1111 FGK stars from the HARPS GTO planet search program, namely for the species Cu, Zn, Sr, Y, Zr, Ba, Ce, Nd, and Eu. This work is a result of a detailed analysis of FGK stars which shows the behaviour of neutron capture elements in FGK stars in the solar neighbourhood. The high quality of the data allowed to see the different behaviour of those elements in different Galactic populations and will help to constrain future models of Galactic Chemical evolution. This is a major contribution towards the characterization of the chemistry of the galaxy and its evolution due to stellar evolution, using different elements to trace specific stellar origins.
The ratio of heavy-s to light-s process elements ratio in the thin disk (yellow), thick disk (blue) and high-alpha metal rich stars (red) can help to understand the yields of AGB stars of different masses and metallicities (continuous black, blue and green lines). Taken from Delgado Mena et al. 2017
Complementary to the many publications produced, the team also participated in several international conferences where the results of the project have been presented and discussed. We maintained an active participation in the large projects of ESA and ESO related to the Thematic Line selected as the backbone of IA under its strategic plan.
The team includes several PhD students working on topics related to the main goals of the thematic line, with one thesis has been completed in 2017 on the “On the Relation Between Magnetic Activity and Stellar Oscillations”.
Thematic line meetings and journal clubs
The team organizes regular journal clubs on topics related to stars, having specific team meetings on asteroseimology and also on star formation and early evolution. Participation in outreach activities covering topics on stars is also frequent, including several talks that cover topics related to this thematic line.
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Report from the Group Galaxies, Cosmology, and the Evolution of the Universe
During 2017, the Group has continued and intensified its efforts toward implementation of its strategic vision that centers on two fundamental objectives:
1) advancing our understanding of the assembly and evolution of galaxies across cosmic time;
2) modeling cosmological scenarios and devising sensitive observational discriminators between them.
The Group is raising galaxy characterization to a new level by developing and employing innovative tools (e.g., FADO) to derive the Star Formation Histories of galaxies both from single-fiber SDSS data and spatially resolved integral field spectroscopy (IFS), an extremely timely approach given the power and explosive growth of IFS facilities and surveys (e.g., MUSE and CALIFA). The Group places special emphasis on the exploration of the earliest stages of galaxy evolution, co- leading the development of several SKA-precursor surveys (e.g., EMU) that are expected to reveal powerful AGN activity within the Epoch of Reionization (EoR) of the Universe and making quantitative predictions on the multi-wavelength characteristics of these first AGN. Furthermore, in the period of this report, studies by the Group have encompassed several key subjects in extragalactic research, such as the assembly history and size evolution of massive early-type galaxies and galaxy bulges, the molecular gas content of active galaxies, galaxy evolution in clusters, chemical inhomogeneities in low-metallicity starburst galaxies, the detectability of an AGN power-law component in the presence of a high Lyman continuum photon escape fraction, and the combined role of starbursts and accretion- powered nuclear activity in quasars and other Lyman-alpha emitters out to a redshift ~3.
In the field of cosmology, the Group investigates early and late-time cosmological scenarios and the evolution of dynamical scalar fields, including topological defects, as well as modern statistical tools for parameter estimation and model selection. Observational predictions emerging from this work will soon be tested with upcoming major facilities like ESPRESSO and Euclid. Besides accomplishing the fundamental task of defining the Euclid Mission Reference Survey, the Group is leading several work packages in the Euclid Weak Lensing and Theory Science Working Groups (SWGs) and actively participates in other SWGs. The Group contributed extensively, both observationally and theoretically, to astrophysical tests of fundamental physics (FF), culminating in an invited review in Reports on Progress in Physics. These include tests of the stability of fundamental couplings, such as the fine- structure constant and high-redshift measurements of the CMB temperature. Team members were involved in a UVES Large Program and led searches with APEX for new targets for these tests. Within ESPRESSO, the Group is responsible for the definition of targets for the FF GTO. Moreover, Group member have explored the consequences of currently available data for cosmology and FF, and participated in the planning and optimization of future facilities, such as the ELT (Project Science Team) with its HIRES spectrograph, and CORE. Science cases and predictive algorithms developed in the context of the eLISA mission constitute further elements of the Group's coherent strategic roadmap towards cutting-edge research in the next decade. 28 2017 IA ACTIVITY REPORT
The strategy of the Group toward consolidating its scientific excellence and international visibility also involves leadership roles in key international collaborations and consortia: in the period of this report, the Group has taken further steps towards this goal through its co-leadership in MOONS@VLT, its growing involvement in ALMA, and participations in MOSAIC@ELT (ESO, 2026), Athena (ESA, 2028) and LISA (ESA, 2032). Its co-leadership in the Marie Curie IRSES project SELGIFS and participation in the COST action CANTATA are further steps along its strategic roadmap. Reflective of the dynamics of the Group is also the organization of four international and two internal workshops, as well as one advanced school.
During 2017, 3 researchers have left the group and 2 new researchers have joined.
Polychronis Papaderos Group Leader
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Report from the Thematic Line The assembly history of galaxies resolved in space and time
The activity of the Thematic Line during 2017 has allowed reaching major achievements, fundamental to the implementation of its strategic plan, focused on the study and detailed characterisation of galaxies throughout cosmic time. During the past year we have also consolidated a leading participation in international consortia and released to the community innovative tools for the understanding of state-of-the-art observations.
One core strategic activity of the IA extragalactic team is the development of innovative codes capable of greatly improving our knowledge of galaxies throughout the History of the Universe. Our focus is on population spectral synthesis (PSS) codes, and their evaluation, having published several results connected to the use these tools. An excellent case in point is that of FADO, a conceptually novel PSS code that was released to the community in 2017. FADO is the first and only existing algorithm that considers, besides stellar emission, nebular lines and continuum, ensuring consistency between the best-fitting star formation history (SFH) and observed nebular characteristics of a galaxy, and allowing to overcome the age-metallicity-extinction degeneracy that has affects the interpretation of galaxy spectra.
We have continued our preparation for the scientific exploitation of MOONS (the Multi Object Optical and Near-infrared Spectrograph for the VLT), an instrument which is co-led by IA. MOONS has passed its Final Design Review in 2017 and has an expected first-light in 2020. In 2017, IA hosted the MOONS Science Consortium meeting (Lisbon, 11-13 September 2017), with the specific aim to consolidate the science cases and the observing strategies to exploit MOONS data. It was attended by more than 50 members of the MOONS Science Team, and it provided the opportunity for promoting and further increase our role in the Consortium, namely in what concerns the possibility of providing added-value products for the MOONS GTO surveys, using IA-developed tools such as FADO.
Another strategic activity of the team is the exploration of the predictions from state-of-the-art models of galaxy formation for the number (and detectability) of early supermassive black holes at X- rays and radio wavelengths. The implications for observations are of huge interest for our participation in ASKAP’s Evolutionary Map of the Universe survey, through the Key Science Project “Radio AGN in the EoR”, which we lead, and in the development of ESA’s future X-ray mission Athena, where we also participate. These efforts have led to the selection of a sample of candidates to very high redshift (z>5) radio galaxies, with important implications for our use of ALMA, detailed below.
The team has also been making use of MUSE. As part of the MUSE GTO team several papers were published with the contribution of one of our team members, using the deepest spectroscopic data ever obtained over the Hubble Ultra Deep Field. Amongst the results was a comparison between photometric and spectroscopic redshifts down to AB~30, 3-5 magnitudes deeper than previous studies. It was found that photometric redshifts work well to these faint magnitudes but also that overlapping spectra are a serious concern for future deep spectroscopic studies. Another team member successful obtained MUSE time to investigate the largest galaxy ever detected (IC1101) in order to know whether it also hosts the largest mass SMBH. 30 2017 IA ACTIVITY REPORT
In what concerns the investment in future facilities, we have continued our participation in the development of the future Athena X-ray mission, ESA’s second (L2) large class mission within ESA Cosmic Vision Program. In particular, we have continued our work with the SIXTE software, used to simulate the Athena/WFI observations, the results of which have been presented in the “The X-ray Universe 2017” international symposium. We have also continued our involvement in the development of MOSAIC, the multi-object spectrograph for the E-ELT (2024+) which has essentially finished its Phase-A studies by the end of 2017. The team is committed to a very high level of support to the project, in the continuation of our MOONS role, with an IA researcher currently part of the MOSAIC steering committee.
The team has further developed our growing expertise with ALMA. During 2017, we have continued to contribute to the Portuguese ALMA Centre of Expertise activities, building up on our capability to explore one of the most revolutionary telescopes in operation. As an example, the team is now able to support ESO on its ALMA quality assurance activities, helping to validate the high quality of ALMA observations prior to its delivery to PIs.
Team members have served in several Time Allocation Committees: ALMA, XMM-Newton, ESO, HST, Calar Alto, and are present in the organisation of a special session at EWASS 2018 on “Exploring the high-redshift Universe in advance of JWST” and an IAU Symposium on "Uncovering early galaxy evolution in the ALMA and JWST era” to take place in June 2019.
Scientific Highligths for 2017:
1. The population spectral synthesis code FADO (Fitting Analysis using Differential evolution Optimization) has been published and released to the community. FADO represents a breakthrough in the interpretation of galaxy spectra as, by considering nebular in spectral fits and using unique mathematical concepts and numerical implementation, it allows to alleviate degeneracies, like the age-metallicity-extinction one, that have long affected spectral synthesis work and prevented achieving deeper insights into the star-formation history of galaxies. In another example of our growing expertise in the development of innovative codes capable of greatly improving our knowledge of galaxies, we have carried out different studies on the reliability of state-of-the-art population synthesis codes using our own evolutionary synthesis code REBETIKO. In a work published in 2017, we computed the synthetic spectral energy distributions of galaxies and investigated quantitatively the influence of the featureless power-law contribution by an AGN in population synthesis studies of Lyman-continuum leaking ETGs. These studies have demonstrated, for the first time, that an AGN power-law can evade detection in purely stellar population synthesis models when its contribution to the monochromatic luminosity at 4020 Å is lower than 26%, regardless of the galaxy SFH; 6,pg of 6 page A63, 2017 IA ACTIVITY REPORT | 31 25
1 Import of spectra (ascii or FITS)
2 Flux-conserving rebinning α On-the-fly measurement of emission-line 3 Initial redshift determination (CC) fluxes and EWs → quality check & BPT diagnostics 1 4 Auto-determination of 1σ error spectrum Pre-process Determination of gas extinction FIVEL 2a 5 Initial spectroscopic classification and physical conditions in the gas (n ,T ) 6 Initial guess for the fitting strategy e e Standard 2b 7 AI optimization of the SSP library Decision tree: fitting strategy & convergence scheme (CS) & 0,A3(2017) A63 603, A&A Full / Partial / No Consistency 3
Multiple population threads Pi → Breeding → ψ DEO initial assessment of the fit 4
Computation of the LyC output from the PV 5
Computation of predicted Balmer-line luminosities & nebular continuum (Case B) 6 Final measurement of emission-line fluxes & EWs 1 (and uncertainties) and spectral classification Multi-objective optimization & Pareto solution: stellar + nebular continuum (depending on CS) 7 Computation of physical and secondary evolutionary Optimum fit & Computation of uncertainties 2 quantities and errors ( M✶; ne ; "t✶#L,M; "Z✶#L,M; etc. ) Output in the individual SSP contributions 8 Exportation of the relevant output in FITS data cubes & 3 ascii tables ω 4 Graphical output (EPS)
Fig. 1. Schematic view of fado and strategies for reaching convergence. Schematic view of FADO, released to the community during 2017, and strategies for reaching convergence in the spectral synthesis analysis of galaxy spectra (from Gomes & Papaderos, 2017).
2. The team has now acquired a substantial expertise with ALMA, one of the most revolutionary telescopes in operation. This certainly contributed to a large extent to the success in obtaining ALMA time in Cycle 5, in particular through an accepted proposal lead by our team, aimed at confirming a potentially very-high redshift (z~6) radio galaxy, observations of which should be carried out in early 2018. This is the second time a PT-lead ALMA proposal has been accepted - the first was also achieved by the team in Cycle 3.
3. Our group has carried out spatially resolved studies using Integral Field Spectroscopy of the warm ionized medium (WIM) in early-type galaxies (ETGs) from the CALIFA survey. One of the results was the discovery that radial profiles of the H-alpha equivalent-width reveal two distinct ETG classes: Type i) class is consistent with the post-AGB hypothesis all over the extent of the galaxy, while type ii) is almost devoid of gas and has high-Lyman continuum leakage. A subclass of type i) galaxies (type i+) shows a rapid increase of the Halpha equivalent-width in the outskirts which is consistent with a low-level (residual) star-formation (SF);
4. The thematic line is also engaged in studying the environmental effects on local, intermediate, and high-redshift galaxies. We participated in the development of an algorithm that detects asymmetries in the light distribution of local galaxies observed in the NIR as a signature of gravitational interactions, with the objective to determine the dominant environmental mechanisms affecting galaxies in clusters. We have also performed a complete census of Massive Ultracompact Galaxies (MUGs) at 0.02 < z < 0.3 within the GAMA collaboration. These galaxies, common at higher redshifts, are very elusive in the nearby Universe, thus offering a potential route to reveal important mechanisms for galaxy evolution. We have shown these galaxies inhabit low-density environments, at odds with the theoretical predictions;
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Thematic line meetings and journal clubs
Throughout 2017 the team has maintained its weekly IA-Galaxies Briefing. Team members, connected through videoconference (ZOOM), discuss new research initiatives and results, with a particular emphasis on the core research initiatives and their evolution. The Thematic Line Annual Meeting took place in mid 2017 (July 19), in Lisbon, and was used to discuss the team strategy and core activities.
Another TL meeting took place in 2017 (December 18), this one specifically dedicated to the development of FADO. For this occasion, team members met at the TejoHD (Lisbon) and DouroHD (Porto) rooms at the National Scientific Computation Foundation, to make use and explore a high definition and immersive videoconferencing service that links the University of Lisbon to the University of Porto and is available to the national scientific community.
