Institute of Space Sciences

Annual Report 2016

An institute of the Consejo Superior de Investigaciones Cient´ıficas(CSIC). Affiliated with the Institut d’Estudis Espacials de Catalunya (IEEC).

Contents

1 About us 5 1.1 What is the Institute of Space Sciences?...... 5 1.2 New Director...... 5 1.3 New Manager...... 6 1.4 Internal structure and governance of the Institute...... 6 1.5 International Advisory Committee...... 7 1.6 Development of protocols for internal operations...... 7

2 Personnel 9 2.1 List of personnel...... 9 2.2 Visitors...... 10 2.3 Personnel summary...... 12

3 Scientific Summary 13 3.1 Department of Astrophysics and Planetary Sciences...... 13 3.2 Department of Cosmology and Fundamental Physics...... 14 3.3 Advanced Engineering Unit...... 15

4 Some research highlights of this year 17

5 Missions and experiments 21

6 Publications summary 39

7 Publications Impact 41

8 Active projects in 2016 43

9 Appendix: Publication List 45

10 Other institutional activities 69 10.1 Ongoing & Completed Masters and Doctoral thesis...... 69 10.2 Teaching & the Masters of Astrophysics and Cosmology...... 71 10.3 Outreach activities...... 72 10.4 Sant Cugat Forum on Astrophysics...... 73 10.5 Seminars Summary...... 73 10.6 Awards to our personnel...... 73

11 Competitive Funding Summary 75

12 Appendix: Seminars List 77

13 Appendix New projects in 2016 79

14 Appendix Active projects in 2016 81

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About us

1.1 What is the Institute of Space Sciences?

The Institute of Space Sciences pertains to the ”Consejo Superior de Investigaciones Cient´ıficas”(the Spanish National Research Council, usually called CSIC).

CSIC is the largest public institution dedicated to research in Spain and the third largest in Europe, and is formally depending on the Spanish Ministry of Economy and Competitiveness through the Secretary of State for Research, De- velopment and Innovation. Its main objective is to develop and promote research that will help bring about scientific and technological progress. Its institutes drive CSIC’s research (about 120 in total, in all areas of sciences), which are spread across all the autonomous regions, and its more than 15000 staff, of whom more than 3000 are staff researchers and more than 3000 are doctors. CSIC has about 6% of all the staff dedicated to Research and Development in Spain, and they generate approximately 20% of all scientific production in the country.

The Institute of Space Sciences is a new breed of research centers. It was officially created on January 17, 2008 (BOE #15, 3507, Orden ECI/4063/2007, of December 27, 2007), based on a proposal made about a decade before by the Governance of CSIC (Acta#11,11/99).

The Institute of Space Sciences articulates the CSIC participation in the confederation of independent institutes affiliated with the ”Institut d’Estudis Espacials de Catalunya” (IEEC). This is a non-for-profit foundation, founded inFebruary 1996, whose Board of Trustees includes, in addition to the CSIC, the Generalitat de Catalunya, the Univer- sitat de Barcelona (UB), the Universitat Aut`onomade Barcelona (UAB) and the Universitat Polit`ecnicade Catalunya (UPC). Our Institute thus benefits from the interaction and collaboration with both the larger CSIC structure and the Catalan community and government. The Director of the Institute of Space Sciences is at once, co-Director of IEEC Foundation. The association of the Institute of Space Sciences with both CSIC and IEEC is reflected in our acronym (IEEC-CSIC).

In 2015, the Institute of Space Sciences (IEEC-CSIC) moved to a new facility located at the campus of the Uni- versitat Aut`onomade Barcelona. This building (property of CSIC and built on purpose for our Institute) has 3500 square meters of useful space, distributed in laboratories and offices.

1.2 New Director

Founding Director Prof. Jordi Isern stepped down on February 2016 after years of service. Under his directorship the Institute was founded, and grew from just a handful researchers, scattered in different locations, to a strong group of staff and dozens of engineers and postdocs, all under the same roof. The impact of Prof. Isern in the development of the Institute has been enormous, and all staff is grateful for his efforts and leadership. From March 2016, Prof. Isern has been succeeded by ICREA Prof. Diego F. Torres. Prof. Torres was born in Buenos Aires, Argentina (1973) where he obtained a doctorate in physics (Cosmology and astrophysics of extended gravitational theories) by the National University of La Plata. He is a member of the Institute since 2006, when he arrived after several years of research at Princeton University and the Lawrence Livermore Laboratory, among others institutions, and became Director after being Head of its Department of Astrophysics and Planetary Sciences. His research focuses on compact objects and galactic cosmic rays, pulsars, its nebulae, and the origin of cosmic rays. Diego Torres’ research has been awarded the Shakti Duggal Prize in Physics Cosmic Rays of the International

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Union of Physics, the Guggenheim Fellowship, the Wilhelm Friedrich Bessel Award from the Alexander von Humboldt Foundation, and the Sr. Visiting Professorship of the Academy of Sciences of China, among other distinctions.

1.3 New Manager

Former Manager Isabel Molt`ostepped down on September 2016, after years of service. She was essential for the Institute’s transition from a newborn child back in 2000 to the large research infrastructure that it is today. All staff is grateful for his efforts and help and for the countless hours of work beyond the call of her duty. From November 2016, Ms. Angels Benet has succeeded Ms. Molt`o.Ms. Benet comes to our Institute after being Deputy Manager at the Institute of Materials Sciences in Barcelona, also a CSIC Institute.

1.4 Internal structure and governance of the Institute

The organization chart of the Institute is shown in the Figure below.

The Director’s Office is chaired by the ICE Director, and composed by the Deputy Director and the Manager of the Institute. The Assistant to the Director supports the functioning of this office. The Institute Board is composed and functions following CSIC regulations. The Institute has two Departments and one Technical Unit. These 3 bodies are:

• APS: Department of Astrophysics and Planetary Sciences • CFP: Department of Cosmology and Fundamental Physics • AEU: Advanced Engineering Unit

Each of these bodies (simply called Departments) have a Head. Research groups are part of these departments. According to the Institute’s tradition and the approved internal regulations, all members with contracts of an initial duration of 5 years or more are considered senior Institute’s members. All committees in the organization chart are executive. They are there to ’act’ according to their guidelines, and to implement instructions given by their immediate upper level in the organization. Heads of Department (Committee members) are expected to be in office for a period of 4 (2) years. Our White Book for the institute’s operations (available to all members, and produced in 2016) detail functioning roles, working guidelines, membership, responsibilities, procedures to implement recurrent actions, typical meetings cadence for each body, typical timescales to respond to predictable requests, etc. It also details our decision-making protocol as well as others for outreach activities, workspace allocation, teaching activities, laboratories operation, etc. The executive team is currently (3/2016-3/2020) formed by

• Director: Diego F. Torres • Deputy Director: Ignasi Ribas Institute of Space Sciences 7

• Head of the Astrophysics and Planetary Science Department (APS): Josep Miquel Girart • Head of the Cosmology and Fundamental Physics Department (CFP): Enrique Gazta˜naga • Head of the Advanced Engineering Unit (AEU): Josep Colom´e • Administrative Manager: Angels Benet

• Assistant to the Director: Noem´ıCort´es

The Institute Board is composed by the Director, Deputy Director, Manager and Heads of Department plus two working-force representatives and functions following CSIC regulations. In the period in the period 4/2016-4/2018, these representatives are Cristina Manuel y Josep M. Trigo. Current members of the commissions (4/2016-4/2018) are as follows:

• Computing: Pablo Fosalba (chair) + Mart´ınCrocce + Josep Sanz • Workspace: Francisco Castander (chair) + Manager • Outreach: Laura Tol´os(chair) + Emma de O˜na+ Ricard Casas

• ICE Life: Nanda Rea (chair) + Carlos F. Sopuerta + V´ıctorMat´ın • Teaching: Aldo Serenelli (chair) + Margarita Hernanz + Llu´ısGesa

1.5 International Advisory Committee

The International Advisory Committee of the Institute of Space Sciences has been formed in 2016 , and is currently (2016-2020) composed by

• Karsten Danzmann, Max Planck Institute for Gravitational Physics, Hannover, Director. Expert on Gravita- tional Waves physics, is Director of the Division of Laser Interferometry and Gravitational Wave Astronomy. • Manuel Mart´ın-Neira,(ESA/ESTEC) Earth Observation, ESA Senior Staff Scientist. Expert on Earth observa- tions, has been SMOS Principal Engineer, member of the Academie des Technologies of France.

• Luigi Stella, INAF - Osservatorio Astronomico di Roma, Italy, Full Professor Expert on high energy astrophysics. Editor of the Astrophysical Journal Letters. OMRI Commander (Italy) and Full Astronomer / Professor at INAF. • Giuseppina Micela, Director, Osservatorio di Palermo. Expert on Planets and Exoplanets, clusters and star formation. Has been also a member of several steering committees in X-ray space missions.

• Michael F. Bode, Astrophysics Research Institute, John Moores University, Former Director.Expert on Novae and Supernovae and robotic observatories. Professor of Astrophysics. Has been leader in ASTRONET (the European Roadmap for Astronomy).

1.6 Development of protocols for internal operations

As briefly commented above, this year, we have discussed and approved the internal day-to-day basic regulations for operating in the Institute of Space Sciences, what we called the White Book. It clarifies the management structure, the interfaces, and the aims of each of the acting bodies in the Institute. It explains the details of the procedures as well as gives the current points of contact. This was the result of the collective work of all members of the Commissions and the Administration. We hope this will ease the way for newcomers, as well as establish in writing our memory about how-things-are-done. Of course, the day-to-day operation of an institute is richer than what can be contained in a few documents. The aim of this book is not being an exhaustive description of each different situation that we shall encounter as administration officials, scientists, and technicians working here. Rather, its aim is to provide a written protocol for the repetitive and expectable interactions, so that these are solved predictably and quickly. Institute of Space Sciences 8 Chapter 2

Personnel

2.1 List of personnel

Administration Benet, Angels Manager Guerrero, Josep System Manager Masip, Guadalupe Officer Ruiz, Fina Officer

Faculty Cardellach, Estel Investigador Distinguido Castander, Francisco Javier Investigador Cient´ıfico Elizalde, Emilio Profesor de Investigaci´on Fosalba, Pablo Cient´ıficoTitular Gazta˜naga,Enrique Profesor de Investigaci´on Girart, Josep Miquel Cient´ıfico Titular Hernanz, Margarita Profesor de Investigaci´on Isern, Jordi Profesor de Investigaci´on Manuel, Cristina Investigador Cient´ıfico Odintsov, Sergei D Profesor de Investigaci´on Rea, Nanda Cient´ıficoTitular Ribas, Ignasi Investigador Cient´ıfico Rius, Antonio Profesor de Investigaci´on Torrelles, Jos´eMar´ıa Profesor de Investigaci´on Torres, Diego F. Profesor de Investigaci´on Trigo-Rodriguez, Josep M. Cient´ıficoTitular

Staff Engineers/Technicians Colom´e,Josep T´ecnicode Grado Medio Rib´o,Serni T´ecnicode Grado Superior

Ramon y Cajal Fellows Crocce, Martin de Ona, Emma Serenelli, Aldo Sopuerta, Carlos Tolos, Laura

Postdocs and Postdoctoral Fellows

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Blot, Linda Busquet, Gemma Juan de la Cierva Fellow Chan, Kwan Chuen Henze, Martin Juan de la Cierva Fellow Li, Jian Morales, Juan Carlos Nofrarias, Miquel Comfuturo Fellow Saez, Diego Juan de la Cierva Fellow Engineers/Technicians Alvarez, Laura Artigues, Gabriel Arco, Juan Carlos Casas, Ricard Castroviejo, Jaume Fabra, Fran Folger, Martin Galvez, Jos´eLuis Garc´ıa, Alvaro Gesa, Lluis Guardia, Josep Li, Weiqiang Lloro, Ivan Mart´ın,Victor Oliveras, Santi Sanz, Josep Serrano, Santiago Sierra, Carles Tom´as,Sergio Torrents, Alex PhD Students Alarcon, Alex CSIC Fellow A˜nez,Nacho FPI Fellow Delgado, Laura FPI-Fellow Juarez, Carmen FPI-Fellow Lafarga, Marina FPI Fellow Lin, Tingting CSC Fellow Lopez, Juan Pedro FPI Fellow Moyano, Carles Eduard FPI Fellow Oltean, Marius FPI Fellow Padulles, Ramon FPI Fellow Porredon, Anna Maria FI Fellow Rivas, Francisco FPI Fellow Rosich, Albert FPI Fellow Santos, Daniel FPI Fellow Vinyoles, Nuria FPI Fellow Zong, Yi CSC Fellow Montsec Observatory (OAdM) personnel residing at IEEC-CSIC Herrero, Enrique Vilardell, Francesc

2.2 Visitors

Long Term Visitors

1. Algans Segu´ı,G UAB-Academic training 01/07/2016 - 31/10/2016 2. Aranda Cuadros, L. UAB- Bachelor Thesis Work 11/05/2016 - 31/07/2016 3. Bao, Y. University of Nanjing 12/06/2016 - 25/08/2016 Institute of Space Sciences 11

4. Brooker, D. University of Florida 03/04/2016 - 10/05/2016

5. Caballero, A. UAB-Bachelor Thesis Work 30/12/2016 - 15/06/2017

6. Cabedo, V. UAB-Bachelor Thesis Work 01/09/2016 - 28/02/2017

7. Caixach, M. UAB-Master Thesis Work 01/06/2016 - 30/09/2016

8. Changhui Jia. Beijing Inst. Telemetry 04/05/2016 - 04/11/2016

9. Elias, N. Universitat di Padova 19/09/2016 - 17/08/2016

10. Emek, U. UAB- Master Thesis Work 01/06/2016 - 30/09/2016

11. Galiana Bald´o,E. UB-Master Thesis Work 01/06/2016 - 14/09/2016

12. Gambino, A. Universitat di Palermo 02/11/2016 - 02/05/2017

13. Llorens del Pino, D. UAB-Master Thesis Work 02/11/2016 - 15/09/2017

14. Lyutikov, M. Purdue University 07/06/2016 - 08/08/2016

15. March, A. UAB- Master Thesis Work 14/10/2016 - 30/06/2017

16. Martin J. UPC 01/05/2016 - 01/08/2016

17. Morales A. INAF 25/07/2016 - 15/10/2016

18. Natale, G U. Central Lancashire 01/06/2016 - 17/07/2016

19. Oltean, M. UAB / Universit´ed’Orl´eans,06/04/2016 - 29/04/2016

20. Ospina, N. IAC Canarias 04/02/2016 - 27/07/2016

21. Pocino, A. UAB- Master Thesis Work 08/07/2016 - 15/09/2016

22. Podzeeva, E. Moscow University 19/09/2016 - 01/10/2016

23. Tanbakouei, S UAB- Master Thesis Work 01/06/2016 - 15/09/2016

Short Term Vistors

1. Anglada Escud´e,G. QMUL 04/04/2016 - 11/04/2016

2. Ballesteros J. 30/11/2016 - 05/12/2016

3. Barcons, X. IFCA 10/10/2016 - 14/10/2016

4. de la Cruz A. University of Cape Town 23/05/2016 - 03/06/2016

5. Elfritz, J 14/11/2016 - 17/11/2016

6. Franco, G. U. Fed. Minas Gerais 09/11/2016 - 20/11/2016

7. Hachisu, I. U. Keio Univ. 29/02/2016 - 11/03/2016

8. Hou, X. Yunan Observatory 04/09/2016 - 18/09/2016

9. Kafka, S. AAVSA 01/02/2016 - 05/02/2016

10. Kato, M. Keio University 29/02/2016 - 11/03/2016

11. Knabenhans, M. University of Zurich 25/04/2016 - 29/09/2016

12. Lu, H. ESO 04/07/2016 - 14/07/2016

13. Maccran, N. U. of Manchester 02/02/2016 - 03/02/2016

14. Martin, J. UPC 19/12/2016 - 27/12/2016

15. Miao, S. University of Florida 24/10/2016 - 28/10/2016 Institute of Space Sciences 12

16. MillerM. U. Nac. La Plata 17/05/2016 - 20/05/2016 17. Postiglione, A. Universit`aRoma Tre 14/11/2016 - 18/11/2016 18. Saez, D. Ints. Astrofisica Lisboa 23/02/2016 - 09/03/2016 19. Stetina, S. 11/01/2016 - 13/01/2016

20. Tieso G´omez, C. Universitat de Barcelona 21/11/2016 - 21/11/2017 21. Torres , J. University of Francfort 26/10/2016 - 04/11/2016 22. Vernov, S. University of Moscow 19/09/2016 - 01/10/2016

23. Villante, F. Univ. L’Aquila 13/06/2016 - 16/06/2016 24. Woodard, R. University of Florida 24/10/2016 - 28/10/2016 25. Zacchi, A. University if Frankfurt 14/07/2016 - 22/07/2016

2.3 Personnel summary

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Administration Faculty Staff Engineer 5 8 20

Ram´ony Cajal Fellows Postdocs and Fellows Engineers/Technicians 26 2

Students OAdM 23 25

Long-Term Visitors Short-Term Visitors Chapter 3

Scientific Summary

3.1 Department of Astrophysics and Planetary Sciences

The department explores several key research topics of the Astrophysical, Planetary and Earth sciences. The research carried out in the department has a strong observational and experimental perspective, covering almost the whole electromagnetic wave spectrum. Different groups in the department are also involved in international projects for the development of state-of-the art instrumentation.

Basic Research The basic research carried out in the department is focused in the study of several aspects of the properties of stars and planets, and how during the different stages of stellar evolution stars influence their environment. More specifically the research done in our department covers four main lines: 1) Stars, Planets and Meteorites. The focus of this research line is the study of the formation, structure and early/intermediate evolution of stars and planetary systems. This includes the understanding of our own Sun and the Solar System in a broader context as provided by the discovery of exoplanets. The activity is carried out from observa- tions across all wavelengths that are obtained by developing new instrumentation and interpreted using sophisticated modelling tools. 2) Stellar Explosions and nucleosynthesis. The goal of this line of research is aimed at studying the late stages of stellar evolution and the phenomena associated to late type stars, white dwarfs, neutron stars as well as black holes. We do this by studying not only the explosions of novae and supernovae per se, from an observational point of view, but also by developing complex simulations codes of the inner workings of the stars (and in particular, of the Sun), which could help in solving the ”solar abundance problem” (the mismatch of models that try at once to solve the solar composition and the solar structure as inferred from helioseismology). 3) Astroparticles and Compact Objects. We aim at improving our understanding of compact objects and their surroundings, the origin and whereabouts of cosmic-rays, and the unification of the pulsar zoo. We do theoretical research, using simulations of gap radiation, magnetospheres, magneto-thermal evolution, nebulae and supernovae remnants, as well as observational studies across the whole electromagnetic spectra. 4) Earth Observation. This line of research aims at understanding the different components of the Earth System and their relationship, through the study of data obtained with sensors based on space-age technologies. One of the ultimate aims is to develop technologies and theoretical foundations for the prevention of natural hazards affecting our life on Earth, like tsunamis.

Experimental Research & Development Since the creation of the institute, personnel from the department has been involved in several Space and Ground based experiments. The contribution from our department has been done in several directions. On the one hand, we have developed software solutions using artificial intelligence algorithms that are able to provide Control, Telescope Manager or Dynamic Scheduling solutions (e.g., SQT, OAdM, CTA, ARIEL, CARMENES) and/or research and development (R&D) of instrumentation. As examples of these approaches, the Department is involved in Telescope Manager or scheduling software solutions (e.g., SQT, OAdM, CTA, Ariel, Carmenes). On the other hand, we have involved in R&D on detectors for high-energies for X- and gamma-rays (e.g., eASTROGAM, eXTP), but the list is long and full details can be obtained in this web. Additionally, we have conceived the polarimetric radio occultation measurement concept to be proved with PAZ for detecting and quantifying heavy precipitation events and other de- polarizing atmospheric effects (e.g. cloud ice). And finally, we have been also involved in the mechanical aspect of IRAIT.

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Examples of Synergies among these projects Apart from the obvious interaction with the Advanced Engineering Unit, with which we have built up our technological portfolio, there are strong ties among the research encompassed by the Department. One such example could be the study of algorithms for scheduling the complex operations of telescopes or arrays. In this area, the groups participating in CTA (thus, high-energy astrophysics) and Carmenes (thus, planetary sciences) have an years long interaction, since the technological solutions found in one area are of impact to the other. In addition to the technological cross-over, the study of our own planet, or of our Sun as star, is of tremendous impact onto the study of exoplanets and exoplanetary systems. For instance, our research into the details of the standard solar models, such as its 1) constituent microphysics: equation of state, nuclear rates, radiative opacities; 2) constituent macrophysics: the physical processes impact the evolution of the Sun and its present-day structure, e.g. dynamical processes induced by rotation, presence of magnetic fields; 3) challenge the hypothesis that the young Sun was chemically homogeneous: the possible interaction of the young Sun with its protoplanetary disk, are of direct impact when looking for Sun-Earth analogs beyond the solar system.

3.2 Department of Cosmology and Fundamental Physics

Working closely with experimental data, our department focuses on probing the fundamental laws of physics and the origin of the physical universe. We work in the related areas of Nuclear, Particle and Mathematical Physics, Theoretical and Experimental Cosmology and Gravitational Wave Astronomy.

Basic Research This department does basic research in several related fundamental physics topics:

1. Understanding cosmic acceleration and galaxy evolution through the study of the large-scale structure in Cosmic Maps. This includes the development of accurate predictions and models, data-oriented science pipelines and large CMB, weak gravitational lensing and galaxy simulations.

2. Classical and Quantum theories of modified gravity to understand in a unified way the evolution of our universe: starting from the Big Bang and inflation up to a possible future singularity. Quantum vacuum energy fluctuations and the Casimir effect in the domains of quantum field theory, gravity and cosmology. Zeta function regularization in this context. Heavy star formation in modified gravity models and its comparison with observations.

3. Relativistic gravitation. Theoretical studies of the main sources of gravitational waves, both for the construction of waveforms and for the development of new science from the observations.

4. The physics of compact stellar objects from its tiniest constituents and the quark-gluon plasma phase that existed mere millionths of a second after the Big Bang. Formulation and use of transport theories associated to these phases.

Experimental Research

This department is involved in a number of Space and Ground based experiments, where we often cover most aspects of the project: funding and management, technical and science definition and design, instrumentation development, production and integration, software (control, data management and reduction) and science ex- ploitation and interpretation. The current list of ongoing projects, at different stages of their completion (see details of main projects below) is:

5. Cosmological Galaxy Surveys: Dark Energy Survey (DES), Physics of the Accelerating Universe Survey (PAUS), Dark Energy Spectroscopic Instrument (DESI) and Euclid. Also exploring to join WFIRST and LSST surveys. Development of large cosmological simulations (MICE), data reduction pipelines and database web portal access.

6. Gravitational Wave Missions: LISA-Pathfinder and, eLISA. Also work in preparation for Einstein Telescope, STE-QUEST, ELGAR, 3Cat-2 and GRLOW (in-house project).

7. Fundamental Physics Missions: Dense Matter Working Group of the Large Observatory for X- Ray Timing (LOFT) and the Fundamental Physics Scientific Panel of X-ray Imaging Polarimetry Explorer (XIPE), that participates in the Cosmic Vision M4 ESA competition Key infrastructure expertise and labs include: instru- ment integration, control and management; hardware for space missions (control units, thermal and magnetic sensors, optical and mechanical systems); Software for space missions; electronics; laser interferometry at low Institute of Space Sciences 15

frequencies; CCD and filter characterization; thermal and optical modeling and monitoring; cryogenic vacuum and cooling; telescope guiding, focus and alignment; instrument and image simulation; project requirements and documentation; optical Lab, magnetism Lab, clean, dark and operation rooms.

Examples of Synergies among these projects DES is being used for rapid follow-up Gravitational Waves detections. DES, DESI and PAU built new Wide Field instruments (DECam, DESI and PAUcam) to carry state of the art galaxy surveys and placed on prime focus of 4-m class Telescopes (Blanco, Mayall and WHT). With these instruments we will probe the expansion history of the Universe and the evolution of cosmic structures by measuring the modification of shapes of galaxies induced by gravitational lensing effects of dark matter and the 3-dimensional distribution of structures of galaxies and clusters of galaxies. While DECam and DESI are update versions of existing concepts (eg SDSS), PAUcam is the first instrument of its kind to explore a new window in observational astronomy: that of complete samples with full Spectral Energy Distribution information. This unique feature in PAUcam will allow us to engage in key calibration studies for DES, DESI, Euclid, LSST and WFIRST. To model these surveys, we use the Marenostrum supercomputer at the Barcelona Supercomputing Centre, to develop the largest cosmological simulations to date, MICE. Simulations and real Galaxy catalogs are made publicly available through our dedicated CosmoHUB web portal, jointly developed by the CFP department and the Port d’Informacio Cientifica (www.pic.es).

