Highlights of Spanish Astrophysics V, 2010
Astrophysics and Space Science Proceedings Series

Astronomy is a scienti?c discipline that has developed a rapid and impressive growth in Spain. Thirty years ago, Spain occupied a purely anecdotal presence in the international context, but today it occupies the eighth position in the world in publication of astronomical articles, and, among other successes, owns and op- ates ninety per cent of the world?s largest optical telescope GTC (Gran Telescopio Canarias). The Eighth Scienti?c Meeting of the Spanish Astronomical Society (Sociedad Espanol ? a de Astronom? a, SEA), held in Santander in July 7?11 2008, whose p- ceedings are in your hands, clearly shows the enthusiasm, motivation and quality of the present Spanish astronomical community. The event brought together 322 participants, who represent almost 50% of Spanish professional astronomers. This percentage, together with the continuously increasing, with respect to previous SEA meetings, number of oral presentations and poster contributions (179 and 127 respectively), con?rms that the SEA conferences have become a point of reference to assess the interests and achievements of astrophysical research in Spain. The most important and current topics of modern Astrophysics were taken into accountat thepreliminarymeeting,aswell as the numberandqualityofparticipants and their contributions, to select the invited speakers and oral contributors. We took a week to enjoy the high quality contributions submitted by Spanish astronomers to the Scienti?c Organizing Committee. The selection was dif?cult. We wish to acknowledge the gentle advice and commitment of the SOC members.

PLENARY SESSIONS.- New Insights into X-ray Binaries.- OSIRIS: Final Characterization and Scientific Capabilities.- Gravitational Lenses: An Update.- First Scientific Results from the ALHAMBRA: Survey.- Magnetic Fingerprints of Solar and Stellar Oscillations.- The Search for Gravitational Waves: Opening a New Window into the Universe.- SEA PRIZE.- Formation, Evolution and Multiplicity of Brown Dwarfs and Giant Exoplanets.- GALAXIES AND COSMOLOGY.- An Overview of the Current Status of CMB Observations.- The Anisotropic Redshift Space Galaxy Correlation Function: Detection on the BAO Ring.- UKIDSS: Surveying the Sky in the Near-IR.- Galaxies Hosting AGN Activity and Their Environments.- The QUIJOTE CMB Experiment.- THE GALAXY AND ITS COMPONENTS.- The AB Doradus System Revisited: The Dynamical Mass of AB Dor A.- Spectrophotometry with Gaia.- The Least Massive (Sub)Stellar Component of the Milky Way.- A Pilot Survey of Stellar Tidal Streams in Nearby Spiral Galaxies.- Massive Young Stellar Clusters in the Milky Way.- THE SUN AND THE SOLAR SYSTEM.- The Impact of Energetic Particle Precipitation on the Earths Atmosphere.- Marco Polo: Hunting and Capture of Material from a Primitive Asteroid.- OBSERVATORIES AND INSTRUMENTATION.- The DUNE Mission.- The Nordic Optical Telescope.- The Space Telescope for Ultraviolet Astronomy WSO–UV.- Science in the Spanish Virtual Observatory.- TEACHING AND OUTREACH OF ASTRONOMY.- Contributions of the Spanish Astronomical Society to the International Year of Astronomy 2009.- Confieso que Divulgo. Reflexiones y Experiencias de una Astrofísica.- ABSTRACTS OF THE CONTRIBUTIONS IN THE ONLINE EXTRA MATERIALS.- VIMOS-VLT Two-Dimensional Kinematics of Local Luminous Infrared Galaxies.- Recovering the Real-Space Correlation Function from Photometric Redshift Surveys.- Probing Outer Disk Stellar Populations.- Deconstructing the K-Band Number Counts.- Extremely Compact Massive Galaxies at 1.7 < z < 3.- Cold Dark Matter Halos Based on Collisionless Boltzmann–Poisson Polytropes.