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Observing stars

The first academic semester in Chile had just finished in June. It was a very long semester, with so much work, and we really needed a break. The first week of July, however, promised to be everything but a break: The stellar and galactic astronomy group led by Prof Paula Jofre obtained observing time for …

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PhD student Manuel Solimano gets a paper accepted in A&A!

Galaxies are cooking on gas. More specifically, the molecular gas in galaxies is the fuel for star formation, so measuring how much of it was present in the high-redshift universe is an important step for understanding galaxy evolution. In his first first-author paper, our PhD student Manuel Solimano investigated the molecular gas content of four …

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Ph.D. positions at UDP 2023 (accepting applications)

The Ph.D. program in Astrophysics at Universidad Diego Portales is pleased to announce the start of the application process for the academic year 2023 (https://jobregister.aas.org/ad/093bd3fb). The program is offered by UDP’s Astronomy Nucleus, which is characterised by active faculty and an international student body. The Ph.D. program is 4 years long, and students are expected …

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PhD student Kriti Gupta gets a paper in MNRAS!

One of our first Ph.D. students, Kriti Kamal Gupta, recently got a paper accepted for publication in MNRAS. The paper focuses on understanding the properties of \\\”Thomson-Scattered X-ray Radiation in Obscured Active Galactic Nuclei\\\”. Using the 70-month Swift/BAT catalog, she investigated possible correlations between the fraction of scattered radiation and different physical properties of accreting supermassive …

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