Project description

This project is the first seed for an international collaboration between Southampton's well established Astronomy group and the rapidly growing GARRA group from Argentina (currently the largest group in Argentina working on High-energy Astrophysics, and one of the largest group in Latin-America).

News

Publications

V341 Ara: The Nova-Like Cataclysmic Variable That Has It All
N. Castro Segura, C. Knigge, J. A. Acosta-Pulido, D. Altamirano, S. del Palacio, et al. (2020).
Published in MNRAS 501, 1951.   ArXiV:2008.07462   ADS

The high-energy emission from HD 93129A near periastron
S. del Palacio, F. Garcia, D. Altamirano, et al. (2020).
Published in MNRAS 494, 6043.   ArXiV:2004.10032   ADS

Discovery of millihertz quasi-periodic oscillations in the X-ray binary EXO 0748--676
G. C. Mancuso, D. Altamirano, F. García, M. Lyu, M. Méndez, J. A. Combi, M. Díaz-Trigo, J. J. M. in't Zand (2019).
Published in MNRAS Letters 486, 74.
ArXiV:1905.01956

- in the media:
PHYS.ORG, by Tomasz Nowakowski

Activities

2019 - G. Mancuso (FCAGLP) visits SOTON from August 23 to December 3.
2019 - S. del Palacio (FCAGLP) visits SOTON from August 31 to December 1.
2019 - F. Fogantini (FCAGLP) visits SOTON from April 1 to July 1.
2019 - D. Altamirano (SOTON) visits FCAGLP from January 4 to 19.

2018 - F. García (FCAGLP) visits SOTON from October 8 to 12.
2018 - J. Combi (FCAGLP) visits SOTON from September 5 to October 19.
2018 - G. C. Mancuso (FCAGLP) visits SOTON from September 10 to December 16.
2018 - V. Cúneo (FCAGLP) visits SOTON from July 2 to December 28.
2018 - G. C. Mancuso obtains his M. Sc. in Astronomy in Argentina, under the supervision of J. Combi (FCAGLP) and D. Altamirano (SOTON).

2017 - D. Altamirano (SOTON) visits FCAGLP from December 5 to 20.
2017 - V. Cúneo (FCAGLP) visits SOTON from July 24 to August 18.
2017 - Royal Society funding.

2016 - F. García (FCAGLP) visits SOTON from December 16 to 22.
2016 - V. Cúneo (FCAGLP) visits SOTON from March 28 to May 06.
2016 - Invited course Dr. D. Altamirano (SOTON) within the X-ray Astronomy course in FCAGLP, Argentina.