3.3 Advanced Engineering Unit

The Advanced Engineering Unit (AEU) is the unit in charge of the overall management and development the Insti- tute’s technological research lines and assets, including the fostering of new opportunities and the possible transfer of technology to industry. The AEU does the technological research that allows us to participate in all missions and experiments described in this web. It works together with project’s principal investigators to support the involvement in experiments and space missions, and help with the management and development of the technological aspect of the project, including the strategic value of keeping the know-how for future endeavours. Among other activities, the AEU does

1. Pro-active research for funding opportunities at all levels (regional, national and international) that can expand and promote the exploitation of the AEU technology portfolio. -Planning and assisting in the search for external funding sources. -Identification and communication to the Institute’s researchers of the different calls and opportunities for funding research projects and the recruitment of research personnel. 2. Provide advice to researchers in the preparation of proposals.

3. Negotiation and preparation of Grant Agreements, Consortium Agreements, contracts and supervising (together with the Director’s Office) the process of agreement signing. 4. Technology assessment in project fostering actions, evaluating different indicators: maturity of the in-house expertise, amount of resources required for the specific project goals, availability of required facilities/labs, etc.

The AEU runs the labs. A description of all labs of the Institute can be found in our webpage. Institute of Space Sciences 16 Chapter 4

Some research highlights of this year

• Carbonaceous chondrites shed light on the origins of life in the universe: Extracted from a Press Release by Arantxa Mena (IEEC)

We discovered that one type of meteorite known as carbonaceous chondrites are capable of synthesising organic compounds, which are key to prebiotic chemistry. Such catalysing properties are unknown in other rocks on Earth and in other planetary bodies in the Solar System. This type of meteorite may well have played a vital role in the origins of life in the universe. The results of the study have been published in the magazine Scientific Reports.

The meteorite samples analysed in this study come from NASA’s Antarctic collection and derive from asteroids and, possibly, from comets. During the experiments, which took place at the University of Tuscany in Italy by Prof. Raffaele Saladino team, the samples which came from NASA’s Johnson Space Centre were crushed in a mortar, treated to eliminate all traces of organic material, and placed with formamide and both thermal and sea water at 140C. These waters had previously been filtered to avoid the presence of, or contamination from, any type of living organism.

The results of these experiments signal that these meteorites possess the amazing properties of catalysing complex organic compounds that are not present in terrestrial rocks. The minerals which form carbonaceous chondrites are capable of synthesising carboxylic acids, amino acids and all the nitrogenous bases which form ribonucleic acid (ARN), considered to be the precursor of the first living organism.

• Signed the agreement for the installation of CTA observatory in La Palma Extracted from a Press Release by Arantxa Mena (IEEC)

The CTA-North observatory will be at the Roque de los Muchachos on the island of La Palma, the fifth largest island in the Canary Islands. The agreement allows the construction of the matrix north of CTA in the Roque de los Muchachos and ensuring access to infrastructure and common services necessary for the operation of the Centre, including the CTA digital network connection with the rest of the world.

Under this agreement, Spain will receive 10% of the observation time, to share between the network in the northern hemisphere and the South. Spain’s future contribution to the construction of telescopes will facilitate the access of Spanish groups additional observation time as part of the Observatory key scientific programs and time to be offered in open competition to all members of the same countries.

• LISA Pathfinder exceeds expectations Extracted from a Press Release by Arantxa Mena (IEEC)

ESA’s LISA Pathfinder mission has demonstrated the technology needed to build a space-based gravitational wave observatory. Results from only two months of science operations show that the two cubes at the heart of the spacecraft are falling freely through space under the influence of gravity alone, unperturbed by other external forces, to a precision more than five times better than originally required.

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In a paper published today in Physical Review Letters, the LISA Pathfinder team showed that the test masses are almost motionless with respect to each other, with a relative acceleration lower than 1 part in ten millionths of a billionth of Earth’s gravity. The demonstration of the mission’s key technologies opens the door to the development of a large space observatory capable of detecting gravitational waves emanating from a wide range of exotic objects in the Universe.

A crucial aspect is placing two test masses in freefall, monitoring their relative positions as they move under the effect of gravity alone. Even in space this is very difficult, as several forces, including the solar wind and pressure from sunlight, continually disturb the cubes and the spacecraft. In LISA Pathfinder, a pair of identical, 2 kg, 46 mm gold–platinum cubes, 38 cm apart, fly, surrounded, but untouched, by a spacecraft whose job is to shield them from external influences, adjusting its position constantly to avoid hitting them.

• Early data from Dark Energy Survey Extracted from a Press Release by Arantxa Mena (IEEC)

The Dark Energy Survey (DES) is a project participated by the Institute of Space Sciences, which aims to find out the causes of the accelerating expansion of the universe, and it counts on the DECam, a camera that will measure the light from more than 300 million galaxies at distances of nine billion light years, installed at the Observatorio Astron´omicoInteramericano Cerro Tolo, la Serena (Chile).

Although the project began in August 2013, during the Science Verification season (November 2012 to February 2103) the DEcam had already begun collecting data. Now, the catalogues of galaxies and stars derived from these data have been released to the public and can be downloaded from the website of the National Center for Supercomputing Applications at the University of Illinois, which manages the processing of all the images taken for the Dark Energy Survey. The data collected in this early stage represent only 5% of the survey area that DES is going to study in five years of observation. Still, it represents the largest catalogues published so far in various aspects such as the number of measurements of gravitational lenses.

The catalogue contain positions, brightness, colors, sizes, shapes and distances of 25 million galaxies in an area of 250 square degrees.

• 3 first-timers in Galactic high-energy astrophysics Extracted from different press releases along the year and from material submitted to the ICREA Memoir

As time goes by, continuing revolutions of the largest gamma-ray astronomy satellite ever flown, Fermi, allows for deeper and deeper studies of the sky. Joined by mature ground-based observational facilities at even higher gamma-ray frequencies, like MAGIC at TeV energies (TeV = 1e12 eV), as well as by a plethora of concurrent observations at lower energies (from radio to optical to X-rays), significant discoveries are driving theoretical research.

This year has seen the announcement of the most energetic light ever observed from a pulsar, for the first time with energies of more than trillion electron volts, about a thousand times larger than previously observed, arriv- ing at the detector concurrently with the pulsar period. These photons are thus coming from the close proximity of the rotating neutron star, but exactly how and where they are generated is unknown. No theory to date can cope with such measurements.

Another first-timer this year has been the detection, at similarly such high energies, of a years-long recurrent variability. Every 4.2 years, the TeV emission from a gamma-ray binary has been seen to oscillate, in an effect theoretically predicted a few years before (Torres, D. F., et al. 2012, ApJ, 744, 106). Much is yet to learn from the recurrence of such oscillation and how can, perhaps, be driven by oscillations in the surrounding circumstellar disk of the companion.

Finally, the spatial connection of the archetypical, accreting millisecond pulsar with a gamma-ray source has been also noted for the first time. If this connections proves real, for instance via a detection of gamma-ray pulsations, it would imply rotationally-powered activity in quiescence mode, showing evidence of a transition to Institute of Space Sciences 19

a rotation-powered radio pulsar state in X-ray quiescence, whilst it is observed as an accreting pulsar when it has a disk. Institute of Space Sciences 20 Chapter 5

Missions and experiments

• ARIEL: ARIEL is an ambitious mission planned to answer fundamental questions about how planetary systems form and evolve by investigating the atmospheres of several hundred planets orbiting stars other than the Sun. It is one of three candidate missions selected by the European Space Agency (ESA) for its next medium class science mission, M4, due for launch in 2026. The essential nature of exoplanets is still something of a mystery: despite finding nearly 4000 exoplanets no discernible pattern has been found linking the presence, size or orbital parameters of a planet to what its parent star is like. ARIEL is designed to study a statistically large sample of exoplanets to answer questions, such as how is the chemistry of a planet linked to the environment in which it forms, or is its birth and evolution driven by its host star. During its 3.5-year mission, ARIEL will observe over 500 exoplanets ranging from hot-Jupiters to super-Earths in a wide variety of environments. While some of the planets observed may be habitable, the main focus of the mission will be on exotic, hot, giant planets in orbits very close to their star, or orbiting stars much brighter than our Sun. ARIEL will have a meter-class mirror to collect infrared light from distant star systems and to focus it to a spectrometer. This will cover a wavelength range from 0.6 to 8 micro-meters, which is ideally suited to extract the chemical fingerprints of gases in the planets’ atmospheres, as the planet passes in front or behind the star, in which is called the transit or occultation. The spacecraft will be placed in orbit at Lagrange Point 2 (L2), a gravitational balance point beyond the Earth’s orbit, where the spacecraft is shielded from the Sun and has a clear view of the whole night sky. This will maximize its options for observing exoplanets discovered previously by other missions. Aim of our participation: A consortium of more than 50 institutes from 12 countries develops the ARIEL mission concept. The Institute of Space Sciences is one of the co-I institutes and participates in several aspects of the mission. In the scientific side, we study the effects of stellar activity on transit spectroscopy, due to the spectrophotometric variability caused by starspots, and we collaborate in the selection of the target sample. On the technical side, we lead the mission-planning task by using our expertise on scheduling techniques to optimize operations and study the impact of mission design requirements. Also, we are responsible for the design of the Telescope Control Unit, the entire Instrument Control Unit simulator, and the mechanisms of the secondary mirror refocusing system. Recent developments: The ARIEL mission was selected as an ESA M4 candidate in late 2015. The mission design has evolved during 2016, and industrial studies have been carried out to complete a mature and ambitious proposal to be submitted for the ESA Mission Selection Review (MSR) in early 2017. The Institute of Space Sciences team has contributed to the Telescope Control Unit (TCU) design, a mission-critical subsystem devoted to thermal diagnostics, and calibration lamp and secondary mirror control. The TCU is included in the Warm Front-end Electronics package and is a critical companion of the Instrument Control Unit. The Institute of Space Sciences has also been leading the design of the mission planning strategy that is a key building block of the Science Operations Assumptions Document (SOAD) and is the basis to define the Science Ground Segment of the mission. The mission planning strategy has been derived from an exhaustive mission performance analysis that has been elaborated using Artificial Intelligence technologies (i.e., Evolutionary Algorithms). The latter has been carried out taking into account the survey design and the multiple scheduling scenarios that maximize the scientific return and properly balance the scientific return and the operation optimization for the full estimated lifetime of ARIEL. Senior Institute members involved: I. Ribas, J. Colom´e

• CARMENES: CARMENES (Calar Alto high-Resolution search for M dwarfs with Exoearths with Near-infrared and optical E chelle Spectrographs) is an instrument designed an optimized to look for planets around stars smaller than

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our Sun. Because of their low small size and low luminosity, these stars are ideal to discover Earth-like exo- planets orbiting in the habitable zone. CARMENES is a unique instrument that uses the combination of two high-resolution (R=80000-90000) spectrographs collecting data in visible and infrared light (0.52 to 1.71 micron). The two spectrographs are enclosed in vacuum tanks with their temperatures, humidities and pressures stabilized to very precise values. This is the only way to guarantee that the measurements produced with CARMENES have the excellent accuracy necessary to detect small planets. CARMENES attains a formidable radial velocity precision of 1 m/s. This corresponds to measuring an immense ball of gas of half a million kilometers in diameter moving back and forth at the same speed as a person strolling.

CARMENES was built by a consortium of 11 institutions from Spain and Germany and was installed and com- missioned at the 3.5-m telescope of the Calar Alto Observatory in Southern Spain in 2015. CARMENES will be surveying a sample of 300 stars in our immediate vicinity, lying just within 50 light years from the Sun, for a minimum of 3 years (from 2016 to 2018). This will produce an invaluable collection of several tens of terrestrial planets - our closest neighbors in the Universe. It is even possible that the first exoplanet found to host life is discovered by CARMENES, an instrument that will undoubtedly make history.

Vacuum tanks enclosing the two CARMENES spectrograph channels at the 3.5-m telescope building of Calar Alto Obser- vatory. Aim of our participation: The Institute of Space Sciences has a prominent role in CARMENES. We are responsible for science preparation and exploitation through the figure of the Project Scientist. In this capacity, the Institute of Space Sciences led the selection of the stars that is being searched for planets, the collection of all necessary information to guarantee the best precision and the analysis of the data acquired to uncover habitable planets.

Besides the scientific role, the Institute of Space Sciences is also responsible for key technology packages of the CARMENES spectrograph, which are the Instrument Control System (ICS) and the scheduling system. The ICS is the brain of CARMENES and centralizes all the subsystems to control the proper working of the instrument, its performance, and environment variables. The ICS communicates and collects data from a va- riety of sources using the modern and versatile Internet Communications Engine architecture that ensures a robust operation. The scheduler is a complex piece of software factoring in a large number of variables (tar- get properties, prioritization, environment variables) to find the optimum target to observe at each point in time.

Proper scheduling is essential to maximize the science output of CARMENES as it optimizes its efficiency.

Recent developments: CARMENES has been running in routine mode since Jan 1, 2016. Observations have been acquired in the framework of the 300-star survey. Over 5000 stellar spectra in each of the VIS and NIR channels were obtained over the course of the year. Planet candidates are being followed up and the first discovery papers are expected in mid 2017. The Institute of Space Sciences, as science lead, has been in charge of defining the observational strategy and the target priorities. On the technical side, the VIS channel has operated steadily at the expected performance level (about 1 m/s radial velocity long-term stability) but the NIR channel has undergone some upgrades that have improved stability to better than 3 m/s. The ICS has been running reliably for the entire observational campaigns and some functionality has been added as per the consortium and observer’s requests. The entire CARMENES instrument is now ready for the final acceptance process by Calar Alto Observatory. Recent publications: CARMENES: The CARMENES instrument control software suite Colom´e,J.; Gu`ardia, J.; Hagen, H.-J.; Morales Mu˜noz,R.; Abril, M.; Ben´ıtez,D.; Caballero, J. A.; Fresno, M. L.; Garc´ıa-Piquer,A.; Gesa, Ll.; de Guindos, E.; de Juan, E.; Schiller, J.; Vico, I.; Vilardell, F.; Zechmeister, M.; Reiners, A.; Ribas, Institute of Space Sciences 23

I.; Seifert, W.; Quirrenbach, A.; Amado, P. J. Proceedings of the SPIE, Volume 9913, id. 991334 16 pp. (2016).

CARMENES: an overview six months after first light Authors: Quirrenbach, A.; Amado, P. J.; et al. Proceed- ings of the SPIE, Volume 9908, id. 990812 14 pp. (2016)

CARMENES: the VIS channel spectrograph in operation Authors: Seifert, W.; Xu, W.; et al. Proceedings of the SPIE, Volume 9908, id. 990865 13 pp. (2016).

Senior Institute members involved: I. Ribas, J. Colom´e

• CHEOPS: The CHaracterizing ExOPlanet Satellite (CHEOPS) is the first ESA S-type mission, and will be the first to search for transits by means of ultrahigh precision photometry on bright stars already known to host planets, with an expected launch in mid 2018. By being able to point its 30-cm telescope and detectors at nearly any location on the sky, it will provide the unique capability of determining accurate radii for a subset of those planets for which the mass has already been estimated. It will also provide precision radii for new planets discovered by ground-based transit surveys (Neptune-size and smaller). CHEOPS is designed as a dedicated survey mission for transit photometry capable of observing a large, diverse and well-defined planet sample within its 3.5- year mission lifetime. Among the planets observed by CHEOPS, super-Earths will take a privileged position. They are the larger and more massive siblings of our Earth but will permit many studies of processes that are extremely relevant and important to the structure and evolution of our atmosphere. CHEOPS will identify planets with significant atmospheres in a range of masses, distances from the host star, and stellar parameters. Using observations of a sample of planets with and without significant gaseous envelopes, CHEOPS will be able to constrain the critical core mass (in the case of runaway gas accretion) or the loss of primordial H/He atmospheres as a function of the distance to the star and possibly stellar parameters (mass, metallicity). Aim of our participation: The Institute of Space Sciences is involved in the scientific aspects of the CHEOPS mission through its participation in the Mission Board and Core Science Team. Recent developments: The mission has been in construction phase during 2016 and fulfilling all milestones for launch in 2018. Because of its modest size and weight, it will be launched as a secondary passenger. The Science Team has worked on fine-tuning the science case and on defining the transiting planet sample that CHEOPS will observe. In this latter aspect, the synergy with the TESS mission from NASA is evident (TESS will discover hundreds of planet candidates that CHEOPS can observe). To exploit this, the Institute of Space Sciences team has been leading the joint TESS-CHEOPS team during 2016 and has explored and established the benefits of the collaboration. Senior Institute members involved: I. Ribas

• CTA: The CTA project is an initiative to build the next generation ground-based very high-energy gamma-ray instru- ment. The success of the precursor projects (i.e. MAGIC, VERITAS and H.E.S.S.) motivated the construction of this large infrastructure that is included in the roadmap of the ESFRI projects since 2008. CTA is in con- struction phased and is planned to start in late-2017. It will consist of two arrays of Cherenkov telescopes operated as a proposal-driven open observatory. To view the full sky, two CTA sites are foreseen at southern and northern hemispheres, with three telescopes types (Large, Medium and Small - LST, MST, SST). The northern observatory will be built in La Palma, in the Canary Island, whereas the southern one will be placed in Chile in the Atacama desert. CTA foresees a factor of 5-10 improvement in sensitivity above 20 GeV and up to 300 TeV, extending the accessible energy range to explore the lowest and highest energy limits with unprecedented sensitivity. CTA will boost the field of Galactic and extragalactic sources, increasing the number of detected sources and the quality of the gamma-ray results by at least a factor 10. The CTA observatory will have to deal with a large variety of observation modes and will have to operate tens of telescopes with a highly efficient and reliable control. The control software is required to operate with an idle time shorter than 10 s, which is a hard requirement for the control applications. A well-designed, failure-tolerant software system must be developed to control all the CTA observatory systems. Moreover, a complex and intelligent scheduling application and control system have been identified as critical ingredients for the efficient and reliable operation of the facility. The Institute is responsible for the development of the scheduler since 2010. This task is included in the CTA Array Control (ACTL) work package and is a key element in the control layer for the observatory time optimisa- tion. Our institute is also committed to develop and install the central control for the LST prototype, that will manage the operation and communication between the telescope different subsystems, and that will be extended to the rest of the telescopes units. Institute of Space Sciences 24

Aim of our participation: The Institute has been involved in the CTA Project from 2006 in both the technical, as part of the Array Control and DAQ System (ACTL) working group and leading the scheduler team and in preparing the scientific exploitation of the observatory. Concerning the scientific exploitation, our institute is leading a number of the ’Key Science Programs’, putting an effort of maximising the physic output of the observatory. Our team is responsible for designing the Galactic observations of CTA. We are also in charge of coordinating the studies for the first light Galactic observations of CTA and its pathfinders, and of coordinating the necessary multi-wavelength activities (such MoU with other large installations). This follows our earlier efforts: we have been the global Science Coordinator of the whole collaboration for 8 years in the period 2007-2014, having responsibilities in the scientific definition of the experiment, up to Technical Design Report. Recent developments: Concerning the technological contribution to the CTA observatory, our team achieved several goals related to the scheduler software and telescope central control tools. During 2016 the first multi- telescope planning tool for scheduling the future gamma ray observations of different parts of the sky with CTA was developed. The CTA collaboration has compiled a number of science cases, which are described in Key Science Projects (KSP). The first scheduler prototype that we developed in collaboration with an industrial partner, GTD (Spain/Germany), has been used to evaluate the feasibility of the proposed science cases within 3 years and 1 year. Our team also obtain a first version of the LST central control sofware, which should be install in the first telescope in La Palma during 2017. On the scientific preparation of the observatory, we prepared a complete document on the Key Science Project. Recent publications: The Cherenkov Telescope Array Observatory: top level use cases. Bulgarelli et al. Proceedings of the SPIE, Volume 9913, id. 991331, 12 pp. (2016). On the potential of atmospheric Cherenkov telescope arrays for resolving TeV gamma-ray sources in the Galactic plane Ambrogi et al. Astroparticle Physics, Volume 80, p. 22-33. On the sensitivity of atmospheric Cherenkov telescope arrays for regions with presence of multiple gamma-ray sources Ambrogi et al. Journal of Physics: Conference Series, Volume 718, Issue 5, article id. 052002, (2016). Status of the array control and data acquisition system for the Cherenkov Telescope Array Fuessling et al. Proceedings of the SPIE, Volume 9913, id. 99133C 12 pp. (2016). The software architecture to control the Cherenkov Telescope Array Oya et al. Proceedings of the SPIE, Volume 9913, id. 991303, 15 pp. (2016). Senior Institute members involved: E. de O˜na,D. F. Torres, J. Colom´e

• DES: DES is an international collaboration involving 10 institutions from the US, and six international consortia from Brazil, the UK, Germany, Switzerland, Australia and a consortium from Spain (CIEMAT-IFAE and the ICE), The collaboration will carry out a very large and deep photometric survey of 5000 deg2 of the southern sky in five bands in the visible and near infrared (g, r, i, Z, Y), with the aim of producing the first precise characterization of the properties of the dark energy using four complementary techniques:

– Galaxy-cluster studies in conjunction with the cluster survey, based on the Sunyaev Zel’dovich Effect, that will be performed simultaneously by the South Pole Telescope (SPT) – Study of angular correlations of galaxies in redshift shells (measuring BAO) – Measurement of the weak lensing shear of galaxies as a function of redshift – Measurement of the type-Ia supernovae luminosity distance vs. redshift relation, a more established tech- nique.

To perform the survey, the DES Collaboration has built a wide-field (3 deg2) CCD camera (DECam), which is mounted at the prime focus of the 4-meter Blanco Telescope, located in Cerro Tololo (Chile). In return, DES is granted 30% of all the observation time for 5 years (2011-2015). The US Department of Energy (DOE) fund the DECam project. Initial approval (CD-0) was given in December 2005, while final approval and full funding (CD-3b) was secured in October 2008. The Survey data taking officially started in Sep 2013 (first light and SV in 2012) and is planed to finish in Feb 2018. The Spanish groups (The Institute of Space Sciences (IEEC-CSIC), IFAE and CIEMAT/UAM) have collaborated very effectively since 2006 and, acting as a single institution, have been able to take important responsibilities in the collaboration: • DES-Spain had the responsibility for the design on most of, and the production and testing of all, the front- end electronics of the camera. Now we keep the responsibility of its operation and maintenance. The main responsibility was for IFAE and CIEMAT. The ICE provide some of the production electronics and contribute to the test-bench and test-camera to test ccd and electronics. • The The Institute of Space Sciences has been responsible for production and testing of the star guider software. Institute of Space Sciences 25

• The Institute of Space Sciences is responsible for the production of the N-body dark matter simulations (MICE) used in the DES Data Challenges and science analysis.

The above tasks make our contribution to DES very visible within the collaboration. Consequently, DES-Spain is well represented in all committees governing and making decisions for DES: Management Committee (E. Gazta˜nagaand R. Miquel), Membership Committee (E. S´anchez), Publications Committee (R. Miquel), Science Committee (F. Castander, M.Crocce, E. Gazta˜naga),DES Builders Committee (E. Fern´andez),Co-coordination of Large Scale Structure Working Group (E. Gazta˜naga,M.Crocce), Co-coordination of Photo-z Working Group (F. Castander, E.Gaztanaga), etc. Six members of ICE have the status of being DES builders. The Spanish institutions were the first to join the DES Collaboration from outside the US, following a procedure that has become the model for other institutions, in particular for those of the UK, Brazil, Germany, Switzerland and Australia.