During 2017 a regular Journal Club has also been maintained. Team members kept a very strong participation in public outreach activities, in particular with the Ignite IAstro tour and the IAstro Junior (co-organized with the magazine Visão).
José Afonso Thematic Line Leader
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Report from the Thematic Line Unveiling the dynamics of the Universe
This report focuses on the Thematic Line (TL) scientific highlights activity throughout 2017, with on- going projects, new projects, highlight contributions to the IA and the TL strategic plan and vision for 2018+. We focus essentially on the ESPRESSO, Euclid and LISA missions.
ESPRESSO had its first light at the end of November 2017. A significant part of the work in 2017 was devoted to the preparation of the commissioning and the fundamental physics GTO. Team members were also actively involved in the ELT-HIRES Phase A study. The science cases for tests of the stability of fundamental couplings, the redshift drift, measurements of the CMB temperature and Deuterium abundances were studied in greater detail, bearing in mind on going developments of the ELT. In parallel, detailed dynamical energy forecasts for ESPRESSO and ELT-HIRES were updated and published.
In 2017, the Euclid mission continued its phase C (construction phase) planned to end in late 2018 with the Mission-CDR. The IA survey team members are deeply involved in this review and continued the development of the scheduling tool ECTile. Team members also applied the tools and the expertise developed for the Euclid survey to build the preliminary target schedule that was part of the Theia M5 ESA proposal (http://theia.phyip3.dur.ac.uk/). In this period, the core IA team in the Euclid survey group was also part of a successful H2020 project: Enabling Weak Lensing Cosmology, to start on April 2018. In Euclid's Weak Lensing Working Group, a team member became lead of a Work Package and hired a post-doc to strengthen IA's presence in this WG. In Euclid's Theory Working Group, a team member proposed a unified dark matter-energy model to be studied within this WG, which was accepted to become part of a forthcoming extended forecast paper.
During 2017, the LISA mission started moving from the science preparation stage towards more concrete tasks related to the preparation of the mission. In particular, the Cosmology Working Group defined priority projects (related to the different cosmological sources of gravitational waves that are going to be probed with LISA) and a set of core members was assigned to actively work in each of these. A team member (L. Sousa) was assigned to the topological defects' subgroup and has been actively participating in the activities related to this project (which shall result in a LISA cosmic string 'white paper' with the participation of IA). Moreover, several actions were taken by team members to actively continue research in the gravitational wave signatures of topological defects, and also to increase the number of researchers working on this subject. In fact, a R&D grant proposal was submitted with the objective of securing funding to hire a PhD student and a post-doctoral researcher to work on this subject (which is still waiting results). Presently, a MSc student is researching the gravitational wave background generated by thawing cosmic string networks, and a PhD student is exploring gravitational waves in modified gravity.
The IA continued, during 2017, with a significant role in the European COST Network “CANTATA”, CA 15117. Since its conception, team members have been part of the team which designed, and prepared the e-COST project, which eventually got approval and was financed for a period of 4 years, starting 34 2017 IA ACTIVITY REPORT
from March 2016. During 2017, the IA was awarded five Short Term Scientific Missions (STSM) supporting the working visits of several young researchers. These have allowed the development of active collaborations, and have also contributed to the training of young researchers in agreement with the goals of both the COST network and of IA.
There was also significant effort towards our participation in other missions, such as the CORE. In fact, work on a series of 10 papers on the science goals and the technical specifications of the CORE proposal for a European post-Planck CMB space mission continued and was completed in 2017. All 10 papers were submitted to and accepted by JCAP, and will appear in a special issue to be published in 2018. Although the CORE proposal has not been retained in the ESA M5 call, efforts are in progress to further develop the project into a mission in collaboration with other space agencies.
Team members organized the successful 3rd Azores School on Observational Cosmology, devoted to 'Cosmology and fundamental physics with current and future ESO facilities'. This was co- organized with and partially funded by ESO. A team member wrote an invited review on 'The status of varying constants: a review of the physics, searches and implications' was commissioned by Reports on Progress in Physics and published this year. Both of these significantly increased the team's international visibility in this area, with several positive impacts in 2018.
A team member wrote a full-fledged textbook, “Extensions of f(R) gravity: generalized curvature-matter couplings and hybrid metric-Palatini theory” to appear in the prestigious Cambridge Univesity Press (Cambridge Monographs on Mathematical Physics), presenting a detailed theoretical and phenomenological analysis of several leading modified theories of gravity. This timely book first discusses key motivations behind the development of these modified gravitational theories, before presenting a detailed overview of their subsequent development, mathematical structure, and cosmological and astrophysical implications.
Scientific Highligths for 2017:
1. In preparation for the next PLANCK release and Euclid mission, team members collaborated in comparing Einstein-Boltzmann solvers that include modifications to General Relativity and found that, for a wide range of models and parameters, they agree to a high level of precision. General codes that model general scalar-tensor theories, f(R) gravity, covariant Galileons, Horava-Lifschitz gravity and non-local models of gravity were analysed. Comparing predictions of the angular power spectrum of the cosmic microwave background and the power spectrum of dark matter for a suite of different models, agreement was found at the sub-percent level. This means that this suite of Einstein-Boltzmann solvers is now sufficiently accurate for precision constraints on cosmological and gravitational parameters.
2. One important scientific advancement was the development of an analytical framework to accurately describe the cosmological evolution of global and local monopoles. Team members (PRD, 2017) reanalysed the cosmological dynamics global and local monopoles, proposing physically motivated changes to the velocity-dependent one-scale (VOS) model found in previous works. The previous limits were improved (PLB, 2017) on logotropic unified 2017 IA ACTIVITY REPORT | 35
dark energy models by more than three orders of magnitude by studying the impact of these models on the linear growth of cosmic structures, and discussed the implications of their finds in the context of a previous suggestion that logotropic unified dark energy models could provide a solution to the small scale problems of the ΛCDM model.
3. Team members studied in detail the characterization of spacetime singularities deep inside black holes in the context of modified theories of gravity. Resulting from this activity, using several scenarios with electromagnetic and scalar fields as well as different anisotropic fluids, different classes of non-singular compact configurations were found, including regular black holes, wormholes, naked remnants, or de Sitter cores. Moreover, it was able to enlighten fundamental concepts for the characterization of black holes, such as, geodesic completeness, divergence of curvature scalars, and the behaviour of accelerated observers. This research points out a potentially critical weakness of the different approaches to quantize gravity based on limiting curvature.
4. A team member completed the quantization of fermion perturbations in the Hybrid Loop Quantum Cosmology framework. The work proves that Hybrid LQC, previously developed for scalar and tensor inhomogeneities, is consistent in the presence of a completely inhomogeneous Dirac fermion treated as a perturbation. For physical states of the quantum model that verify a Born-Oppenheimer ansatz, a Schrödinger equation for the evolution of the perturbations was obtained, where the role of time is played by a homogeneous inflaton. Despite the fact that the underlying homogeneous geometry is a quantum entity, it was proven that the resulting quantum evolution of the Dirac field is unitary.
5. Team members proceeded with the study of inhomogeneous cosmologies, namely of the interplay between spherical collapse and the expansion of the universe, and on the investigation of both the dynamics and the thermodynamics of cosmological models both in the framework of the theory of General Relativity and of modified gravity theories. This led to one publication on the dynamics of cosmological models in the Modified Gauss-Bonnet gravity, and to the submission of a work on the thermodynamical fluctuations of the flux of energy on the apparent horizon of the standard cosmological model.
Thematic line meetings and journal clubs
The Thematic Line (TL) “Unveiling the Dynamics of the Universe” carried out journal clubs and seminars on a weekly basis, and TL meetings once every month. All the relevant information can be found in the following link: http://ia-cosmoclub.wikidot.com/
The themes discussed during the approximately 22 journal clubs (http://ia- cosmoclub.wikidot.com/previous-meetings-2017) ranged from theoretical aspects to observational topics. Approximately thirty two papers were discussed throughout 2017.
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Report from the Group Instrumentation and Systems
During 2017, the following instruments had engineering and implementation activities at IA:
ESPRESSO (ESO), MOONS (ESO), NIRPS (ESO), HIRES (ESO), Euclid (ESA), e-LISA (ESA), PLATO (ESA), CHEOPS (ESA), SPIROU (CFHT), HELIOS (ESO), GAIA-ESO Survey (ESA) and ARIEL (ESA).
Currently the Group participates in a considerable number of projects, involving all its human resources. This includes not only the technical design of the instruments themselves but also the respective science exploration of the collected data through big collaboration projects such as consortiums and surveys. Its importance stems from the need to secure privileged access to existing and future facilities of the European Organization for Astronomical Research in the Southern Hemisphere (ESO) and of the European Space Agency (ESA) and to contribute to the long-term development of Astronomy in Portugal. Several CAUP members continued to be involved in the scientific definition of astronomical instrumentation and several projects have been running in collaboration with other Portuguese teams.
The group is composed of 21 people. 10 researchers (with PhD) 8 engineers and 3 PhD students. Several researchers are also part of the other two scientific groups and PhD students are mainly focused on their thesis work, leading to a man power availability to running projects of about 12 FTE.
In the following we list the activity details of our running projects.
1) ESPRESSO (ESO): The Echelle SPectrograph for Rocky Exoplanet-and Stable Spectroscopic Observations (ESPRESSO) is a new-generation spectrograph for ESO’s VLT. In late 2017 ESPRESSO has seen the first light at the VLT. The Portuguese participation is coordinated by IA. IA was fully responsible for the design and installation of the Coudé Train (CT) component (4 units) that brings the light from the 4 UT telescopes to the Combined Coudé Laboratory where the spectrograph will be installed. During 2017 the remaining 2 Coudé Trains (UT2 and UT3) were installed and the first telescope (UT4) was realigned and optimized, concluding the participation of the IA team on ESPRESSO. On the scientific side, in 2017 the focus was given to the definition of the scientific objectives and preparation of the target star list.
2) MOONS (ESO): The Multi-Object Optical and Near-infrared Spectrograph (MOONS) is a future third-generation instrument for the Very Large Telescope (VLT) to have first light by 2020. It matches an enormous multiplexing capability, reaching up to 1000 positions being spectroscopically observed at the same time over a single telescope pointing, to the grasp of the 8.2m VLT, making it a unique instrument for deep galaxy surveys. In 2017 the MOONS Rotating Front End (RFE) Design and the Field Corrector (1 m diameter set of two lenses) reached his final design stage and was reviewed successfully by ESO in the first semester. After that review, the procurement phase has started and, at the end of the year, the first activities on the tests on the mechanisms for the Retraction and Screen of the RFE also took place. 2016 IA ACTIVITY REPORT | 37
3) NIRPS (ESO): NIRPS is a new high-resolution spectrograph working at near-infrared bands, that is being designed as a fast-track instrument for the ESO 3.6-m telescope (La Silla-Paranal Observatory). NIRPS will work together with the existing HARPS spectrograph, allowing us to obtain simultaneous optical and near-IR spectra of stars. The major goal of NIRPS is to detect and characterize planets orbiting late type stars. The NIRPS consortium includes a strong participation from IA, including in the development of hardware and software (the Atmospheric Dispersion Correctors - ADC), and in the definition of the scientific activities. In May 2017, IA hosted the Final Design Review meeting of NIRPS. Several components of the instrument were in the meanwhile procured and delivered. The project is now moving towards a first light expected in the end of 2019.
4) HIRES (ESO): HIRES is the project for a high resolution spectrograph to be installed at the ESO E-ELT telescope. The concept of HIRES is being developed by a consortium that comprises several institutes in different European countries, as well as Brazil and Chile. The Portuguese participation in this consortium is established through IA. In 2017 the HIRES consortium finished the Phase A studies. These were very positively reviewed by ESO. We note that in this context, IA researchers were (and are) actively working on the definition of several components: the data reduction and analysis software, the software system architecture, and the science drivers for the project. IA is also leading the “front end” work package component of the instrument. The group also participates in the management of the consortium, having several researchers in key roles.
5) Euclid (ESA): In 2017, the participation of IA's Instrumentation and Systems group in the Euclid project comprised the design and implementation of a new tool to compute observations overlap, the analysis and design of the survey deep fields, the development of a calibration scheduling tool, and the computation of a new reference survey (SPV3). The overlap computation tool was crucial in the design of deep-fields and in the analysis of their performance. The deep-fields, initially two, were split in three areas, with the addition of the Fornax deep-field. The scheduling of deep-fields was integrated in the scheduling of calibration, performed now automatically by a tool developed also this year replacing the previous semi-automatic scheduling tool. The superseded tool was still used in 2017 to produce the observations schedule included in the Theia ESA-M5 proposal. A new reference survey was also computed (dubbed SPV3), the first with the Fornax deep-field, to serve as input for the science performance verification #3 (performed by other groups).
6) e-LISA (ESA): e-LISA is an ESA project regarding the development of solutions and prototypes up to a TRL of 7 - 8, where technological solutions shall be tested in view of the LISA mission, adopted by ESA as an L3 mission in 2017. This particular project had as the main objective the development of the high-power laser head and has been carried out since 2014 by an international industrial consortium led by the Portuguese company Lusospace. IA is a partner in this industrial consortium and worked on the full optical chain modelling and frequency stabilization loop, as well as in the development of an extremely low noise sensor to be used as a tool for the characterization of the laser performance. The activities in e-LISA during 2017 comprised the CDR (Critical Design Review) that took place in first months of the year. After this milestone, there was the deliverable of the optical power meter (the IA hardware component of the project) as well as the compliance test report. 38 | IA ACTIVITY REPORT 2016
7) PLATO(ESA): The PLATO mission, whose main scientific focus is the detection and characterization of extra-solar planets orbiting nearby, bright stars, using the transit method, as well as the detailed characterization of their host stars through asteroseismology, has been adopted by ESA in June 2017. The IA team is deeply involved in this project. On top of the scientific activities, the team has leadership on several work packages for the development of software for the Plato Data Center (PDC) as well as in the development of the Optical Ground Segment (OGSE) component to test the PLATO cameras on the ground. In 2017, management activities also included a proposal for the funding of the project through PRODEX (after negotiations with FCT). This funding was approved in early 2018.
