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Tue 10:00
18 Nov 2025 |
What AstroSat has to say about neutron star X-ray binary 4U 1728–34 |
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Kewal Anand | IIT Kanpur | Breakfast |
ESTEC Wormhole (Db 162) |
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Thu 15:00
27 Nov 2025 |
New insights into early galaxy formation with JWST and ALMA |
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Joris Witstok | Cosmic Dawn Center, Copenhagen | SCI |
Virtual Only |
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Tue 10:00
02 Dec 2025 |
Clicking for science during the COVID-19 period |
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Erik Kuulkers | ESA/ESTEC | Breakfast |
ESTEC Wormhole (Db 162) |
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Thu 15:45
04 Dec 2025 |
Visitors from near and far: the story of stellar migration in the Milky Way and beyond |
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Maria Luiza Linhares Dantas | Universidad Católica de Chile - Fondecyt | SCI |
ESAC |
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Tue 10:00
09 Dec 2025 |
Ablation of Meteors in Earth's Atmosphere: Thermal Considerations using the CILBO data |
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Joe Zender | ESA/ESTEC | Breakfast |
ESTEC Wormhole Db 162 |
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Thu 15:00
11 Dec 2025 |
TBD |
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Benjamin Man | ESA/ESAC | SCI |
ESAC TBD |
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Thu 15:00
18 Dec 2025 |
TBA |
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Giulia Roccetti | ESAC | SCI |
ESAC B101 |
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Tue 10:00
20 Jan 2026 |
TBA | Stefano Bellotti | Leiden University | Breakfast |
ESTEC Wormhole Db 162 |
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| Date | Title | Abstract | Speaker | Affiliation | Series | Room | |
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Thu 15:00
16 Dec 2021 |
New light on the stellar and nebular chemical abundances of high-redshift galaxies |
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Ricardo Amorín | Universidad de La Serena, Chile | SCI |
Virtual Only |
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Tue 09:45
14 Dec 2021 |
Dune migration on Mars | Sarah Boazman | ESA-ESTEC | Breakfast |
ESTEC |
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Tue 09:45
07 Dec 2021 |
The James Webb Space Telescope: the adventure is about to begin! | Giovanna Giardino | ESA-ESTEC | Breakfast |
ESTEC |
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Thu 15:00
02 Dec 2021 |
The physical properties, acceleration mechanism and impact of AGN outflows from low to high redshift |
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Giovanni Cresci | INAF Arcetri, Italy | SCI |
Virtual Only |
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Tue 09:45
30 Nov 2021 |
Gateways to seeing things we cannot see | Anna Hoetjes | ESA Art-Space Exchange | Breakfast |
ESTEC |
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Tue 09:45
23 Nov 2021 |
Exploring the high-redshift PBH-LCDM Universe | Guenter Hasinger | ESA-ESAC | Breakfast |
ESTEC |
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Thu 15:00
18 Nov 2021 |
Planets in External Galaxies |
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Rosanne Di Stefano | Smithsonian Astrophysical Observatory / Harvard University, USA | SCI |
Virtual Only |
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Tue 09:45
16 Nov 2021 |
X-ray emission in intermediate-mass T-Tauri stars | Maria Alejandra Diaz | ESA-ESTEC | Breakfast |
ESTEC |
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Thu 15:00
04 Nov 2021 |
The characterization of NuSTAR scattered light for galaxy cluster observations |
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Ayşegül Tümer | University of Utah, USA | SCI |
Virtual Only |
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Tue 09:45
02 Nov 2021 |
Martian Valley Networks | Sharon Diamant | Leiden University | Breakfast |
ESTEC |
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Thu 15:00
28 Oct 2021 |
An ALMA view of galaxies in the Epoch of Reionization |
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Renske Smit | Liverpool John Moores University, UK | SCI |
Virtual Only |