- Use of Neural Networks for the Identification of New z > 3.6 QSOs from FIRST–SDSS DR5.- Integral Field Spectroscopy of Local Luminous Compact Blue Galaxies: NGC 7673, a Case Study.- Blue Massive Stars in NGC 55: A First Quantitative Study.- A Morphological Study of Sigma-Drop Galaxies.- Average Iron Line Emission from Distant AGN.- The WMAP Cold Spot.- Constraints on the Non-linear Coupling Parameter fnl Using the CMB.- Kinematics of Inner Bars. The Stellar ?-Hollows.- Gas on the Virgo Cluster from WMAP and ROSAT Observations.- N-body Simulations of the Rees-Sciama Effect.- Bulges of Disk Galaxies at Intermediate Redshifts: Nuclear Densities and Colours.- Cosmic Evolution of Active Galactic Nuclei.- The Buildup of E–S0 Galaxies at z < 2 from Pure Luminosity Evolution Models.- Evolution of the Tully–Fisher Relation.- Color Dependence of the Truncation of the Stellar Disc.- Cosmological Analysis of the Satellite Galaxy Distribution.- Extremely Red Objects in a Hierarchical Universe.- Near-Infrared and Optical Observations of Galactic Warps.- Morphological Evolution from z ~ 2 in the COSMOS Field from Ks-Band Imaging.- High-Resolution Optical Spectroscopy of Radio Broad Absorption Line Quasars.- Metallicity Estimates with SDSS–DR6.- The Merger Fraction Evolution up to z ~ 1.- New Empirical Fitting Functions for the Lick/IDS Indices Using MILES.- Modelling Starburst in HII Galaxies: from Chemical to Spectro-Photometric Evolutionary Self-Consistent Models.- Studying Barred Galaxies by Means of Numerical Simulations.- Photometric and Kinematic Characterization of Tidal Dwarf Galaxy Candidates.- Chemical Enrichment of Spiral Galaxies: Metallicity–Luminosity Relation.- Studying the Population of Radio-Loud Broad Absorption Line Quasars (BAL QSOs) from the Sloan Digital Sky Survey.- Origin of the Near-UV Light in the Circumnuclear Regions of Seyfert Galaxies.- Radial Distribution of Dust Properties in Nearby Galaxies.- Calibration of Star Formation Rate Tracers Using Evolutionary Synthesis Models.- MAGIC Observations of Active Galactic Nuclei.- Baryonic Matter at Supercluster Scales: The Case of the Corona Borealis Supercluster.- Spitzer/IRS Mapping of Local Luminous Infrared Galaxies.- Observational Evidence of Different Evolutionary Stages in Galactic Bars.- OTELO Survey: Deep BVRI Broad-Band Photometry of the Groth Strip: Number Counts and Two-Point Correlation Functions.- Spitzer View on the Downsizing Scenario of Galaxy Formation and the Role of AGN.- Search for H? Emitters in Galaxy Clusters with Tunable Filters.- Exploring Mergers of Galaxy Clusters in a Cosmological Context.- OTELO Survey: Properties of X-ray Emitters in the Groth Field – I. Optical Counterparts and Morphological Classification.- Red Galaxies in the GOYA Photometric Survey: Passive and Dusty Star-Forming Galaxies.- Spectral Energy Distribution of Hyper-Luminous Infrared Galaxies.- AMIGA Project. Radio Continuum and Nuclear Activity in a Complete Sample of Isolated Galaxies.- Cosmological Vector Perturbations and CMB Anomalies.- On the Fractal Distribution of HII Regions in Disk Galaxies.- OTELO Survey: X–ray Emitters in the Groth Field – II. Properties of the AGN Population.- A New Veto Strategy for Continuous Gravitational Wave Signals.- Observing Supermassive Black Hole Binary Systems with LISA.- Cosmic Evolution of Stellar Disk Truncations.- Robotic Optical Monitoring of a Compact Lens System: FBQ 0951+2635 in the i Sloan Filter.- Distance Determination to the Andromeda Galaxy Using Variable Stars.- Star Formation in Bars: Where and Why?.- Origin of the Moving Groups and Their Contribution to the Determination of the Large-scale Galactic Potential.- Spectroscopy of Pre-CV Candidates in the Open Cluster M 67.