The ASSESS team is joining the 15th Hellenic Astronomical Conference, organized biennially by the Hellenic Astronomical Society. This is one of the greatest opportunities to meet old friends but, unfortunately, this time we will not mange to meet in Patras. Instead, it’s going to be held virtually from 5 to …
The ASSESS team is joining the European Astronomical Society’s conference 2021. Although planned to meet in person in Leiden (28 June – 2 July, 2021), due to the ongoing pandemic the conference became a virtual one. Alceste has a plenary talk entitled “New developments and challenges in massive star evolution”, …
The Institute for Astronomy, Astrophysics, Space Applications and Remote Sensing (IAASARS) of the National Observatory of Athens invites applications for1postdoctoralpositionon modeling evolved massive stars in nearby galaxies in the framework of the ERC consolidator grant titled “Episodic Mass Loss in Massive Stars: Key to Understanding the Explosive Early Universe” (ASSESS). …
2020 has been a crazy year with a lot of restrictions, cancellations, and remote working. Observatories have been affected also, with many facilities forced to stop operations and shut down for a long time. Although we have been successful with obtaining telescope time at ESO and GTC, we faced a …
The pandemic of Covid-19 has obviously affected our observing runs also. ESO is (still) totally shut down while GTC after some off period it seems that it is under some limited operation. Our accepted observing program with GTC includes Mulit-Object Spectroscopic observations with the OSIRIS instrument. For this we need …
The ASSESS team is joining the Massive Stars IAU Symposium 361 titled “Massive Stars Near and Far“, held in Ballyconnell, Ireland (May 18-22). The SOC has offered Alceste a talk “Introducing the ASSESS project: Episodic Mass Loss in Evolved Massive Stars: Key to Understanding the Explosive Early Universe”, while while …
Double success! Our GTC proposal to observe with OSIRIS has been also accepted (42 hours)! Now we need to work hard on the preparations for both these and the ESO observations. But we are really happy that we managed to get these observations as they are critical for our project.
Success! We just got notified that our observing proposal for FORS at 8.2m VLT has passed with a high grade. Although we got just a bit less time than what we asked for (39 hours instead of 43) we will obtain many useful data. Let’s go plan these observations now!
On December 13th (2019) we organized a machine-learning workshop at the premises of the IAASARS/NOA, at Penteli (Greece). The goal of this particular workshop was to enhance the interaction between the researchers of the National Observatory of Athens and the Athena Research Center. The former presented challenges from their own fields …