Map of dark matter, measured through weak lensing with Science Verification Data (DES Collaboration) Recent developments: In 2016 many of the SV (Science Validation period) papers came out and the focus has been on finishing the papers from Y1 (1st year of operation). In particular, our ICE group have lead papers on: galaxy clustering, CMB cross-correlation, combination of weak lensing and galaxy maps and supernova follow-up. Data from Y3 (data from years 1 to 3) was reduced and was science ready by the end of 2016. There is a proposal for extension of half a session in 2018-19 (year 6 of the Survey) to account for unusually bad weather. The group at ICE are co-chairs of the Large Scale Structure Working Group and the (photometric and clustering) Redshift Working Group and are busy preparing key papers for Y1 analysis to be published in 2017. A new method to measure galaxy bias by combining the density and weak lensing fields Pujol, A., Chang, C., Gaztanaga, E., et al. 2016, MNRAS, 462, 35 Recent publications: Galaxy bias from the Dark Energy Survey Science Verification data: combining galaxy density maps and weak lensing maps Chang, C., Pujol, A., Gaztanaga, E., et al. 2016, MNRAS, 459, 3203 CMB lensing tomography with the DES Science Verification galaxies Giannantonio, T., Fosalba, P., Cawthon, R., et al. 2016, MNRAS, 456, 3213 Galaxy clustering, photometric redshifts and diagnosis of systematics in the DES Science Verification data Crocce, M., Carretero, J., Bauer, A. H., et al. 2016, MNRAS, 455, 4301 Senior Institute members involved: E. Gazta˜naga,F. Castander, M. Crocce, P. Fosalba

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The Dark Energy Spectroscopic Instrument (DESI) is a Stage IV ground-based dark energy experiment that will study baryon acoustic oscillations (BAO) and the growth of structure through redshift-space distortions (RSD) with a wide-area galaxy and quasar redshift survey. For that purpose the project is building a multifiber spectrograph for the Mayall 4-metre telescope at Kitt Peak, with the goal to obtain tens of millions of spectra to map the structure of the universe and study dark energy. The DESI instrument is a robotically-actuated, fiber-fed spectrograph capable of taking up to 5,000 simultaneous spectra over a wavelength range from 360 nm to 980 nm. This powerful instrument will be installed at prime focus on the 4-m Mayall telescope in Kitt Peak, Arizona, along with a new optical corrector, which will provide a three- degree diameter field of view. The DESI collaboration will also deliver a spectroscopic pipeline and data management system to reduce and archive all data for eventual public use. The DESI instrument will be used to conduct a five-year survey designed to cover 14,000 deg2. To trace the underlying dark matter distribution, spectroscopic targets will be selected in four classes from imaging data. We will measure luminous red galaxies (LRGs) up to z = 1.0, extending the BOSS LRG survey in both redshift and survey area. To probe the Universe out to even higher redshift, DESI will target bright [O II] emission line galaxies (ELGs) up to z = 1.7. Quasars will be targeted both as direct tracers of the underlying dark matter distribution and, at higher redshifts (2.1 ¡ z ¡ 3.5), for the Ly-alpha forest absorption features in their spectra, which will be used to trace the distribution of neutral hydrogen. When moonlight prevents efficient observations of the faint targets of the baseline survey, DESI will conduct a magnitude-limited Bright Galaxy Survey (BGS) comprising approximately 10 million galaxies with a median z 0.2. In total, more than 30 million galaxy and quasar redshifts will be obtained to measure the BAO feature and determine the matter power spectrum, including redshift space distortions

GFA unit delivered to LBL. It was mounted and tested in protoDESI in Summer 2016. Aim of our participation: The Institute of Space Sciences (IEEC-CSIC) participates in the DESI project as Institute of Space Sciences 27

part of the BCN-MAD Regional Participation Group (RPG), composed of ICE, IFAE, CIEMAT and IFT. We represent our RGP in the DESI Institutional Board. Our RPG is responsible for delivering the Guiding, Focus and Alignment units of DESI’s focal plane. We are also responsible of delivering the guiding software for the instrument. We lead the Image Validation Working Group and participate in other Working Groups. Recent developments: In May 2016 we passed the Critical Decision 3 Review. This is step in the reviewing process of the Department of Energy of the US after which the project and budget are approved. In August 2016, we delivered a GFA unit to LBL to be mounted in protoDESI, a small testing instrument for DESI. In September 2016, we participated in the testing campaign of protoDESI when it was mounted at the prime focus of the Mayall 4-m telescope. Recent publications: DESI collaboration, 2016, ”The DESI Experiment Part I: Science, Targeting, and Survey Design”, arXiv/1611.00036

DESI collaboration, 2016, ”The DESI Experiment Part II: Instrument Design”, arXiv/1611.00037

Honscheid, K., et al, 2016, ”The DESI instrument control system”, SPIE, 9913 Fragelius, P., et al., 2016, ” ProtoDESI: risk reduction experiment for the Dark Energy Spectroscopic Instrument”, SPIE, 9908

Senior Institute members involved: F. Castander, M. Crocce, P. Fosalba, E. Gazta˜naga

• eASTROGAM: e-ASTROGAM (enhanced ASTROGAM) is a breakthrough observatory space mission proposal to ESA M5 (medium-size) call, with a detector composed by a Silicon tracker, a calorimeter, and an anticoincidence system, dedicated to the study of the non-thermal Universe in the photon energy range from 0.3 MeV to 3 GeV. The mission is based on an advanced space-proven detector technology, with unprecedented sensitivity, angular and energy resolution, combined with polarimetry capability.

The e-ASTROGAM instrumentation is optimized for the simultaneous detection of Compton and pair-producing gamma-ray events over a large spectral band. It is based on a very high technology readiness level for all sub- systems and includes many innovative features for the detectors and associated electronics. Thanks to its performance in the MeV-GeV domain, substantially improving its predecessors, e-ASTROGAM will open a new window on the non-thermal Universe, making pioneering observations of the most powerful Galactic and extra- galactic sources, elucidating the nature of their relativistic outflows and their effects on the surroundings. With line sensitivity in the MeV energy range one to two orders of magnitude better than previous generation instru- ments, e-ASTROGAM will determine the origin of key isotopes fundamental for the understanding of supernova explosions and the chemical evolution of our Galaxy

e-ASTROGAM will be ideal for the study of high-energy sources in general, including pulsars and pulsar wind nebulae, accreting neutron stars and black holes, novae, supernova remnants and magnetars. The mission will provide unique data of significant interest to a broad astronomical community, complementary to other powerful observatories. Aim of our participation: The Institute of Space Sciences is interested in the development, testing and calibration of the Si-strip detectors of the eASTROGAM tracker, in addition to simulations of the performance of the whole Compton-Pair instrument. Si-strip detectors are similar to the CdTe detectors being developed and tested in the Radiation Laboratory. Recent publications: The e-ASTROGAM gamma-ray space mission Tatischeff, V.; Tavani, M.; von Ball- moos, et al. including Hernanz, M. and Isern, J., Proceedings of the SPIE, Volume 9905, id. 99052N, 11 pp. (2016). Hard-X and gamma-ray imaging detector for astrophysics based on pixelated CdTe semiconductors G´alvez, J.L.; Hernanz, M.; Alvarez, L.; Artigues, B.; Ull´an,M.; Lozano, M.; Pellegrini, G.; Cabruja, E.; Mart´ınez, R.; Chmeis- sani, M.; Puigdengoles, C. Journal of Instrumentation, Volume 11, Issue 01, article id. C01011 (2016). Development of a pixelated CdTe detector module for a hard-x and gamma-ray imaging spectrometer applica- tion G´alvez, J.L.; Hernanz, M.; Alvarez, L.; Artigues, B.; Alvarez, J.M.; Ull´an,M.; Lozano, M.; Pellegrini, G.; Cabruja, E.; Mart´ınez,R.; Chmeissani, M.; Puigdengoles. Senior Institute members involved: M. Hernanz, J. Isern, A. Serenelli D. F. Torres, N. Rea, E. de O˜na

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Euclid is an ESA medium class space mission , selected in October 2011 and with its launch planned for 2020. The Euclid mission aims at understanding why the expansion of the Universe is accelerating and the cause for this acceleration, which physicists refer to as dark energy. Euclid will explore how the Universe evolved over the past 10 billion years to address questions related to fundamental physics and cosmology on the nature and properties of dark energy, dark matter and gravity. Euclid will also provide insightful information on the physics of the early universe and on the initial conditions which seed the formation of cosmic structure The imprints of dark energy and gravity will be tracked by using two complementary cosmological probes to capture signatures of the expansion rate of the Universe and the growth of cosmic structures: Weak gravitational Lensing and Galaxy Clustering (Baryonic Acoustic Oscillations and Redshift Space Distortion). Euclid will be equipped with a 1.2 m diameter mirror telescope feeding 2 instruments: a high quality panoramic visible imager (VIS); and a near infrared 3- filter photometer and a slitless spectrograph (NISP). Euclid will carry out a wide survey covering 15,000 deg2 and a Deep survey of 40 deg2 in a 6 years mission operating at the L2 Lagrangian point. The scientists of the Euclid Consortium lead the scientific analysis and interpretation of the mission data. Aim of our participation: The Institute of Space Sciences is part of the Euclid Science Team of the mission. We are members of the Euclid Consortium Board. We are responsible, together with IFAE, of delivering the Filter Wheel Assembly (FWA) of the Near Infrared Spectrograph and Photometer (NISP). We lead the Simulation Organization Unit and are deputy coordinators of the Photometric Redshift Organization Unit of the Science Ground Segment. We lead the Cosmological Simulations Science Working Group and actively participate as well in other Science Working Groups Recent developments: In July 2016 we passed the Critical Design Review (CDR) of the FWA subsystem, including the space qualification of the gluing process of the glass filters to the metal mountings. In November 2016, we passed the NISP instrument CDR. Other milestones were:- Delivery of the STM model of the FWA to LAM, where it was assembled in the NISP STM. All verification tests were passed satisfactorily. In June 2016 we passed the Technical Keypoint 1 review of the Science Ground Segment. -Production and distribution of simulated images in OU-SIM for the Scientific Challenge 1 of the Science Ground Segment and preliminary release of Scientific Challenge 2. -We organized the Cosmological Simulations Working Group Meeting at ICE in November. -Approval of an ESO Large Programme, where we are PI, to obtain spectroscopy to calibrate the photometric redshift technique in Euclid.

Slice of one of the weak lensing maps being produced in the Flagship simulation for Euclid Recent references: Izard, Albert; Crocce, Martin; Fosalba, Pablo, 2016, ”ICE-COLA: towards fast and ac- curate synthetic galaxy catalogues optimizing a quasi-N-body method”, MNRAS, 459, 2327 Smith, M., et al, 2016, ”DES14X3taz: A Type I Superluminous Supernova Showing a Luminous, Rapidly Cool- ing Initial Pre-peak Bump”, ApJ, 818, L8 Institute of Space Sciences 29

Crocce, M., et al, 2016, ”Galaxy clustering, photometric redshifts and diagnosis of systematics in the DES Science Verification data”, MNRAS, 455, 4301 Giannantonio, T.; Fosalba, P., et al, 2016, ”CMB lensing tomography with the DES Science Verification galaxies”, MNRAS, 456, 3213

Senior Institute members involved: F. Castander, M. Crocce, P. Fosalba, E. Gazta˜naga

• eXTP: The enhanced X-ray Timing and Polarimetry mission (eXTP) is a science mission designed to study the state of matter under extreme conditions of density, gravity and magnetism. Primary goals are the determination of the equation of state of matter at supra-nuclear density, the measurement of QED effects in highly magnetized star, and the study of accretion in the strong-field regime of gravity. Primary targets include isolated and binary neutron stars, strong magnetic field systems like magnetars, and stellar-mass and supermassive black holes. The mission carries a unique and unprecedented suite of state-of-the-art scientific instruments enabling for the first time ever the simultaneous spectral-timing- polarimetry studies of cosmic sources in the energy range from 0.5-30 keV (and beyond). Key elements of the payload are:

– Spectroscopic Focusing Array (SFA): a set of 11 X-ray optics operating in the 0.5-10 keV energy band with a field-of-view (FoV) of 12 arcmin each and a total effective area of 0.9 m2 and 0.6 m2 at 2 keV and 6 keV respectively. The telescopes are equipped with Silicon Drift Detectors offering ¡180 eV spectral resolution. – Large Area Detector (LAD): a deployable set of 640 Silicon Drift Detectors, achieving a total effective area of 3.4 m2 between 6 and 10 keV. The operational energy range is 2-30 keV and the achievable spectral resolution better than 250 eV. This is a non-imaging instrument, with the FoV limited to ¡1 FWHM by the usage of compact capillary plates. – Polarimetry Focusing Array (PFA): a set of 2 X-ray telescopes, achieving a total effective area of 250 cm2 at 2 keV, equipped with imaging gas pixel photoelectric polarimeters. The FoV of each telescope is 12 arcmin and the operating energy range is 2-10 keV. – Wide Field Monitor (WFM): a set of 3 coded mask wide field of view camera pairs, equipped with position- sensitive Silicon Drift Detectors, covering in total a FoV of 3.7 sr and operating in the energy range 2-50 keV.

Aim of our participation: It is expected that both the LAD and WFM instruments of eXTP (already studied at the level of feasibility study - phase A - for the LOFT mission proposal to ESA M3) will be provided by Europe, in the framework of a global European participation in the Chinese mission eXTP supported by an ESA MoO (Mission of Opportunity). The Institute of Space Sciences will supply the mechanical and thermal configuration of the whole WFM plus the collimator and coded masks.

The eXTP LAD effective area is shown, on a log-log scale, in comparison with those of AstroSat-LAXPC and RXTE-PCA. It largely surpasses any past or currently flying mission and features an unprecedented value of about 3.4 m2 at 6 keV. Recent developments: We played a significant role on the search of the best WFM configuration (3 camera pairs is the new baseline adopted) and we made crucial suggestions for the platform, in order to accommodate all the instruments and the sunshade required for the WFM. Recent publications: ”eXTP: Enhanced X-ray Timing and Polarization mission”, Zhang, S. N.; Feroci, M.; Santangelo, A.; Dong, Y. W.; Feng, H.; Lu, F. J.; Nandra, K.; Wang, Z. S.; Zhang, S.; Bozzo, E.; Brandt, S.; De Rosa, A.; Gou, L. J.; Hernanz, M.; et al., Proceedings of the SPIE, Volume 9905, id. 99051Q 16 pp. (2016), https://arxiv.org/abs/1607.08823

”The LOFT mission concept: a status update”, Feroci, M.; Bozzo, E.; Brandt, S.; Hernanz, M.; van der Klis, M.; et al., including L. Alvarez, J.L. G?lvez, L. Tolos, N. Rea, D.F. Torres, Proceedings of the SPIE, Volume Institute of Space Sciences 30

9905, id. 99051R 20 pp. (2016), http://proceedings.spiedigitallibrary.org/proceeding.aspx?articleid=2539449

Large Observatory for x-ray Timing (LOFT-P): a Probe-class mission concept study”, Wilson-Hogde, C. et al. including L. Alvarez, M. Hernanz, Proceedings of the SPIE, Volume 9905, id. 99054Y 12 pp. (2016), https://arxiv.org/abs/1608.06258

”Colloquium: Measuring the neutron star equation of state using x-ray timing”, Watts, A. et al., including L. Tolos, Reviews of Modern Physics, Volume 88, Issue 2, id.021001, https://arxiv.org/abs/1602.01081

Senior Institute members involved: M. Hernanz, J. Isern, A. Serenelli D. F. Torres, N. Rea, E. de O˜na, L. Tolos

• Fermi: The Fermi Gamma-ray Space Telescope was launched from the Kennedy Space Center on June 11, 2008. The verification phase was completed on August 11, 2008, and Fermi is now in nominal science operations. Since then, the Fermi-LAT collaboration has published several hundred papers on the high energy phenomenology of the transient and steady sky.

Fermi has two gamma-ray instruments: the Large Area Telescope (LAT) and the Gamma-ray Burst Monitor (GBM). The LAT is a wide-field gamma-ray telescope (covering from 30˜ MeV to 300˜ GeV). From the start of regular observations, LAT scans the sky, providing all-sky coverage every two orbits, and accumulating integra- tion time in all directions. LAT observations may also be interrupted by target of opportunity observations, follow up of GRB, or pointed observations. The GBM is an all-sky monitor (10 keV - 25 MeV) that detects transient events such as occultations and gamma-ray bursts.

The PI is P. Michelson (SLAC & Stanford), earlier leading a constructing consortium of 5 nations and currently a scientific consortium of 13 (including Spain). Our institute is the only institute in Spain with full members in the Fermi-LAT collaboration (since 2007, before launch). We are devoted to the study of the high-energy Galactic sky, focusing on binaries and the pulsar/pulsar-wind nebula/supernova remnant complex.

As members of the collaboration we have participated in the day-to-day running of the experiment, and conducted a variety of tasks such as being Internal referees for papers, participating in Committees / meetings / thinkshops / collaboration meetings / etc. and helped in preparations for several NASA Senior Science Reviews We have also had the following technical involvement

– Definition of mock population for data challenges – Development of algorithms for source class identification – Acted as Flare advocates & daily running checks (similar to an observational shift, a couple per year) – Participated on the On-orbit calibration & development of responses – Validation of the time-difference analysis technique for radio-quiet pulsars

Highlights of our the Institute’s contribution to the mission include leading the collaboration work when publish- ing Fermi’s first paper on SNR observations, or the first detection of orbital GeV variability, or the first search for magnetar emission in gamma-rays, or the first detection of starburst galaxies, among many others. Recent developments: Fermi has passed the NASA Astrophysics Senior Review in 2016, thus we approach a decade of temporal baseline for gamma-ray research. From the report, we read

”Fermi, the only space born GeV gamma-ray astrophysics observatory world wide, has exciting potential for multi-messenger astrophysics and provides unmatched capabilities for time domain astronomy and astroparticle physics. Fermi represents the only significant access to three decades of the GeV gamma-ray sky for many years to come. If the operation of the LAT can be maintained into the era when CTA is operating, it could provide the additional spectral and temporal coverage essential to understanding a huge number of new TeV sources, which are mostly variable”... as well as it is crucial in... ”confirming and identifying gravitational wave sources via temporal coincidences and refined positions”. ”Fermi can continue for up to a dozen years. The permanent loss of an instrument is devastating when compared to the potential scientific yields enabled by its long natural lifespan. Institute of Space Sciences 31

” This confirms the excellent health of the mission, and the expected continuance of the high-level output this experiment is providing. Fermi has reached the 400+ papers published in 2016, and passed the impact factor of having an h-parameter equal to 61. Recent publications: Search for Transitions between States in Redbacks and Black Widows Using Seven Years of Fermi-LAT Observations Torres, Diego F.; Ji, Long; Li, Jian; Papitto, Alessandro; Rea, Nanda; de O˜na Wilhelmi, Emma; Zhang, Shu 2017ApJ...836...68 Gamma-ray Upper Limits on Magnetars with Six Years of Fermi-LAT Observations Li, Jian; Rea, Nanda; Torres, Diego F.; de O˜na-Wilhelmi,Emma The Astrophysical Journal, Volume 835, Issue 1. Search for Gamma-Ray Emission from AE Aquarii with Seven Years of Fermi-LAT Observations Li, Jian; Torres, Diego F.; Rea, Nanda; de O˜na Wilhelmi, Emma; Papitto, Alessandro; Hou,Xian; Mauche, Christopher W. The Astrophysical Journal, Volume 832, Issue 1, article id. 35 (2016) Gamma-ray Emission from PSR J0007+7303 Using Seven Years of Fermi Large Area Telescope Observations Li, Jian; Torres, Diego F.; de O˜naWilhelmi, Emma; Rea, Nanda; Martin, Jonatan The Astrophysical Journal, Volume 831, Issue 1, article id. 19, (2016) SAX J1808.4-3658, an accreting millisecond pulsar shining in gamma rays? de O˜naWilhelmi, E.; Papitto, A.; Li, J.; Rea, N.; Torres, D. F.; Burderi, L.; Di Salvo, T.; Iaria, R.; Riggio, A.; Sanna, A. Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, Volume 456, Issue 3, p.2647-2653 (2016) Senior Institute members involved: D. F. Torres, N. Rea, E. de O˜na

• IRAIT: The IRAIT (International Robotic Antarctic Infrared Telescope) is a project based on a 80 cm aperture telescope aimed to observe in the infrared range from Antarctica. It started to operate in 2008. Thanks to the exceptional coldness, low sky brightness and low content of water vapor of the sky above Dome C, one of the three highest peaks of the large Antarctic plateau, is likely to be the best site on Earth for thermal infrared observations (2.3- 300 ?m) as well as for the far infrared range (30 ?m-1mm). IRAIT (International Robotic Antarctic Infrared Telescope) is the first European Infrared telescope operating at Dome C. IRAIT offers a unique opportunity to test and verify the astronomical quality of the site, the Antarctica observation procedures, and provides a use- ful test-instrument for a new generation of telescopes and focal plane instruments able to operate from Antarctica.

The IRAIT project is an international cooperation between Perugia University, Teramo Observatory, Torino Astronomical Observatory, Nice-Antipolis University, Granada University and the Institute of Space Sciences.

Aim of our participation:Our contributions (together with the University of Granada), have been mainly focused in developing the moving optical system for the secondary (M2) and tertiary (M3) mirrors of the tele- scope. Moving parts of the optical system provide focusing and chopping capabilities, implemented in M2, and a rotation mechanism, implemented in M3, allow observation in either Nasmyth foci. The work -package includes the design and construction of both mirrors, the mechanical supports, the electronics and the control software, all prepared to work at the low temperatures at Antarctica. A Spanish company, fully space qualified, NTE, was contracted to carry out the instrument. Tests at low temperature and integration in the telescope were finished during summer 2006, and sent to Antartica.

Recent developments: After seven years in Dome C and, as a consequence of a series of problems in the secondary mirrors (as well as in other parts of the telescope), a team from IEEC-CSIC/IEEC-OAdM/U. Granada was created to examine the situation. One of the members of the Institute (F. Vilardell) moved to Concordia Station during the Antarctic Summer 2015/16 to inspect in situ the state of the instrument. The recommenda- tion was to improve the robustness of the electronics of the auxiliary mirrors to avoid failures in the future. At present, these mirrors are being repaired at our facilities.

Senior Institute members involved: J. Isern

• LISA: LISA is a mission concept proposed by the LISA Consortium on January 13th, 2017 following the call for the L3 mission of the European Space Agency. The goal of LISA is to fulfill the science presented in the white paper The Gravitational Universe, approved by ESA on 2013, consisting in low-frequency gravitational-wave astronomy. In March 7th, 2017, ESA started the phase 0 to assess the technological and economical viability of LISA. In May 2017 it is expected that ESA will make public the main conclusions of this study. It is also expected that the Institute of Space Sciences 32

Phase A of LISA will start on June 2017.

LISA is an all-sky monitor and will offer a wide view of a dynamic cosmos using Gravitational Waves as new and unique messengers to unveil The Gravitational Universe. It provides the closest ever view of the infant Universe at TeV energy scales, has known sources in the form of verification binaries in the Milky Way, and can probe the entire Universe, from its smallest scales near the horizons of black holes, all the way to cosmological scales. The LISA mission will scan the entire sky as it follows behind the Earth in its orbit, obtaining both polarisations of the Gravitational Waves simultaneously, and will measure source parameters with astrophysically relevant sensitivity in a band from below 1E-4 Hz to above 1 Hz.

Aim of our participation: The Institute of Space Sciences is interested in all the aspects of Gravitational Wave Astronomy: Instrumental Hardware& Software; Data Analysis Developments; and Science Exploitation (including GW source simulations to assists the Data Analysis).

Regarding the contribution of our group to LISA, we expect to lead the Spanish contribution, to be funded by the Spanish government, as in the case of LISA Pathfinder mission. This contribution will consists of

– Payload Control System, including the Software. The exact functions of this System in LISA are yet to be defined. – Payload Diagnostics Package: Sensors (and also some actuators): Thermal, magnetic and radiation monitor, again as we did for the LISA Pathfinder mission. – It is important to mention that the know-how acquired in the LISA Pathfinder mission has allow us to set up (in the optics laboratory) a high-precision laser metrology system operating at low frequencies that has a lot of potential to play an important role during the mission development, in particular to test hardware developed by other institutes in the LISA collaboration. – Ground Segment: Data Center. The main Data Center will be located in France (in Paris). Our Institute will have another that will enable local analysis of the real data. Other similar Data Centers will located in Germany, UK, and Italy. This Center will be an improvement of the current operations room for LISA Pathfinder that we have at the ICE premises.

