Observations for surveying the Universe have revealed the first supernova found during the J-PAS project. The CEFCA scientific team located it in a spiral galaxy, like the Milky Way, at a distance of about 700 million light years. Its discovery has already been reported to the International Astronomical Union (IAU).
An article, led by CEFCA researcher Carlos López San Juan, focuses on those that are used for exoplanetary geology: white dwarfs with metals from the accretion of material from their planetary system. The research raises the contribution of the J-PLUS survey, developed from the Observatorio Astrofísico de Javalambre (OAJ), which now allows us to determine how the detection of these stars varies as they cool. The work has been published in Astronomy and Astrophysics.
The first survey data show 100 000 stars and about 450 000 galaxies. It is the first scientific demonstration of the power of the combination of the JST250 wide-field telescope and its JPCam panoramic camera. J-PAS, led by the Centro de Estudios de Física del Cosmos de Aragón (CEFCA) and the Instituto de Astrofísica de Andalucía (IAA-CSIC) in Spain, makes available to the scientific community the first 12 square degrees of the three-dimensional map of the universe that it is carrying out from the Observatorio Astrofísico de Javalambre.ars.
A binocular telescope like the one that will be launched on a satellite into space in 2030 will arrive at the Aragonese observatory in the coming weeks. The ARRAKIHS mission will take images from Pico del Buitre for at least the next two years. They will be used to improve all data processing and analysis and to refine the observational strategy in a team led by Dr Antonio Marín-Franch. The goal is to observe nearby galaxies at unprecedented depths in search of the stellar trails predicted by the standard cosmological model and which have so far proved elusive.
The discovery was made with the JST250 telescope and the JPCam camera of the Javalambre Astrophysical Observatory.
The scientific team of the Centro de Estudios del Cosmos de Aragón (CEFCA) has discovered a new supernova, which would be located almost 700 million light-years from Earth. This stellar explosion is the first to be detected with the JST250 telescope since the start of JPCam's scientific operations. The supernova has already been registered by the International Astronomical Union (IAU).
The Observatorio Astrofísico de Javalambre (OAJ) has announced the call for proposals for observing in the first semester of 2025 with T80Cam, the scientific, panoramic camera installed at JAST80. The call corresponds to the Open Time that OAJ offers regularly to the astronomical community as national Unique Scientific and Technical Infrastructure (ICTS).
The Observatorio Astrofísico de Javalambre (OAJ) has announced the call for proposals for observing in the first semester of 2024 with T80Cam, the scientific, panoramic camera installed at JAST80. The call corresponds to the Open Time that OAJ offers regularly to the astronomical community as national Unique Scientific and Technical Infrastructure (ICTS).
The Observatorio Astrofísico de Javalambre (OAJ) has announced the call for proposals for observing in the second semester of 2023 with T80Cam, the scientific, panoramic camera installed at JAST80. The call corresponds to the Open Time that OAJ offers regularly to the astronomical community as national Unique Scientific and Technical Infrastructure (ICTS).
The Observatorio Astrofísico de Javalambre (OAJ) has announced the call for proposals for observing in the first semester of 2023 with T80Cam, the scientific, panoramic camera installed at JAST80. The call corresponds to the Open Time that OAJ offers regularly to the astronomical community as national Unique Scientific and Technical Infrastructure (ICTS).
The aluminizing vacuum chamber and the cleaning unit for the maintenance of JST250 and JAST80 telescope's mirrors arrived yesterday at the Observatorio Astrofísico de Javalambre (OAJ). The chamber has been designed by CEFCA and Vacuum Technology Associates Inc, DYNAVAC (Boston, United States), responsible for its manufacture.