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Tue 09:45
26 Oct 2021 |
1) Detecting Europa's water plumes is harder than previously thought 2) Protons in the innermost coma of comet 67P/Churymov-Gerasimenko observed by Rosetta | Rowan Dayton-Oxland, Lucie Scharré | Leiden University | Breakfast |
ESTEC |
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Wed 15:00
20 Oct 2021 |
Women in Astrophysics |
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Jocelyn Bell Burnell | University of Oxford, UK | SCI |
ESAC D1/D2 |
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Tue 09:45
19 Oct 2021 |
My Ø-scillation Experiments in Zero Gravity (and what they have to do with exoplanets) | Maximilian Günther | ESA-ESTEC | Breakfast |
ESTEC |
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Thu 15:00
14 Oct 2021 |
Tales of stars and tidal tails: A story from our neighborhood seen by Gaia |
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Tereza Jerabkova | ESA/ESTEC, Noordwijk, The Netherlands | SCI |
Virtual Only |
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Tue 09:45
12 Oct 2021 |
The evolution of our understanding of Mars | Eleni Bohacek | ESA-ESTEC | Breakfast |
ESTEC |
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Thu 15:00
07 Oct 2021 |
Exocomets and the gaseous component around main-sequence stars |
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Isabel Rebollido | Space Telescope Science Institute, Baltimore, MD, USA | SCI |
Virtual Only |
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Tue 09:45
05 Oct 2021 |
Soundings rockets to develop new instruments: the example of the FOXSI sounding rocket | Sophie Musset | ESA-ESTEC | Breakfast |
ESTEC |
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Wed 15:00
29 Sep 2021 |
CHEOPS and exoplanets |
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Didier Queloz | ETH Zürich, Switzerland | SCI |
ESAC D1/D2 |
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Tue 09:45
28 Sep 2021 |
A Research Fellow's journey through the Universe (and ESA) |
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Sandor Kruk | ESA-ESTEC | Breakfast |
ESTEC |
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Thu 15:00
23 Sep 2021 |
On the puzzle of the origin of lithium rich K giant stars |
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Ramiro de la Reza | Observatório Nacional - MCTIC, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil | SCI |
ESAC D1/D2 |
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Tue 09:45
21 Sep 2021 |
Gaia and dust flux at L2: measurements and impact simulations | Marie Liis Aru | ESA-ESTEC | Breakfast |
ESTEC |
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Thu 15:00
16 Sep 2021 |
Focus on the Extremes: Harnessing the Power of Hard X-ray Focusing Optics to Probe Events Ranging from Solar Microflares to Stellar Superflares |
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Juliana Vievering | Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory, Maryland, USA | SCI |
Virtual Only |
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Tue 09:45
14 Sep 2021 |
A 76 day orbital period eclipsing binary detected with ASTEP South from Antarctica | Nicolas Crouzet | ESA-ESTEC | Breakfast |
ESTEC |
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Tue 09:45
07 Sep 2021 |
What to do with the JUICE teams during the long cruise phase? | Olivier Witasse | ESA-ESTEC | Breakfast |
ESTEC |
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Thu 15:00
22 Jul 2021 |
A multi-tracer view on the assembly of galaxy halos and intra-group light in nearby groups and clusters |
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Johanna Hartke | European Southern Observatory, Santiago, Chile | SCI |
Virtual Only |
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Thu 15:00
08 Jul 2021 |
Binaries, galaxies and gravitational waves |
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Martyna Chruślińska | Radboud University / IMAPP, Nijmegen, The Netherlands | SCI |
Virtual Only |
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Tue 09:45
06 Jul 2021 |
1) Star formation loud and quiet in the Magellanic Cloud 2) Re-evaluation of Solar Variations in Apollo 15 XRFS Data | Stella Tsillia, Kas Veken | Leiden University | Breakfast |
ESTEC |
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Thu 15:00
01 Jul 2021 |
Revealing the Source of Jupiter's X-ray Auroral Flares |