8) CHEOPS(ESA): The Characterising Exoplanet Satellite (CHEOPS) will be the first mission dedicated to search for transits of exoplanets by means of ultrahigh precision photometry on bright stars already known to host planets. It will provide the unique capability of determining accurate radii for a subset of those planets for which the mass has already been estimated from ground- based spectroscopic surveys. CHEOPS will also provide prime targets for future instruments suited to the spectroscopic characterization of exoplanetary atmospheres. IA is strongly contributing to this mission participating both in the board and the core science team of the mission. This work is also closely related with the science data archive, which is being developed by our industry partners (DEIMOS), contributing to the development of a stronger relation with the Portuguese industry in the area of scientific related software. Moreover there is a contribution for the mission science operation centre, more specifically for the CHEOPS data reduction pipeline where we are responsible for the calibration of the pipeline. In 2017, we have continued the implementation of the code and respective documentation for the pipeline software. During this last year there was also a more detailed definition of the science cases to be addressed by the consortium leading to definition of the GTO science programs and respective target selection.
9) SPIROU (CFHT): SPIROU is a high resolution near-IR spectrograph mounted on the CFHT 3.6-m telescope in Hawai. From a technical point of view, IA had a small contribution to the development of this instrument. However, its participation focused on a contribution to data reduction aspects. In 2017, SPIROU saw the Preliminary Acceptance in Europe approved, and was transported to the observatory. The IA team actively participated in several meetings and discussions regarding the science Legacy program to be carried out with the instrument.
10) HELIOS (ESO): HELIOS is a small solar telescope to feed the HARPS/ESO spectrograph with solar integrated light. IA has a major participation in this project, participating on its scientific preparation and on acquisition of several of its components. In 2017 the HELIOS consortium signed a 4MoU with ESO and all dates for commissioning were defined. Different components of the instrument were acquired as well.
11) GAIA-ESO Survey (ESO): Gaia-ESO is a large public spectroscopic survey, targeting more than 100 thousand stars, systematically covering all major components of our galaxy, from halo to star forming regions, providing the first homogeneous overview of the distributions of kinematics and 2016 IA ACTIVITY REPORT | 39
elemental abundances. The data is being collected from the ESO-VLT Flames with UVES and the GIRAFFE spectrographs. This will substantially increase the knowledge of Galactic and stellar evolution. IA’s researchers are currently involved in different working packages within this survey, which cover the reduction and preliminary analysis of the data and the use of the data for scientific exploration. 2017 continued to be a very busy year with the scientific exploitation of the internal data release 4(iDR4) and by performing the spectroscopic analysis for internal data release 5(iDR5). The final iDR6 is planned to start in the beginning of 2018, and this will include a complete reanalysis of all the GES data.
12) ARIEL (ESA): ARIEL (Atmospheric Remote-sensing Exoplanet Large-survey) was one of the three candidate missions selected by the European Space Agency (ESA) for its next medium-class science mission due for launch in 2028. The goal of the ARIEL mission is to investigate the atmospheres of several hundred planets orbiting distant stars in order to address the fundamental questions on how planetary systems form and evolve. We have contributed for the ARIEL mission support’s Portuguese Consortium. Along the past year we have collaborated on the manuscript ”A chemical survey of exoplanets with ARIEL” (submitted) and to the ARIEL yellow book. Most of our collaboration until now regarded yielding scientific cases on telluric planets’ atmospheres work- package. On the one hand the Portuguese consortium will develop its work in the science team, but in the other hand IA will develop an instrumentation collaboration, yet under discussion.
Alexandre Cabral Group Leader
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Report from the Thematic Line Space and Ground Systems and Technologies
The activities of this thematic line are focused in three main objectives:
1. Development of capabilities spawning from running projects In the course of the activities in the Lisa project (High Power Laser for the Gravitational Wave Observatory), two specific lines of research were pursued, related with the development of capabilities in technical areas associated to the project.
The first one was related to the development of very low noise optical power meter, built with the requirements defined in the SOW- eLISA, as well as the development of capabilities to produce a test setup and data processing methodology allowing to evaluate the performance of the developed hardware. To note that test setups become increasingly complex in proportion to the advanced requirements of the optical power meter.
Other area of develoment, also related to eLisa, was the development of simulation models in Simulink/Matlab, able to mimic the operating modes of the fiber amplifier actually used in the High power laser head developed for the project. These models allow a more realistic integration and simulation of the several active optical parts (namely, the fiber optic amplifier) in the control network that was implemented and that allows the operation at extreme low levels of RIN (Relative Intensity Noise).
2. Exploitation of in-house expertise in new missions and instruments As referred in the report from the Instrumentation group, several initiatives are on course for the participation in international consortiums, also seeking diverse sources of activity financing. In this scope, in 2017, particular effort has been made in the consolidation of a consortium led by INTA (Sp), for a H2020 grant initiative. This project, to be submitted in 2018, is related to the development of optical tools designed for probing samples in quest for extant life in Mars/Europa missions.
3. New themes of research In terms of new themes of research, somehow supported by background expertise in Astronomy Instruments / Space missions, are consolidated by the work of two PhD students supervised by Instrumentation Group researchers: a) Investigation on the Wolf Effect and its implications on astronomical observations. Development of a dedicated simulator and baseline design of an instrument for the verification of this effect in solar telescopes. b) Development of tools/ models for Atmospheric Dispersion Compensators, resulting from the work done / projected work on different instruments such as Espresso, NIRPS and HIRES.
Manuel Abreu Thematic Line Leader
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Report from the Group Science Communication
During 2017, the Science Communication Group at IA (SCG) organized and participated in several public outreach initiatives which reached in total more than 80,400 people (the same order of magnitude as in 2016).
The public activities directly organized by IA reached around 42,000 people including, among others, planetarium presentations, monthly periodic outreach sessions, exhibitions, showcases, hands-on laboratories and special public events and talks. The SCG team has also participated in several initiatives promoted by other institutions, like Ciência Viva or ESERO-PT, contributing also with talks, observations of the night sky, planetarium sessions, exhibitions, showcases, workshops and short courses, having reached to around 38,400 people.
The team produced and made available to the media 28 press releases (14 national, 7 international and 7 regional) related to the science produced by the Institute or to its outreach activities. This number of press releases resulted in about 399 references in national news media with a total Automatic Advertisement Value (AAV) of about € 4,134,488.24. We also made available through our webpage and partners, 7 news releases.
IA has been mentioned by international news media, for example, Fox News, NBC News, New Scientist, Space Daily or La Vanguardia. IA was also mentioned by the Observatori Astronòmic de la Universitat de València and the Instituto de Astrofísica de Canarias.
The SCG co-created and co-produced five short fulldome movies and has developed SkyExplorer scripts for use during live presentations in the fixed planetarium sessions. Together with several showcase products (flyers, roll-ups, exhibition boards), the SC team has created several videos, a new SC area in IA’s official webpage and started distributing, to more than 2,500 people, a new monthly science communication newsletter.
The science communication and education work at IA has been presented in national and international conferences with invited and contributed talks and posters - eight invited talks, 15 contributed talks and one contributed poster. The conferences include, among others, the Ecsite Annual Conference 2017, the Symposium Astronomy Museums (Leiden), Visitor Centres & Public Observatories, the Public Awareness of Research Infrastructures II (ESO), the 5th Science Communication Congress - SciCom PT 2017 or the XXVII National Meeting of Astronomy and Astrophysics. The team has two proceeding articles published and is responsible for several articles for monthly columns.
Throughout 2017, the SCG has conducted several training sessions for teachers, science communication officers, students and the general public. The SCG is responsible for the creation and development of several national projects, including the Tour Ignite IAstro or the IAstro Júnior. During 2017, 25 IA researchers toured Portugal bringing IA’s science to towns and cities with less access to science communication in Astronomy and Astrophysics. The Ignite IAstro Tour reached more than 340 people in 4 events, held in 4 districts, mainly in the interior of the country. In each event there were 8-9 researchers present, performing in total 34 presentations of 5 minutes each. 42 | IA ACTIVITY REPORT 2016
Ignite IAstro special event at the public event of the XXVII National Meeting of Astronomy and Astrophysics (ENAA). This event took place at the grand auditorium of the Faculty of Sciences of the University of Lisbon where 370 people were present.
The IAstro Junior initiative consists of a series of sessions conceived by IA in partnership with Visão Júnior magazine, targeted to 7 and 12 years old children, to be held at the Planetário Calouste Gulbenkian - Centro Ciência Viva and Planetário do Porto - Centro Ciência Viva. Three sessions took place in 2017 (24 July, 1 April and 25 February) and gathered more than 400 people. Each sessions consisted of 3 mini-talks (10 min. each) about an Astronomy and Astrophysics theme, followed by a Q&A session.
IA provides the scientific management of the Porto Planetarium activities, all of which are developed, organized and implemented by members of the IA SCG, having reached in 2017 to around 33000 people through fixed domed and portable planetarium sessions and hands-on laboratories. In 2017 the educational offer for schools, in the context of the Porto Planetarium, was restructured, carefully linking it to the national curriculum. 2016 IA ACTIVITY REPORT | 43
IA has an ongoing partnership with the Leiden Observatory/ University of Leiden for the development of an Astronomy Literacy Project. This international joint-project aims to define global astronomy education goals to be applied in worldwide school curricula. Another goal of this project is the production of localized astronomy educational contents in several languages, together with educational guidelines for educators.
IA continues with a strong involvement with the “Portuguese Language Expertise Centre for the Office of Astronomy for Development (of the International Astronomical Union)” - PLOAD. It is hosted by Núcleo Interativo de Astronomia (NUCLIO), in collaboration with IA. The PLOAD’s main objectives are to establish a strong collaborative network between portuguese speaking countries and communities and empower these countries and communities with the necessary tools to build their own local support structures and strategy development in Astronomy and Space Sciences.
The strategy of the SCG for the 2018-2019 period envisions the continuation of the implementation of proximity activities with the public, students of the various school cycles in particular, and the production of Astronomy related educational and science communication contents for several specific target audiences, with a special focus on students and teachers. This production will be strengthened by the involvement on the “Astronomy Literacy” international project. These contents can exist by themselves or be produced with specific uses such planetarium sessions, hands-on activities or exhibitions. The production of these materials will place IA as the main institution in Portugal in terms of the production of Astronomy related contents. IA’s strong involvement in the PLOAD will allow the dissemination of its contents throughout the portuguese language countries which engulfs 240 million people, giving to the IA’s Science Communication a real international dimension.
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Other reports The Portuguese ALMA Centre of Expertise
The Portuguese ALMA Centre of Expertise (PACE1) represents, within the IA, the interface between the Portuguese astronomical community, and the Atacama Large Millimetre Array telescope. Since 2014, PACE is part of the European support structure of ALMA as a Centre of Expertise (CoE), a recognition of IA’s capability to support the astronomical community in the use of this revolutionary telescope.
The most important goals achieved by PACE during 2017 have been:
(a) the agreement with ESO to perform Quality Assessment stage-2 (QA2) analysis in Portugal. The QA2 is a thorough analysis of ALMA observations, in order to verify the fulfilment of the specifications required by the Principal Investigator (PI) of a project. It is a critical step before the delivery of data to the PI. Until 2016 PACE had performed such analyses only at ESO, implying continuous shifts of PACE analysts to Garching. After demonstrating reaching a high level of capability, this task is now being performed locally at PACE, a recognition of the expertise of our team in managing interferometric data;
(b) the organization in Lisbon of the first “ALMA data Processing Workshop”2, in collaboration with ESO and funded by the RadioNet consortium. About 20 astronomers attended the workshop, coming from ten different countries. An important aspect to underline is that many participants were not experts in interferometry, and approached the topic for the first time. This was very positive, as the main goals of the workshop was exactly to attract young scientists towards the use of interferometric data;
1 http://www.pace.oal.ul.pt 2 http://www.iastro.pt/research/conferences/alma2017/
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Since ALMA is an ongoing project, and data management procedures undergo periodic changes, an important task of PACE is the regular training of its analysts. For this reason, in February the analysts Stergios Amarantidis and Israel Matute attended a QA2 training workshop in Garching, at ESO. This workshop gave them the possibility to improve their expertise in interferometry, but also to have an update of the new protocols for doing the QA2. In addition, Stergios Amarantidis participated in October to the ERIS school at ASTRON, an annual school of interferometry funded by the European Union.
The involvement of PACE in the ARC network activities during 2017 has been particularly fruitful, strengthening the collaboration with the other ARC nodes. The main actions in this direction have been:
• Ciro Pappalardo attended the ARC nodes face-to-face meeting, hosted by the German node in Bonn, showing the PACE development plan for 2018;
• PACE team as a whole was involved in testing PLONE, a new software to manage the proposals at the Joint Alma Observatory, in Chile. PACE was also contacted as advisor for the CASA software documentation review (the official tool for ALMA data mining);
• Ciro Pappalardo attended the annual ARC Retreat in Den Dolder (Netherlands);
• Ciro Pappalardo attended the Workshop on self-calibration held in the ARC node of Bologna.
Other various tasks performed during 2017 are listed below:
• the ALMA Cycle 5 Call for Proposals had its deadline on the last week of April. As it has happened each year since 2014, PACE was actively involved in this Call, helping the community to submit proposals, and providing deeper support on specific projects. The statistics are quite positive, with the number of proposals with Portuguese participation remaining extremely high, considering the size of the Portuguese astronomical community (see Table 1);
• the talk “The Portuguese ALMA Centre of Expertise: ALMA research in Portugal after 3 years” was presented by Ciro Pappalardo at the XXVII National Meeting of Astronomy and Astrophysics in Lisbon, in July. In it PACE activities during 2014/2017 were summarised, informing Portuguese scientists about PACE’s work and the possibilities available to scientists in terms of training and support;
• since the size of ALMA datasets can easily reach few Terabytes, and given the QA2 analysis performed locally, there was a dedicated effort during 2017 for the setup of specific hardware able to manage large data flows. After initial tests with the local cluster, PACE decided to dedicate one of the newer servers, a Dell PowerEdge R630 with two 2.3GHz Xeon 10 core 46 | IA ACTIVITY REPORT 2017
CPU and 128GB of RAM, exclusively for PACE QA2 activities. In July, PACE hosted ESO’s data reduction manager, Dirk Petry, who helped with the final software installation;
• the head of the galactic group of IA, Polychronis Papaderos, gave a talk about PACE in the annual meeting of the Portuguese Science and Technology community (Encontro Ciência 2017);
Number of ALMA proposals with Portuguese participation submitted and accepted for different Cycles.