Recent developments: The eLISA Consortium that submitted the white paper The Gravitational Universe has been rebuilt into the LISA Consortium to accommodate the NASA participation and other new countries. Carlos F. Sopuerta is part of the consortium board and chair of the Working Group on Extreme-Mass-Ratio Inspirals. On the other hand, Carlos F. Sopuerta has been part of the Gravitational Wave Working Group (GW-WG) set up by ESA to identify the potential contributions of the different member states and the USA to the L3 mission. Three meetings took place in ESTEC (2) and in NIKHEF (1). Most of the team activity has been devoted to LISA Pathfinder during 2016. However, there have been some activities related to technology developments towards LISA. On Aug 15th 2016 the CubeCat-2 was launched from the Jiuquan base in China. Among other payloads, this CubeSat was carrying a prototype magnetometer based on anistropic magnetoresistors that we have been developing as a candidate for the LISA magnetic diagnostics subsystem. This prototype is much more compact and reduces the magnetic back-action when compared with the magnetometers used in LISA Pathfinder, i.e. fluxgate magnetometers. In terms of temperature diagnostics, during 2016 the group has done an important hardware investment in order to push forward a novel technique to develop a compact, ultra-stable temperature sensor based on optoresonators. This is the main objective of the ComFuturo grant from M. Nofrarias. In brief, this requires locking a frequency- stabilized laser to the high purity resonance of the resonator. This research uses cutting-edge technology currently developed in experimental labs with wide applicability to any precision measurement, including astrophysical instrumentation. Recent publications: M. Nofrarias, N. Karnesis, F. Gibert et al (22 authors): Optimal design of calibration signals in space borne gravitational wave detectors, Physical Review D, 93, 102004 (2016). Senior Institute members involved C. Sopuerta, LL. Gesa, J. Isern, I. LLoro, M. Nofrarias

• LISA Pathfinder: LISA Pathfinder is a mission of the European Space Agency that was launched on December 3rd, 2015 and will be performing science operations until May 31st , 2017. It has paved the way for the future L3 mission (L-class Institute of Space Sciences 33

mission) of ESA devoted to gravitational-wave astronomy from space, with the goal of implementing the science of the white paper The Gravitational Universe.

LISA Pathfinder has tested in flight the very concept of gravitational wave detection: it contains two test masses in a near-perfect gravitational free-fall and an optical (laser) metrology system that controls and measures their motion with unprecedented accuracy. LISA Pathfinder is using the latest technology to minimise the extra forces on the test masses, and to take measurements. The inertial sensors, the laser metrology system, the drag-free control system and an ultra-precise micro-propulsion system make this a highly unusual mission. LISA Pathfinder also carries a NASA payload, an alternative micro-propulsion system.

On June 7th, 2016, the LISA Pathfinder collaboration announced at the European Space Astronomy Center (ESAC) the success of the LISA Pathfinder mission by showing an acceleration noise sensitivity curve much better than the required initially (improvement factors are typically 5-1000 depending on the frequency range) and very close to the one required by the classic LISA mission.

Aim of our participation: The ICE leads the Spanish contribution to the mission through the Gravitational Astronomy – LISA group. Spain is one of the eight signatories of the Multilateral Agreement (MLA) between ESA and Germany, Italy, United Kingdom, Spain, France, the Netherlands and Switzerland. The Spanish con- tribution started on 2004, led by Prof. Alberto Lobo, and consists in the Data and Diagnostics Subsystem (DDS), which include the payload control computer, also known as the Data Management Unit (DMU) and a set of high-precision and high-estability sensors and actuators to monitor the environment of the test masses in LISA Pathfinder, the Diagnostic Items (ITs).

The DMU is the main computer of the LTP (a mission critical component) which interfaces with the On Board Computer (OBC), the LPF master computer which communicates with the ground stations and distributes tasks to the various subsystems of both the satellite and the payload. The DMU also controls the diagnostic subsys- tem. The DMU contains fully duplicated hardware (redundancy). The Boot (BSW) and Application software (ASW) for the DMU have also been the responsability of the Spanish group.

The DIs consist of: (i.1) Thermal Diagnostics that use 24 precision thermometers and 14 precision heaters. (i.2) Magnetic diagnostics that use 4 sensitive 3-axes magnetometers (fluxgate class) and 2 precision induction coils. (i.3) Charged particle counting and spectroscopy by means of a Radiation Monitor.

The group has contributed also some parts of the LISA Technology Package Data Analysis (LTPDA) tools, a MATLAB tool developed for the analysis of the LISA Pathfinder data.

Recent developments: After the LISA Pathfinder launch, the scientific operations started officially on March 1st, 2016. During the operations several members of the group have travelled to the European Space Operations Center (ESOC) in Darmstadt (Germany) to participate in the operations and in particular in the data analysis, leading several times the team on duty. Our team has been in charge of the definition of several experiments on-board involving heat injections in highly sensitive locations and application of controlled magnetic fields to the free-falling test masses. We are also hosting and maintaining the web service with the different instrument daily reports. We are responsible, as hardware providers, of the monthly reporting of the Data and Diagnostics Subsystem to ESA. In addition, members of the group have made important contributions to the data analysis pipelines used in LISA Pathfinder. Recent publications: M. Armano et al (LISA Pathfinder collaboration; 99 authors): Constraints on LISA Pathfinder’s self-gravity: design requirements, estimates and testing procedures, Classical and Quantum Gravity, 33, 235015 (2016).

M. Armano et al (LISA Pathfinder collaboration; 119 authors): Sub-Femto-g Free Fall for Space-Based Gravi- tational Wave Observatories: LISA Pathfinder Results, Physical Review Letters, 116, 231101 (2016).

M. Nofrarias, N. Karnesis, F. Gibert et al (22 authors): Optimal design of calibration signals in space borne gravitational wave detectors, Physical Review D, 93, 102004 (2016)

Senior Institute members involved: C. Sopuerta, LL. Gesa, J. Isern, I. LLoro, M. Nofrar´ıas Institute of Space Sciences 34

• PAU: The PAU Survey is an international collaboration between Spain, Holland, Switzerland, Germany, UK to collect a fluxed limited accurate redshift and spectral energy distribution information for millions of galaxies (and stars) to a depth and area never explored before. This is done without the need of target selection which provides a valuable tool to understand sample selection and completeness. To do this, a spanish group had built PAUcam, a large imager (1 degree square FoV, with18 CCD of 4094x2048 pixels each) capable of doing imaging with 40 narrow-band filters ( 130A wide in steps of 100A) and 6 wide-band filtres (u,g,r,i,z,Y), which results in high resolution spectra energy distributions for all galaxies in a given field of view. PAUcam was commissioned in the William Herschel 4.2m Telescope (WHT) in the Canary Islands on June 2015. The PAU Survey is using PAUcam to image an area of ?100 deg2 to iAB 23 to reach a volume of 0.3-0.5 (Gpc/h)3 with a few million redshifts split into 3 to 4 wide fields (of several tens of deg2 each). Deep Broad-Band (BB) photometric measurements have already been obtained by CFHTLenS and KiDS over the same fields and spectroscopic redshifts for calibration are available from the GAMA, VIPERS, DEEP2 and zCOSMOS redshift surveys. This will enable:

– to improve redshift estimates and target selection incompleteness to reach the accuracy required for large- scale clustering and weak lensing analices in KiDS, DES, DESI, LSST and Euclid – detailed studies of intermediate-scale cosmic structure – first precise measurement of intrinsic alignments at z 0.75 – cross-correlation techniques for redshift measurements, magnification and sampling variance cancelation studies

A number of large surveys (e.g. KiDS, DES, SDSS, LSST, DESI) aim to map the 3D structure of the Universe to understand the nature of dark matter and dark energy. To achieve the required statistical precision, these focus on large scales, sparse samples of selected spectroscopic targets, or restrict the line-of-sight resolution by employing photometric redshifts based on a few broad- bands (BB). In contrast, studies aiming to explore the role of environment are limited to the small scales provided by pencil-beam surveys. We need to bridge this gap and probe the intermediate to small scales (below 10-20 Mpc/h), i.e. the weakly non-linear regime where the statistical signal-to-noise is largest. Our currently limited understanding of these scales, where baryonic and environmental effects become relevant, has to improve dramatically over the coming years to allow for a robust separation of cosmological and galaxy formation effects. This requires surveying large contiguous areas while simultaneously achieving a high number density of galaxies with sub-percent redshift accuracy. This is now possible thanks to PAUCam: a unique combination of a large field-of-view and 40 narrow-band that span the wavelength range from 450nm to 850nm and that was commissioned successfully in June 2015 on the WHT. This exquisite wavelength sampling results in photometric redshifts with a precision that approaches that of spectroscopic measurements, while being able to cover large areas of sky. Aim of our participation: PAUCam has been designed and built entirely by a Consortium of Spanish Institutions (in alphabetical order: CIEMAT, Institute of Space Sciences (IEEC-CSIC), IFAE, IFT/UAM, and PIC). The project was funded by the Consolider Ingenio 2010 programme of the Spanish Government. The PAUcam construction and integration was done in Barcelona UAB Campus at IFAE labs with the help of CIEMAT and Institute of Space Sciences’ engineers and support from their own lab facilities. This was a join effort and the Institute of Space Sciences is leading the project (F.Castander is the PAUcam Project Scientist). Other main technical contributions from IEEC-CSIC were the procurement and characterization of CCD and filters, as well as other parts, built and operate the optical, cryogenic and electronic test bench, design and build camera guiding and alignment system, design and implement camera optical system and characterization. The Institute of Space Sciences is also leading the PAU Survey Collaboration (E.Gaztanaga is the Survey Director) and the data reduction, community pipeline, automated analysis pipelines and the data distribution in collaboration with PIC (Santi Serrano is the PAUdm Project Manager). Institute of Space Sciences is also leading the scientific exploitation of the PAUS data, including simulations, photometric redshift and clustering forecast and analysis. Recent developments: During 2016 we carried out 2 observational runs of 20 nights each with PAUcam with usual bad weather (only 30% of the nights were useful). This was April (16A) and Nov-Dec (16B). In Oct 2016 we perform a camera intervention. PAUcam was opened in the clean rooms of the GTC to replace the filter trays, obscure the camera to scatter light, and other maintenance and test. Data has been successfully reduced and process to start the science validation. Recent publications: Cosmological constraints from multiple tracers in spectroscopic surveys Alarcon, A., Eriksen, M., & Gaztanaga, E. 2016, arXiv:1609.08510 Institute of Space Sciences 35

Characterization and performance of PAUCam filters Casas, R., Cardiel-Sas, L., Castander, F.J., et al. 2016, PSPIE, 9908, 99084K

The PAU camera carbon fiber cryostat and filter interchange system Lopez, L., Padilla, C., Cardiel-Sas, L., et al. 2016, PSPIE, 9908, 99084G

The PAU camera at the WHT Padilla, C., Ballester, O., Cardiel-Sas, L., et al. 2016, PSPIE, 9908, 99080Z

Calibrating the PAU Survey’s 46 Filters Bauer, A., Castander, F., Gaztanaga, E., et al. 2016, The Science of Calibration, 503, 99

Senior Institute members involved: E. Gazta˜naga,F. Castander, M. Crocce, P. Fosalba

• PAZ: ROHP-PAZ is a mission of opportunity: The Spanish Earth Observation PAZ satellite, ready for launch, was initially designed to carry a Synthetic Radar Aperture (SAR) as primary and sole payload. It included an ad- vanced Global Navigation Satellite System (GNSS) receiver for precise orbit determination. The design of this particular GNSS receiver allows the tracking of ’occulting’ signals, that is, signals transmitted by navigation satellites setting below the horizon of the Earth (or rising above it). The Spanish Ministry for Science and In- novation (MICINN) approved a proposal aimed to modify the original plans of PAZ, by including a polarimetric GNSS Radio-Occultation (RO) payload, the ROHP-PAZ experiment. ROHP-PAZ is a proof-of-concept experiment: for the first time ever, GNSS RO measurements will be taken at two polarizations, to exploit the potential capabilities of polarimetric radio occultation for detecting and quan- tifying heavy precipitation events and other de-polarizing atmospheric effects (e.g. cloud ice). If the concept is proved, PAZ will mean a new application of the GNSS Radio-Occultation observations, by providing coinci- dent thermodynamic and precipitation information with high vertical resolution within regions with thick clouds.

ROHP-PAZ potential impact: Coincident thermodynamic and precipitation information with high vertical res- olution within regions with thick clouds might help understanding the thermodynamic conditions underlying intense precipitation, which is relevant because these events remain poorly predicted with the current climate and weather model parametrization. A better understanding of the thermodynamics of heavy precipitation events is necessary towards improving climate models and quantifying the impact of climate variability on precipitation. The particular advantage of GNSS polarimetric RO is that their signals are in the microwave spectrum, which, unlike infrared sensing technology, is little influenced by clouds, not even by the thick clouds that are typically associated with heavy precipitation.

Aim of our participation: The ICE team conceived the polarimetric-RO measurement concept to be proved with this experiment. The ICE team proposed the experiment and leads the mission and its International Science Team. ICE is also in charge of searching the required funding and collaboration agreements with external agencies to maximize the dissemination of ROHP-PAZ data and its impact in the science community and return to the society. Once in orbit, ICE will be responsible of the storing and distributing the data sets, as well as to generate and distribute the novel products obtained with polarimetric observables Recent developments: During 2016 the final results of the ground-based experiment have been published, together with a new approach to invert the observables. During this year, the team has also developed the algorithms which will be used in actual data to separate the hydrometeor component of the observables (of interest) from other undesired components (systematic effects). Recent publications: Padull´es,R., Cardellach, E., de la Torre Ju´arez,M., Tomas, S., Turk, F. J., Oliveras, S., Ao, C. O., Rius, A., Atmospheric polarimetric effects on GNSS Radio Occultations: the ROHP-PAZ field campaign,Atmospheric Chemistry and Physics, 16, pp. 635-649, 2016, jan, doi:10.5194/acp-16-635-2016

Padull´es, R., Cardellach, E., Rius, A., Untangling rain structure from polarimetric GNSS Radio Occulta- tion observables: a 2D tomographic approach, European Journal of Remote Sensing, 49, pp. 571-585, 2016, doi:10.5721/EuJRS20164930

Senior Institute’s members involved: E. Cardellach, S. Rib´o,A. Rius Institute of Space Sciences 36

• PLATO: The PLAnetary Transits and Oscillations of stars (PLATO) is the selected M3 mission in ESA’s Cosmic Vision program, to be launched in 2024. Its objective is to find and study a large number of extrasolar planetary systems, with emphasis on the properties of terrestrial planets in the habitable zone around solar-like stars. PLATO has also been designed to investigate seismic activity in stars, enabling the precise characterization of the planet host star, including its age. The primary goal of PLATO is to open a new way in exoplanetary science, by detecting terrestrial exoplanets in the habitable zone of solar-type stars and characterizing their bulk properties. PLATO will provide the key information (planet radii, mean densities, stellar irradiation, and architecture of planetary systems) needed to determine the habitability of these unexpectedly diverse new worlds and provide an answer to the profound and captivating question: how common are worlds like ours and are they suitable for the development of life? PLATO will assemble the first catalogue of confirmed and characterized planets in habitable zones with known mean densities, compositions, and evolutionary ages/stages. It is foreseen that the PLATO catalogue will consist of thousands of characterized planets of all types, 85,000 stars with accurately known ages and masses, and 1,000,000 high-precision stellar light curves. Aim of our participation: The IEEC-CSIC is leading a workpackage that has as its main task to distribute and optimize the observations of the ground-based follow-up using the proven expertise in sophisticated schedul- ing algorithms. The exoplanet candidates received from the PLATO Data Center will be distributed among the different facilities according to the relevant parameters and to the availability of observing time. Recent developments: The mission has ended phase B1 with the completion of the industrial studies and the Red Book. The science case has been firmed up and the mission profile has been defined following the constraints provided by ESA. Formal mission adoption is expected in 2017 and this will give way to starting subsequent development phases for the expected launch in 2024. Senior Institute members involved: I. Ribas, J. Colom´e

• SQT: SQT is a 1-m robotic telescope enclosed in a clam shell-type dome of 6 m in diameter and mounted on a plat- form located at the Observatorio del Roque de los Muchachos at La Palma, Canary Islands. The design of the telescope is such that it permits fully unattended operation thanks to its robotic mode. A sophisticated suite of software and an array of environment sensors make this possible. SQT is equipped with a camera capable of delivering high-resolution and high-precision images. It has the ability of registering simultaneous images in two different colors thus greatly increasing its efficiency when compared with other telescopes of its kind.

The main goal of the SQT telescope is the exploration of exoplanetary systems. It will provide high-precision photometry of transiting exoplanets so that their main properties, such as its size and orbital characteristics, can be determined. SQT will work in parallel with the SuperWASP experiment, which is searching for planets with wide-angle imaging. The eight telescopes of SuperWASP cover a field of view some 2000 times larger than a conventional telescope but delivers relatively poor photometry. SQT will thoroughly observe select stars iden- tified with SuperWASP to confirm the nature of their exoplanets and study their properties with great accuracy.

Aim of our participation: The leading institutions behind the SQT are the University of Warwick (UK) and the Institute of Space Sciences, together with a number of participating institutions (Isaac Newton Group of Telescopes, John Moores University-Liverpool, Keele University, University of Leicester). The Institute of Space Sciences has committed itself to carrying out a number of different aspects of the project, involving both hardware and software. In particular, these aspects are: 1) The two-arm instrument including the optical and mechanical design and construction, and the provision of the infrared filter and camera. Such camera contains a state-of-the art CCD detector employing sophisticated deep-depletion technology that enhances its sensitivity to infrared light. 2) An autoguiding system in a closed-loop fashion that uses the images from the camera to correct for drifts in the tracking motion of the telescope. This is one of the key elements permitting the highest precision possible in the photometry. 3) The robotic control software suite that must guarantee the safe operation of the telescope in fully automatic and unattended manner. In this case, the technology employed has been developed by the IEEC and implemented already at the Observatori Astron`omicdel Montsec (OAdM). Recent developments: The facility completed full development and deployment at the Observatorio del Roque de los Muchachos in La Palma in 2016 and is due for inauguration in July 2017. Institute of Space Sciences Senior Institut members involved: I. Ribas, J. Colom´e Institute of Space Sciences 37

• Partipation ending in 2016: MAGIC The main goal of the MAGIC project was to build an instrument that could perform measurements in an energy range below 100 GeV, down to about 30 GeV, up to the high- energetic ”terra incognita” of the electromagnetic emission spectrum, traditionally considered as the classical domain of satellite-born instruments. MAGIC researchers were anticipating finding new classes of gamma-ray sources such as, for example, pulsars and Gamma Ray Bursts (GRB). Because of the strong absorption of TeV gamma rays by the extragalactic background light, MAGIC was aiming to measure sources at few tens of GeV, where the universe becomes progressively more transparent. At lower energies, one can search for powerful sources residing at large redshifts. The telescopes measure Cherenkov light images of extended air showers from a target source direction. The software analysis allows, with very high efficiency, to select neutral gamma-ray induced electromagnetic showers from the several orders of magnitudes more intense isotropic background due to the charged particle (mostly hadron) induced showers. The MAGIC telescopes are located at a height of 2200 m a.s.l. on the Roque de los Muchachos European Northern Observatory on the Canary Island of La Palma) The first ideas on the project date back to mid-1994. While several groups joined the MAGIC effort already in 1996, the formal collaboration for constructing the first MAGIC telescope (MAGIC-I) has been formed in 1998. The first telescope was built between 2001 and 2003 and the scientific observations started in 2004. The commissioning of second telescope (MAGIC-II) has been finished in autumn 2009. The two telescopes, separated by 85 meters, are usually operated in coincidence, in the so-called stereoscopic mode. Only events which trigger both telescopes in a narrow time window of 180 nanoseconds are recorded and analyzed. Compared to the stand-alone MAGIC-I, operated till mid-2009, the use of the two telescopes provided a significant increase of the sensitivity due to stronger background rejection. The energy and angular resolutions have been improved, mainly due to the higher precision of the three-dimensional reconstruction of air shower impact point and its incoming direction. Aim of our participation: The Institute participate in the science exploitation of the experiment from 2006 to 2017, leaving the collaboration in June that year. We have several times lead (in terms of 2 years each) the Galactic Working Group (including in the first two years of the experimetn) and participated in the Board, the Time Allocation Committee, the Key Projects Committee, and others along our decade of involvement. Recent developments: Teraelectronvolt pulsed emission from the Crab pulsar detected by MAGIC [astro ph/1510.07048] (E. de O˜naWilhelmi as corresponding author, PI of observations, iterations on analysis, paper writing, D. F. Torres in the responsible team) Astronomy & Astrophysics 585, 133, 6 pages (2016). Super-orbital variability of LS I +61 303 at TeV energies [astro-ph/1603.06973] (D. F. Torres as corresponding author, PI of observations, iterations on analysis, paper writing, E. de O˜naWilhelmi in the responsible team) Astronomy & Astrophysics 591, id.A76, 7 pp (2016). Senior Institute Members involved: D. F. Torres, E. de O˜naWilhelmi Institute of Space Sciences 38 Chapter 6

Publications summary

204 publications with peer review, all accesible in an ADS-library linked from our web: https://www.ice.csic.es/en/ 87% of our 2016 papers have been published in journals of the first quartile

We considered the first quartile for physics and astronomy, where most of our production is published. This includes the following journals: all those appearing in the plot, Physical Review Letters, Classical and Quantum Gravity, Astroparticle Physics, and Reviews of Modern Physics. Details of our publications can be found in the Appendix. Other publications, e.g., those in Remote Sensing and IEEE Journal of Selected Topics in Applied Earth Observations are also considered in the first quartile for Remote Sensing, but are not considered in the 87% above due to the change of field (note that the latter journal is not indexed in ADS Bumblebee yet and is thus not part of our library there).

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Publications Impact

Measuring the impact of earlier publications

Our production in 2011-2015 was systematically measured together with that of all others CSIC institutes, in ”La actividad cient´ıficadel CSIC a trav´esde indicadores bibliom´etricos(Web of Science, 2011-2015)”, IFS-CSIC, Madrid, December 2016 (available at http://digital.csic.es/handle/10261/142296). From there, we gathered that:

1. We are the #1 CSIC institute in all areas of Physics in Catalunya when sorted by productivity, despite the differences in personnel numbers (p. 112). 2. Our papers are quoted more than twice the worldwide average (p. 106).

3. Of all CSIC institutes (more than 40) publishing in the area of Astronomy and Astrophysics, we are #3 by sheer number of papers (despite the differences in personnel with other institutes that are twice to thrice our size) (p. 180). 4. 89% of our production is published in the top first quartile of the journals sorted by impact factor (p. 97).

5. 88% of our papers published in the period 2011-2015 have already been cited in January 2016 (p. 97) and we are #2 institute of all 47 CSIC institutes in Physics when sorted by cites per article (p. 97). 6. From the top 1% of the most cited articles in Physics and Space Sciences (87 articles) produced by CSIC in the period 2011-2015, we produced 24 (27%) (p. 873).

Measuring the impact of 2016 publications

Although all of our papers in 2016 are obviously young, they already have an h-factor of 21, and collected 1283 citations (up until March 22, 2017, in ADS).

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Active projects in 2016

Details of all the active projects can be found in the Appendix.

