ASGARD Research group
AStronomy Group for Academic Research and Dissemination
The AStronomy Group for Academic Research and Dissemination (ASGARD) is composed by researchers at VIU. We work on several research lines, in the fields of galaxies, star clusters, stars, exoplanets and astronomical instrumentation, covering wavelengths from radio to X-rays (both photometry and spectroscopy). ASGARD members pursue individual projects while also collaborating on joint research endeavors, pooling resources and efforts to advance our collective scientific goals.
Latest news:
February 2024: Pere Blay and Elisa Nespoli join the European Space Agency THESEUS mission working groups on X-ray transients.
January 2024: The group is awarded a funded research project: "Estudio de la formación estelar en Dragonfish" (PI Marta González. Funding organisation: VIU).
December 2023: Marta González is awarded a Senior Researcher position at VIU following the call for applications by the University.
November 2023: Invited Talk by Joan Climent: "Exploring the Radio Emission of Ultracool Dwarfs with VLBI," delivered at ASTRON (Dwingeloo, Netherlands).
October/December 2023: Joan Climent participates in the TV program "Som de casa" on Apunt, to present results from his Science paper and further research findings.
July 2023: Contribution by Marta González to the European Space Agency newsletter about collaboration as a data expert in the upload/legacy of data from the StarFormMapper project to ESAsky.
July 2023: Joan Climent participates in the European Astronomical Society Annual Meeting 2023, held in Krakov (Poland), with the talk "First images of a radiation belt around a brown dwarf".
June 2023: Elvis Lacruz participates in the conference "Jornadas de Trabajo en Mecánica Celeste", held in Alicante (Spain), with the talk "Detecting Space Debris from astronomical images".
March 2023: Public Talk by Lorena Nieves: "Where Do I Live in the Universe?", delivered to IES Liceo Caracense in Guadalajara (Castilla y León).
Our latest works:
2024 January (published): Determining leaders in a cloud of space debris. E. Lacruz & D. Casanova. Advances in Space Research. Link to the publication.
2023 August (published): Evidence for a radiation belt around a brown dwarf. J Climent, J. C. Guirado, et al. Science. Link to the publication.
2023 June (published): ALMA-IMF VI -- Investigating the origin of stellar masses: CMF evolution in the W43-MM2&MM3 mini-starburst. Y. Pouteau, F. Motte, T. Nony, M. Gonzalez, et al. Astronomy and Astrophysics . Link to the publication.
2023 June 1 (published): New constraints on the presence of debris disks around G 196-3 B and VHS J125601.92–125723.9 b. Olga V. Zakhozhay; María Rosa Zapatero Osorio; Víctor J. S. Béjar; Juan Bautista Climent; José Carlos Guirado; Bartosz Gauza; Nicolas Lodieu; Dmitry A. Semenov; Miguel Perez-Torres; Rebecca Azulay et al.. Astronomy and Astrophysics . Link to the publication.
2023 May (published): Photometric classification of QSOs from ALHAMBRA survey using random forest. Benjamin Arroquia-Cuadros, Nestor Sanchez, Vicent Gomez, Pere Blay, Vicent Martinez-Badenes, Lorena Nieves-Seoane. Astronomy and Astrophysics . Link to the publication.