Two new theses completed

Felipe Beiza (Licentiate thesis) and Penélope Longa-Peña (M.Sc. thesis) gave their vivas on December 10 and 17 respectively. Felipe studied the usability of our small observatory for variability studies of astronomical sources, while Penélope carried out Doppler tomography or three cataclysmic variables with little or no published information on indirect imaging. Congratulations to both of them! (More details here, in Spanish).

In mid-2010 Penélope will be off to UK to pursue Ph.D. studies in a related field. She was one of the people awarded with the Beca Chile in the 2009 call.

Paper on GD 552

Fiield around GD 552. Details on the paper.

My paper on GD 552 was finally published on MNRAS. It took ages but it is finally there… You can grab the final draft from astro-ph clicking here. The final version is just different with respect to style, but the results are the same.

Penélope passed her viva

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Penélope Longa, my undergraduate thesis student, passed her viva on April 14, 2008. She is now a “Licenciada” and we are preparing an article based on her work. Congratulations! (More info here).

Welcome to my new research site!

My other, personal site, was getting a little too stuffy to properly display my research information in a clear and consistent way. I hope you will find this site useful.