36 Active Projects

MINECO:18 CSIC:3 OTHERS:1 EU:7 AGAUR:7

16 Projects Obtained in 2016

MINECO:11 CSIC:1 EU:2 OTHERS:2

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Appendix: Publication List

ANNALS OF PHYSICS (NY)

1. Bahamonde, S., Odintsov, S. D., Oikonomou, V. K., Wright, M., Correspondence of F(R) gravity singularities in Jordan and Einstein frames, Annals of Physics (NY), 373, pp. 96-114, 2016, 1603.05113, 10.1016/j.aop.2016.06.020

ASTRONOMICAL JOURNAL

2. Gerdes, D. W., Jennings, R. J., Bernstein, G. M., Sako, M., Adams, F., Goldstein, D., Kessler, R., Hamilton, S., Abbott, T., Abdalla, F. B., Gazta˜naga,E., et al, Observation of Two New L4 Neptune Trojans in the Dark Energy Survey Supernova Fields, Astronomical Journal, 151, pp. 39, 2016, 1507.05177, 10.3847/0004- 6256/151/2/39

3. Gupta, R. R., Kuhlmann, S., Kovacs, E., Spinka, H., Kessler, R., Goldstein, D. A., Liotine, C., Pomian, K., D’Andrea, C. B., Sullivan, M., Castander, F. J., Fosalba, P., Gazta˜naga,E., et al, Host Galaxy Identification for Supernova Surveys, Astronomical Journal, 152, pp. 154, 2016,1604.06138, 10.3847/0004-6256/152/6/154

4. Li, T. S., DePoy, D. L., Marshall, J. L., Tucker, D., Kessler, R., Annis, J., Bernstein, G. M., Boada, S., Burke, D. L., Finley, D. A., Crocce, M., Fosalba, P., Gazta˜naga,E., et al, Assessment of Systematic Chromatic Errors that Impact Sub-1% Photometric Precision in Large-area Sky Surveys, Astronomical Journal, 151, pp. 157, 2016, 1601.00117, 10.3847/0004-6256/151/6/157

5. Van Eylen, V., Albrecht, S., Gandolfi, D., Dai, F., Winn, J. N., Hirano, T., Narita, N., Bruntt, H., Prieto- Arranz, J., B´ejar, V. J. S., Ribas, I., et al, The K2-ESPRINT Project V: A Short-period Giant Planet Orbiting a Subgiant Star, Astronomical Journal, 152, pp. 143, 2016,1605.09180, 10.3847/0004-6256/152/5/143

ASTRONOMISCHE NACHRICHTEN

6. Silva Aguirre, V., Serenelli, A., Asteroseismic age determination for dwarfs and giants, Astronomische Nachrichten, 337, pp. 823, 2016, 1512.02282, 10.1002/asna.201612379

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7. Ira Thorpe, J., Parvini, C., Trigo-Rodriguez, J. M., Detection and Characterization of Micrometeoroids with LISA Pathfinder, Astronomy & Astrophysics, 586, pp. A107, 2016, 10.1051/0004-6361/201527658

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8. Wang, Y., Audard, M., Fontani, F., S´anchez-Monge, A.,´ Busquet, G., Palau, A., Beuther, H., Tan, J. C., Estalella, R., Isella, A., et al, Ongoing star formation in the protocluster IRAS 22134+5834, Astronomy & As- trophysics, 587, pp. A69, 2016, 1510.02251, 10.1051/0004-6361/201526637

9. Herrero, E., Ribas, I., Jordi, C., Morales, J. C., Perger, M., Rosich, A., Modelling the photosphere of active stars for planet detection and characterization, Astronomy & Astrophysics, 586, pp. A131, 2016, 1511.06717, 10.1051/0004-6361/201425369

10. Isern, J., Jean, P., Bravo, E., Kn¨odlseder,J., Lebrun, F., Churazov, E., Sunyaev, R., Domingo, A., Badenes, C., Hartmann, D., Elias-Rosa, N., Hernanz, M., et al, Gamma-ray emission from SN2014J near maximum optical light, Astronomy & Astrophysics, 588, A67, pp. 11, 2016, 10.1051/0004-6361/201526941

11. Smith, M., Sullivan, M., D’Andrea, C. B., Castander, F. J., Casas, R., ... et al. DES14X3taz: A Type I Super- luminous Supernova Showing a Luminous, Rapidly Cooling Initial Pre-peak Bump, Astronomy & Astrophysics, 818, 1, 2016, 10.3847/2041-8205/818/1/L8

12. Darnley, M. J., Henze, M., Steele, I. A., Bode, M. F., Ribeiro, V. A. R. M., Rodr´ıguez-Gil,P., Shafter, A. W., Williams, S. C., Baer, D., Hachisu, I., Hernanz, M., et al, A remarkable recurrent nova in M31: Discovery and optical/UV observations of the predicted 2014 eruption (Corrigendum), Astronomy& Astrophysics, 593, pp. C3, 2016, 10.1051/0004-6361/201526027e

13. Comparat, J., Delubac, T., Jouvel, S., Raichoor, A., Kneib, J. -., Y`eche, C., Abdalla, F. B., Le Cras, C., Maras- ton, C., Wilkinson, D. M., Castander, F. J., Fosalba, P., Gazta˜naga,E., et al, SDSS-IV eBOSS emission-line galaxy pilot survey, Astronomy & Astrophysics, 592, pp. A121, 2016, 1509.05045, 10.1051/0004-6361/201527377

14. Campana, S., Coti Zelati, F., Papitto, A., Rea, N., Torres, D. F., Baglio, M. C., D’Avanzo, P., A physical scenario for the high and low X-ray luminosity states in the transitional pulsar PSR J1023+0038, Astronomy & Astrophysics, 594, pp. A31, 2016, 1607.06245, 10.1051/0004-6361/201629035

15. Turbet, M., Leconte, J., Selsis, F., Bolmont, E., Forget, F., Ribas, I., Raymond, S. N., Anglada-Escud´e,G., The habitability of Proxima Centauri b. II. Possible climates and observability, Astronomy & Astrophysics, 596, pp. A112, 2016, 1608.06827, 10.1051/0004-6361/201629577

16. Ribas, I., Bolmont, E., Selsis, F., Reiners, A., Leconte, J., Raymond, S. N., Engle, S. G., Guinan, E. F., Morin, J., Turbet, M., et al, The habitability of Proxima Centauri b. I. Irradiation, rotation and volatile inventory from formation to the present, Astronomy & Astrophysics, 596, pp. A111, 2016, 1608.06813, 10.1051/0004- 6361/201629576

17. Lorenzo-Oliveira, D., Porto de Mello, G. F., Dutra-Ferreira, L., Ribas, I., Fine structure of the age-chromospheric activity relation in solar-type stars. I. The Ca II infrared triplet: Absolute flux calibration, Astronomy& Astro- physics, 595, pp. A11, 2016, 10.1051/0004-6361/201628825

18. Affer, L., Micela, G., Damasso, M., Perger, M., Ribas, I., Su´arezMascare˜no,A., Gonz´alezHern´andez,J. I., Rebolo, R., Poretti, E., Maldonado, J., Morales, J. C., Rosich, A., Herrero, E., et al, HADES RV program with HARPS-N at the TNG GJ 3998: An early M-dwarf hosting a system of super-Earths, Astronomy &Astrophysics, 593, pp. A117, 2016, 1607.03632, 10.1051/0004-6361/201628690

19. Lorenzo, J., Negueruela, I., Vilardell, F., Sim´on-D´ıaz,S., Pastor, P., M´endezMajuelos, M., GU Monocerotis: A high-mass eclipsing overcontact binary in the young open cluster Dolidze 25, Astronomy & Astrophysics, 590, pp. A45, 2016, 1603.03177, 10.1051/0004-6361/201628224 Institute of Space Sciences 47

20. Bergemann, M., Serenelli, A., Sch¨onrich, R., Ruchti, G., Korn, A., Hekker, S., Kovalev, M., Mashonkina, L., Gilmore, G., Randich, S., et al, The Gaia-ESO Survey: Hydrogen lines in red giants directly trace stellar mass, Astronomy & Astrophysics, 594, pp. A120, 2016, 1606.05661, 10.1051/0004-6361/201528010

21. Kirkby-Kent, J. A., Maxted, P. F. L., Serenelli, A., Turner, O. D., Evans, D. F., Anderson, D. R., Hellier, C., West, R. G., Absolute parameters for AI Phoenicis using WASP photometry, Astronomy & Astrophysics, 591, pp. A124, 2016, 1605.07059, 10.1051/0004-6361/201628581

22. C´orsico,A. H., Althaus, L. G., Serenelli, A., Kepler, S. O., Jeffery, C. S., Corti, M. A., Pulsating low-mass white dwarfs in the frame of new evolutionary sequences. III. The pre-ELM white dwarf instability strip, Astronomy& Astrophysics, 588, pp. A74, 2016, 1602.03195, 10.1051/0004-6361/201528032

23. Papitto, A., Bozzo, E., Sanchez-Fernandez, C., Romano, P., Torres D. F., , Ferrigno, C., Kajava, J. J. E., Kuulk- ers, E., The 2015 outburst of the accreting millisecond pulsar IGR J17511-3057 as seen by INTEGRAL, Swift, and XMM-Newton, Astronomy & Astrophysics, 596, pp. A71, 2016, 1609.00187, 10.1051/0004-6361/201628238

24. Iaria, R., Di Salvo, T., Del Santo, M., Pintore, F., Sanna, A., Papitto, A., Burderi, L., Riggio, A., Gambino, A. F., Matranga, M., Study of the reflection spectrum of the LMXB 4U 1702-429, Astronomy & Astrophysics, 596, pp. A21, 2016, 1609.06487, 10.1051/0004-6361/201628210

25. Ahnen, M. L., Ansoldi, S., Antonelli, L. A., Antoranz, P., Arcaro, C., Babic, A., Banerjee, B., Bangale, P., Barres de Almeida, U., Barrio, J. A., de Ona Wilhelmi, E., Hadasch, D., Pedaletti, G., Torres, D. F., et al, Detection of very high energy gamma-ray emission from the gravitationally lensed blazar QSO B0218+357 with the MAGIC telescopes, Astronomy & Astrophysics, 595, pp. A98, 2016, 1609.01095, 10.1051/0004-6361/201629461

26. Zanin, R., Fern´andez-Barral,A., de Ona Wilhelmi, E., Aharonian, F., Blanch, O., Bosch-Ramon, V., Galindo, D., Gamma rays detected from Cygnus X-1 with likely jet origin, Astronomy & Astrophysics, 596, pp. A55, 2016, 1605.05914, 10.1051/0004-6361/201628917

27. Ahnen, M. L., Ansoldi, S., Antonelli, L. A., Antoranz, P., Babic, A., Banerjee, B., Bangale, P., Barres de Almeida, U., Barrio, J. A., Becerra Gonz´alez,J., de Ona Wilhelmi, E., Hadasch, D., Pedaletti, G., Torres, D. F., et al, Long-term multi-wavelength variability and correlation study of Markarian 421 from 2007 to 2009, Astronomy& Astrophysics, 593, pp. A91, 2016, 1605.09017, 10.1051/0004-6361/201628447

28. Moreno-Ib´a˜nez,M., Villaver, E., Shaw, R. A., Stanghellini, L., Compact planetary nebulae in the Galactic disk: Analysis of the central stars, Astronomy & Astrophysics, 593, pp. A29, 2016, 1606.05489, 10.1051/0004- 6361/201628191

29. Ahnen, M. L., Ansoldi, S., Antonelli, L. A., Antoranz, P., Babic, A., Banerjee, B., Bangale, P., Barres de Almeida, U., Barrio, J. A., Becerra Gonz´alez,J., de Ona Wilhelmi, E., Hadasch, D., Pedaletti, G., Torres, D. F., et al, Search for VHE gamma-ray emission from Geminga pulsar and nebula with the MAGIC telescopes, Astronomy & Astrophysics, 591, pp. A138, 2016, 1603.00730, 10.1051/0004-6361/201527722

30. Ahnen, M. L., Ansoldi, S., Antonelli, L. A., Antoranz, P., Babic, A., Banerjee, B., Bangale, P., Barres de Almeida, U., Barrio, J. A., Becerra Gonz´alez,J., de Ona Wilhelmi, E., Hadasch, D., Pedaletti, G., Torres, D. F., et al, Super-orbital variability of LS I +61 deg303 at TeV energies, Astronomy & Astrophysics, 591, pp. A76, 2016, 1603.06973, 10.1051/0004-6361/201527964

31. Ahnen, M. L., Ansoldi, S., Antonelli, L. A., Antoranz, P., Babic, A., Banerjee, B., Bangale, P., Barres de Almeida, U., Barrio, J. A., Becerra Gonz´alez,J., de Ona Wilhelmi, E., Torres, D. F., et al, MAGIC observations of the February 2014 flare of 1ES 1011+496 and ensuing constraint of the EBL density, Astronomy & Astro- physics, 590, pp. A24, 2016, 1602.05239, 10.1051/0004-6361/201527256 Institute of Space Sciences 48

32. Bozzo, E., Pjanka, P., Romano, P., Papitto, A., Ferrigno, C., Motta, S., Zdziarski, A. A., Pintore, F., Di Salvo, T., Burderi, L., et al, IGR J17451-3022: A dipping and eclipsing low mass X-ray binary, Astronomy & Astro- physics, 589, pp. A42, 2016, 1603.03353, 10.1051/0004-6361/201527501

33. Caballero-Garc´ıa, M. D., Camero-Arranz, A., Ozbey¨ Arabacı, M., Zurita, C., Suso, J., Guti´errez-Soto, J., Beklen, E., Kiaeerad, F., Garrido, R., Hudec, R., Activity from the Be/X-ray binary system V0332+53 dur- ing its intermediate-luminosity outburst in 2008, Astronomy & Astrophysics, 589, pp. A9, 2016, 1506.08604, 10.1051/0004-6361/201526849

34. Ackermann, M., Albert, A., Atwood, W. B., Baldini, L., Ballet, J., Barbiellini, G., Bastieri, D., Bellazzini, R., Bissaldi, E., Bloom, E. D., Li, J., Torres, D. F., et al, Deep view of the Large Magellanic Cloud with six years of Fermi-LAT observations, Astronomy & Astrophysics, 586, pp. A71, 2016, 1509.06903, 10.1051/0004- 6361/201526920

35. Ansoldi, S., Antonelli, L. A., Antoranz, P., Babic, A., Bangale, P., Barres de Almeida, U., Barrio, J. A., Be- cerra Gonz´alez,J., Bednarek, W., Bernardini, E., de Ona Wilhelmi, E., Torres, D. F., et al, Teraelectronvolt pulsed emission from the Crab Pulsar detected by MAGIC, Astronomy & Astrophysics, 585, pp. A133, 2016, 1510.07048, 10.1051/0004-6361/201526853

ASTRONOMY AND COMPUTING

36. Melchior, P., Sheldon, E., Drlica-Wagner, A., Rykoff, E. S., Abbott, T. M. C., Abdalla, F. B., Allam, S., Benoit- L´evy, A., Brooks, D., Buckley-Geer, E., Crocce, M., Gazta˜naga,E., et al, Crowdsourcing quality control for Dark Energy Survey images, Astronomy and Computing, 16, pp. 99-108, 2016, 1511.03391, 10.1016/j.ascom.2016.04.003

ASTROPARTICLE PHYSICS

37. Ambrogi, L., de Ona Wilhelmi, E., Aharonian, F., On the potential of atmospheric Cherenkov telescope ar- rays for resolving TeV gamma-ray sources in the Galactic plane, Astroparticle Physics, 80, pp. 22-33, 2016, 1603.04365, 10.1016/j.astropartphys.2016.03.004

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38. Rodr´ıguez-Kamenetzky, A., Carrasco-Gonz´alez, C., Araudo, A., Torrelles, J. M., Anglada, G., Mart´ı, J., Rodr´ıguez,L. F., Valotto, C., Investigating Particle Acceleration in Protostellar Jets: The Triple Radio Contin- uum Source in Serpens, Astrophysical Journal, 818, pp. 27, 2016, 10.3847/0004-637X/818/1/27

39. Zhang, Y., Miller, C., McKay, T., Rooney, P., Evrard, A. E., Romer, A. K., Perfecto, R., Song, J., Desai, S., Mohr, J., Bauer, A., Castander, F. J., Fosalba, P., Gazta˜naga,E., et al, Galaxies in X-Ray Selected Clusters and Groups in Dark Energy Survey Data. I. Stellar Mass Growth of Bright Central Galaxies since z 1.2, Astro- physical Journal, 816, pp. 98, 2016, 1504.02983, 10.3847/0004-637X/816/2/98

40. Busquet, G., Estalella, R., Palau, A., Liu, H. B., Zhang, Q., Girart, J. M., de Gregorio-Monsalvo, I., Pillai, T., Anglada, G., Ho, P. T. P., What Is Controlling the Fragmentation in the Infrared Dark Cloud G14.225-0.506?: Different Levels of Fragmentation in Twin Hubs., Astrophysical Journal, 819, 139, pp. 14, 2016, 1602.02500, doi:10.3847/0004-637X/819/2/139

41. Liu, H. B., Lai, S. -., Hasegawa, Y., Hirano, N., Rao, R., Li, I. -., Fukagawa, M., Girart, J. M., Carrasco-Gonz´alez, C., Rodr´ıguez,L. F., Detection of Linearly Polarized 6.9 mm Continuum Emission from the Class 0 Young Stellar Object NGC 1333 IRAS4A, Astrophysical Journal, 821, pp. 41, 2016, 1602.04077, 10.3847/0004-637X/821/1/41 Institute of Space Sciences 49

42. Drake, J. J., Delgado, L., Laming, J. M., Starrfield, S., Kashyap, V., Orlando, S., Page, K. L., Hernanz, M., Ness, J. -., Gehrz, R. D., et al, Collimation and Asymmetry of the Hot Blast Wave from the Recurrent Nova V745 Sco, Astrophysical Journal, 825, pp. 95, 2016, 1604.04537, 10.3847/0004-637X/825/2/

43. Mac´ıas, E., Anglada, G., Osorio, M., Calvet, N., Torrelles, J. M., G´omez,J. F., Espaillat, C., Lizano, S., Rodr´ıguez,L. F., Carrasco-Gonz´alez,C., et al, Imaging the Photoevaporating Disk and Radio Jet of GM Aur, Astrophysical Journal, 829, pp. 1, 2016, 1607.04225, 10.3847/0004-637X/829/1/1

44. Kato, M., Saio, H., Henze, M., Ness, J. -., Osborne, J. P., Page, K. L., Darnley, M. J., Bode, M. F., Shafter, A. W., Hernanz, M., et al, X-ray Flashes in Recurrent Novae: M31N 2008-12a and the Implications of the Swift Nondetection, Astrophysical Journal, 830, pp. 40, 2016, 1607.07985, 10.3847/0004-637X/830/1/40

45. Santos, F. P., Busquet, G., Franco, G. A. P., Girart, J. M., Zhang, Q., Magnetically Dominated Parallel In- terstellar Filaments in the Infrared Dark Cloud G14.225-0.506, Astrophysical Journal, 832, 2, pp. 186, 2016, 1609.08052, 10.3847/0004-637X/832/2/186

46. Fernandez-Lopez, M., Stephens, I. W., Girart, J. M., Looney, L., Curiel, S., Segura-Cox, D., Eswaraiah, C., Lai, S. -., 1.3 mm Polarized Emission in the Circumstellar Disk of a Massive Protostar, Astrophysical Journal, 832, 2, pp. 200, 2016,1610.03407, 10.3847/0004-637X/832/2/200

47. Nord, B., Buckley-Geer, E., Lin, H., Diehl, H. T., Helsby, J., Kuropatkin, N., Amara, A., Collett, T., Allam, S., Caminha, G. B., Castander, F. J., Gazta˜naga,E., et al, Observation and Confirmation of Six Strong- lensing Systems in the Dark Energy Survey Science Verification Data, Astrophysical Journal, 827, pp. 51, 2016, 1512.03062, 10.3847/0004-637X/827/1/51

48. Ohashi, S., Sanhueza, P., Chen, H. -. V., Zhang, Q., Busquet, G., Nakamura, F., Palau, A., Tatematsu, K., Dense Core Properties in the Infrared Dark Cloud G14.225-0.506 Revealed by ALMA, Astrophysical Journal, 833, pp. 209, 2016, 1610.08581, 10.3847/1538-4357/833/2/209

49. Li, J., Torres, D. F., Rea, N., de Ona Wilhelmi, E., Papitto, A., Hou, X., Mauche, C. W., Search for Gamma-Ray Emission from AE Aquarii with Seven Years of Fermi-LAT Observations, Astrophysical Journal, 832, pp. 35, 2016, 1608.06662, 10.3847/0004-637X/832/1/35

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57. Camisassa, M. E., Althaus, L. G., C´orsico,A. H., Vinyoles, N., Serenelli, A., Isern, J., Miller Bertolami, M. M., Garc´ıa,E., The Effect of 22 NE Diffusion in the Evolution and Pulsational Properties of White Dwarfs with Solar Metallicity Progenitors, Astrophysical Journal, 823, pp. 158, 2016, 1604.01744, 10.3847/0004-637X/823/2/158 Institute of Space Sciences 50

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81. Leistedt, B., Peiris, H. V., Elsner, F., Benoit-L´evy, A., Amara, A., Bauer, A., Becker, M. R., Bonnett, C., Bruderer, C., Busha, M. T., Crocce, M., Gazta˜naga,E., Fosalba, P., et al, Mapping and Simulating System- atics due to Spatially Varying Observing Conditions in DES Science Verification Data, Astrophysical Journal Supplements, 226, pp. 24, 2016, 1507.05647, 10.3847/0067-0049/226/2/24 82. Rykoff, E. S., Rozo, E., Hollowood, D., Bermeo-Hernandez, A., Jeltema, T., Mayers, J., Romer, A. K., Rooney, P., Saro, A., Vergara Cervantes, C., Castander, F. J., Fosalba, P., et al, The RedMaPPer Galaxy Cluster Catalog From DES Science Verification Data, Astrophysical Journal Supplements, 224, pp. 1, 2016, 1601.00621, 10.3847/0067-0049/224/1/1 83. Acero, F., Ackermann, M., Ajello, M., Baldini, L., Ballet, J., Barbiellini, G., Bastieri, D., Bellazzini, R., Bissaldi, E., Blandford, R. D., Hadasch, D., Li, J., Torres, D. F., et al, The First Fermi LAT Supernova Remnant Catalog, Astrophysical Journal Supplements, 224, pp. 8, 2016, 1511.06778, 10.3847/0067-0049/224/1/8 84. Acero, F., Ackermann, M., Ajello, M., Albert, A., Baldini, L., Ballet, J., Barbiellini, G., Bastieri, D., Bellazzini, R., Bissaldi, E., Hadasch, D., Li, J., Torres, D. F., et al,Development of the Model of Galactic Interstellar Emis- sion for Standard Point-source Analysis of Fermi Large Area Telescope Data, Astrophysical Journal Supplements, 223, pp. 26, 2016, 1602.07246, 10.3847/0067-0049/223/2/26 85. Ackermann, M., Ajello, M., Atwood, W. B., Baldini, L., Ballet, J., Barbiellini, G., Bastieri, D., Becerra Gonza- lez, J., Bellazzini, R., Bissaldi, E., Li, J., Torres, D. F., et al, 2FHL: The Second Catalog of Hard Fermi-LAT Sources, Astrophysical Journal Supplements, 222, pp. 5, 2016, 1508.04449, 10.3847/0067-0049/222/1/5 Institute of Space Sciences 52

ASTROPHYSICS AND SPACE SCIENCE

86. Odintsov, S. D., Oikonomou, V. K., Unimodular mimetic F(R) inflation, Astrophysics and Space Science, 361, pp. 236, 2016, 1602.05645, 10.1007/s10509-016-2826-9

87. Odintsov, S. D., Oikonomou, V. K., Mimetic F(R) inflation confronted with Planck and BICEP2/Keck Array data, Astrophysics and Space Science, 361, pp. 174, 2016, 1512.09275, 10.1007/s10509-016-2761-9

ATMOSPHERIC CHEMISTRY AND PHYSICS

88. Padull´es,R.; Cardellach, E.; de la Torre Ju´arez,M.; Tom´as,S.; Turk, F. J.; Oliveras, S.; Ao, C. O.; Rius, A., Atmospheric polarimetric effects on GNSS radio occultations: the ROHP-PAZ field campaign, Atmospheric Chemistry and Physics, Volume 16, Issue 2, 2016, pp.635-6, 10.5194/acp-16-635-2016

CLASSICAL AND QUANTUM GRAVITY

89. Odintsov, S. D., and V.K. Oikonomou, Singular F(R)F(R) Cosmology Unifying Early and Late-time Acceleration with Matter and Radiation Domination Era , Classical and Quantum Gravity, 33, pp. 125029, 2016, 1602.03309, DOI: 10.1088/0264-9381/33/12/125029

90. Armano, M., Audley, H., Auger, G., Baird, J., Binetruy, P., Born, M., Bortoluzzi, D., Brandt, N., Bursi, A., Caleno, M., Gesa, L., Gibert, F., Karnesis, N., Lloro, I., L´opez-Zaragoza, J. P., Martin, V., Mateos, I., Nofrarias, M., Rivas, F., Sopuerta, C., et al, Constraints on LISA Pathfinder’s self-gravity: design requirements, estimates and testing procedures, Classical and Quantum Gravity, 33, 23, pp. 235015, 2016, 10.1088/0264- 9381/33/23/235015

91. Nojiri, S., Odintsov, S. D., Oikonomou, V. K., Unimodular-mimetic cosmology, Classical and Quantum Gravity, 33, 12, pp. 125017, 2016, 1601.07057, 10.1088/0264-9381/33/12/125017

