Massive Stars Group CAB-Torrejón

The US National Academy of Sciences, Engineering and Medicine carried out the Astro2020 Decadal Survey on Astronomy and Astrophysics, in order to identify the big research challenges of the next decade, and the technology needed to tackled them. CAB-masivas led a white paper on metal-poor massive stars, crucial objects to understand star formation accross Cosmic History and other relevant objects such as Gravitational Wave progenitors. The next breakthrough on metal-poor massive stars requires a large telescope in space with UV capabilities, such as LUVOIR.

Check out CAB’s press release here.

CAB-masivas and other European colleagues met at the IAC in February 2019, seizing the great opportunity of Alex Fullerton’s visit to the IAC. As usual, the meeting became an exchange of progress reports, trouble-shooting work, experience on analysis techniques, and ideas for future projects, while having a great time with our friends.

Paco Najarro and the Spanish members of the SPICA consortium organized the 2018th Fall meeting at INTA. The meeting gathered more than 100 scientists and engineers from all over the world.

The Grupo Español de Estrellas MasivaS (GEEMAS) met in Biar (Alicante) in March 2018th. GEEMAS unites the Spanish experts on massive stars working in Spain or abroad. Our meetings provide the framework to report progress on our many lines of research, share our expertise on analysis techniques, and to discuss our long-term strategy as a group.

Paco Najarro and other CAB scientists in the SAFARI-SPICA consortium attended the SPICA 2019 conference “Exploring the Infrarred Universe: The Promise of SPICA”. The conference was held on 20th-23rd May at the Island of Crete, Greece.