Highlights of Spanish Astrophysics IV: Proceedings of the VII Scientific Meeting of the Spanish Astronomical Society (SEA) held in Barcelona, Spain, September 12-15, 2006 (Highlights of Spanish Astrophysics)

This volume documents the contributions presented at the Seventh Scientific Meeting of the Spanish Astronomical Society (Sociedad Espa?±ola de Astronom?­a, SEA). The event bought together 301 participants who presented 161 contributed talks and 120 posters, the greatest numbers up to now. The fact that most exciting items of the current astronomical research were addressed in the meeting proofs the good health of the SEA, a consolidated organization founded fifteen years ago in Barcelona. Two plenary sessions of the meeting were devoted to the approved entrance of Spain as a full member of the European Southern Observatory (ESO) and to the imminent first light of the greatest telescope in the world, the GTC (Gran Telescopio de Canarias), milestones that will certainly lead the Spanish Astronomy in the next future. 140205999X......Page 1 Contents......Page 5 Preface......Page 9 Organizing Committees and Sponsors......Page 11 List of Participants......Page 13 Session I: Spain in ESO......Page 21 Youth, Accretion, and Mass Loss at the End of the Main Sequence......Page 22 The European Extremely Large Telescope......Page 34 Gamma Ray Bursts: Lighthouses of the Universe......Page 48 The VIMOS VLT Deep Survey (VVDS)......Page 60 Session II: Science with GTC......Page 68 Galaxy Surveys in the Era of Large Ground-Based Observatories......Page 69 The GTC 10 m Telescope: Getting Ready for First Light......Page 80 OSIRIS: Status and Science......Page 87 EMIR, the GTC NIR Multiobject Imager-Spectrograph......Page 97 CanariCam: Instrument Status and Frontier Science......Page 107 Session III: S.E.A. prizes......Page 119 Radiative Transfer in Molecular Lines. Astrophysical Applications......Page 120 The Star Formation History of Early-type Galaxies as a Function of Environment......Page 132 Session IV: Galaxies and cosmology......Page 143 Galaxy Evolution in Galaxy Clusters: Diffuse Light in the Virgo Cluster......Page 144 The Quest for Obscured AGN at Cosmological Distances: Infrared Power-Law Galaxies......Page 156 AMIGA: A New Model of Galaxy Formation and Evolution......Page 169 The Innermost Regions of Active Galactic Nuclei – From Radio to X-rays......Page 177 Gaussian Analysis of the CMB with the Smooth Tests of Goodness of Fit......Page 189 Dark Matter in Galaxy Clusters......Page 197 Cosmology with the Largest Scale Structures: Probing Dark Energy......Page 204 Observational Cosmology at High Redshift......Page 212 An Hα Approach to the Evolution of the Galaxy Population of the Universe......Page 220 Session V: The Galaxy and its components......Page 228 Multi-Wavelength Astronomy and the Unidentified γ-ray Sources......Page 229 The Disc and Plane of the Milky Way in the Near Infrared......Page 241 AGB Stars: Nucleosynthesis and Open Problems......Page 249 Studying Galaxy Formation and Evolution from Local Group Galaxies......Page 257 Gaia: A Major Step in the Knowledge of Our Galaxy......Page 265 Cepheus A, a Laboratory for Testing and Opening New Theories on High-mass Star Formation......Page 273 Session VI: The Sun and planetary systems......Page 279 A Look into the Guts of Sunspots......Page 280 Earth-like Exoplanets. Darwin: Stellar Targets and Precursor Science......Page 288 How the Comet 9P/Tempel 1 has Behaved Before, During, and After the Deep Impact Event......Page 295 Heliospheric Energetic Particle Variability Over the Solar Cycle......Page 303 Two Years of Saturn's Exploration by the Cassini Spacecraft: Atmospheric Studies......Page 311 A New Way for Exploring Solar and Stellar Magnetic Fields......Page 319 Session VII: Observatories and instrumentation......Page 327 The MAGIC Telescopes (and Beyond...)......Page 328 Present and Future of Astronomy at the Observatorio del Teide......Page 337 Prospects for the William Herschel Telescope......Page 345 VO Science. The Spanish Virtual Observatory......Page 351 Appendix: Table of Contents of the CD-Rom......Page 359 G......Page 371 T......Page 372 Z......Page 373 This volume documents the contributions presented at the Seventh Scientific Meeting of the Spanish Astronomical Society (Sociedad Española de Astronomía, SEA). The event bought together 301 participants who presented 161 contributed talks and 120 posters, the greatest numbers up to now. The fact that most exciting items of the current astronomical research were addressed in the meeting proofs the good health of the SEA, a consolidated organization founded fifteen years ago in Barcelona. Two plenary sessions of the meeting were devoted to the approved entrance of Spain as a full member of the European Southern Observatory (ESO) and to the imminent first light of the greatest telescope in the world, the GTC (Gran Telescopio de Canarias), milestones that will certainly lead the Spanish Astronomy in the next future.

This volume documents the contributions presented at the Seventh Scientific Meeting of the Spanish Astronomical Society (Sociedad Española de Astronomía, SEA). The event bought together 301 participants who presented 161 contributed talks and 120 posters, the greatest number of contributions in the history of the meeting. The fact that most exciting items of the current astronomical research were addressed in the meeting is proof of the good health of the SEA, a consolidated organization founded fifteen years ago in Barcelona.

This volume documents the contributions presented at the Seventh Scientific Meeting of the Spanish Astronomical Society (Sociedad Española de Astronomía, SEA). The event bought together 301 participants who presented 161 contributed talks and 120 posters, the greatest number of contributions in the history of the meeting. The fact that most exciting items of the current astronomical research were addressed in the meeting is proof of the good health of the SEA, a consolidated organization founded fifteen years ago in Barcelona. This volume documents the contributions presented at the Seventh Scientific Meeting of the Spanish Astronomical Society (Sociedad Espanola de Astronomia, SEA). The event bought together 301 participants who presented 161 contributed talks and 120 posters, the greatest number of contributions in the history of the meeting.