The Astronomy Nucleus of Universidad Diego Portales is looking to hire up to three new faculty members at the Assistant, Associate, or Full Professor level. The requirements are a Ph.D. in astronomy or a closely related field and a demonstrated ability and commitment to excellence in independent research. Experience advising Ph.D. students and a high […]
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This process, before the first billion years of the Universe. One of the principal researchers is Dr. Leopoldo Infante, Director of Las Campanas Observatory, LCO, and adjunt faculty of the Astronomy Nucleus. When the Universe was about 350 million years old it was dark: there were no stars or galaxies, only neutral gas -mainly hydrogen-
Large proto-cluster of galaxies discovered in the midst of clearing the cosmic fog Read More »
UDP astronomers led high-resolution ALMA survey of protoplanetary disks, obtaining remarkable images which seem to trace the formation of giant extrasolar planets. Even though the Sun and all of its planets were formed 4.5 billion years ago, nature has provided astronomers with natural laboratories where young exoplanets are currently forming, allowing us to observe the
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Transmisión en vivo desde Lanco, Región de Los Ríos. Lunes 12 de diciembre, desde las 11:30 horas. Más información: www.cecs.cl/eclipseinclusivo
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UDP astronomers make next family tree of stars to unveil the history of the Milky Way. Chemical evolution in the Universe is driven by the birth and death of stars, which produce all the chemical elements through different nucleosynthesis processes happening during their lifetimes. Therefore, studying the distribution of chemical abundances of long-lived stars of
Family Tree of stars reveals chaos in Galactic history Read More »
A fines de este 2020 ocurrirá un nuevo fenómeno astronómico, la Luna volverá a cubrir totalmente el Sol, y gracias a la tecnología digital podrá ser apreciado en forma visual y audible, desde nuestros propios hogares.
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The Institute of Physics (IoP) [https://iopscience.iop.org/] publishes new research in about 70 peer review journals from the Web of Sciences in several areas of physics and astrophysics. In order to acknowledge the work done by scientists reviewing the papers, IoP initiated a program honoring such work by giving about 15% of the reviewers a “trusted
Prof. Thomas Maedler awarded “trusted reviewer status” by IoP Read More »
An international group of astronomers has used the ALMA observatory to obtain an inventory of molecular gas and dust in distant galaxies at unprecedented depth in the iconic Hubble Ultra-Deep Field (H-UDF), one of the best-studied regions of the sky. The final results are being presented in a series of papers in today’s Astrophysical Journal.
UDP astronomers obtain the deepest ALMA observations in the Hubble UDF Read More »
One of the first students of our Ph.D. program, Dejene Zewdie, has led a investigation on the properties of massive galaxies in the local Universe. This work started during his Master’s studies, in Ethiopia, and continued during 2019 at UDP has now been recently accepted for publication in the prestigious scientific journal Monthly Notices for
PhD student Dejene Zewdie gets a paper accepted in MNRAS! Read More »
Fondecyt Postdoctoral fellowships 2020 (accepting applicants) The Astronomy Group at Universidad Diego Portales (UDP) invites applications for sponsoring of postdoctoral research fellowships in astronomy with a particular focus in planet formation and planetary science (Prof. Alice Zurlo, Prof. Lucas Cieza); Galactic archaeology, Supernovae and Transients (Prof. Paula Jofré, Prof. José Luis Prieto); and on the
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