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William Dunn | MSSL, University College London, UK | SCI |
Virtual Only |
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Tue 09:45
29 Jun 2021 |
1) Detecting and Measuring Galactic Bars with Deep Learning 2) Atmospheric characterisation of transiting hot Jupiters | Gunnlaugur Helgi Stefánsson, Hritam Chakraborty | Leiden University | Breakfast |
ESTEC |
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Thu 15:00
24 Jun 2021 |
Space-borne gravitational wave detectors -- an overview |
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Oliver Jennrich | ESA/ESTEC, Noordwijk, The Netherlands | SCI |
Virtual Only |
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Tue 09:45
22 Jun 2021 |
Numerical Weather Prediction and Data Assimilation (according to an ex-astrophysicist) | Oliver Lomax | ESA-ESTEC | Breakfast |
ESTEC |
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Thu 15:00
17 Jun 2021 |
The Great Dimming of Betelgeuse: was the most famous red supergiant star blinking at us? |
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Miguel Montargès | LESIA, Observatoire de Paris - PSL, France | SCI |
Virtual Only |
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Tue 09:45
15 Jun 2021 |
X-raying the winds of massive stars using X-ray binaries | Victoria Grinberg | ESA-ESTEC | Breakfast |
ESTEC |
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Thu 15:00
10 Jun 2021 |
The Importance of being Interpretable |
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Michelle Ntampaka | Space Telescope Science Institute, Baltimore, MD, USA | SCI |
Virtual Only |
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Tue 09:45
08 Jun 2021 |
Asteroidal YORP Effect | Marie-Liis Aru | ESA-ESTEC | Breakfast |
ESTEC |
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Thu 15:00
03 Jun 2021 |
Gas-poor clusters: what kind of beasts are they? |
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Stefano Andreon | INAF-OA Brera, Milan, Italy | SCI |
Virtual Only |
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Wed 17:00
02 Jun 2021 |
Diagnostic of the Past History of the Milky Way with Gaia | Teresa Antoja | ICC, Universitat de Barcelona | ESA@STScI |
STScI |
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Tue 09:45
01 Jun 2021 |
Using Martian valley networks to understand the ancient environment and topography of Mars | Rickbir Bahia | ESA-ESTEC | Breakfast |
ESTEC |
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Thu 15:00
27 May 2021 |
Beyond the fiery donut: the Event Horizon Telescope and black hole "engines" |
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Sera Markoff | API/GRAPPA, University of Amsterdam, The Netherlands | SCI |
Virtual Only |
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Thu 15:00
20 May 2021 |
ESASky: a tool for all astronomers |
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Deborah Baines | Quasar Science Resources, ESAC, Madrid, Spain | SCI |
Virtual Only |
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Tue 09:45
18 May 2021 |
CHEOPS Education and Outreach Activities (YGT summary) | Oriel Marshall | ESA-ESTEC | Breakfast |
ESTEC |
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Tue 09:45
11 May 2021 |
The main principles of extra-atmospheric space law | Sarah Joiret | ESA-ESTEC | Breakfast |
ESTEC |
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Thu 15:00
06 May 2021 |
Supercomputer insights into the messy physics of galaxy formation |
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Volker Springel | Max Planck Institute for Astrophysics, Garching, Germany | SCI |
Virtual Only |
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Tue 09:45
04 May 2021 |
May the brick be with you - Why building a space station is like playing with Lego | Christoph Ruge | University of Stuttgart | Breakfast |
ESTEC |
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Thu 15:00
22 Apr 2021 |
Near-Earth objects: space exploration and planetary defense |
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Julia de León | Instituto de Astrofísica de Canarias, La Palma, Spain | SCI |
Virtual Only |
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Tue 09:45
20 Apr 2021 |
Martian Mutual Radio Occultation | Jacob Parrott | ESA-ESTEC | Breakfast |
ESTEC |
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Thu 15:00
15 Apr 2021 |