Year Cycle # of proposals Proposals with Accepted proposals submitted PT participation/PI with PT participation
2011 0 919 4/2 1
2012 1 1131 9/4 2
2013 2 1381 11/6 4
2015 3 1578 40/8 8
2016 4 1571 57/11 22
2017 5 1661 40/5 8
Regarding outreach activities, PACE participated on the “Open Day” of the Faculty of Sciences of the University of Lisbon, held in May, with a talk about galaxy evolution. Several talks were also presented in secondary schools, communicating the impact and relevance of ALMA to students.
Finally, we report scientific publications with Portuguese co-authors in 2017 using ALMA data, an indicator of the Portuguese use of, and expertise in, ALMA:
– The ALMA Frontier Fields Survey - II. Multiwavelength Photometric analysis of 1.1 mm continuum sources in Abell 2744, MACSJ0416.1-2403 and MACSJ1149.5+2223 Laporte, N. et al. (including Messias, H.) 2017, A&A, 604, A132
– The ALMA Frontier Fields Survey. I. 1.1 mm continuum detections in Abell 2744, MACS J0416.1-2403 and MACS J1149.5+2223, Gonzalez-Lopez, J. et al. (including Messias, H.) 2017, A&A, 597, A41
– Chasing discs around O-type (proto)stars: Evidence from ALMA observations, Cesaroni, R. et al. (including Kumar, N.) 2017, A&A, 602, A59
Ciro Pappalardo PACE Lead Scientist
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Scientific Output
Books [2] 9. P. P. Avelino, V. M. C. Ferreira, J. Menezes, L. Sousa, 2017; Phantom domain walls; Physical Review D, 96, 4, 7 1. Wormholes, Warp Drives and Energy Conditions; 10. P. P. Avelino, D. Bazeia, L. Losano, J. Menezes, B. F. Springer International Publishing Oliveira, 2017; String networks with junctions in 2. Seismology of the Sun and the Distant Stars 2016; EPJ competition models; Physics Letters A, 381, 11, 10 Web of Conferences 11. R. P. L. Azevedo, C. J. A. P. Martins, 2017; Cosmic
strings and other topological defects in nonscaling regimes; Physical Review D, 95, 4, 10
Published articles [137] 12. R. Bacon, S. Conseil, D. Mary, J. Brinchmann, M. Shepherd, M. Akhlaghi, P. Weilbacher, L. Piqueras, L. Wisotzki, D. Lagattuta, 2017; The MUSE Hubble Ultra 1. V. Zh. Adibekyan, E. Delgado Mena, S. Feltzing, Deep Field Survey J. I. González Hernández, N. R. Hinkel, A. J. Korn, M. I. Survey description, data reduction, and source Asplund, P. G. Beck, M Deal, B. Gustafsson, 2017; Sun- like stars unlike the Sun: Clues for chemical anomalies detection; Astronomy and Astrophysics, 608, A1, 20 of cool stars; Astronomische Nachrichten, 338, 4, 11 13. S. Barceló Forteza, T. Roca Cortes, A. García Hernández, R. A. García, 2017; Evidence of chaotic 2. V. Zh. Adibekyan, H. M. R. da Silva, S. G. Sousa, modes in the analysis of four δ Scuti stars; Astronomy N. C. Santos, E. Delgado Mena, A. A. Hakobyan, and Astrophysics, 601, A57, 14 2017; Mg/Si Mineralogical Ratio of Low-Mass Planet Hosts. 14. T. Barreiro, U. Bertello, N. J. Nunes, 2017; Correction for the NLTE Effects; Astrophysics, 60, 3, 6 Screening three-form fields; Physics Letters B, 773, 6
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28. A. C. O. Leite, C. J. A. P. Martins, P. Molaro; 2017; 42. S. Pereira, A. Alves, J. Retrê; 2017; Ignite IAstro: A Testing the stability of fundamental couplings with science show touring remote areas; XXVII National ESPRESSO; 3rd Azores School on Observational Meeting of Astronomy and Astrophysics (ENAA), Cosmology, Açores, Portugal Lisboa, Portugal
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30. P. Machado, T. Widemann, R. Gonçalves, G. Gilli; 2017; 44. A. C. S. Rei; 2017; On the nature of line-depending Comparative study of circulation regimes of terrestrial veiling of LkHa 321, V1331 Cyg and As353A; XXVII planets' atmospheres; Geosciences for Understanding National Meeting of Astronomy and Astrophysics Habitability in the Solar System and Beyond, Furnas, (ENAA), Lisboa, Portugal Açores, Portugal 45. S. N. Reis; 2017; Deep imaging of the most massive 31. P. Machado, G. Gilli; 2017; Meridional and Zonal winds galaxies of the local Universe; XXVII National Meeting of at Venus’ atmosphere from Cloud-tracking, Doppler Astronomy and Astrophysics (ENAA), Lisboa, Portugal techniques and comparison with modelling; XXVII 46. J. Retrê, J. Afonso, R. Agostinho; 2017; Viver National Meeting of Astronomy and Astrophysics Astronomia - Future Scientists Communicating Science; (ENAA), Lisboa, Portugal XXVII National Meeting of Astronomy and Astrophysics 32. P. Machado, T. Widemann, J. Peralta, R. Gonçalves; (ENAA), Lisbon, Portugal 2017; Venus clou-top wind velocities from combined 47. J. Retrê; 2017; Algo semelhante ao título de uma CFHT/ESPaDOnS Doppler velocimetry and VEx/VIRTIS palestra; Física Fora da Academia Conference, Lisboa, cloud tracking; Geosciences for Understanding Portugal Habitability in the Solar System and Beyond, Furnas, Açores, Portugal, Portugal 48. A. R. G. Santos, M. S. Cunha, P. P. Avelino, R. A. García, S. Mathur; 2017; Starspot signature in the light 33. T. Magalhães, J. M. Rebordão; 2017; Simulation of curve: Learning about stellar rotation and magnetism; Partially Coherent Light Propagation using Parallel Jornadas em Engenharia Física, Física e Astronomia, Computing Devices; III International Conference on Porto, Portugal Applications in Optics and Photonics, Faro, Portugal 49. N. C. Santos; 2017; From ESPRESSO to PLATO: 34. M. Martín-Benito; 2017; Quantum gravity corrections to Towards an international leadership in planetary the Mukhanov-Sasaki equations; Cosmology and systems science; Ciência 2017, Lisboa, Portugal Gravitation at the University of Beira Interior, Covilhã, Portugal 50. G. D. C. Teixeira; 2017; Variability of young high-mass stars in the VVV survey; 3rd IDPASC Students 35. C. J. A. P. Martins; 2017; Astronomy Education Writ Workshop, UMinho, Braga, Portugal Large – The Solar System Trail; XXVII National Meeting of Astronomy and Astrophysics (ENAA), Lisbon, Portugal 36. C. J. A. P. Martins; 2017; Fundamental Cosmology in International Scientific the ELT Era: Theoretical Motivation & Status Quo; 3rd Azores School on Observational Cosmology, Açores, Communications [110] Portugal
37. C. J. A. P. Martins; 2017; Fundamental Cosmology in 1. V. Zh. Adibekyan, P. Figueira, N. C. Santos, C. the ELT Era: The Dark Side, The ELT & The Road Mordasini, C. Dorn; 2017; Alien worlds could be more Ahead; 3rd Azores School on Observational Cosmology, alien than we think; EWASS Special Session 4 (2017): Açores, Portugal Star-planet interactions, Prague, Czech Republic
38. I. Matute, J. Afonso, H. Messias, C. Pappalardo, L. 2. V. Zh. Adibekyan; 2017; Trends with condensation Bizzocchi; 2017; Towards the first Radio Galaxies in the temperature and terrestrial planet formation: The case of Universe; XXVII National Meeting of Astronomy and Zeta Reticuli and our Sun; EWASS Special Session 4 Astrophysics (ENAA), Lisboa, Portugal (2017): Star-planet interactions, Prague, Czech Republic 39. A. Moliné; 2017; Uncertainties in DM halo properties and 3. V. Zh. Adibekyan, E. Delgado Mena, N. C. Santos, P. implications for DM annihilation signals; Cosmology and Figueira, S. G. Sousa, J. I. González Hernández, G. Israelian; 2017; Trends with condensation temperature 56 | IA ACTIVITY REPORT 2017
and terrestrial planet formation: The case of Zeta Science: Astrophysics of Exoplanetary Atmospheres, Reticuli and our Sun; IAU Symposium 330: Astrometry Vietri sul Mare, Italy and Astrophysics in the Gaia sky, Nice, France 22. T. L. Campante; 2017; Space-based asteroseismology 4. A. S. P. Afonso; 2017; From fields to clusters: where do in the coming decade: potential and synergies; Mini- galaxies die?; Advances in Galaxy Evolution, Ringberg, Symposium Stars and Stellar Physics - The Germany asteroseismic revolution, IAU General Assembly XXX, Division G Meeting, Vienna, Austria 5. A. S. P. Afonso; 2017; Morphology, star formation and environment at z~1; National Astronomy Meeting 2017, 23. T. L. Campante; 2017; Synergy between University of Hull, United Kingdom asteroseismology and exoplanet observations; The PLATO Mission Conference 2017: Exoplanetary 6. A. S. P. Afonso; 2017; PySpecX: a Python tool for systems in the PLATO era, University of Warwick, spectroscopic measurements; National Astronomy United Kingdom Meeting 2017, University of Hull, United Kingdom 24. T. L. Campante; 2017; TESS asteroseismology of 7. A. S. P. Afonso; 2017; Blue vs. Red morphological CHEOPS prime targets; CHEOPS 5th Science evolution of star-forming galaxies; National Astronomy Workshop, Schloss Seggau, Austria Meeting 2017, University of Hull, United Kingdom 25. T. L. Campante; 2017; The occurrence rate of planets 8. A. S. P. Afonso; 2017; DOPTERIAN: a Python version around retired A stars; Planetary systems beyond the for artificially redshifting galaxies; Python in Astronomy,, main sequence II, Haifa, Israel Lorentz Center - Leiden, Netherlands 26. T. L. Campante, B. M. Rendle, B. Nsamba, A. Miglio, W. 9. R. M. G. Albuquerque, V. Cayatte, J. F. Gameiro, J. J. J. Chaplin, D. Huber, M. J. P. F. G. Monteiro; 2017; G. Lima, C. Sauty; 2017; Unveiling YSO dynamics IMPACT OF TESS ASTEROSEISMOLOGY ON THE through observations and simulations; Francesco's CHARACTERIZATION OF KNOWN PLANET HOSTS; Legacy - Star formation in space and time, Florence, TESSting stellar astrophysics - TASC3/KASC10 Italy Workshop, Birmingham, England 10. A. Alves; 2017; IAstro Júnior - Spreading Science to 27. M. Cortês; 2017; Porque é que o tempo está sempre a Younger Generations; PARI 2017 - Workshop on Public andar para a frente e nunca para trás?; Dia da Filosofia Awareness of Research Infrastructures II, Garching, e da Ciência, Auditório da Faculdade de Medicina Germany Dentária, Cidade Universitária, Lisboa, Lisboa 11. T. Barreiro; 2017; Screening three-form potentials; 12th 28. M. S. Cunha; 2017; Review of current performance of Iberian Cosmology Meeting, Valencia, Spain seismic diagnostics and stellar parameters 12. B. J. C. B. Barros; 2017; Coupled Quintessence; 12th determinations; The PLATO Mission Conference 2017: Iberian Cosmology Meeting, Valencia, Spain Exoplanetary systems in the PLATO era, Warwick, 13. S. C. C. Barros; 2017; Modelling stellar activity with United Kingdom Gaussian processes; The PLATO Mission Conference 29. M. S. Cunha; 2017; A Universal approach to the 2017: Exoplanetary systems in the PLATO era, analytical modelling of period spacings in the presence Warwick, United Kingdom or absence of buoyancy-related glitches; TESSting stellar astrophysics - TASC3/KASC10 Workshop, 14. S. C. C. Barros; 2017; Modeling stellar granulation with Gaussian processes; CHEOPS Science Workshop #5, Birmingham, England Schloss Seggau, Austria 30. E. Delgado Mena, V. Zh. Adibekyan, M. Tsantaki, S. G. Sousa, N. C. Santos; 2017; Abundances of Heavy 15. J. Brinchmann; 2017; The Trifid nebula; MUSE Busy Elements in Exoplanet Host Stars; Know Thy Star - week, Spineto, Italy Know Thy Planet Assessing the Impact of Stellar 16. J. Brinchmann; 2017; Testing photometric redshifts to Characterization on Our Understanding of Exoplanets, 30th magnitude; MUSE Busy week, Spineto, Italy Pasadena, California, USA
17. J. Brinchmann; 2017; Ultra-faint dwarfs; MUSE Busy 31. E. Delgado Mena; 2017; The dependence of abundance week, Spineto, Italy ratios on age for different stellar populations in the 18. F. Buitrago; 2017; Pressing and pending questions HARPS-GTO sample; GES 2017: GaiaESO Survey about massive galaxies; SISSA Invited seminar, Trieste, Fourth Science Meeting, Catania, Italy Italy 32. E. Delgado Mena; 2017; Abundance ratios & age of 19. F. Buitrago; 2017; The monster's lair: open questions stellar populations in HARPS-GTO sample; IAU about the environment of the most massive galaxies; Symposium 330: Astrometry and Astrophysics in the Galaxy Groups and Clusters II: Laboratories to study Gaia sky, Nice, France Galaxy Evolution, La Serena, Chile 33. O. Demangeon; 2017; The K2-19 system: test bench for 20. F. Buitrago; 2017; Why massive and compact galaxies stellar activity correction; CHEOPS 5th Science "disappear" across cosmic time; Proposing and Workshop, Schloss Seggau, Austria Processing MEGARA observations wtih GTC, Madrid, 34. L. Ebrahimpour, P. T. P. Viana; 2017; The XMM Cluster spain Survey: The different evolution of X-ray clusters and 21. L. Cabona, M. Landoni, P. Figueira, F. Pepe; 2017; A groups of galaxies; Galaxy Clusters 2017 web tool for calculating the ISM 2017 absorption on Theory, observations & future developments, Santander, stellar activity; 2nd Advanced School on Exoplanetary Spain 2016 IA ACTIVITY REPORT | 57