92. Odintsov, S. D., Oikonomou, V. K., Singular F(R) cosmology unifying early- and late-time acceleration with matter and radiation domination era, Classical and Quantum Gravity, 33, 12, pp. 125029, 2016, 1602.03309, 10.1088/0264-9381/33/12/125029

93. Oltean, M., Epp, R. J., McGrath, P. L., Mann, R. B., Geoids in general relativity: geoid quasilocal frames, Classical and Quantum Gravity, 33, 10, pp. 105001, 2016, 1510.02858, 10.1088/0264-9381/33/10/105001

EARTH PLANETS SPACE

94. Nghiem, S. V., Zuffada, C., Shah, R., Chew, C., Lowe, S. T., Mannucci, A. J., Cardellach, E., Brakenridge, R. G., Geller, G., Rosenqvist, A., Wetland Monitoring with Global Navigation Satellite System Reflectometry, Earth Planets Space, pp. n/a–n/a, 2016, 2016EA000194, 10.1002/2016EA000194

EUROPEAN JOURNAL OF REMOTE SENSING

95. Padull´es,R., Cardellach, E., Rius, A., Untangling rain structure from polarimetric GNSS Radio Occultation ob- servables: a 2D tomographic approach, European Journal of Remote Sensing, 49, pp. 571-585, 2016, 10.5721/Eu- JRS20164930

EUROPEAN PHYSICAL JOURNAL A

96. Serenelli, A., Alive and well: A short review about standard solar models, European Physical Journal A, 52, pp. 78, 2016, 1601.07179, 10.1140/epja/i2016-16078-1

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97. K.Bamba and , Odintsov, S. D., Inflation in a viscous fluid model, European Physical Journal C, 76 , pp. 18(1-8), 2016, 1508.05451, 10.1140/epjc/s10052-015-3861-3

EUROPHYSICS LETTERS

98. Odintsov, S. D., and V.K. Oikonomou, Loop quantum cosmology gravitational baryogenesis, Europhysics Let- ters, 116, 4, pp. 49001, 2016, 1610.02533, http://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.1209/0295-5075/116/49001

GENERAL RELATIVITY AND GRAVITATION

99. de Haro, J., Elizalde, E., Inflation and late-time acceleration from a double-well potential with cosmological constant, General Relativity and Gravitation, 48, pp. 77, 2016, 1602.03433, 10.1007/s10714-016-2072-z

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100. Madiedo, J. M., Espartero, F., Trigo-Rodriguez, J. M., Castro-Tirado, A. J., Pujols, P., Pastor, S., de los Reyes, J. A., Rodr´ıguez,D., Observations of the Quadrantid meteor shower from 2008 to 2012: Orbits and emission spectra, Icarus, 275, pp. 193-202, 2016, 1604.06902, 10.1016/j.icarus.2016.04.023

JOURNAL OF COSMOLOGY AND ASTROPARTICLE PHYSICS

101. Elizalde, E., Odintsov, S. D., E.O.Pozdeeva and S.Yu.Vernov, Cosmological attractor inflation from the RG- improved Higgs sector of finite gauge theory, Journal of Cosmology and Astroparticle Physics, 1602, 02, pp. 025, 2016, 1509.08817, DOI: 10.1088/1475-7516/2016/02/025

102. Vinyoles, N., Vogel, H., Minicharged particles from the Sun: a cutting-edge bound, Journal of Cosmology and Astroparticle Physics, 2016, 03, pp. 002, 2016, 10.1088/1475-7516/2016/03/002

103. Bonvin, C., Hui, L., Gazta˜naga,E., Optimising the measurement of relativistic distortions in large-scale structure, Journal of Cosmology and Astroparticle Physics, 8, pp. 021, 2016, 1512.03566, 10.1088/1475-7516/2016/08/021

104. C´orsico,A. H., Romero, A. D., Althaus, L. G., Garc´ıa-Berro,E., Isern, J., Kepler, S. O., Miller Bertolami, M. M., Sullivan, D. J., Chote, P., An asteroseismic constraint on the mass of the axion from the period drift of the pulsating DA white dwarf star L19-2, Journal of Cosmology and Astroparticle Physics, 7, pp. 036, 2016, 1605.06458, 10.1088/1475-7516/2016/07/036

105. Vincent, A. C., Scott, P., Serenelli, A., Updated constraints on velocity and momentum-dependent asymmetric dark matter, Journal of Cosmology and Astroparticle Physics, 11, pp. 007, 2016, 1605.06502, 10.1088/1475- 7516/2016/11/007

106. Moradinezhad Dizgah, A., Chan, K. C., Nore˜na,J., Biagetti, M., Desjacques, V., Squeezing the halo bispec- trum: a test of bias models, Journal of Cosmology and Astroparticle Physics, 9, pp. 030, 2016, 1512.06084, 10.1088/1475-7516/2016/09/030

107. Nojiri, S., Odintsov, S. D., Oikonomou, V. K., Unimodular F(R) gravity, Journal of Cosmology and Astroparticle Physics, 5, pp. 046, 2016, 1512.07223, 10.1088/1475-7516/2016/05/046

108. de la Cruz-Dombriz, A.,´ Elizalde, E., Odintsov, S. D., S´aez-G´omez,D., Spotting deviations from R2 inflation, Journal of Cosmology and Astroparticle Physics, 5, pp. 060, 2016, 1603.05537, 10.1088/1475-7516/2016/05/060

JOURNAL OF HIGH ENERGY PHYSICS

109. Attems, M., Casalderrey-Solana, J., Mateos, D., Papadimitriou, I., Sopuerta, C., Triana, M., ZilhA˜£o, M., Santos-Oliv´an,D., Thermodynamics, transport and relaxation in non-conformal theories, Journal of High Energy Physics, 10, pp. 155, 2016, 1603.01254, 10.1007/JHEP10(2016)155 Institute of Space Sciences 54

110. Bergstr¨om,J., Gonzalez-Garcia, M. C., Maltoni, M., Pe˜na-Garay, C., Serenelli, A., Song, N., Updated determi- nation of the solar neutrino fluxes from solar neutrino data, Journal of High Energy Physics, 3, pp. 132, 2016, 1601.00972, 10.1007/JHEP03(2016)132

JOURNAL OF INSTRUMENTATION

111. G´alvez, J., Hernanz, M., Alvarez,´ L., Artigues, B., Ull´an,M., Lozano, M., Pellegrini, G., Cabruja, E., Mart´ınez, R., Chmeissani, M., et al, Hard-X and gamma-ray imaging detector for astrophysics based on pixelated CdTe semiconductors, Journal of Instrumentation, 11, pp. C01011, 2016, 10.1088/1748-0221/11/01/C01011

METEORITICS AND PLANETARY SCIENCE

112. Moyano-Cambero, C. E., Trigo-Rodriguez, J. M., Llorca, J., Fornasier, S., Barucci, M. A., Rimola, A., A plau- sible link between the asteroid 21 Lutetia and CH carbonaceous chondrites, Meteoritics and Planetary Science, 51, pp. 1795-1812, 2016,1607.01253, 10.1111/maps.12703

MODERN PHYSICS LETTERS A

113. Zhong, Y., Elizalde, E., de Sitter and power-law solutions in some models of modified gravity, Modern Physics Letters A, 31, pp. 1650221, 2016, 1612.04179, 10.1142/S0217732316502217

114. Nojiri, S., Odintsov, S. D., Oikonomou, V. K., Newton law in covariant unimodular F(R) gravity, Modern Physics Letters A, 31, pp. 1650172, 2016, 1605.00993, 10.1142/S0217732316501728

115. Elizalde, E., Makarenko, A. N., Singular inflation from Born-Infeld-f(R) gravity, Modern Physics Letters A, 31, pp. 1650149, 2016, 1606.05211, 10.1142/S0217732316501492

MONTHLY NOTICES OF THE ROYAL ASTRONOMICAL SOCIETY

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PHYSICAL REVIEW LETTERS

185. Santos-Oliv´an,D., Sopuerta, C., New Features of Gravitational Collapse in Anti-de Sitter Spacetimes, Physical Review Letters, 116, 4, pp. 041101, 2016, 1511.04344, 10.1103/PhysRevLett.116.041101

186. Armano, M., Audley, H., Auger, G., Baird, J. T., Bassan, M., Binetruy, P., Born, M., Bortoluzzi, D., Brandt, N., Caleno, M., Gesa, L., Gibert, F., Karnesis, N., Lobo, J. A., Lloro, I., L´opez-Zaragoza, J. P., Martin, V., Mateos, I., Nofrarias, M., Rivas, F., Sanjuan, J., Sopuerta, C., et al, Sub-Femto-g Free Fall for Space-Based Gravitational Wave Observatories: LISA Pathfinder Results, Physical Review Letters, 116, pp. 231101, 2016, 10.1103/PhysRevLett.116.231101

187. Ajello, M., Albert, A., Anderson, B., Baldini, L., Barbiellini, G., Bastieri, D., Bellazzini, R., Bissaldi, E., Blandford, R. D., Bloom, E. D., Li, J., Torres, D. F., et al, Search for Spectral Irregularities due to Photon- Axionlike-Particle Oscillations with the Fermi Large Area Telescope, Physical Review Letters, 116, 16, pp. 161101, 2016, 1603.06978, 10.1103/PhysRevLett.116.161101

188. Ackermann, M., Ajello, M., Albert, A., Atwood, W. B., Baldini, L., Ballet, J., Barbiellini, G., Bastieri, D., Bech- tol, K., Bellazzini, R., Li, J., Torres, D. F., et al, Resolving the Extragalactic gamma -Ray Background above 50 GeV with the Fermi Large Area Telescope, Physical Review Letters, 116, 15, pp. 151105, 2016, 1511.00693, 10.1103/PhysRevLett.116.151105

PHYSICS LETTERS B

189. Addazi, S. Capozziello and, Odintsov, S. D., Born-Infeld condensate as a possible origin of neutrino masses and dark energy, Physics Letters B, B760, pp. 611-616, 2016, 1607.05706, http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0370269316303884

190. Odintsov, S. D., Oikonomou, V. K., Gauss-Bonnet gravitational baryogenesis, Physics Letters B, 760, pp. 259- 262, 2016, 1607.00545, 10.1016/j.physletb.2016.06.074

191. Yamagata-Sekihara, J., Garcia-Recio, C., Nieves, J., Salcedo, L. L., Tolos, L., Formation spectra of charmed meson-nucleus systems using an antiproton beam, Physics Letters B, 754, pp. 26-32, 2016, 1512.03240, 10.1016/j.physletb.2016.01.003 193. Addazi, Andrea; Capozziello, Salvatore; Odintsov, Sergei, Born-Infeld condensate as a possible origin of neu- trino masses and dark energy, Physics Letters B, Volume 760, p. 611-616.September 2016, 10.1016/j.physletb.2016.07.047 Institute of Space Sciences 60

192. Addazi, Andrea; Capozziello, Salvatore; Odintsov, Sergei, Born-Infeld condensate as a possible origin of neutrino masses and dark energy, Physics Letters B, Volume 760, p. 611-616.September 2016, 10.1016/j.physletb.2016.07.047

PUBLICATIONS OF THE ASTRONOMICAL SOCIETY OF AUSTRALIA

193. Poci, A., Kuehn, K., Abbott, T., Abdalla, F. B., Allam, S., Bauer, A., Benoit-L´evy, A., Bertin, E., Brooks, D., Brown, P. J., Fosalba, P., et al, DESAlert: Enabling Real-Time Transient Follow-Up with Dark En- ergy Survey Data, Publications of the Astronomical Society of Australia, 33, pp. e049, 2016, 1504.02996, 10.1017/pasa.2016.42

PUBLICATIONS OF THE ASTRONOMICAL SOCIETY OF THE PACIFIC

194. Henderson, C. B., Poleski, R., Penny, M., Street, R. A., Bennett, D. P., Hogg, D. W., Gaudi, B. S., K2 Campaign 9 Microlensing Science Team, , Zhu, W., Barclay, T., Morales, J. C., et al, Campaign 9 of the K2 Mission: Observational Parameters, Scientific Drivers, and Community Involvement for a Simultaneous Space- and Ground-based Microlensing Survey, Publications of the Astronomical Society of the Pacific, 128, 12, pp. 124401, 2016, 1512.09142, 10.1088/1538-3873/128/970/124401

195. Fischer, D. A., Anglada-Escude, G., Arriagada, P., Baluev, R. V., Bean, J. L., Bouchy, F., Buchhave, L. A., Car- roll, T., Chakraborty, A., Crepp, J. R., Herrero, E., et al, State of the Field: Extreme Precision Radial Velocities, Publications of the Astronomical Society of the Pacific, 128, 6, pp. 066001, 2016, 1602.07939, 10.1088/1538- 3873/128/964/066001

REVIEW OF MODERN PHYSICS

196. Watts, A. L., Andersson, N., Chakrabarty, D., Feroci, M., Hebeler, K., Israel, G., Lamb, F. K., Miller, M. C., Morsink, S., Ozel,¨ F., Tolos, L., et al, Colloquium:Measuring the neutron star equation of state using x-ray timing, Review of Modern Physics, 88, 2, pp. 021001, 2016, 1602.01081, 10.1103/RevModPhys.88.021001

SOLAR PHYSICS

197. de Paula, V.; Curto, J. J.; Casas, R., The Solar Rotation in the 1930s from the Sunspot and Flocculi Catalogs of the Ebro Observatory, Solar Physics, Volume 291, Issue 8, pp.2269-2279, 10.1007/s11207-016-0974-2

IEEE JOURNAL OF SELECTED TOPICS IN APPLIED EARTH OBSERVATIONS AND REMOTE SENSING

198. Li, W., Fabra, F., Yang, D., Rius, A., Mart´ın-Neira,M., Yin, C., Wang, Q., Cao, Y., Initial Results of Typhoon Wind Speed Observation Using Coastal GNSS-R of BeiDou GEO Satellite, IEEE Journal of Selected Topics in Applied Earth Observations and Remote Sensing, , 9, pp. 4720-4729, 2016, 10.1109/JSTARS.2016.2523126

199. Wickert, J., Cardellach, E., M. Martin-Neira, J. Bandeiras, L. Bertino, O.B. Andersen, A. Camps, N. Catarino, B. Chapron,, Fabra, F., N. Floury, G. Foti, C. Gommenginger, J. Hatton, P. Høeg, A. J¨aggi,M. Kern, T. Lee, Z. Li, H. Park, N. Pierdicca, G. Ressler, Rius, A., J. Rosello, J. Saynisch, F. Soulat, C. K. Shum, M. Semmling, A. Sousa, J. Xie, and C. Zuffada, GEROS-ISS: GNSS REflectometry, Radio Occultation, and Scatterometry Onboard the International Space Station, IEEE Journal of Selected Topics in Applied Earth Observations and Remote Sensing, 9, 10, 2016, 10.1109/JSTARS.2016.2614428

200. Cardellach, E., Vey, S., Wickert, J., Foreword to the Special Issue on GNSS Reflectometry, IEEE Journal of Selected Topics in Applied Earth Observations and Remote Sensing, 9, 10, pp. 4519-4524, 2016,10.1109/JS- TARS.2016.2607618

201. Wang, F., Yang, D., Zhang, B., Li, W., Darrozes, J., Wind speed retrieval using coastal ocean-scattered GNSS signals, IEEE Journal of Selected Topics in Applied Earth Observations and Remote Sensing, 9, 11, pp. 5272– 5283, 2016, 10.1109/JSTARS.2016.2611598 Institute of Space Sciences 61

202. Martin-Neira, M., Li, W., Andres-Beivide, A., Ballesteros-Sels, X., “Cookie”: A Satellite Concept for GNSS Remote Sensing Constellations, IEEE Journal of Selected Topics in Applied Earth Observations and Remote Sensing, 9, 10, pp. 4593–4610, 2016, 10.1109/JSTARS.2016.2585620

REMOTE SENSING

203. . Li, W., Rius, A., Fabra, F., Mart´ın-Neira, M., Cardellach, E., Rib´o,S., Yang, D., The Impact of Inter- Modulation Components on Interferometric GNSSReflectometry, Remote Sensing, 8, 12, pp. 1013, 2016, 10.3390/rs8121013

OTHER CONTRIBUTIONS

1. Rib´o,S., SPIR Antenna Pattern Characterization Report, CSIC-IEEC, 2016,PIT-PoC-CCN4-TN18-1.1

2. Rib´o,S., SPIR Antenna Pattern Characterization Report, CSIC-IEEC, 2016,PIT-PoC-CCN4-TN18-1.1

3. Rib´o,S., SPIR Characterization and Test Plan, CSIC-IEEC, 2016, PIT-PoCCCN4-TN02-1.1

4. Rius, A., Fabra, F., SPIR Data Processing Report, CSIC-IEEC, 2016, PITPoC-CCN4-TN09-1.0

5. Nogu´es-Correig,O., Rib´o,S., SPIR Receiver Test Document, CSIC-IEEC,2016, PIT-PoC-CCN4-TN15-1.0

6. Cardellach, E., Oliveras, S., ROM SAF Report N.23: Assessment of apotential reflection flag product, Euro- pean Organisation for the Exploitation of Meteorological Satellites (EUMETSAT), 2016, ROM SAF Report, SAF/ROM/METO/REP/RSR/023

7. P´erez-Calpena, A., Seifert, W., Amado, P., Quirrenbach, A., Garc´ıa-Vargas, M., Caballero, J., Gesa, L., Guen- ther, E., Becerril, S., Sanchez, M., et al, CARMENES system engineering, SPIE Astronomical Telescopes+ Instrumentation, pp. 991120–991120, 2016, International Society for Optics and Photonics

8. Caballero, J., Gu`ardia,J., del Fresno, L. M., Zechmeister, M., de Juan, E., Alonso-Floriano, F., Amado, P., Colom´e,J., Cort´es-Contreras, M., GarciaPiquer, A.,´ Gesa, L., et al, CARMENES: data flow, SPIE Astronomical Telescopes+ Instrumentation, pp. 99100G–99100G, 2016, International Society for Optics and Photonics

9. Focardi, M., Pace, E., Colom´e,J., Ribas, I., Rataj, M., Ottensamer, R., Farina, M., Di Giorgio, A., Wawer, P., Pancrazzi, M., Gesa, L., et al, The Atmospheric Remote-sensing Infrared Exoplanets Large-survey (ARIEL) payload electronic subsystems, SPIE Astronomical Telescopes+ Instrumentation, pp. 990436–990436, 2016, International Society for Optics and Photonics

10. Garc´ıa-Vargas, M., Caballero, J., P´erez-Calpena, A., Amado, P., Seifert, W., Azzaro, M., Mandel, H., Quir- renbach, A., Ribas, I., Reiners, A., Gesa, L., et al, CARMENES: management of a schedule-driven project, SPIE Astronomical Telescopes+ Instrumentation, pp. 99110P–99110P, 2016, International Society for Optics and Photonics

11. Wilson-Hodge, C. A., Ray, P. S., Chakrabarty, D., Feroci, M., Alvarez, L.,Baysinger, M., Becker, C., Bozzo, E., Brandt, S., Carson, B., Hernanz, M., etal, Large Observatory for x-ray Timing (LOFT-P): a Probe-class mission concept study, Society of Photo-Optical Instrumentation Engineers (SPIE) Conference Series, 9905, 99054Y, 2016, 1608.06258, 10.1117/12.2232944

12. G´alvez, J., Hernanz, M., Alvarez,´ L., Artigues, B., Alvarez,´ J. M., Ull´an,M., Lozano, M., Pellegrini, G., Cabruja, E., Mart´ınez,R., et al, Development of a pixelated CdTe detector module for a hard-x and gamma-ray imaging spectrometer application, Society of Photo-Optical Instrumentation Engineers (SPIE) Conference Series, 9905, 99054B, 2016, 10.1117/12.2231720

13. Feroci, M., Bozzo, E., Brandt, S., Hernanz, M., van der Klis, M., Liu, L. -., Orleanski, P., Pohl, M., Santangelo, A., Schanne, S., et al, The LOFT mission concept: a status update, Society of Photo-Optical Instrumentation Engineers (SPIE) Conference Series, 9905, 99051R, 2016, 10.1117/12.2233161

14. Zhang, S. N., Feroci, M., Santangelo, A., Dong, Y. W., Feng, H., Lu, F. J., Nandra, K., Wang, Z. S., Zhang, S., Bozzo, E., Hernanz, M., et al, eXTP: Enhanced X-ray Timing and Polarization mission, Society of Photo-Optical Instrumentation Engineers (SPIE) Conference Series, 99051Q, 2016,1607.08823, 10.1117/12.2232034 Institute of Space Sciences 62

15. Rib´o,S., Nogu´es-Correig,O., Arco-Fern´andez,J. C., Rius, A., Fabra. F., SPIR Design Report, Institut d’Estudis Espacials de Catalunya, 2016, PIT-PoC-CCN4-TN01-1.2

16. Rib´o,S., SPIR Characterization and Test Plan, Institut d’Estudis Espacials de Catalunya, 2016, PIT-PoC- CCN4-TN02-1.2

17. Rib´o,S., Arco Fernandez, J. C., Nogu´es-Correig, O., SPIR Description and User Manual, Institut d’Estudis Espacials de Catalunya, 2016, PIT-PoCCCN4-TN05-1.1

18. Rib´o,S., Fabra. F, SPIR Installation on Skyvan, Institut d’Estudis Espacials de Catalunya, 2016, PIT-PoC- CCN4-TN06-1.1

19. Rib´o,S., Fabra, F., SPIR Installation on Skyvan, Institut d’Estudis Espacials de Catalunya, 2016, PIT-PoC- CCN4-TN06-1.2

20. Fabra, F., Rib´o,S., Rius, A., SPIR Flight Mission Plan and Auxilliary Data Collection, Institut d’Estudis Espacials de Catalunya, 2016, PIT-PoCCCN4-TN07-1.1

21. Rius, A., Fabra, F., Rib´o,S., SPIR Data Processing Report, Institut d’Estudis Espacials de Catalunya, 2016, PIT-PoC-CCN4-TN09-1.1

22. Proceedings, 4th FAIR NExt generation ScientistS (FAIRNESS 2016), Destefanis, M., Galatyuk, T., Montes, F., Nicmorus, D., Ratti, C., Tolos, L., 742, 1, 2016

23. Tolos, L., Manuel, C., Sarkar, S., Tarrus, J., Transport coefficients in superfluid neutron stars, American In- stitute of Physics Conference Series, 1701, American Institute of Physics Conference Series, pp. 080001,2016, 10.1063/1.4938690

24. Colom´e,J., Gu`ardia,J., Hagen, H. -., Morales Mu˜noz,R., Abril, M., Ben´ıtez,D.,Caballero, J. A., Fresno, M. L., Garc´ıa-Piquer,A., Gesa, L., Vilardell, , Ribas, I., et al, CARMENES: The CARMENES instrument control software suite, Society of Photo-Optical Instrumentation Engineers (SPIE) Conference Series, 9913, 991334, 2016, 10.1117/12.2234494

25. Helmling, J., Wagner, K., Hern´andezCasta˜no,L., Ben´ıtez,D., Mar´ınMolina, J., Vico Linares, J. I., Hern´andez Hernando, F., L´opez Salas, J. F., Mag´an, H., P´erez-Calpena, A., Ribas, I., et al, CARMENES: interlocks or the importance of process visualization and system diagnostics in complex astronomical instruments, Society of Photo-Optical Instrumentation Engineers (SPIE) Conference Series, 9908, 99086B, 2016, 10.1117/12.2231890

26. Seifert, W., Xu, W., Stahl, O., Hagen, H. J., S´anchez Carrasco, M. A., Veredas, G., Caballero, J. A., Gu`ardia,J., Helmling, J., Hernandez, L., Ribas, I., et al, CARMENES: the VIS channel spectrograph in operation, Society of Photo-Optical Instrumentation Engineers (SPIE) Conference Series, 9908, 990865, 2016,10.1117/12.2231582

27. Quirrenbach, A., Amado, P. J., Caballero, J. A., Mundt, R., Reiners, A., Ribas, I., Seifert, W., Abril, M., Aceituno, J., Alonso-Floriano, F. J., Colom´e,J., Gesa, L., Gu`ardia,J., Herrero, E., Morales, J. C., Perger, M., Rodler, F., Rosich, A., Vilardell, F., Lopez-Morales, M., et al, CARMENES: an overview six months after first light, Society of Photo-Optical Instrumentation Engineers (SPIE) Conference Series, 9908, 990812, 2016, 10.1117/12.2231880