Deciphering Mars chronicles by space missions |
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Dmitri Titov | ESA/ESTEC, Noordwijk, The Netherlands | SCI |
Virtual Only |
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Tue 09:45
13 Apr 2021 |
Science communication and education in the time of COVID-19 | Sandor Kruk | ESA-ESTEC | Breakfast |
ESTEC |
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Thu 15:00
08 Apr 2021 |
Exploring the deep and variable X-ray sky with the catalogue from overlapping XMM-Newton observations |
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Iris Traulsen | Leibniz Institute for Astrophysics, AIP, Potsdam, Germany | SCI |
Virtual Only |
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Tue 09:45
06 Apr 2021 |
The measurement of Newton’s constant (from Westphal et al. 2020) | Oliver Jennrich | ESA-ESTEC | Breakfast |
ESTEC |
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Tue 09:45
30 Mar 2021 |
News about the origin of the martian moons (from Bagheri et al. 2021) | Olivier Witasse | ESA-ESTEC | Breakfast |
ESTEC |
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Thu 15:00
25 Mar 2021 |
The ExoMars Trace Gas Orbiter |
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Hakan Svedhem | ESA/ESTEC, Noordwijk, The Netherlands | SCI |
Virtual Only |
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Tue 09:45
23 Mar 2021 |
Microscopic dissection of Nicolas’ star with the Gaia telescope | Jos de Bruijne | ESA-ESTEC | Breakfast |
ESTEC |
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Tue 09:45
16 Mar 2021 |
Searching for gravitational lenses in the Hubble telescope archive | Emily Omaya Garvin | ESA-ESTEC | Breakfast |
ESTEC |
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Thu 15:00
11 Mar 2021 |
Hierarchical models and asteroseismic rotation |
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Oliver Hall | ESA/ESTEC, Noordwijk, The Netherlands | SCI |
Virtual Only |
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Tue 09:45
09 Mar 2021 |
How to understand stars and supernovae by looking at... galaxy clusters | Francois Mernier | ESA-ESTEC | Breakfast |
ESTEC |
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Thu 15:00
04 Mar 2021 |
Hubble Asteroid Hunter: exploring data archives with citizen science and deep learning |
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Sandor Kruk | ESA/ESTEC, Noordwijk, The Netherlands | SCI |
Virtual Only |
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Tue 09:45
02 Mar 2021 |
Mysterious X-ray flashes from the Moon | Erik Kuulkers | ESA-ESTEC | Breakfast |
ESTEC |
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Thu 15:00
25 Feb 2021 |
Probing water-rock-organic chemistry interactions in the early terrestrial planets: why is Oxia Planum the right landing site for ExoMars 2022? |
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Jorge Vago & Elliot Sefton-Nash | ESA/ESAC, Madrid, Spain | SCI |
Virtual Only |
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Tue 09:45
23 Feb 2021 |
Can we learn what stellar surfaces look like from light curves from TESS & CHEOPS? | Gaitee Hussain | ESA-ESTEC | Breakfast |
ESTEC |
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Thu 15:00
18 Feb 2021 |
How to Build a Big Galaxy |
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Adam Muzzin | York University, Toronto, Canada | SCI |
Virtual Only |
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Tue 09:45
09 Feb 2021 |
Uncertainties on meteoroid orbital elements | Sarah Joiret | ESA-ESTEC | Breakfast |
ESTEC |
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Thu 15:00
04 Feb 2021 |
X-ray reverberation mapping accreting black holes |
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William Alston | ESA/ESAC, Madrid, Spain | SCI |
Virtual Only |
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Tue 09:45
02 Feb 2021 |
Demonstrating redshift in the classroom | Oriel Marshall | ESA-ESTEC | Breakfast |
ESTEC |
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Tue 09:45
19 Jan 2021 |
Two recent papers about dynamical masses of sub-stellar companions | Daniel Michalik | ESA-ESTEC | Breakfast |
ESTEC |
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Tue 09:45
12 Jan 2021 |
Exploring the atmospheric composition of gas giant exoplanets | Ezequiel Gonzalez | ESA-ESTEC | Breakfast |
ESTEC |
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