35. L. Ebrahimpour, P. T. P. Viana; 2017; The XMM Cluster cosmic noon to the reionization era, Cambridge, United Survey: Joint modelling of the L-T scaling relation for Kingdom clusters and groups of galaxies and Mass estimation of 50. R. Gonçalves, P. Machado, T. Widemann, J. Peralta; XCS galaxy clusters; XCS meeting, Lancaster, United 2017; Akatsuki (cloud-tracking) and TNG/HARPS-N Kingdom (Doppler velocimetry) coordinated wind measurements 36. L. Ebrahimpour, P. T. P. Viana; 2017; Mass estimation of cloud top Venus’ atmosphere; European Planetary of galaxy clusters using Gaussian Processes; geco- Science Congress 2017, Riga, Latvia lam2017 : Galaxy Clusters Across Cosmic Time, Aix en 51. R. Gonçalves, P. Machado, T. Widemann, J. Peralta; Provence, France 2017; enus cloud-top wind velocities from combined 37. J. P. S. Faria; 2017; Dealing with stellar activity in radial CFHT-ESPaDOnS Doppler velocimetry and VEX/VIRTIS velocities; EXO.AR I: 1st Argentinian Workshop on cloud tracking – April 2014 coordinated observations; Exoplanets Observations and data analysis'', Buenos Diversity of planetary circulation regimes in our Solar Aires, Argentina system and beyond, Les Houches, France
38. J. P. S. Faria; 2017; Gaussian processes for the 52. M. T. V. T. Lago; 2017; Gender Balance in Science: An analysis of RV data; Extremely Precise Radial Velocities Astronomer’s View; International Conference on Women III, Penn State, USA in Physics, University of Birmingham, United Kingdom
39. J. P. S. Faria; 2017; A hierarchical model for RV 53. S. Lebonnois, I. Garate-Lopez, G. Gilli, S. Guilbon, F. datasets; Extremely Precise Radial Velocities III, Penn Lefèvre, A. Määttänen, T. Navarro, A. Stolzenbach; State, USA 2017; Status of the IPSL Venus Global Climate Model; Venus Modeling Workshop, Cleveland, Ohio, USA 40. J. P. S. Faria; 2017; The power of Gaussian processes as models for stellar activity; CHEOPS 5th Science 54. A. C. O. Leite, C. J. A. P. Martins, P. Molaro, C. S. Workshop, Schloss Seggau, Austria Alves, T. A. Silva; 2017; Preparing ESPRESSO's fundamental physics tests; 52nd Rencontres de Moriond 41. A. C. S. Ferreira; 2017; The origin of alpha-rich and Gravitation Session, La Thuile, Italy metal-rich stars; GES 2017: GaiaESO Survey Fourth Science Meeting, Catania, Catania 55. A. C. O. Leite, C. J. A. P. Martins, P. Molaro; 2017; Preparing ESPRESSO's fundamental physics tests; 12th 42. A. C. S. Ferreira; 2017; Deriving abundances in medium Iberian Cosmology Meeting, Valencia, Spain resolution spectra; Precision Spectroscopy: Towards Earth 2.0, São Paulo, Brazil 56. J. J. G. Lima, J. Afonso; 2017; Presenting the Instituto de Astrofísica e Ciências do Espaço; 1st Portuguese- 43. P. Figueira; 2017; The detection of Exoplanets on the Spanish meeting, International Research Center (AIR Habitable Zone around M dwarfs; Yearly Meeting of the Center), PLOCAN, Telde, Gran Canaria, Spain Stockholm University Astrobiology Center, Tallberg, Sweden 57. F. S. N. Lobo; 2017; Hybrid metric-Palatini gravity; 3rd International Winter School-Seminar on Gravity, 44. N. Frusciante; 2017; Effective Field Theory for CAMB; Astrophysics and Cosmology “Petrov School 2017”, EFTCAMB/HiCLASS Meeting, University of Oxford, Institute of Physics of Kazan Federal University, Kazan, United Kingdom Russia 45. N. Frusciante; 2017; Cosmology and observational 58. F. S. N. Lobo; 2017; Generalized curvature-matter constraints of Lorentz violating theories of gravity; couplings in modified gravity; 3rd International Winter EFTCAMB/HiCLASS Meeting, University of Oxford, School-Seminar on Gravity, Astrophysics and United Kingdom Cosmology “Petrov School 2017”, Institute of Physics of 46. G. Gilli, S. Lebonnois, F. Forget, F. Millour; 2017; Impact Kazan Federal University, Kazan, Russia of non-orographic gravity waves in the atmosphere of 59. F. S. N. Lobo; 2017; Hybrid metric-Palatini gravity: Mars and Venus using global circulation models; astrophysical and cosmological phenomenology; Diversity of planetary circulation regimes in our Solar Connections in Astronomy, Astrophysics, Space and system and beyond, Les Houches, France Planetary Sciences, “Babes-Bolyai University”, Cluj- 47. G. Gilli, S. Lebonnois, P. Machado, R. Gonçalves; 2017; Napoca, Romania The puzzling transition region of Venus atmosphere 60. F. S. N. Lobo; 2017; Wormholes, warp drives and studied by a ground-to-thermosphere 3D model; 49th energy conditions; 12th Iberian Cosmology Meeting, Annual Division for Planetary Sciences Meeting, Provo, Valencia, Spain Utah, USA 61. F. Lopez-Martinez, J. F. Gameiro; 2017; Connection 48. G. Gilli, F. Forget, A. Spiga, T. Navarro, L. Montabone, between the accretion and outflow processes in T Tauri E. Millour; 2017; On the Impact of Non-Orographic stars; Francesco's Legacy - Star formation in space and Gravity Waves in the LMD Mars Global Climate Model; time, Florence, Italy Sixth International Workshop on the Mars Atmosphere: Modelling and Observations, Granada, Spain 62. P. Machado, T. Widemann, J. Peralta, R. Gonçalves, G. Gilli, M. Silva; 2017; Meridional and Zonal winds at 49. J. M. Gomes; 2017; FADO: Fitting Analysis using Venus' atmosphere from Cloud-tracking, Doppler Differential evolution Optimization - A novel spectral techniques and comparison with modelling; European population synthesis tool for the exploration of galaxy Planetary Science Congress 2017, Riga, Latvia evolution; Emission Line Galaxies with MOS: from 58 | IA ACTIVITY REPORT 2017
63. P. Machado, T. Widemann, J. Peralta, R. Gonçalves; Measuring Star Formation in the Radio, Millimetre, and 2017; VEx/VIRTIS and TNG/NICS cloud tracked winds Submillimetre, Manchester, United Kingdom at Venus’ lower cloud level using night side 80. L. F. Pereira, T. L. Campante, M. S. Cunha, N. C. observations; Diversity of planetary circulation regimes Santos, S. C. C. Barros; 2017; Testing gaussian process in our Solar system and beyond, Les Houches, France regression for red-giant granulation modelling; TESSting 64. M. Martín-Benito; 2017; Fermions in Loop Quantum stellar astrophysics - TASC3/KASC10 Workshop, Cosmology; Quantum Gravity in Paris 2017, IHP Paris, Birmingham, England France 81. S. Pereira; 2017; Ignite IAstro: A touring show goes off 65. M. Martín-Benito; 2017; The echo of the early Universe; the beaten track; PARI 2017 - Workshop on Public Probing the spacetime fabric: from concepts to Awareness of Research Infrastructures II, Garching, phenomenology, SISSA Trieste, Italy Germany
66. M. Martín-Benito; 2017; Quantum gravity perspectives; 82. J. Retrê; 2017; The role of students and volunteers in 9th Jerte Advanced Relativity Meeting, Navaconcejo, visitor experiences at the Lisbon Observatory; Spain Symposium Astronomy Museums, Visitor Centres & Public Observatories - Visitor Experiences in Astronomy 67. M. Martín-Benito; 2017; Dirac fields in cosmology: Learning Spaces, Leiden, Netherland unitary dynamics as a uniqueness quantization criterion; Loops 17, Faculty of Physics of University of Warsaw, 83. J. Retrê, J. Afonso, S. Pereira, A. Alves; 2017; When Warsaw, Poland Social effort overcomes Funding constraints; PARI 2017 - Workshop on Public Awareness of Research 68. M. Martín-Benito; 2017; Fermions in Loop Quantum Infrastructures II, Garching, Germany Cosmology; Spanish-Portuguese Relativity Meeting 2017, University of Málaga, Spain 84. J. Retrê; 2017; Future Scientists Communicating Science; PARI 2017 - Workshop on Public Awareness of 69. C. J. A. P. Martins; 2017; Varying Couplings and Dark Research Infrastructures II, Garching, Germany Energy: A Meta-analysis; 52nd Rencontres de Moriond Gravitation Session, La Thuile, Italy 85. D. Rubiera-Garcia; 2017; Metric-affine f(R,T) theories; 1st Valencia Winter Workshop on Theoretical Physics, 70. C. J. A. P. Martins; 2017; Varying Couplings and Dark University of Valencia, Spain Energy: A Meta-analysis; 12th Iberian Cosmology Meeting, Valencia, Spain 86. D. Rubiera-Garcia; 2017; Compact objects in Ricci- based metric-affine theories of gravity; 2nd CANTATA 71. A. Moliné; 2017; Indirect DM searches and halo models; Meeting, Frankfort, Germany ICRA Seminar, Sapienza Università di Roma, Italy 87. D. Rubiera-Garcia; 2017; Regular black holes, 72. A. Moliné; 2017; ; Indirect DM searches and DM wormholes and de Sitter cores from anisotropic fluids; IV halo/subhalo models, XXVII National Meeting of Cosmology and the Quantum Vacuum, Segovia, Spain Astronomy and Astrophysics (ENAA), Lisboa 88. D. Rubiera-Garcia; 2017; Geons, black holes, 73. B. Nsamba, T. L. Campante, M. J. P. F. G. Monteiro, M. wormholes and singularities in metric-affine gravity; S. Cunha, W. J. Chaplin, D. Huber; 2017; Impact of an Mini-Workshop on Gravitation and Cosmology, Rhodes interferometric radius on modeling bright stars; Island, Greece Asteroseismolgy and Optical Interferometry workshop, Nice, France 89. I. Yu. Rybak; 2017; Anisotropy of relic radiation from cosmic strings with additional degrees of freedom; VI 74. B. Nsamba, T. L. Campante, M. J. P. F. G. Monteiro; Congress of Belarusian Physicists, Minsk, Belarus 2017; Exploring uncertainties in stellar physics models of solar-type stars; TESSting stellar astrophysics - 90. I. Yu. Rybak; 2017; Stretching and Kibble scaling TASC3/KASC10 Workshop, Birmingham, England regimes for Hubble-damped defect networks; Strings, Cosmology, and Gravity Student Conference, Institut 75. N. J. Nunes; 2017; Dark energy couplings; DarkMod, Henri Poincaré in Paris, France Institut de Physique Théorique, CEA Saclay, France 91. I. Yu. Rybak; 2017; CMB for analytical model of wiggly 76. N. J. Nunes; 2017; Dark energy disformal interactions; and superconducting cosmic strings; 12th Iberian 12th Iberian Cosmology Meeting, Valencia, Spain Cosmology Meeting, Valencia, Spain 77. P. M. Palmeirim; 2017; Star formation and ionized 92. A. R. G. Santos; 2017; Seismic signatures of magnetic regions throughout the inner Galactic plane; Francesco's activity in Kepler data: results from a Bayesian Legacy - Star formation in space and time, Florence, peakbagging analysis of 87 solar-type stars”; TESSting Italy stellar astrophysics - TASC3/KASC10 Workshop, 78. P. Papaderos; 2017; FADO: a novel spectral population Birmingham, England synthesis tool for the exploration of galaxy evolution by 93. N. C. Santos; 2017; Can we guess planet composition means of genetic optimization under self - consistency from stellar chemistry?; EXO.AR I: 1st Argentinian boundary conditions; Proposing and processing Workshop on Exoplanets "Observations and data MEGARA observations with GTC, Universidad analysis'', Buenos Aires, Argentina Complutense de Madrid, Spain 94. N. C. Santos; 2017; Characterisation of exoplanet 79. C. Pappalardo; 2017; Scatter between dust emission hosting stars; IAU Symposium 330: Astrometry and and SFR in galaxies: clues from dust-stars interplay; Astrophysics in the Gaia sky, Nice, France 2016 IA ACTIVITY REPORT | 59
95. N. C. Santos; 2017; Constraining planet structure from 110. M. Vrard, T. Kallinger, B. Mosser, C. Barban; 2017; stellar chemistry; The PLATO Mission Conference 2017: Radial mode widths and amplitudes in red giant star Exoplanetary systems in the PLATO era, University of spectra observed by Kepler; TESSting stellar Warwick, United Kingdom astrophysics - TASC3/KASC10 Workshop, Birmingham, England 96. N. C. Santos; 2017; CHEOPS and ESPRESSO:
synergies for the detection of exorings; CHEOPS 5th Science Workshop, Schloss Seggau, Austria
97. C. Sauty, V. Cayatte, K. Tsinganos, J. J. G. Lima, R. M. Seminars at IA [79] G. Albuquerque, J. F. Gameiro; 2017; Simulations of stellar jets with magnetospheric accretion in T Tauris; 1. Addazi, A.; 2017; Energy conditions in Starobinsky Francesco's Legacy - Star Formation in Space and supergravity Time, Firenze, Italy 2. Amado, P. J.; 2017; Red dwarfs, exoplanets and 98. T. C. Scott; 2017; Probing galaxy interaction instrumentation at IAA-Granada mechanisms in merging clusters with HI; geco-lam2017 : Galaxy Clusters Across Cosmic Time, Aix en 3. Amarantidis, S.; 2017; Comparing models with Provence, France observations for the study of the Quasar population at the Epoch of Reionization 99. L. M. Serrano; 2017; Disentangling the reflected light of an exoplanet from the stellar activity and the 4. Arana, R.; 2017; Exploring quasar properties at the instrumental noise; CHEOPS 5th Science Workshop, Edge of the Universe Schloss Seggau, Austria 5. Barros, B. J. C. B.; 2017; Interacting Dark Energy 100. L. M. Serrano; 2017; Disentangling the reflected light of 6. Beltrán Jiménez, J.; 2017; Cascading dust inflation in an exoplanet from the stellar activity and the Born-Infeldized gravity instrumental noise; 2nd Advanced School on Exoplanetary Science: Astrophysics of Exoplanetary 7. Bernard, L.; 2017; Compact binary systems in scalar- Atmospheres, Vietri sul Mare, Italy tensor gravity
101. M. Silva, P. Machado, A. Sánchez-Lavega, J. Peralta; 8. Bertrand, T.; 2017; Investigating the evolution of Pluto's 2017; Wind measurements in Saturn atmosphere with atmosphere and ices with global climate models UVES/VLT ground-based Doppler velocimetry; 9. Bertrang, G. H-M; 2017; On magnetic fields and what European Planetary Science Congress 2017, Riga, we can learn from polarimetry in protoplanetary disks Latvija 10. Boatto, S.; 2017; A DINÂMICA DE N-CORPOS SOBRE 102. M. Silva, P. Machado, A. Sánchez-Lavega, J. Peralta; SUPERFÍCIES, AS LEIS DE MAXWELL & OS 2017; Wind measurements in Saturn's atmosphete with AXIOMAS DA MECÂNICA VLT/UVES ground-based Doppler velocimetry; Diversity of planetary circulation regimes, in our Solar system and 11. Cabral, F. T. O.; 2017; Theories of Gravity, Spacetime beyond, Les Houches, France geometry and Electromagnetism - Astrophysical and Cosmological applications with Gravitational Wave 103. L. Sousa; 2017; Probing cosmic superstrings with Astronomy gravitational wave; 12th Iberian Cosmology Meeting, Valencia, Spain 12. Cardoso, L. S. M.; 2017; Impact of AGN and nebular emission on the estimation of stellar properties of 104. S. G. Sousa; 2017; SWEET-CAT and its contribution to galaxies CHEOPS; CHEOPS 5th Science Workshop, Schloss Seggau, Austria 13. Carrilho, P.; 2017; Quantum quenches during inflation
105. I. Tereno, J. Dinis, R. Scaramella; 2017; Completeness 14. Cora, S.; 2017; Catalogs of simulated galaxies: MDPL2- Purity Calibrations and the Wide Survey; Euclid Annual SAG Consortium Meeting, UCL London, United Kingdom 15. Cunha, E.; 2017; Unveiling the nature of sub-millimeter 106. I. Tereno, J. Dinis, R. Scaramella; 2017; Euclid Deep galaxies with ALMA and MAGPHYS Fields; ECSURV winter meeting, IAP Paris, France 16. de Felice, A.; 2017; Minimal Quasidilaton
107. S. C. Ulmer-Moll; 2017; Near infrared atmospheric 17. Di Serego Alighieri, S.; 2017; Cosmic Polarization correction for precise radial velocities; Precision Rotation: testing the foundations of General Relativity Spectroscopy: Towards Earth 2.0, São Paulo, Brazil 18. Donevski, D.; 2017; Characterisation of high-z dusty 108. S. C. Ulmer-Moll, P. Figueira, J. J. Neal, N. C. Santos; galaxies in Herschel cosmological survey 2017; Near Infrared Spectra and Telluric Absorption: 19. Famaey, B.; 2017; Tight galaxy scaling relations: dark How to deal with it; XXIX Canary Islands Winter School of Astrophysics - Applications of Radiative Transfer to matter vs. modified gravity stellar and planetary atmospheres, Tenerife, Spain 20. Faria, J. P. S.; 2017; Searching for planets around metal-poor stars 109. M. Vrard; 2017; Radial mode widths and amplitudes in red giant star spectra observed by Kepler; Kepler & K2 21. Farrah, D.; 2017; Insights into galaxy assembly from Science Conference IV NASA Ames Research Center, star formation in luminous quasars at z>1 Moffett Field, California, United States 60 | IA ACTIVITY REPORT 2017
22. Fernandes, M.; 2017; A Complete Understanding of the 47. Matt, G.; 2017; The X-ray emission of radio-quiet AGN Far-InfraRed Sources Detected with the ESA Mission in the NuSTAR era Herschel 48. Mortier, A.; 2017; The battle between exoplanets and 23. Ferreras, I.; 2017; Stellar populations as a probe of stellar activity massive galaxy formation 49. Mosser, B.; 2017; Mixed modes in red giants 24. Gahm, G. F.; 2017; Young clusters and their expanding 50. Moya, A.; 2017; Revision of the Mass-Luminosity-like shells relations 25. Ginski, C.; 2017; Circumstellar disks in the era of 51. Muzic, K.; 2017; Young brown dwarfs: testing star SPHERE formation across environments 26. Gonçalves, N.; 2017; “How old is the universe?” 52. North, T. S. H.; 2017; Exoplanets and Asteroseismology: 27. Gonçalves, R.; 2017; Planetary atmospheres From Know the star, know the planet Solar System to Exoplanets: atmospheric 53. Pérez Sánchez, S.; 2017; Emission-line surveys and the characterization and search for chemical disequilibrium peak (and decline) of the Universe's star formation compounds history 28. Gonzalez, S.; 2017; Extinction studies towards type Ia 54. Palmeirim, P. M.; 2017; Understanding star-formation supernovae along filaments and the impact of HII regions 29. Gough, D. O.; 2017; A brief history of solar rotation 55. Papadomanolakis, G.; 2017; The Effective Field Theory 30. Gruppioni, C.; 2017; Towards an understanding of the of Dark Energy and Modied Gravity: a stability ISM in galaxies through the combination of high- perspective resolution ALMA data and a coherent modelling of the 56. Pappas, G.; 2017; The spacetime around neutron stars gas photo-ionisation and astrophysical observables 31. Hara, N.; 2017; Detecting Exoplanets with Compressed 57. Pavón, D.; 2017; Strategies to determine the sign of the Sensing Techniques spatial curvature 32. Hay, K. L.; 2017; Stellar limb darkening and exoplanet 58. Peirone, S.; 2017; Large scale phenomenology of viable transits - modelling with artificial neural networks Horndeski models 33. Heisenberg, L.; 2017; Status of Massive Gravity 59. Peralta, J.; 2017; Hot News from the Hot Venus 34. Henriques, B.; 2017; Galaxy Formation and Evolution 60. Pompea, S. M.; 2017; Experiments in Public Modelling Engagement and Education at the U.S. 35. Hildebrandt, H.; 2017; Weak Gravitational Lensing by 61. Reis, S. N.; 2017; Unvealing the growth of massive Large-Scale Structure galaxies by meand of deep photometric analysis 36. Hueso, R.; 2017; Venus atmosphere dynamics: 62. Rybak, I. Yu.; 2017; Evolution of cosmic topological Highlights from the Venus Express mission defect networks: Stretching and Kibble scaling regimes 37. Ikeda, T.; 2017; Critical behavior of a domain wall 63. Santos, A. R. G.; 2017; Seismic signatures of magnetic collapse activity in solar-type stars observed by Kepler 38. Kobayashi, T.; 2017; Baryons, Dark Matter, and Light 64. Santos, M.; 2017; Cosmology with MeerKAT Scalars 65. Schödel, R.; 2017; Black hole-star interactions at the 39. Lagache, G.; 2017; Intensity mapping of the atomic centre of the Milky Way carbon [CII] line in post-reionization and reionization epoch with CONCERTO 66. Sedaghati, E.; 2017; Exoplanetary atmospheric detection with ground-based transmission spectroscopy 40. Le Delliou, M.; 2017; Finding a high precision semi- analytic mass function 67. Silva, M.; 2017; Doppler winds measurements of Saturn's atmosphere 41. Lendl, M.; 2017; Exploring the nature of hot exoplanet atmospheres 68. Spoto, F.; 2017; The Gaia mission and the chronology of the Solar System 42. Liddle, A.; 2017; Cosmology Constraints from Dark Energy Survey Year One 69. Tamanini, N.; 2017; Late time cosmology with LISA probing the cosmic expansion with massive black hole 43. Loiacono, F.; 2017; AGN feedback and ionized gas binary mergers as standard sirens kinematics in a z~2 galaxy 70. Tanga, P.; 2017; Gaia and the Solar System: an 44. Lopes Ribeiro, A. R.; 2017; Extending General Relativity ongoing revolution using black holes 71. Topinka, M.; 2017; Automatic Search for Late Type 45. Martín-Benito, M.; 2017; Fermions in Loop Quantum Stars in DFBS Cosmology 72. Tsantaki, M.; 2017; Stellar parameters with FASMA in 46. Martín-Moruno, P.; 2017; A simple approach to the the era of large surveys study of background cosmology in bigravity 73. Tsujikawa, S.; 2017; Cosmology in vector-tensor theories 2016 IA ACTIVITY REPORT | 61
74. Urbano-Mayorgas, J. J.; 2017; The host galaxies of Observing runs [33] luminous SDSS type 2 active galactic nuclei at z ∼0.3- 0.4 1. S. Sousa, D. Andreasen, A. Mortier, N Santos, E 75. Vernieri, D.; 2017; Status of Hořava gravity: theory, black holes and cosmology Delgado Mena, V Adibekyan, M. Tsantaki, A. Ferreira, I. Brandão, B. Rojas-Ayala, G. Israelian, S. Barros, A. 76. Visser, M.; 2017; Analogue spacetimes Santerne, M. Montalto, P. Figueira; Know the star to 77. Vitor Cardoso; 2017; Testing General Relativity with know the planet: building the largest catalog of Gravitational Waves exoplanet host star parameters and chemical 78. Wyttenbach, A.; 2017; Observation of Exoplanetary abundances; 099.C-0225 ; UVES UT2; P99 Atmospheres with High-Resolution Transmission 2. S. Sousa, N. Santos, E. Delgado-Mena, V. Adibekyan, Spectroscopy S. Mikolaitis, R. Ženovien; "Know the star to know the 79. Ziegler, B.; 2017; Quantitative Evolution of Spiral planet: building the largest catalog of exoplanet host star Galaxies parameters and chemical abundances"; VUES, Moletai Observatory; Jan-Mar 2017 3. E. Delgado Mena et al.; "Follow-up of planetary Organization of Conferences [14] candidates in stellar open clusters"; 099.C-0304; 0100.C-0888; HARPS/ESO-3.6m telescope; observing during 27 July - 5 July (period 99) 1. CHEOPS SOC meeting #09 / Science Team meeting #10; 20 to 24 March 2017; Porto,Portugal 4. N. C. Santos et al.; "The deepest search for hot Neptunes around a sample of metal-poor stars: a 2. NIRPS FDR; 15 to 17 May 2017; Porto, Portugal fundamental test for planet formation models"; 196.C- 3. 2-DEMOC 2017; “Towards the detection and 0042(A); HARPS/ESO-3.6m telescope; (other characterization of other Earths” Thematic Line Internal observers) P99 Meeting; 31 May to 1 June 2017; Braga, Portugal 5. S. Sousa et al.; "Planet formation hints using detailed 4. HIRES Consortium Meeting; 10 to 11 July 2017; Porto, and homogeneous spectroscopic characterization of Portugal planet hosts stars"; 098.C-0151; 099.C-0225; 5. X-ASTRONOMERS 2017; "The assembly history of UVES/VLT; P98/P99 service mode galaxies resolved in space and time" Thematic Line A. Santerne et al.; "Rocky or gaseous? Exploring the Internal Meeting; 19 July 2017; Lisboa, Portugal 6. composition of small worlds using K2 and HARPS"; 6. XXVII National Meeting of Astronomy and Astrophysics 198.C-0169; HARPS/ESO-3.6m telescope; (other (ENAA); 20 to 21 July 2017; Lisboa, Portugal observers) P98/P99/P100 7. Cosmology and fundamental physics with current and 7. Machado, P., Widemann, T., TNG-HARPS-N Venus' future ESO facilities; 3rd Azores School on Observational observations coordinated with Akatsuki Space Mission, Cosmology 5th Azores International Advanced School in La Palma, Canary Islands, 28- 31 January 2017 Space Sciences; 27 August to 2 September 2017; Angra 8. Sanchez-Lavega, A., Machado, P., Pérez-Hoyos, S., do Heroísmo, Açores, Portugal Saturn dynamics using Doppler velocimetry, 8. MOONS Science Consortium Meeting; 11 to 13 CARMENES - Calar Alto Observatory, 12-13 June 2017. September 2017; Lisboa, Portugal 9. Machado, P;, Ferreira, J., Oliveira, J., Martins, H., 9. Euclid Consortium Survey Group Meeting; 13 to 15 Pereira, D., Asteroide Daphne stellar occultation, Mte. September 2017; Lisboa, Portugal Ratolas Observatory, 1-2 Mars 2017. 10. Teresa Lago amongst friends; International Conference 10. Machado, P., Tanga, P., Ferreira, J., Triton Exosphere honouring Prof. Teresa Lago; 9 October 2017; Porto, study by stellar occultation - Obsrvatoire des Alpes Portugal Maritimes (Calern), 3-4 October 2017. 11. PLATO Week 5; 24 to 26 October 2017; Porto, Portugal 11. P. Papaderos, I. Breda, J. M. Gomes; The hard ionizing th 12. IA-ON4; Instituto de Astrofísica e Ciências do Espaço 4 field in low-metallicity blue compact dwarf galaxies; internal workshop; 30 to 31 October 2017; Lisboa, 17A/061; DOLORES, TNG; 01/03/2017 to 04/04/2017 Portugal 12. D. Barrado Navascués; The TROY project: confirming 13. ALMA Data Processing workshop; RadioNet funded the first exotrojan planet; CAT16B_25; HARPS-N; TNG; workshop helping the ALMA users community; 5 to 7 Feb 6-8 2017 December 2017; Lisboa, Portugal 14. FADO in Galaxies Busy Day; "The assembly history of 13. PI: Luca Cortese and the Co-Is: K. George, T. Scott, R. galaxies resolved in space and time" Thematic Line Smith, Astrosat UV imaging of two A1367 infalling Internal Meeting; 12 December 2017; Porto, Portugal group, Proposal ID A04 010, 40.0 kilo–seconds approved. GMRT proposal submitted and accepted to observed two ultra diffuse galaxies (UDGs) Propsal ID: 33 043 62 | IA ACTIVITY REPORT 2017