28. Caballero, J. A., Cort´es-Contreras, M., Alonso-Floriano, F. J., Montes, D.,Quirrenbach, A., Amado, P. J., Ribas, I., Reiners, A., Abellan, F. J., B´ejar,V. J. S., Morales, J. C., et al, Carmencita, The CARMENES Input Catalogue of Bright, Nearby M Dwarfs, 19th Cambridge Workshop on Cool Stars, Stellar Systems, and the Sun (CS19), pp. 148, 2016,stars: late-type, stars: lowmass, planetary systems, astronomical data bases, instrumentation: spectrographs, 10.5281/zenodo.60060

29. Vilardell, F., Artigues, G., Sanz, J., Garcia-Piquer, A.,´ Colom´e,J., Ribas, I., Using Robotic Operating Sys- tem (ROS) to control autonomous observatories, Society of Photo-Optical Instrumentation Engineers (SPIE) Conference Series, 9913, 99132V, 2016, 10.1117/12.2232694

30. Becerril, S., Mirabet, E., Lizon, J. L., Abril, M., C´ardenas,C., Ferro, I., Morales, R., P´erez,D., Ram´on, A., S´anchez-Carrasco, M. A., Ribas, I., et al, CARMENES-NIR channel spectrograph cooling system AIV: thermomechanical performance of the instrument, Society of Photo-Optical Instrumentation Engineers (SPIE) Conference Series, 9912, 991262, 2016,10.1117/12.2232322 Institute of Space Sciences 63

31. Becerril, S., C´ardenas,C., Amado, P., Abril, M., Ferro, I., Mirabet, E., Morales, R., P´erez,D., Ram´on,A., S´anchez-Carrasco, M. A., Ribas, I., et al, CARMENES-NIR channel spectrograph: how to achieve the full AIV at system level of a cryo-instrument in nine months, Society of Photo-Optical Instrumentation Engineers (SPIE) Conference Series, 9910, 99100Q, 2016, 10.1117/12.2232482

32. Eccleston, P., Tinetti, G., Beaulieu, J. -., G¨udel,M., Hartogh, P., Micela, G., Min, M., Rataj, M., Ray, T., Ribas, I., et al, An integrated payload design for the Atmospheric Remote-sensing Infrared Exoplanet Large-survey (ARIEL), Society of Photo-Optical Instrumentation Engineers (SPIE) Conference Series, 990433, 2016,10.1117/12.2232878

33. Tinetti, G., Drossart, P., Eccleston, P., Hartogh, P., Heske, A., Leconte, J., Micela, G., Ollivier, M., Pilbratt, G., Puig, L., Ribas, I., Morales, J. C., et al, The science of ARIEL (Atmospheric Remote-sensing Infrared Exoplanet Large-survey), Society of Photo-Optical Instrumentation Engineers (SPIE) Conference Series, 9904, 99041X, 2016, 10.1117/12.2232370

34. Passegger, V. M., Reiners, A., Jeffers, S. V., Wende, S., Sch¨ofer, P., Amado, P. J., Caballero, J. A., Montes, D., Mundt, R., Ribas, I., et al, Spectroscopic Characterisation of CARMENES Target Candidates from FEROS, CAFE and HRS High-Resolution Spectra, 19th Cambridge Workshop on Cool Stars, Stellar Systems, and the Sun (CS19), pp. 109, 2016, jul, 1607.08738, 10.5281/zenodo.59007

35. Affer, L., Micela, G., Damasso, M., Perger, M., Ribas, I., Su´arezMascare˜no,A., Gonz´alezHern´andez,J. I., Rebolo, R., Poretti, E., Maldonado, J., Morales, J. C., Rosich, A., Herrero, E., et al, The Hades RV Programme With Harps-N@TNG GJ 3998: An Early M-Dwarf Hosting a System of Super-Earths, 19th Cambridge Workshop on Cool Stars, Stellar Systems, and the Sun (CS19), pp. 67, 2016,Planets, Radial velocity, High resolution spectroscopy, M dwarfs, HARPS-N, GAPS, 10.5281/zenodo.57729

36. Van Eylen, V., Nowak, G., Albrecht, S., Palle, E., Ribas, I., Bruntt, H., Perger, M., Gandolfi, D., Hirano, T., Sanchis-Ojeda, R., et al, k2photometry: Read, reduce and detrend K2 photometry, Astrophysics Source Code Library, 2016, Software, 1602.014

37. Quirrenbach, A., Amado, P. J., Caballero, J. A., Mandel, H., Mundt, R., Reiners, A., Ribas, I., Seifert, W., Azzaro, M., Galad´ı,D., et al, CARMENES: M dwarfs and their planets, Solar and Stellar Flares and their Effects on Planets, Kosovichev, A. G., Hawley, S. L., Heinzel, P., 320, IAU Symposium, pp. 388-390, 2016, Planetary Systems, Spectrographs,, 10.1017/S1743921316000132

38. Cort´es-Comellas,J., Trigo-Rodriguez, J. M., Llorca, J., Moyano-Cambero, C. E., UV-NIR Reflectance Spectra of Ordinary Chondrites to Better Understand Space Weathering Effects in S-Class Asteroids, Lunar and Planetary Science Conference, 47, Lunar and Planetary Inst. Technical Report, pp. 2610, 2016, mar

39. Moyano-Cambero, C. E., Nittler, L. R., Trigo-Rodriguez, J. M., Alexander, C. M. O., Davidson, J., Stroud, R. M., A Space Oddity: A Nanosims Study of a Primitive Ultracarbonaceous Clast and Fine-Grained Matrix in the LaPaz Icefield 02342 CR Chondrite, Lunar and Planetary Science Conference, 47, Lunar and Planetary Inst. Technical Report, pp. 2537, 2016

40. Vergara-Pinto, A., Trigo-Rodriguez, J. M., Reche Estrada, J., Bischoff, A., Ebert, S., Acevedo, R., Martinez- Jim´enez,M., Laubenstein, M., Claromec´oL5/6 Chondrite: A Large and Moderately Weathered Argentinian Find, Lunar and Planetary Science Conference, 47, Lunar and Planetary Inst. Technical Report, pp. 1917, 2016

41. Blanch, E., Trigo-Rodriguez, J. M., Lyttinen, E., Altadill, D., SPMN100215: A Helion Source Daylight Bolide Recorded from Ebre Observatory, Lunar and Planetary Science Conference, 47, Lunar and Planetary Inst. Technical Report, pp. 1909, 2016

42. Martinez-Jim´enez,M., Trigo-Rodriguez, J. M., Brearley, A. J., Llorca, J., Mestres, N., Aqueous Alteration in the Unequilibrated H/L Ordinary Chondrite Tieschitz, Lunar and Planetary Science Conference, 47, Lunar and Planetary Inst. Technical Report, pp. 1590, 2016

43. Trigo-Rodriguez, J. M., Rodr´ıguez, D., S´anchez, A., Moreno-Ib´a˜nez,M., Multi-Band Photometry to Trace Outbursts Experienced by Hyperbolic Comet C/2013 X1 Panstarrs, Lunar and Planetary Science Conference, 47, Lunar and Planetary Inst. Technical Report, pp. 1431, 2016

44. Moreno-Ib´a˜nez,M., Trigo-Rodriguez, J. M., Martinez-Jim´enez,M., AlonsoAzc´arate, J., Ambl`as,M., Pujols, P., Vic Meteor-Wrong: An Unexpected Sulfur/Carbon Rocket Composite Fall, Lunar and Planetary Science Conference, 47, Lunar and Planetary Inst. Technical Report, pp. 1430, 2016, Institute of Space Sciences 64

45. Silaghi, P. F., Trigo-Rodriguez, J. M., Martinez-Jim´enez,M., Mestres, N., Shock Annealing Characterization of Miller Range 090031 Ureilite Using Raman Spectroscopy and Energy-Dispersive X-Ray Spectroscopy, Lunar and Planetary Science Conference, 47, Lunar and Planetary Inst. Technical Report, pp. 1378, 2016,

46. Moreno, A., Madiedo, J. M., Zamorano, J., Goncalves, R., Esparteros, F., Trigo-Rodriguez, J. M., Ortiz, J. L., Lacruz, J., Aceituno, J., De Guindos, E., et al, Preliminary Spectroscopic and Dynamical Analysis of an EarthGrazer Fireball Observed on December 24, 2014, Lunar and Planetary Science Conference, 47, Lunar and Planetary Inst. Technical Report, pp. 1088, 2016

JOURNAL OF PHYSICS CONFERENCE SERIES

47. Cabrera, D., Tolos, L., Aichelin, J., bratkovskaya, E., Strange meson-baryon interaction in hot and dense medium: recent progress for a road to GSI/FAIR, Journal of Physics Conference Series, 668, 1, pp. 012048, 2016, 1510.07265, 10.1088/1742-6596/668/1/012048

48. Tolos, L., Garcia-Recio, C., Hidalgo-Duque, C., Nieves, J., Romanets, O., Salcedo, L. L., Torres-Rincon, J., Heavy Hadrons in Dense Matter, Journal of Physics Conference Series, 668, 1, pp. 012088, 2016, 1509.00194, 10.1088/1742-6596/668/1/012088

49. Bratkovskaya, E. L., Song, T., Berrehrah, H., Cabrera, D., Torres-Rincon, J., Tolos, L., Cassing, W., Heavy flavor in relativistic heavy-ion collisions, Journal of Physics Conference Series, 668, 1, pp. 012008, 2016, 1508.03887, 10.1088/1742-6596/668/1/012008

50. Torres-Rincon, J., Abreu, L. M., Cabrera, D., Romanets, O., Tolos, L., Heavy mesons in a hadronic medium: interaction and transport coefficients, Journal of Physics Conference Series, 668, 1, pp. 012091, 2016, 1511.01524, 10.1088/1742-6596/668/1/012091

51. Vinyoles, N., Serenelli, A., A sensitivity study of s-process: the impact of uncertainties from nuclear reaction rates, Journal of Physics Conference Series, 665, 1, pp. 012028, 2016, 10.1088/1742-6596/665/1/012028

52. Song, T., Berrehrah, H., Bratkovskaya, E. L., Cabrera, D., Cassing, W., Torres-Rincon, J., Tolos, L., Tomography of the QGP by heavy quarks, Journal of Physics Conference Series, 736, 1, pp. 012008, 2016, 10.1088/1742- 6596/736/1/012008

MEMORIE DELLA SOCIETA` ASTRONOMICA ITALIANA

53. Rivera-Sandoval, L. E., van den Berg, M., Heinke, C. O., Cohn, H. N., Lugger, P. M., Freire, P., Anderson, J., Serenelli, A., Althaus, L. G., Cool, A. M., et al, Discovery of millisecond pulsar companions in the globular cluster 47 Tucanae ., Memorie della Societ`aAstronomica Italiana, 87, pp. 535, 2016, Binaries: general, Globular clusters: individual (47 Tucanae), Pulsars: general, Pulsars: individual (PSR J0024-7204Q, PSR J0024- 7204S, PSR J0024-7204T, PSR J0024-7203U, PSR J0024-7204Y)

PROCEEDINGS OF THE INTERNATIONAL ASTRONOMICAL UNION

54. Casagrande, L., Aguirre, V. S., Serenelli, A., Asteroseismology for Galactic archaeology: bridging two fields, Proceedings of the International Astronomical Union, 29, pp. 680-685, 2016, Galaxy: stellar content, Galaxy: disc, Galaxy: evolution, stars: fundamental parameters, stars: oscillations, surveys, techniques: photometric,, 10.1017/S1743921316006347

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55. Henze, M., Williams, S. C., Darnley, M. J., Ederoclite, A., Sala, G., Shafter, A. W., Chinetti, K., Jose, J., Hernanz, M., Confirmation of PNV J00430400+4117079 as another eruption of the recurrent nova M31N 1990- 10a and additional constraints on the eruption date, The Astronomer’s Telegram, 9276, 2016, Nova, Transient

56. Henze, M., Sala, G., Jose, J., Figueira, J., Hernanz, M., New nova candidate in M81, The Astronomer’s Telegram, 9175, 2016, jun, Nova, Transient Institute of Space Sciences 65

57. Fabrika, S., Sholukhova, O., Valeev, A. F., Darnley, M. J., Henze, M., Hornoch, K., Williams, S. C., Chinetti, K., Shafter, A. W., Spectroscopic confirmation and photometry of the nova candidate M31N 2016- 08e, The Astronomer’s Telegram, 9443, 2016,Nova, Variables 58. Goranskij, V., Barsukova, E., Henze, M., Additional optical photometry of the recurrent nova M31N 1990-10a during its 2016 eruption, The Astronomer’s Telegram, 9435, 2016,Nova, Transient 59. Darnley, M. J., Henze, M., Recurrent Nova M31N 2008-12a: The 2016 eruption may be imminent, The As- tronomer’s Telegram, 9415, 2016,Nova, Transient 60. Williams, S. C., Darnley, M. J., Thorstensen, J. R., Klusmeyer, J. A., Shafter, A. W., Henze, M., Hornoch, K., Chinetti, K., Spectroscopic classification of M31N 2016-08d as a luminous Fe II nova, The Astronomer’s Telegram, 9411, 2016,Nova, Transient 61. Henze, M., Hornoch, K., Williams, S. C., Darnley, M. J., Shafter, A. W., Vrastil, J., Kucakova, H., Honkova, K., Middleton, M. J., M31N 2016-08d is a luminous nova candidate in M31 with Swift/UVOT detections, The Astronomer’s Telegram, 9408, 2016, Nova, Transient 62. Hornoch, K., Henze, M., Kucakova, H., Honkova, K., Wolf, M., Optical follow-up light curve of the recurrent nova M31N 1990-10a during its 2016 eruption, The Astronomer’s Telegram, 9386, 2016, Nova, Transient 63. Fabrika, S., Sholukhova, O., Valeev, A., Burenkov, A., Makarov, D., Henze, M., Williams, S. C., Darnley, M. J., Shafter, A. W., Hornoch, K., et al, Spectral classification of the recurrent nova M31N 1990-10a during its 2016 eruption with BTA/Scorpio, The Astronomer’s Telegram, 9383, 2016,Nova, Transient 64. Young, D., Kafka, S., Henze, M., Serendipitous new optical transient in the field of CSS081231:071126+440405, The Astronomer’s Telegram, 9328, 2016, Transient 65. Ederoclite, A., Henze, M., Aguado, D., Allende, C., Williams, S., Darnley, M. J., Sala, G., Shafter, A. W., Hornoch, K., Spectral classification of the recurrent nova M31N 1990-10a during its 2016 eruption with WHT/ACAM, The Astronomer’s Telegram, 9281, 2016,Nova, Transient 66. Henze, M., Williams, S. C., Darnley, M. J., Ederoclite, A., Sala, G., Shafter, A. W., Hornoch, K., Swift UVOT detection of the recurrent nova M31N 1990-10a during its 2016 eruption, The Astronomer’s Telegram, 9280, 2016, Nova, Transient 67. Henze, M., Middleton, M. J., New nova candidate in M31 found with Swift/UVOT, The Astronomer’s Telegram, 9187, 2016, Nova, Transient 77.Henze, M., Sasaki, M., Haberl, F., Williams, B. F., Hatzidimitriou, D., New and recurrent X-ray transients in M31 observed with XMM-Newton in January 2016 - part 2, The Astronomer’s Telegram, 8827, 2016, Transient 68. Henze, M., Sasaki, M., Haberl, F., Williams, B. F., Hatzidimitriou, D., et al., New and recurrent X-ray transients in M31 observed with XMM-Newton in January 2016 - part 1, The Astronomer’s Telegram, 8826, 2016,Nova, Transient 69. Henze, M., Sasaki, M., Haberl, F., Williams, B. F., Hatzidimitriou, D., XMMNewton X-ray detections of M31 novae in January 2016, The Astronomer’s Telegram, 8825, 2016, Nova, Transient 70. Page, K. L., Osborne, J. P., Darnley, M. J., Henze, M., Kuin, N. P. M., Schwarz, G. J., Shore, S. N., Starrfield, S., Williams, S. C., Super-soft X-ray emission on day 6.4 from nova LMC N1968-12a strongly suggests a very high mass white dwarf, The Astronomer’s Telegram, 8615, 2016,Nova 71. Carrasco, J. M., Burgaz, U., Kolaczkovski, Z., Mikolajczyk, P., Wiersema, K., Jordi, C., Vilardell, F., Gaia16alq type Ia SN observed during its maximum, The Astronomer’s Telegram, 9100, 2016,Supernovae, Transient 72. Hornoch, K., Kucakova, H., Vrastil, J., Williams, S. C., Henze, M., Darnley, M. J., Kaur, A., Hartmann, D. H., Sala, G., Jose, J., Hernanz, M., et al, Discovery of a Probable Nova in M81, The Astronomer’s Telegram, 9909, 2016, Nova, Transient 73. Henze, M., Darnley, M. J., Shafter, A. W., Kafka, S., Kato, M., et al., Recurrent nova M31N 2008-12a: The surprisingly early 2016 supersoft X-ray turn-off seen by Swift/XRT, The Astronomer’s Telegram, 9907, 2016, Nova, Transient 74. Darnley, M. J., Williams, S. C., Henze, M., Shafter, A. W., Kafka, S., Kato, M., et al., , Recurrent Nova M31N 2008-12a: Liverpool Telescope observation of the waning 2016 eruption, The Astronomer’s Telegram, 9906, 2016,Nova, Transient Institute of Space Sciences 66

75. Naito, H., Watanabe, F., Sano, Y., Kuramoto, K., Itagaki, K., Kiyota, S., Arai, A., Matsumoto, K., Kojiguchi, N., Sugiura, Y., Henze, M., et al, Optical Photometric Observations of M31N 2008-12a: Pre- and Post-maximum of the 2016 Eruption, The Astronomer’s Telegram, 9891, 2016, Cataclysmic Variable, Nova, Transient, Variables 76. Tan, H., Gao, X., Henze, M., et al., , Recurrent nova M31N 2008-12a: Additional optical photometry of the 2016 eruption, The Astronomer’s Telegram, 9885, 2016, dec, Nova, Transient 77. Hornoch, K., Paunzen, E., Vrastil, J., Kucakova, H., Henze, M., Recurrent Nova M31N 2008-12a: late R-band photometry of the 2016 eruption, The Astronomer’s Telegram, 9883, 2016, Nova, Transient 78. Kaur, A., Erdman, P., Oswalt, T., Burke, D., Hartmann, D. H., Henze, M., Darnley, M. J., Recurrent Nova M31N 2008-12a: late optical photometric observations of the 2016 eruption, The Astronomer’s Telegram, 9881, 2016, Nova 79. Henze, M., Darnley, M. J., Shafter, A. W., Kafka, S., Kato, M., et al., Recurrent nova M31N 2008-12a: Swift/XRT detection of the 2016 eruption, The Astronomer’s Telegram, 9872, 2016, Nova, Transient 80. Burke, D., Kaur, A., Oswalt, T., Erdman, P., Hartmann, D. H., Henze, M., Darnley, M. J., Hornoch, K., Kucakova, H., Recurrent Nova M31N 2008- 12a: follow up optical photometric observations of the 2016 eruption, The Astronomer’s Telegram, 9861, 2016,Nova, Transient 81. Erdman, P., Kaur, A., Oswalt, T., Burke, D., Hartmann, D. H., Henze, M., Darnley, M. J., Shafter, A. W., Horst, J., Recurrent Nova M31N 2008-12a: optical photometric follow up, The Astronomer’s Telegram, 9857, 2016, Nova, Transient 82. Henze, M., Darnley, M. J., Shafter, A. W., Kafka, S., Kato, M., et al., Recurrent Nova M31N 2008-12a: Swift UVOT detection of the 2016 eruption, The Astronomer’s Telegram, 9853, 2016, Nova, Transient 83. Itagaki, K., Gao, X., Darnley, M. J., Henze, M., Shafter, A. W., Williams, S. C., Kafka, S., Kato, M., et al., , Recurrent Nova M31N 2008-12a: discovery and constraints of the 2016 eruption, The Astronomer’s Telegram, 9848, 2016, Nova, Transient 84. Williams, S. C., Hornoch, K., Henze, M., Darnley, M. J., Kucakova, H., Kaur, A., Hartmann, D. H., Sala, G., Jose, J., Figueira, J., Hernanz, M., et al, Discovery of two nova candidates in M81, The Astronomer’s Telegram, 9792, 2016, nov, Nova, Transient 85. Williams, S. C., Darnley, M. J., Hornoch, K., Henze, M., Kaur, A., Hartmann, D. H., Sala, G., Jose, J., Figueira, J., Hernanz, M., et al, Spectroscopic confirmation of M81N 2016-11a (PNV J09555591+6904050) as a classical nova, The Astronomer’s Telegram, 9745, 2016, nov, Nova, Transient 86. Williams, S. C., Hornoch, K., Darnley, M. J., Henze, M., Kaur, A., Hartmann, D. H., Sala, G., Jose, J., Figueira, J., Hernanz, M., et al, Spectroscopic classification and additional photometry of classical nova M81N 2016-10b, The Astronomer’s Telegram, 9653, 2016, oct, Nova, Transient 87. Henze, M., Williams, S. C., Darnley, M. J., Kaur, A., Hartmann, D. H., Sala, G., Jose, J., Figueira, J., Hernanz, M., Hornoch, K., et al, Discovery of a M81 nova candidate, The Astronomer’s Telegram, 9642, 2016, oct, Nova, Transient 88. Henze, M., Sala, G., Jose, J., Figueira, J., Hernanz, M., Pre-discovery confirmation of M81 nova candidate, The Astronomer’s Telegram, 9606, 2016, oct, Nova, Transient 89. Fabrika, S., Sholukhova, O., Valeev, A. F., Sarkisyan, A., Vinokurov, A., Hornoch, K., Henze, M., Shafter, A. W., Spectroscopic confirmation and photometry of the nova candidate M31N 2016-09b, The Astronomer’s Telegram, 9563, 2016, sep, Nova, Variables 90. Fabrika, S., Sholukhova, O., Valeev, A. F., Sarkisyan, A., Hornoch, K., Henze, M., Shafter, A. W., Spectroscopic confirmation and photometry of the nova candidate M31N 2016-09a, The Astronomer’s Telegram, 9557, 2016, sep, Nova 91. Williams, S. C., Hornoch, K., Henze, M., Darnley, M. J., Spectroscopy and photometry of MASTER OT J004126.22+414350.0 in the Andromeda direction, The Astronomer’s Telegram, 9554, 2016, sep, Cataclysmic Variable, Nova, Transient, Variables

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92. Richards, M. T., Pribulla, T., Ribas, I., Bradstreet, D. H., Dreschsel, H., Maceroni, C., Mikolajewska, J., Munari, U., Prsa, A., Scharfe, C., et al, Division G Commission 42: Close Binary Stars, Transactions of the International Astronomical Union, Series A, 29, pp. 474-489, 2016, 10.1017/S1743921316000922 93. Limongi, M., Lattanzio, J. C., Charbonnel, C., Dominguez, I., Isern, J., Karakas, A., Leitherer, C., Marconi, M., Shaviv, G., van Loon, J., Division G Commission 35: Stellar Constitution, Transactions of the International Astronomical Union, Series A, 29, pp. 436-452, 2016, 10.1017/S1743921316000909

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96. Silva Aguirre, V., Davies, G. R., Basu, S., Christensen-Dalsgaard, J., Creevey, O., Metcalfe, T. S., Bedding, T. R., Casagrande, L., Handberg, R., Lund, M. N., Serenelli, A., et al, VizieR Online Data Catalog: Fundamental parameters of Kepler stars (Silva Aguirre+, 2015), VizieR Online Data Catalog, 745, 2016, Stars: double and multiple, Planets, Stars: masses Institute of Space Sciences 68 Chapter 10

Other institutional activities

10.1 Ongoing & Completed Masters and Doctoral thesis Finished PhD thesis in 2016 - Cosmological models of the early- and late- universe with bradion and tachion fields Student: N. Myrzakulov Supervised by: Sergei D Odintsov

- Producing simulated catalogues for next generation galaxy surveys Student: Izard, A. Supervised by: Pablo Fosalba Vela; Martin Crocce

- Observation and interpretation of type IIb supernova explosions Student: Antonia Morales Garoffolo Supervised by: Nancy Elias de la Rosa; Jordi Isern Vilaboy

- Thermal Diagnostics Experiments for LISA Pathfinder Student: Ferran Gibert Guti´errez Supervised by: Miquel Nofrarias Serra

Ongoing PhD theses in 2016 - Molecular cores, disk and jets: the effect of the magnetic field. Student: Nacho A˜nezL´opez Supervised by: Josep Miquel Girart Medina; Gemma Busquet

- The initial conditions of star formation in the era of ALMA Student: Ju´arez-Rodr´ıguez,Carmen Supervised by: Josep Miquel Girart Medina

- Cosmology with Galaxy Surveys Student: Alex Alarcon Gonzalez Supervised by: Enrique Gazta˜naga

- Study of the Relativistic Dynamics of Extreme-Mass-Ratio Inspirals Student: Marius Oltean Supervised by: Carlos Sopuerta

- Effective field theory techniques for the study of hot and/or dense plasmas. Student: Clara Tieso G´omez Supervised by: Cristina Manuel Hidalgo

- Techniques in Observational Cosmology Student: Roger Oliva Balagu´e

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Supervised by: Emilio Elizalde

- Stellar activity effects on high-precision radial velocities: theory and observations Student: Rosich, A. Supervised by: Ignasi Ribas Canudas

- The accretion flow onto white dwarfs and its X-ray emission properties Student: Nataly Ospina Escobar Supervised by: Margarita Hernanz

- Magnetic environment and magnetic-induced forces in LISA Pathfinder Student: Juan Pedro L´opez Zaragoza Supervised by: Miquel Nofrarias Serra

- Precipitation measurements with polarimetric GNSS Radio Occultations Student: Ramon Padull´esRull´o Supervised by: Estel Cardellach Gal´ı

- Stars as laboratory of particle physics Student: N´uriaVinyoles Verg´es Supervised by: Aldo Serenelli ; Jordi Isern Vilaboy

- Numerical Relavity for Gravitational Wave and High-Energy Physics Student: Daniel Santos Oliv´an Supervised by: Carlos Sopuerta ; Ulrich Sperhake

- High energy emission from classical and recurrent novae Student: Laura Delgado Pardo Supervised by: Margarita Hernanz

- Stellar activity and exoplanets of M dwarfs from CARMENES visible to nearinfrared spectroscopy Student: Marina Lafarga Magro Supervised by: Ignasi Ribas Canudas

- Modeling galaxy clustering for precision cosmology Student: Anna Maria Porredon D´ıezde Tejada Supervised by: Martin Crocce ; Pablo Fosalba Vela

- Strangeness in heavy-ion collisions Student: Ilner, A. Supervised by: Laura Tolos ; Bratkovskaya, E.

