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Centro de Astrofísica da Universidade do Porto
The Large IFU Survey of Galaxies from CAHA

José Manuel Vílchez Medina
Instituto de Astrofísica de Andalucía, IAA-CSIC

Abstract
Galaxies are the result of an evolutionary process started thousands of million years ago, and their history is coded in their distinct components. The CALIFA project is intended to decode galaxies’ history in a sort of galactic archaeology, using Integral Field Spectroscopy through 3D observations of a sample of six hundred galaxies. A second data release corresponding to two hundred galaxies was open very recently and now the project passed its halfway point with important results behind. This talk will present the CALIFA project and its current stage and highlights.

21 November 2014, 13:30

Centro de Astrofísica
Rua das Estrelas
4150-762 Porto

Institute of Astrophysics and Space Sciences

Institute of Astrophysics and Space Sciences (IA) is a new but long anticipated research infrastructure with a national dimension. It embodies a bold but feasible vision for the development of Astronomy, Astrophysics and Space Sciences in Portugal, taking full advantage and fully realizing the potential created by the national membership of the European Space Agency (ESA) and the European Southern Observatory (ESO). IA resulted from the merging the two most prominent research units in the field in Portugal: the Centre for Astrophysics of the University of Porto (CAUP) and the Center for Astronomy and Astrophysics of the University of Lisbon (CAAUL). It currently hosts more than two-thirds of all active researchers working in Space Sciences in Portugal, and is responsible for an even greater fraction of the national productivity in international ISI journals in the area of Space Sciences. This is the scientific area with the highest relative impact factor (1.65 times above the international average) and the field with the highest average number of citations per article for Portugal.

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