14. PI - Isabelle Boisse, COIs are Polychronis Papaderos, 26. ALMA - PI: Fiore - 2016.1.00718.S, The cradles of giant Jeam Michel Gomes and Catarina Lobo, Telescopio galaxies: the ALMA view of the most powerful QSOs in Nazionale Galileo (TNG) optical spectra for FGC 1287 the Universe observed 27. IRAM 30m - PI: Bizzocchi, Matute - 198-16, Towards the 15. Research and characterization of extra-solar planets in first Radio Galaxies in the Universe the northern hemisphere; 28. Israel Matute (PT), Luca Bizzocchi (DE), Hugo Messias 2017A_PNP004;SOPHIE/T193; 17-21 July 2017 (CL), Jose Afonso (PT), Ciro Pappalardo (PT), Silvio 16. Kumar, Borissova, Kuhn, Lucas; First Near- Infrared Lorenzoni (PT); "Towards the first Radio Galaxies in the Spectral Survey of Infrared Counterparts to High-Mass Universe"; P297868/198-16; EMIR/IRAM-30m; March Protostellar Objects;2017A-CN41, ARCoIRIS on 4m 2017 & May 2017 Victor Blanco CTIO telescope; 5-8 May 2017, 2017A 29. S. Lorenzoni, J. Caruana, A. Bunker, S. Wilkins, I. 17. PI: North, T. S. H.; Co-Is: Campante, T. L., Chaplin, W. Matute, J. Afonso; "Exploring Reionization and J., Sousa, S. G., & Delgado Mena, E.; Homogeneous Interacting Systems at z ∼ 8"; 0100.A-0870(A); elemental abundances of evolved exoplanet-host stars; XSHOOTER/VLT ; Nov 2017/ Jan 2018 Project ID: P05_04; High-resolution spectrograph at the 30. J. Afonso, I. Matute, L. Bizzocchi, H. Messias, C. Hertzsprung Stellar Observations Network Group Papparlardo; 'Confirmation of the first radio-selected (SONG) telescope; Period 5 galaxy at the doorstep of the EoR'; 2017.1.01713.S; 18. PI: North, T. S. H.; Co-Is: Campante, T. L., Chaplin, W. ALMA Observatory; Jan 2018 J., Kuszlewicz, J. S., Miglio, A., Davies, G. R., Rendle, 31. PI, Susana Barros, Opticon, Probing giant sculptors of B. M., & Lund, M. N.; Global asteroseismology of an tightly packed planetary systems, SOPHIE OHP, 24-27 evolved exoplanet-host star; Project ID: P04_04; High- January 2017 resolution spectrograph at the Hertzsprung Stellar Observations Network Group (SONG) telescope; Period 32. PI, Susana Barros, Opticon, Probing giant sculptors of 4 tightly packed planetary systems, grant 730890, SOPHIE OHP, 3-9 April 2017 19. PI: North, T. S. H.; Co-Is: Campante, T. L., Chaplin, W. J., Sousa, S. G., & Delgado Mena, E.; Homogeneous 33. Paulina Zaworska, Elisa Delgado-Mena, M. Montalto, elemental abundances of evolved exoplanet-host stars; N.C Santos, S.G. Sousa, V.Zh. Adibekyan ; Hunting for Project ID: P04_03; High-resolution spectrograph at the planetary footprints in open clusters; FLAMES+UVES; Hertzsprung Stellar Observations Network Group Jan-Mar 2017/ 98A (SONG) telescope; Period 4 20. K. Perraut, M. Cunha, I. Brandão, D. Mourard, D. Shulyak, Fundamental parameters of the magnetic Outreach talks [82] (rapidly oscillating) Ap stars, 2017 May 12th – 17th, August 25th – 31th, and September 11th – 17th 1. João Retrê; The role of students and volunteers in visitor 21. The hard ionizing field in low-metallicity blue compact experiences at the Lisbon Observatory, Symposium dwarf galaxies (3 nights, 1-3 April 2017) with the 3.5m Astronomy Museums, Visitor Centres & Public TNG at La Palma (PI: P. Papaderos) Observatories - Visitor Experiences in Astronomy Learning Spaces; Leiden, Holanda; September 2017 22. Star cluster formation in extreme environments: an isolated pair of closely interacting dwarf galaxies (HST 2. João Retrê; When Social effort overcomes Funding Program 15114, Cycle 25, 5 orbits; PI: Dr. Sanchez- constraints; Public Awareness of Research Janssen) Infrastructures II - Communicating the importance of science to society (PARI 2017); Garching, Germany; 23. J. Matthee et al. including A. Paulino-Afonso, May 2017 Completing the 9deg2 LOFAR-Lya survey at z=3, INT 3. João Retrê; Future Scientists Communicating Science, Program N2, Wide Field Camera at Isaac Newton Public Awareness of Research Infrastructures II - Telescope (WFC/INT); April 19-23, 2017/semester Communicating the importance of science to society 2017A - visitor mode (PARI 2017); Garching, Germany; May 2017.
24. A. Stroe, D. Sobral and A. Paulino-Afonso, Shocks and 4. S.A.G. Sousa; À Descoberta de Planetas Extra-Solares, turbulence: the effect of disturbed environments on Colégio Júlio Dinis, 9 October 2017 galaxy evolution, 099.A-0562(A) and 0.99.A-0562(B), 5. S.A.G. Sousa; À Descoberta de Planetas Extra-Solares, VISMOS/VLT, March-August, 2017/ Period 99 - service Escola Secundária da Trofa, 12 October 2017 mode 6. C.J. Martins; A Física do Big Bang, Universidade Júnior, 25. ALMA - PI: Afonso - 2017.1.01713.S, Confirmation of CAUP, 12 July the first radio-selected galaxy at the dootstep of the EoR 7. C.J. Martins; A Física do Big Bang, Universidade Júnior, CAUP, 19 July 2016 IA ACTIVITY REPORT | 63
8. C.J. Martins; The Physics of Global Warming: Evidence, 32. T. Barreiro; O lado escuro da força; S. Pedro do Estoril; AstroCamp 2017 Public talk, 7 August Abril 2017
9. C.J. Martins; The Physics of Global Warming: Solutions, 33. B.J.C.B. Barros; Energia Escura; Bar Irreal, Lisbon AstroCamp 2017 Public talk, 9 August 34. S. Pereira; Speak about your PhD - part 2: IA Students 10. C.J. Martins; The Physics of Radioactivity: Nuclear Meetings; 3rd meeting of the doctoral students of the medicine and bombs, AstroCamp 2017 Public talk, 15 Physics Department - Faculty of Sciences of August Universidade de Lisboa; 29th June 2017
11. C.J. Martins; The Physics of Radioactivity: Nuclear 35. I. A. Costa; Da multidisciplinaridade à reactors and cancer, AstroCamp 2017 Public talk, 17 interdisciplinaridade – complementaridade da educação August formal e não formal – um exemplo prático; IV Encontro Internacional da Casa das Ciências – Educação 12. C.J. Martins; A Física do Big Bang, Biblioteca Pública e Científica e Desenvolvimento Económico; Lisboa; Arquivo Regional, Angra do Heroísmo, 1 September Portugal; 11/7/2017 13. C.J. Martins; A Física do Big Bang, E.S. de São Pedro 36. I. A. Costa; Interdisciplinaridade na educação formal e não do Sul, 2 October formal: um exemplo prático;ICRE ́17 – Porto International 14. C.J. Martins; A Física da Gravidade e dos Satélites, E.S. Conference on Research in Education; Porto; Portugal; Emídio Navarro, Viseu, 2 October 20/7/2017
15. C.J. Martins; A Física do Big Bang, E.S. Afonso de 37. I. A. Costa; Formação em contexto não formal: pontes Albuquerque, Guarda, 3 October para a interdisciplinaridade na educação formal; Desafios Curriculares e Pedagógicos na Formação de 16. C.J. Martins; A Física do Big Bang, E.S. Homem Cristo, Professores; Braga; Portugal; 9/9/2017 Aveiro, 4 October T. L. Campante; Planetas à luz das estrelas; Noites no 17. C.J. Martins; A Física da Gravidade e dos Satélites, E.S. 38. Domingos Sequeira, Leiria, 4 October Observatório, Planetário Calouste Gulbenkian - Centro Ciência Viva, Lisbon, Portugal, Nov 25 2017 18. R.C. Reis; À distância de um clique, 5º Congresso de A. Liddle; Multiverse; Planetário Calouste Gulbenkian, Comunicação de Ciência - Scicom PT 2017, Coimbra, 39. Belém, October 2017 12 de outubro 2017 A. Alves; O meu projeto de Ciência Cidadã em 3 19. N.C. Santos; Debate (com Sir. Martin Rees e Prof. 40. Minutos: Galaxy Zoo; Teatro Thalia - Lisboa, 26 Alexandre Quintanilha): A Ciência no Século XXI: Oct.2017 oportunidades e ameaças, no contexto da apresentação do livro "Para o infinito" de Sir Martin Rees, 17 de 41. J. P. M. de Carvalho; Encontros com a Ciência no Novembro de 2017 Montijo - 2017; O Homem e a Astronomia... No futuro como no passado, ou o ‘gene cósmico’, Câmara 20. N.C. Santos; Planetas; Escola EB da Ponte, Municipal de Montijo, Montijo, 18 de março de 2017 Agrupamento de Escolas Manoel de Oliveira, 2upo ano, 19 Outubro 2017 42. J. P. M. de Carvalho; Viagem pelo Sistema Solar, EB Dr. Flávio Gonçalves, Póvoa do Varzim, 17 de maio de 21. N.C. Santos; Exoplanetas; Agrupamento de Escolas de Montijo (EB D. Pedro Varela), 7º ano, 23 Maio 2017 2017 43. J. P. M. de Carvalho; Da Idade da Magia a Galileu: do 22. P. Figueira; A caça de Exoplanetas, Jornadas em Eng. Homem ao Universo, Ermesinde, 2 de outubro de 2017 Fisica, Fisica e Astronomia, U. Porto, 24/03/2017 44. J. P. M. de Carvalho; Da Idade da Magia a Galileu: do 23. P. Figueira; "PubHd", Café Pinguim, 31/03/2017 Homem ao Universo, São Pedro do Sul, 2 de outubro de 24. P. Figueira; Máquinas de Caçar Planetas, Planetário 2017 Calouste Gulbenkian, 24/06/2017 45. J. P. M. de Carvalho; Um Universo de Informação: a 25. P. Figueira; "PubHd", 35th Youth Science Meeting, 'Luz', Chaves, 4 de outubro de 2017 25/07/2017 46. J. P. M. de Carvalho; Um Universo de Informação: a 26. P. Figueira; Exoplanetas - Em busca de uma nova Terra, 'Luz', Baltar, 4 de outubro de 2017 Escola de Verão, Porto, 05/09/2017 47. J. P. M. de Carvalho; Um Universo de Informação: a 27. P. Machado; Planetary atmospheres, how divers they 'Luz', Castro Daire, 6 de outubro de 2017 can be; OLA - Alqueva Observatory; 21 January 2017 48. J. P. M. de Carvalho; Um Universo de Informação, V. N. 28. P. Machado; Um céu cheio de estrelas, School Jorge de Paiva, 11 de outubro de 2017 Barradas; 22 February 2017 49. J. P. M. de Carvalho; Um Universo em Expansão, 29. P. Machado; Será que o céu nos vai cair em cima da Outeiro de S. Miguel – Guarda, 11 de outubro de 2017 cabeça?, NOAL - Noites no observatório; 27 May 2017 50. J. P. M. de Carvalho; Da Idade da Magia a Galileu: do 30. P. Machado; Solar System planets' exploration; Homem ao Universo, Figueira da Foz, 8 de novembro Alcochete School; 6 June 2017 de 2017
31. P. Machado; Férias no Sistema Solar; Dark Sky Alqueva, 51. J. P. M. de Carvalho; Do Homem ao Universo, Escola Monsaraz; 21 June 2017 Secundária de Barcelinhos – Barcelinhos, 23 de novembro de 2017 64 | IA ACTIVITY REPORT 2017
52. J. P. M. de Carvalho; Do Homem ao Universo, Escola 72. A. Cabral; Grandes telescópios, espectrógrafos e a luz Secundária Alcaides de Faria – Barcelos, 23 de na busca de planetas extra solares; Escola Secundária novembro de 2017 de Santo André, Santo André, 21-11-2017
