Applications are now welcome for our PhD program in Astrophysics!
La Escuela de Ingeniería y Ciencias de la Universidad Diego Portales (UDP) se complace en anunciar la apertura de su Ph.D. Programa de astrofísica, a partir de marzo de 2019.
Noticias
Astronomers Unveil Growing Black Holes in Colliding Galaxies
An international team of researchers, including Claudio Ricci, professor of the Nucleo de Astronomia, performed the largest survey of the cores of nearby galaxies in near-infrared light, using high-resolution images taken by NASA’s Hubble Space Telescope and the W. M. Keck Observatory in Hawaii. The Hubble observations represent over 20 years’ worth of snapshots from …
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AstroUDP Paula Jofré fue reconocida internacionalmente como una de las científicas más destacadas en su área
Paula Jofré quiere mapear el linaje galáctico de cada estrella en la Vía Láctea. Es como rastrear tu árbol genealógico, si tus abuelos fueran supernovas. Jofré, de 36 años, es astrofísica en la Universidad Diego Portales en Santiago de Chile, donde estudia las vidas internas y las historias de las estrellas. Mide las longitudes de …
World University Rankings 2019: UDP among best in Chile
The Astronomy Nucleus research has been key in for putting UDP together with the chilean University, Universidad del Desarrollo as pioneer Chilean Universities in the World University Ranking. The prestigious british magazine Times Higher Education released this week the results of the Ranking The World University Rankings 2019, in which 1250 universities of the World were included. …
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Fierce Winds Quench Intense Star Formation in a Very Distant Galaxy
Dr. Manuel Aravena from the Astronomy Nucleus of UDP detected with a team of astronomers the most-distant galactic “wind” of molecules ever observed, seen when the universe was only one billion years old. The paper, published in Science, is summarised in the ALMA press release below. Astronomers (including Manuel Aravena from the Núcleo de Astronomía), using ALMA, …
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Honorable mention at the Thesis Prize of Univ. São Paulo for high presicion stellar spectroscopy
The PhD work on chemical abundances of solar twins of Dr. Marcelo Tucci Maia from the Astronomy Nucleus UDP was honoured at the Thesis Prize 2018 of Universidad of São Paulo, Brazil. Marcelo Tucci Maia is a post-doc member of the Astronomy Nucleus of UDP since March 2018 and is funded by the ESO-Chile joint …
Chilean women in Science
Dr. Paula Jofre from the Astronomy Nucleus explains the Chilean Academy of Sciences about her new idea of using evolutionary trees to reconstruct the history of the Galaxy using chemical abundances of stars as DNA. Evolutionary tree of 22 stars in the solar vicinity. The different branches are attributed to different families. The sun is …
Chilean Accessible Astronomy on IAU Inspiring Stars Exhibition
Inspiring Stars is the world exhibition on Accessible Astronomy gathering at IAU General Assembly at Vienna, on August 22nd 2018. Many Chilean institutions have been cooperating to be part of this initiative and bring their accessible astronomical experiences for hearing and visually impaired people to the exhibition. Astronomy For All Started under the clear Chilean night sky, …
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SPHERE performance permits many kinds of challenges, from measuring astrometric microlensing to image very faint planets
Alice Zurlo from the Astronomy Nucleus of UDP shows how with SPHERE we can learn more about exoplanets. on-sky movement of Proxima Centauri with respect to background stars The gravitational mass of Proxima Centauri measured with SPHERE from a microlensing event Proxima Centauri, our closest stellar neighbor, is the subject of many attentions since the …
UDP undergraduate students understanding astronomy
The Astronomy Nucleus carries out a series of courses in General Astronomy for UDP students of all careers. As part of the course “Stars of the Milky Way” given by Dr. Paula Jofré, the students were encouraged to work on a report during the semester on a subject their own choice. Examples of outstanding reports …
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