International Consortia
The massive star group at the CAB takes leadership roles in multiple international consortia focused on massive stars and current and future ground- and space-based instrumentation.
- Future space missions: PRIMA, HWO
- Future ground-based instruments: ELT-HARMONI, ELT-MOSAIC, GTC-MIRADAS, VLT-BlueMUSE, TARSIS
- VLT FLAMES Tarantula Survey (VFTS)
- ULLYSES: Ultraviolet spectroscopy of metal-poor massive stars: LMC, SMC and dwarf irregular galaxies of the Local Group (https://ullyses.stsci.edu/index.html).
- XSHOOTU: Optical follow-up of ULLYSES targets with VLT-XSHOOTER. (https://massivestars.org/xshootu/)
- 4MOST survey, 1001 Magellanic Clouds Survey
- Binary at Low Metallicity (BLOeM) campaign
- WEAVE survey, Stellar, Circumstellar and Interstellar Physics (SCIP) survey
- International science team of EMIR and MEGARA,
respectively, both developed for the Gran Telescopio Canarias. - Spanish coordinated massive stars team (Grupo español de estrellas masivas, GEEMAS).
- MASGOMAS team, a project to execute IR spectroscopy to discover new clusters of massive stars hidden by dust in the Milky Way
Collaborators
- Artemio Herrero, Instituto de Astrofísica de Canarias
- Daniel J. Lennon, Instituto de Astrofísica de Canarias
- Sergio Simón-Díaz, Instituto de Astrofísica de Canarias
- Amparo Marco, Universidad de Alicante
- Ignacio Negueruela, Universidad de Alicante
- Rainer Schödel, Instituto de Astrofísica de Andalucía
- Jesús Maíz Apellániz, Centro de Astrobiología – Villafranca, Spain
- Joachim Puls, Universitäts-Sternwarte München, Germany
- Don F. Figer, Rochester Institute of Technology, USA
- Tom R. Geballe, Gemini North Observatory, USA
- Norbert Przybilla and Miguel A. Urbaneja Pérez, Universität Innsbruck, Austria
- Chistopher J. Evans, ESA delegate at Space Telescope Science Institute, USA
- Martin Roth, Leibniz-Institut für Astrophysik Potsdam (AIP), Germany
- Norberto Castro Rodríguez, Leibniz-Institut für Astrophysik Potsdam (AIP), Germany
- Maria-Rosa Cioni, Leibniz-Institut für Astrophysik Potsdam (AIP), Germany
- Marcus Lohr, The Open University, UK
- John D. Hillier, University of Pittsburgh , USA
- Alex W. Fullerton, Space Telescope Science Institute, USA
- Aida Wofford, Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México, Ensenada, Mexico
- Jean-Claude Bouret, Laboratoire d’Astrophysique de Marseille, France
- Jura Borissova, Millennium Institute of Astrophysics and Universidad de Valparaíso, Chile
- Sebastián Ramírez-Alegría, Centro de Astronomía, Universidad de Antofagasta, Chile
- Luis J. Corral Escobedo, Universidad de Guadalajara, Mexico
- Andreas Sander, University of Heidelberg, Germany
- Sylvia Ekström, University of Geneve, Switzerland
- Fabrice Martins, University of Montpelier, France
- Jean Claude Bouret, Laboratoire d’Astrophysique de Marseille, France
- Tomer Shenar, Tel Aviv University, Israel
- Julia Bodensteiner, University of Amsterdam, Netherlands
- Alex de Koter, University of Amsterdam, Netherlands
- Mitchel Stoop, University of Amsterdam, Netherlands
- Hugues Sana, Institute of Astronomy, KU Leuven, Belgium
- Nikolay Britavisky, Royal Observatory of Belgium, Belgium
- Norbert Langer, Universität Bonn & Max-Planck-Institut für Radioastronomie, Germany
- Abel Schootemeijer, Universität Bonn & Max-Planck-Institut für Radioastronomie, Germany
- David Thilker, Johns Hopkins University, USA
- Luciana Bianchi, Johns Hopkins University, USA
- Martha Boyer, Space Telescope Science Institute, USA
- Fabian Schneider, Heidelberger Institut für Theoretische Studien (HITS), Germany
- Maria Bergemann, Max Planck Institute for Astronomy in Heidelberg, Germany
The following conference photos from the VFTS2024 meeting in Madrid (above) and from the Munichfest2025 in La Palma (below) meeting contains many of the collaborators in the list above.