- Thermo-elastic contributions to the acceleration noise on-board LISA Pathfinder Student: Francisco Rivas Garc´ıa Supervised by: Miquel Nofrarias Serra; Carlos Sopuerta

- Estudios sobre la interaccion plasma-campo magnetico en escenarios astrofisicos extremos Student: Enrique Mestre Guill´en Supervised by: Emma de Ona Wilhelmi; Diego F. Torres

- Cosmology with narrowband photometric redshifts Student: Andrea Pocino Yuste Supervised by: Francisco Javier Castander Serentill

- Impact hazard associated with large meteoroids from disrupted asteroids and comets Student: Moreno-Ib´a˜nez, M. Supervised by: Josep M. Trigo-Rodr´ıguez; Gritsevich, M.

- Physico-chemical properties of chondritic meteorites: clues on the origin and evolution of their parent bodies Institute of Space Sciences 71

Student: Carles Eduard Moyano Cambero Supervised by: Josep M. Trigo-Rodr´ıguez

- Models of pulsar wind nebuale Student: Tingting Lin Supervised by: Diego F. Torres

Finished MsS thesis in 2016

- The J/Psi interaction with nucleons and baryons within a unitarized SU(6)x HQSS meson-baryon mode Student: Elisabet Galiana Baldo Supervised by: Laura Tolos

- Correlations between Cosmic Voids and CMB Lensing in the MICE Simulation Student: Umut Emek Demirbozan Supervised by: Pablo Fosalba Vela; Kovacs, A.

- GAMMA RAY emission study of PSR J2022+3842 with fermilat Student: Mariona Caixach Supervised by: Emma de Ona Wilhelmi

- Analyzing the photometric performance of the PAU survey Student: Andrea Pocino Yuste Supervised by: Francisco Javier Castander Serentill

- Clues on protoplanetary disk components from the meteorite evidence Student: Tanbakouei, S. Supervised by: Josep M. Trigo-Rodr´ıguez

Ongoing MsS thesis in 2016

- The weak decay of Lc (2940) Student: Monta˜na,G. Supervised by: Laura Tolos ; Ramos, A.

10.2 Teaching & the Masters of Astrophysics and Cosmology

The Institute of Space Sciences is co-organizer, together with the IFAE, of the Postgraduate Program of High Energy Physics, Astrophysics and Cosmology, part of the doctoral program of the Universitat Aut`onomade Barcelona (UAB) that has been awarded with the Spanish Mention of Quality. The master program has a one-year duration (60 ECTS) and its goal is to provide students with the essential tools necessary to start a research career in any of the disciplines taught in the program. There are two branches within the program, High Energy Physics (HEP) and Astronomy and Cosmology (ASTRO). In each branch there are 45 ECTS dedicated to mandatory courses (30 ECTS, some common to both branches) and the Master Thesis (15 ECTS), and 15 ECTS for free elective courses. The direct involvement of the Institute of Space Sciences in the master encompass half of the total ECTS of the master as a whole and all the courses within the mandatory part of the ASTRO branch. There were more than 15 staff and senior postdocs at the Institute delivering lectures in different courses of the master and acting as advisors in Master Thesis. The courses with direct involvement from the Institute range from planetary and stellar sciences to cosmology and high-energy physics, and include theoretical and observational aspects as well as astronomical instrumentation. Between 15-20 students from Spain and Europe take part every year in the program, with about 50% choosing the ASTRO branch, carrying out the scientific research for their Master Thesis at the Institute of Space-Science, with many students later staying to start a PhD program. Institute of Space Sciences 72

10.3 Outreach activities

In this section, Spanish, Catalan, or English are used indistinctly to give account of some talks as they were announced.

- The blog post ”In Perspective” by Cristina Manuel in the magazine Investigaci´ony Ciencia (Spanish version of Scientific American), ”Explaining the theory of relativity during a Christmas meal” is among the most read in the magazine.

- Interview for Serious Science: Gravity Cosmologist Sergei Odintsov on Newton’s law, modifications of general relativity, and the essence of gravity (2016-11-21).

- Talk at the Museu de la Ci`enciai la T`ecnicade Catalunya (mNACTEC). Jornada passat, present i futur de la recerca cient´ıfica.(2016-11-19).

- Talk at Casal dels mestres de Caldes de Montbui. El descobriment de les ones gravitat`oriesi el naixement d una nova Astronomia. (2016-11-18).

- Confer`enciad’Ignasi Ribas a l’Observatori de Sabadell. Pr`oximaCentauri B: El planeta habitable m´esproper a la terra? (2016-11-09).

- Jonada de Relativitat, la ci`enciadel futur .1a jornada de divulgaci´ocient´ıficaa Figueres. (2016-10-29).

- Confer`enciaa c`arrecde Guillem Anglada-Escud´esobre Proxima b a CosmoCaixa. (2016-10-25).

- Confer`enciade Emili Elizalde a Aula Magna del IEI. Albert Einstein: Curiositat, intuici´o.. . i les Lleis de L Univers. (2016-10-19).

- Confer`enciad’Emili Elizalde dins el cicle Dilluns de Ci`enciade la Resid`enciad’Investigadors del CSIC. L Univers va tenir (probablement) un origen : Big Bang, singularitats c`osmiquesi fluctuacions qu`antiques. (2016-10-17).

- Confer`enciaa c`arrecde Francisco J. Castander a l’Aula Magna de l’Institut d’Estudis Ilardencs (Lleida). L univers i energia fosca. (2016-10-05).

- The CHEOPS mission announces the drawings from Spanish children travelling to spaceThe CHEOPS mission (CHaracterizing ExOplanet Satellite) of the European Space Agency has announced the drawings that will travel into space aboard its telescope. CHEOPS is scheduled for launch at the beginning of 2018 and its goal is to observe new planets outside the Solar System. CHEOPS has randomly selected 297 out of the nearly 4,500 drawings sent by Span- ish children in response to the call and the results can be found on the official website of the project: www.cheops.es. The call for children drawings has been an initiative of the European Space Agency to bring space developments closer to children. In Spain this has been achieved thanks to the collaboration of the Consejo Superior de Investigaciones Cient´ıficas(CSIC), the Institute of Space Studies of Catalonia (IEEC) and the Instituto de Astrof´ısicade Canarias (IAC).

- Talk at Llibreria Documenta (Barcelona): ¿Es la vida patrimonio ´unico de la Tierra?” by J. M. Trigo (2016-02-26).

- Talk at the Pint of Science - Girona: Meteorits: mostres arribades del remots racons del sistema solar, by J. M. Trigo (2016-05-25).

- Talk in Sant Cugat: El perill impacte per asteroides i cometes, organizada por la Agrupaci´oAstron`omicade Sant Cugat Valldoreix, by J. M. Trigo (2016-06-16).

- Talk at the Museo de la Ciencia de Valladolid: Impactos de asteroides y el fin de los dinosaurios, by J. M. Trigo (2016-11-17).

- Participation in the TV show Els Matins de TV3 sobre: ”L arribada de la missi´oJuno a J´upiter”,by J. M. Trigo (2016-07-05).

- Participation in the ’Asteroid Day’, RACAB, Barcelona (2016-06-30). Institute of Space Sciences 73

- Article in the journal, Investigacion y Ciencia (Section Panorama). ”Exoplanetas con materia oscura”, by L. Tolos (06-2016).

10.4 Sant Cugat Forum on Astrophysics

The Forum was founded in April 2009, and it was formally established by an agreement between the Sant Cugat City Hall and the Institut d Estudis Espacials de Catalunya (IEEC). The Forum is run from the Institute for Space Sciences (CSIC). We had 2 sessions in 2016.

5th Session 2016: Workshop on Modelling Nebulae - June 14-17, 2016 This workshop joined together an international group of experts with the aim of assessing the theoretical state of the art in modeling nebulae to analyze, among other questions: What kind of models do we already have and what kinds are needed? Can they be combined? Which are the most promising avenues for unifying model classes? Can they be made versatile enough to interpret observations of hundreds of sources? To what extent are the results from different radiative models comparable? What key features are they missing? Up to what extent 1D models are re- liable/useful? Are hybrid hadronic/leptonic models necessary for pulsar wind nebulae in general? What is the best case for a hadronic-dominated nebula? How can we differentiate hadronic from leptonic nebulae at an observational level? What is the impact of hybrid models and how can they be observationally tested? How do we move forward: What features are the models missing to account for the forthcoming data?

4th Session 2016: Workshop on Young Solar Systems - April 18-22, 2016 The workshop’s inter-disciplinary scope aimed at bridging various communities: - cosmochemists, who study meteoritic samples from our own solar system, - millimetre astronomers, who measure the distribution of dust and gas of star-forming regions and planet- forming discs and their physics (density, temperature, kinematics) and chemistry. - disc modellers, who describe the complex photo-chemical structure of parametric static discs to fit these to observation. - computational astrophysicists, who attempt to decipher the dynamical structure of magnetised gaseous discs, and the effects the resulting internal structure has on the aerodynamic re-distribution of embedded solids. - theoreticians in planet formation theory, who aim to piece it all together eventually arriving at a coherent holistic picture of the architectures of planetary systems discovered by - the exoplanet observers, who provide us with unprecedented samples of exoplanet worlds. This Workshop was co-sponsored by the Niels Bohr International Academy.

10.5 Seminars Summary

Details of all seminars can be found in the Appendix.

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Talks at the Institute Pizza Lunch Seminars

10.6 Awards to our personnel

Thomson Reuters named Sergei Odintsov among the most cited researchers in the world, for the third consecutive year. Institute of Space Sciences 74 Chapter 11

Competitive Funding Summary

1. Core Funding in 2016 (Including non-recurrent budgetary additions, not including personnel salaries) 0.37 MEuros 2. In-kind funding from IEEC (Estimated from counting additional managerial, communications, and system manager support beyond our CSIC funding core) 0.10 MEuros 3. Competitive funding granted in 2016 2.98 MEuros For each euro invested directly by either the Spanish or the Catalan governments in the Institute of Space Sciences in 2016, our researchers were able to obtain 6.3 Euros more, attending calls in competitive funding schemes. R=[3/(1+2)]=6.3

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Appendix: Seminars List

Talks @ ICE:

1. Sopuerta, C., The Beginning of Gravitational Wave Astronomy, 17/02/2016

2. Prof. M. Sasaki (YITP), Inflationary magnetogenesis with broken local U(1) symmetry, 21/09/2016

3. Xavier Barcons, Exploring the hot and energetic Universe with ESA’s Athena X-ray observatory, 10/10/2016

4. Bryn Haskell, Multi-messanger probes of neutron star superfluidity, 20/10/2016

5. Nico Hamaus, Void dynamics as a probe of cosmology and gravity, 27/10/2016

6. Daniele Vigano, Sun and water as means of sustainable development: cases from Honduras and Uganda, 14/11/2016

7. Antonio Ac´ın,Special Christmas Talk: What can and cannot be said about randomness using quantum physics?, 20/12/2016

Pizza-Lunch Seminars:

1. Martinez-Jim´enez,M., Chondritic asteroids: Scientific and technological opportunity from their meteorites, 15/01/2016

2. Castander, F. J., The Dark Energy Spectroscopic Instrument, 29/01/2016

3. Stella Kafka, The AAVSO as a Resource for Variable Star Research , 05/02/2016

4. Vinyoles, N., The Sun as a laboratory for particle physics, 19/02/2016

5. Busquet, G., What is crontrolling the fragmentation process?, 26/02/2016

6. Mariko Kato , From Novae to Type Ia Supernovae , 04/03/2016

7. Trigo-Rodriguez, J. M., Collisional processing of undifferentiated asteroids: fitting the meteorite evidence, 08/04/2016

8. Li, J., Gamma-ray emission from binary systems, 15/04/2016

9. Hernanz, M., Stellar explosions at high energies, as seen now and with future space missions, 22/04/2016

10. Santos-Oliv´an,D., Critical Gravitational Collapse: From Astrophysical Black Holes to Anti-de Sitter Spacetime, 29/04/2016

11. Colom´e,J., Automated Planning and Scheduling for Telescopes and Space Missions: a long story, 06/05/2016

12. Padull´es,R., Looking for rain using GPS radio occultations, 13/05/2016

13. Isern, J., New insights on Type Ia SNe, 20/05/2016

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14. Paula Stella Teixeira, On the fragmentation of the Orion Molecular Cloud 1n., 27/05/2016 15. Henze, M., Extragalactic Novae: A brief history and a recent highlight, 10/06/2016 16. Delgado, L., Early X and gamma-ray emission from RS OPH AND V745 SCO, 17/06/2016 17. Ribas, I., Proxima Centauri b: our nearest neighbor, 07/10/2016

18. Ilsedore L. Cleeves, From disks to planets through the astrochemical lens, 14/10/2016 19. Nanda Rea, The extremely compact and magnetic leftovers of the biggest explosions in the Universe, 21/10/2016 20. Castander, F. J., Supernovae in the Dark Energy Survey, 28/10/2016

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Appendix New projects in 2016

Project Code Title IPs Funding Source

ESP2015-66861- Cartografiados cosmol´ogicospara estu- Castander, Competitive calls Spain C3-1-R dio de la energ´ıa oscura, preparaci´on Fco.,Fosalba, para EUCLID Pablo

ESP2016-80435- Poniendo la tierra y el sistema solar Ribas, Ignasi Competitive calls Spain C2-1-R en contexto: Ciencia y Tecnologia de Carmenes,Cheops, Plato y Ariel

ESP2015-67234-P De LISA Pathfinder a la misi´on L3 Sopuerta, Carlos Competitive calls Spain de ESA: hacia la astronom´ıade ondas gravitatorias desde el espacio

ESP2015-70014- T´ecnicas avanzadas en teledetecci´on Cardellach, Estel Competitive calls Spain C2-2-R aplicada usando se˜nalesGNSS y otras se˜nalesde oportunidad

ESP2015-66134-R Explosiones estelares y sus escenarios Hernanz, Mar- Competitive calls Spain en altas energias: modelos, observa- garita; Aldo ciones y tecnologia Serenelli.

AYA2015-71042-P Studies on the interaction between Torres, Diego F. de Competitive calls Spain plasma and magnetic field in extreme O˜naWilhelmi, E. astrophysical conditions

AYA2015-71825-P Cosmologia con mapas de galaxias Gazta˜naga, En- Competitive calls Spain rique Crocce, Mart´ın

AYA2015-67175-P Propiedades f´ısicas y reflectancia de Trigo, Josep Maria Competitive calls Spain condritas primitivas: llenando el vac´ıa entre asteroides y cometas no diferenci- ados

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Project Code Title IPs Funding Source

FIS2016-76363-P6 Modelos para la expansi´on acelerada Elizalde, Emilio Competitive calls Spain del universo, fluctuaciones cu´anticas y regularizaci´onzeta

TGSCATT Scientific Assessment of TDS1 GNSS-R Cardellach, Estel EU 4000116699 Scatterometric Measurements 16/NL/CT

FPA2016-81114-P Teor´ıas efectivas de las interacciones Manuel, Cristina; Competitive calls Spain nucleares fuertes en condiciones ex- Tolos, Laura tremas

I-LINK1019 Exploring the nature of dark energy Elizalde, Emilio CSIC and the quantum vacuum

ESA/RFP/IPL/ Stud on a gnss remote sensing stellite Rius, Antonio EU PTE/FE/YC/1157 constellation

201650I021 Unifying the neutron star diversity via Rea, Nanda Competitive calls Spain observations and modelling of their magnetic activity

S2016C0018 Estudiando el origen de la energ´ıaos- Saez, Diego Beca Banco Santander cura y el futuro del universo

DEIMOS Agreement on Data Provision in the Colom´e,Josep CDTI frame S3T campaign 1 Chapter 14

Appendix Active projects in 2016

Project Code Title IPs Funding Source

ESP2014-58384- Cartografiados cosmol´ogicospara el es- Castander, Fco.; Competitive calls Spain C3-1-P tudio de la energ´ıaoscura, preparaci´on Fosalba, Pablo para euclid

ESP2014-57495- Poniendo la tierra y el sistema solar Ribas, Ignasi Competitive calls Spain C2-2-R en contexto: ciencia y tecnologia de cheops, plato y carmenes

ESP2014-56003-R Explosiones estelares y sus escenarios Hernanz, Mar- Competitive calls Spain en altas energ´ıas garita; Serenelli, Aldo.

ESP2015-66861- Cartografiados cosmol´ogicospara estu- Castander, Fco. Competitive calls Spain C3-1-R dio de la energ´ıa oscura, preparaci´on Javier Fosalba, P. para euclid

ESP2015-67234-P De lisa pathfinder a la misi´onl3 de esa: Sopuerta, Carlos; Competitive calls Spain hacia la astronom´ıade ondas gravitato- Nofrarias, Miquel rias desde el espacio

ESP2015-70014- T´ecnicas avanzadas en teledetecci´on l Competitive calls C2-2-R aplicada usando se˜nalesgnss y otras Spain se˜nales de oportunidad Cardellach, Este

ESP2014-57382- Cartografiados para la fisica de la accel- Competitive calls REDT eracion y estructura a gran escala del Spain universo Gazta˜naga, Enrique Crocce, Mart´ın

ESP2016-80435- Poniendo la tierra y el sistema solar Ribas, Ignasi; Competitive calls Spain C2-1-R en contexto: ciencia y tecnologia de Colom´eJosep carmenes, cheops, plato y ariel

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Table 14.1: Projects that were active during 2017, Continued.

Project Code Title IPs Funding Source

AYA2014-57369- N´ucleosde gas molecular, discos y jets: Girart, Jose Migue l Competitive calls Spain C3-1-P los efectos del campo magn´etico

AYA2015-71042-P Studies on the interaction between Torres, Diego F. ; Competitive calls Spain plasma and magnetic field in extreme De O˜naWilhelmi E astrophysical conditions

AYA2015-71825-P Cosmologia con mapas de galaxias Gazta˜naga, En- Competitive calls Spain rique; Crocce, Mart´ın

AYA2015-67175-P Propiedades fisicas y reflectancia de Trigo, Josep Maria Competitive calls Spain condritas primitivas: llenando el vacia entre asteroides y cometas no diferenci- ados

FIS2013-44881-P Modelos cosmol´ogicos,energ´ıadel vac´ıo Elizalde, Emilio; Competitive calls Spain y funciones zeta Odintsov, S.D.

FIS2016-76363-P Modelos para la expansion acelerada Elizalde, Emilio Competitive calls Spain del universo, fluctuaciones cuanticas y regularizacion zeta

FPA2013-43425-P Teor´ıas efectivas de las interacciones Manuel, Cristina; Competitive calls Spain fuertes en condiciones extremas y en Tolos, Laura quarkonium pesado

FPA2015-69815- Red Tem´atica de Ondas Gravita- Sopuerta, Carlos Competitive calls Spain REDT cionales

FPA2016-81114-P Teorias efectivas de las interacciones Manuel, Cristina Competitive calls Spain nucleares fuertes en condiciones ex- tremas

FPDI-2013-16933 Contratos para formaci´onpostdoctoral Henze, Martin Competitive calls Spain a˜no2013

2014SGR-1458 Grupo consolidado astrofisica espacialo Ribas, Ignasi Generalitat estelar i planetaria

2014SGR1073 Multi-messenger approach to astropar- O˜na,Emma Maria Generalitat ticle physics: MAP De

2014SGR282 F´ısica te`oricai cosmologia fonamental Elizalde, Emilio Generalitat

2014SGR1378 Grup d’Astronomia Gravitacional Fernandez, Carlos Generalitat

2014SGR-544 Grupo consolidado meio interestelar y Girart, Jose Miguel Generalitat dariointerferometria

2014SGR-1579 Grupo consolidado cosmologia observa- Gazta˜naga, En- Generalitat cional rique

2014SGR-1431 Euclid mission Fosalba, Pablo Generalitat

ASTERICS Astronomy ESFRI & Research Infras- tructure Cluster Colome, Josep EU Institute of Space Sciences 83

Table 14.2: Projects that were active during 2017, Continued.

Project Code Title IPs Funding Source

DEIMOS Agreement on Data Provision in the Colom´e,Josep EU frame S3T campaign 1

ECE-B-14-637 Payload performances, cablibration Cardellach, Estel EU and error budget” within ”GNSS Re- flectometry, Radio Occultation and Scatterometry onboard ISS (GEROS)”- EADS-CASA ESA Subcontract

4000115180/ SysNova: R&D Studies Competititon Trigo, Josep Maria EU 15/F/MOS for Innovation

ESA/RFP/IPL/PTE Stud on a gnss remote sensing stellite Rius, Antonio EU /FE/YC/1157 constellation

TGSCATT Scientific Assessment of TDS-1 GNSS- Cardellach, Estel EU R Scatterometric Measurements

I-LINK1019 Exploring the nature of dark energy Elizalde, Emilio; CSIC and the quantum vacuum Odintsov, Sergei D.

PR2015-00435 Estancias de profesores e investigadores Girart, Jose Miguel CSIC senior en centros extranjeros, incluido el programa salvador de madariaga, modalidad a.

S2016C0018 Estudiando el origen de la energ´ıaos- Saez, Diego Bco. Santander cura y el futuro del universo

201650I021 Unifying the neutron star diversity via Competitive calls observations and modelling of their Spain magnetic activity Rea, Nanda

OTR00367 Programa comfuturo.sensores de alta Nofrarias, Miquel Fundacion CSIC PR COMF precision para control termico en mi- siones espaciales

H2020 – INFRAIA Integrated Activities for the High En- Hernanz, Mar- EU – 2014 –2015 ergy Astrophysics Domain garida /654215/ AHEAD

22592/NL/09/JF/al IRO - Proof of Concept of Interferomet- Rib´o,Serni EU CCN-5 ric Radio Occultation

4000115180/15/F/ Asteroid Impact Mission Cubesat Op- Trigo, Josep Maria EU MOS AIM- portunities (AIMCOPINS): Payload of COPINS (PALS) Advanced Little Satellites-PALS