Research

Exploding Stars in Leiden
Published 9/19/2010 in Fernando Patat Author Ferdinando
Just arrived in Leiden. Tomorrow, at the Lorentz Center, an international workshop on Supernova explosions will start. It will focus on the progenitors of one specific class of SNe, called Type Ia. They became famous because of the implications they had on the acceleration of the universe. During the last few years, my collaborators and  I have been trying to find something in the surroundings of Ia that would tell us about the stellar system/s that produce/s these powerful explosions. Of course other researchers had other ideas to tackle this problem, which Mario Livio has defined as "embarrassing". So, in the... read more ❯

Blogging from Chile
Published 8/23/2010 in Fernando Patat Author Ferdinando
Mmm, after a veeeery loooong trip, I'm back to Chile. I am now in Santiago, but tomorrow I will fly up to Antofagasta, and then up to Paranal. Looking at my blog I have just noticed the last 3 posts are gone. I was reporting on the Paris conference on exploding stars. Too bad. In the next days (or better said nights) I will blog about the observations I will be doing at Kueyen, using X-Shooter, Flames and UVES. I left Europe yesterday. I was actually in Northern Italy, on vacation. I had to leave the warm sun on the Adriatic... read more ❯