53. M.S. Cunha; A música das estrelas (in Noites no 73. A. Cabral; Grandes telescópios, espectrógrafos e a luz Observatório), Observatório de Lisboa, 29th April, 2017 na busca de planetas extra solares; Escola Secundária de Santiago do Cacém, Santiago do Cacém, 23-11- 54. A.S. Paulino-Afonso; O céu e os seus mitos, Escola 2017 Básica D. Pedro IV, Mindelo, Vila do Conde, December 14, 2017 74. A. Cabral; Grandes telescópios, espectrógrafos e a luz na busca de planetas extra solares; IV Encontro 55. A.S. Paulino-Afonso; O céu e os seus mitos, Escola Internacional da Casa das Ciências, 10 de Julho de Básica de Macieira, Macieira da Mata, Vila do Conde, 2017, Faculdade de Ciências da Universidade de Lisboa December 14, 2017 75. A. Cabral; À Descoberta dos Grandes Telescópios do 56. A.S. Paulino-Afonso; O céu e os seu mitos, Escola ESO - Observatório do Lago do Alqueva, Reguengos, Básica e Secundária de Caminha, Vilarelho, Caminha, 06-05-2017 October 10, 2017 76. A. Cabral; Horizontes Para Alem da Imaginacao; Noites 57. A.S. Paulino-Afonso; O céu e os seus mitos, Escola do OAL, Planetário Calouste Gulbenkian, Lisboa, 25-03- Básica da Feitosa , Feitosa, Ponte de Lima, October 10, 2017 2017 77. F. Buitrago; O Universo para além da imaginação; Noites 58. A.S. Paulino-Afonso; O Universo no bolso, Escola do Observatório; 16th Dec 2017 Básica e Secundária de Celorico de Basto, Gémeos, Celorico de Basto, October 9, 2017 78. F. Buitrago; Mitos e lendas na Astronomia; Noites do Observatório; 25th Feb 2017 59. A.S. Paulino-Afonso; O Universo no bolso, Escola Básica Virgínia Moura, Moreira de Cónegos, 79. J.J.G. Lima; O Sol e os planetas; Talk in primary school, Guimarães, October 9, 2017 Vila do Conde, 16 june 2017
60. A.S. Paulino-Afonso; O céu e os seus mitos, Externato 80. J.J.G. Lima; O nosso sistema solar; Talk in Social das Escravas do Sagrado Coração de Jesus, Porto, Solidarity Institution "O Tecto", for kids between 4 and 8 October 4, 2017 years old; Fajozes, Vila do Conde, 22 december 2017
61. A.S. Paulino-Afonso; O Universo no bolso, Escola 81. P. Pereira; Todo o Universo numa apresentação; Básica D. Pedro IV, Mindelo, Vila do Conde, October 2, Agrupamento de Escolas Gaia Nascente, Vila Nova de 2017 Gaia, Dez, 2017
62. A.S. Paulino-Afonso; O Universo no bolso, Escola 82. M.J.P.F.G. Monteiro; Astroquímica das Estrelas, Palestra Básica de Macieira, Macieira da Mata, Vila do Conde, para os alunos do 10º ano, na Escola Secunda riá Abel October 2, 2017 Salazar, São Mamede de Infesta, 22 de Março de 2017
63. A.S. Paulino-Afonso; A primavera na Terra e no Espaço, Centro Social da Juventude de Marinhas, Marinhas, Esposende, May 23, 2017 Reports [12] 64. A.S. Paulino-Afonso; The Secret Life of Galaxies on Porto's PubHD, Pinguim Café, Porto, February 23 1. ELT HIRES, Design Description, Doc. No. E-HIRES- 65. A. Negrão; Lecture on the history of astronomy, inserted SYS-DER-0001, Issue: 1.0, (143 pages), Date: in the event "Your night out under the stars", on October 02/10/2017 21, 2017 2. ELT HIRES, Technical Budget Report, Doc. No. E- 66. N.J. Nunes; How do we weight the Universe?, Escola HIRES-SYS-DER-0003, Issue: 1.0, (20 pages) Date : Secundária Dr. Josá Anfonso, 3 October 2017; 02/10/2017
67. N.J. Nunes; How do we weight the Universe?, Casa Pia 3. ELT HIRES, Analysis Report, Doc. No. E-HIRES-SYS- de Lisboa, 3 October 2017; ANR-0001, Issue: 1.0, (52 pages), Date : 02/10/2017
68. N.J. Nunes; How do we weight the Universe?, Escola 4. ELT HIRES, Software Design Description document for Secundária de Ponte de Sor, 25 Janeiro 2017; phase A, Doc. No. E-HIRES-SYS-DER-0002, Issue: 1.0, (89 pages), Date : 02/10/2017 69. J.Retrê; Viver de Perto a Astronomia, Astrofesta 2017, Alqueva, Portugal, August 2017 5. ELT HIRES, System Manufacturing, Assembly, Integration and Verification and Test Plan, Doc. No. E- 70. J.Retrê; Algo semelhante ao título de uma palestra, HIRES-SYS-PLA-0001, Issue: 1.0, (44 pages), Date : Física Fora da Academia Conference, Lisboa, Portugal, 02/10/17 April 2017 6. MOONS, Rotating Front End Structure Design Report, 71. J.Retrê; Viver Astronomia - Future Scientists VLT-TRE-MON-14620-1001, Issue 1.0, (45 pages), 31st Communicating Science, XXVII National Meeting of January 2017 Astronomy and Astrophysics, Lisboa, Portugal, July 2017 7. MOONS, RFE Earthquake Analysis, VLT-TRE-MON- 14620-1011, 2.0, (142 pages), 3th February 2017 2016 IA ACTIVITY REPORT | 65
8. MOONS, Rotating Front End Structure MAIT Plan, VLT- 12. D. Rubiera-Garcia, “How I run into a black hole but PLA-MON-14620-1006, 2.0, (20 pages), 9th June 2017 found a way out”; Institute of Space Sciences, Barcelona, Spain, January 2017 9. NIRPS, FRONT END SYSTEM DESIGN, NIRPS-4100- GEN-RP-102, ISSUE : 1.0, (43 pages) 2017.05.09 13. A.C.O. Leite, Fundamental Laws of Nature - Variation of fundamental couplings, Joint ALMA Observatory, 10. PLATO; "HARTMANN TEST SENSITIVITY REPORT", Santiago, Chile, 3 October 201 Doc. No.PLATO-UOL-PL-RP-0001;Issue 1; (21 pages) Date:18-12-2017 14. M. Vrad, Discontinuities in the core of red giant stars: effect on the mixed-mode pattern; 13 december 2017, 11. PLATO; "OPTICAL GROUND SUPPORT EQUIPMENT Paris Observatory, Meudon, LESIA, France. AT ROOM TEMPERATURE: COLLIMATOR DESIGN REPORT"; PLATO-UOL-PL-RP-0002; Issue 1, (26 15. N. Frusciante, Noemi Frusciante; EFTCAMB: exploring Pages). 28/12/2017 Large Scale Structure observableswith viable dark energy and modified gravity models; IST- CENTRA, 12. ESA e-Lisa - TN11 - Laser Head EM MAI Lisbon (Portugal); 18 May 2017 Report_IssueA_rev00 (28/09/2017) 16. N. Frusciante, Noemi Frusciante; Non-Linear Effective 13. ESA e-Lisa - TN12 - GSE description_Issue A_Rev00 field theory; Institute Lorentz, Leiden University, Leiden (28/09/2017) (The Netherlands);11-18 February 2017
17. M. Martín-Benito, The physics of the early Universe in Hybrid Loop Quantum Cosmology, ITP Heidelberg, External seminars by IA researchers [48] Germany; 31/05/2017.
18. M. S. N. Kumar, Formation of high-mass stars: new 1. C.J.A.P. Martins, Fundamental Cosmology in the ELT insights from ALMA observations; University of Era, Lorentz Cosmology Seminar, Leiden (The Hertfordshire, Centre for Astrophysics Research, United Netherlands), 31 May 2017 Kingdom; 19th July 2017 2. N. C. Santos, Studying the stars, knowing the planets, 19. M. S. N. Kumar, Formation of high-mass stars: St. Andrews University, Scotland, 29 September 2017 Reflections at my mid-life; Observatorio Astronomico Nacional, Madrid, Spain; 9th October 2017 3. P. Figueira, Exoplanets: Activity and Star-planet interaction, IPAG, France, 24 February 2017 20. A. R. G. Santos, Searching for magnetic cycles through Asteroseismology; High Altitude Observatory, Boulder, 4. V. Adibekyan, Chemical abundances of solar- Colorado, United States; August 2, 2017 neighborhood stars with and without planets, Göttingen, Germany, 26 January 2017 21. A. R. G. Santos, Seismic signatures of magnetic activity 5. V. Adibekyan, Formation and evolution of exoplanets in in Kepler data, National Solar Observatory, Boulder, different environments, LAM, Marseille, France, 10 Colorado, United States; September 12, 2017 March 2017 22. J. P. S. Faria; 2017; Searching for planets around metal- poor stars; IA; Portugal 6. V. Adibekyan, Exoplanet formation in the Galaxy different environments, different planets, Nice, France, 23. M.S. Cunha, As a co-author of the work presented: 19 September 2017 M.Vrard & M.S. Cunha, Discontinuities in the core of red giant stars: effect on the mixed-mode pattern, Paris 7. A. J. Humphrey, Ionization, gas kinematics and fee Observatory, Meudon, France, 13 december 2017 dback activity in high-redshift radio galaxies as seen with MUSE; Instituto de Astronomia, Universidad 24. M.S. Cunha, As a co-author of the work presented: A. R. Autonoma de Mexico, Cuidad de Mexico; Mexico; 14 G. Santos, T. L. Campante, W. J. Chaplin, M. S. Cunha, Sept 2017 M. N. Lund, R. Kiefer, R. A. García, D. Salabert; Seismic signatures of magnetic activity in Kepler data; National 8. A. J. Humphrey, Ionization, gas kinematics and Solar Observatory; Boulder, CO, USA; September 12, feedback activity in high-redshift radio galaxies as seen 2017 with MUSE; Instituto Nacional de Astrofisica, Optica y Electronica, Puebla; Mexico; 21 Sept 2017 25. M.S. Cunha, As a co-author of the work presented: A. R. 9. I. Yu. Rybak, "Stretching and Kibble scaling regimes for G. Santos, T. L. Campante, W. J. Chaplin, M. S. Cunha, M. N. Lund, R. Kiefer, R. A. García, D. Salabert; Hubble-damped defect networks" seminar at the Searching for magnetic cycles through Astronomy Centre of the University of Sussex, Brighton, Asteroseismology; High Altitude Observatory; Boulder, 13th of March, 2017. CO, USA; August 2, 2017 10. I. Yu. Rybak, "Evolution of cosmic topological defect
networks", First ICRANet-Minsk workshop on high 26. P. Papaderos, FADO: a novel spectral population synthesis tool for the exploration of galaxy evolution by energy astrophysics National Academy of Sciences of means of genetic optimization under self-consistency Belarus, Minsk, Belarus, April 26-28, 2017. boundary conditions (AIP-Potsdam, 2. June 2017) 11. D. Rubiera-Garcia, “Compact objects and gravitational
waves in Ricci-based theories of gravity”; The Chinese 27. N. J. Nunes, Three-form Cosmology, University of the University of Hong Kong, China, November 2017 Basque Country, Spain, 18 November 2017; 66 | IA ACTIVITY REPORT 2017
28. N. J. Nunes, Three-form Cosmology, Institute of 5. José Silva; Characterising Solar System planets' Fundamental Study, Naresuan University, Thailand, 11 atmosphere using cloud tracking wind velocities retrieval August 2017; method; Adviser: P. Machado; September 2017
29. N. J. Nunes, Dark Couplings, Instituto Superior Tecnico 6. Maria João Leite; Comunicar Ciência Através da University of Lisbon, Portugal,1 June 2017. Infografia: o Caso dos Exoplanetas; Adviser: P. Pereira; December 2017 30. I. Matute, "The first robust candicates of high-z radio galaxies", Observatory of Bologna, Bologna, Italy; 7. Tania Felizardo Cunha; O Despertar para a Astronomia January 27th 2017 através de Narrativas Ficcionais – Uma forma de sensibilizar um público amplo para o interesse do 31. R. Neves, Testing scalar—tensor gravity at local scales; conhecimento científico; Adviser: P. Pereira; December Institute of Theoretical Physics, University of Heidelberg, 2017 Germany; 7th March 2017.
PhD Completed [2] BSc Traineeships/Projects completed [8] (under the supervision of IA researchers)
1. Ângela R. G. Santos; On the relation between magnetic activity and stellar oscillations; Supervisor: M. S. 1. Marlise Gander Fernandes; A Complete Understanding of Cunha; June 2017 the Far InfraRed Sources Detected with the ESA Mission Herschel; Adviser: Ciro Pappalardo; July 2017 2. Leandro S.M. Cardoso; Impact of AGN and nebular emission on the estimation of stellar properties of 2. Daniel Duarte; Study of perturbation theories for large galaxies; Supervisors: J. M. Gomes, P. Papaderos; June scale structure formation with gevolution; Adviser: 2017 António Silva and Noemi Frusciante; July 2017 3. José Ribeiro; Navegação de imagens planetárias usando SPICE kernels; Adviser: Pedro Machado; July 2017
MSc Projects Completed [7] 4. Ana Rita Ribeiro; Extending general relativity using black holes; Adviser: Diego Rubiera-Garcia; July 2017
1. João Camacho; Explorar o uso de Gaussian Processes 5. Rodrigo Capucha; Horizontes no Universo; Advisers: na modelização de ruído estelar na procura de José Pedro Mimoso and Nelson J. Nunes; July 2017 exoplanetas; Adviser: N.C. Santos, J.P.S. Faria; 6. Daniela Espadinha; Estudo da Dinâmica da Atmosfera de October 2017 Vénus; Adviser: Pedro Machado; July 2017 2. Akinsanmi Babatunde; Detecting rings in exoplanets; 7. Ana Carvalho; UPMASK- Clustering de Galáxias com Adviser: N.C. Santos, S. C. C. Barros; July 2017 utilização de parâmetros fotométricos; Co-Adviser: 3. Diogo Castelão; Testing cosmological structure António Silva; July 2017 formation in UDM models; Advisers: I. Tereno, A. 8. Gonçalo Domingues; Simulações Numéricas de Rozas-Fernández; December 2017 Formação de Estrutura do Universo; Advisers: António 4. João Ferreira; Exploring the Solar System using stellar Silva e Angeles Moliné; July 2017 occultations and Gaia's sky survey; Adviser: P. Machado; July 2017 www.iastro.pt
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