- Spitzer/IRAC Young Stellar Objects Candidates in 30 Doradus.- An Application of the Mayrit Catalogue: Very Wide Binaries in the ? Orionis Cluster.- Preliminary Results on a Virtual Observatory Search for Companions to Luyten stars.- High-Energy Emission from Microquasars (with BH).- Tidal Remnants Around the Galactic Globular Clusters NGC1851 and NGC1904.- Calibration Model for Gaia Photometry and Spectrophotometry.- Testing the Initial–Final Mass Relationship of White Dwarfs.- Unveiling New Quiescent Black Holes with IPHAS.- Results of the Analysis of Several Galactic Sources Observed by MAGIC.- Weak Flares on M-Dwarfs.- Herbig–Haro Objects and Protoplanetary Discs.- Diffusion of Cosmic-Rays and Gamma-Ray Sources.- SWIFT J195509+261406: Dramatic Flaring Activity from a New Galactic Magnetar.- Pulsating B and Be Stars in the Magellanic Clouds.- Constraints to the Proposed Close-in Perturber to GJ 436 b.- FR Cnc Nature Revisited.- Massive Stars with Weak Winds.- Numerical Modeling of Type Ia Supernovae Explosions.- GALEP, Spectral Mapping of the Inner Galaxy with EMIR.- And the Oscar Goes to: BD+20 1790 for “The Mystery of the Unseen Companion“.- GUMS & GOG: Simulating the Universe for Gaia.- HD 64315: A Very Massive Spectroscopic Binary.- Spectroscopic Studies of Nearby Cool Stars: The DUNES Sample.- Simultaneous Modelling of the Complete SN1993J Expansion and Radio Light Curves.- High Resolution Spectroscopic Characterization of the FGK Stars in the Solar Neighbourhood.- Optical Spectroscopic Monitoring of Pre-Main Sequence Stars: The UXOr Sub-Sample.- Identification of Isolated Post T Tauri Stars in the Solar Neighborhood.- Interstellar Reddening Determination Trough the 2200 Å Dust Absorption Band.- Low-Mass Stars as Tests for Stellar Models.- A Kinematical Study of the Galactic Disk Using Red Clump Stars.- High Energy Sources Monitored with OMC.- Photoelectric Absorption in the Stellar Wind of the Binary System 4U 1538–52/QV Nor.- Distribution for the Regular Component of the Galactic Magnetic Field Using 5-Year WMAP Data.- The Origin of the Galactic 26Al and 60Fe.- CdC-SF Catalogue.II: Application of its Proper Motions to Open Clusters.- The Sun and the Solar System.- Dynamics and Clouds in Jupiter Equatorial Zone.- Turbulence in Jupiter’s Clouds.- The Importance of the Nucleus Rotation on the Size of the Dust Particle Ejected from Comets.- Venus Spectrophotometry During the MESSENGER Mission Fly-By.- Three Dimensional Structure of Penumbral Filaments from Hinode Observations.- The Temporal Evolution of Linear Fast and Alfvén MHD Waves in Solar Coronal Arcades.- Structure and Dynamics of Penumbral Filaments.- A VO Archive for the DSS-63 Antenna at Robledo.- BLAST: Study of the Earliest Stages of Galactic Star Formation.- The EUCLID–NIS Mission.- Final Optical Design of PANIC, a Wide-Field Infrared Camera for CAHA.- Searching for Good Blank Regions in the Sky for Flatfielding.- EURECA: The X-ray Universe in High Spectral Resolution.- AXIS–SVO Data Centre Creation.- XMM–Newton Data Analysis with SAS Software Over GRID Technology.- CIRCE: The Canarias InfraRed Camera Experiment.- Design of Wide Band Bow-Tie Slot Antennas for Multi-Frequency Operation in CMB Experiments.- OAdM Observatory: Towards Fully Unattended Control.- Status of MAGIC and the CTA Project.- In the Search of Exoplanets.- First Results of the Optical Speckle Interferometry with the 3.5 m Telescope at Calar Alto (Spain): Measurements and Orbits of Visual Binaries.- The INTEGRAL–OMC Scientific Archive.- Observatorio Astronómico De Cantabria.- A Displayer of Stellar Hydrodynamics Processes.- GUAIX: The UCM Group of Extragalactic Astrophysics and Astronomical Instrumentation.- ASTRONET: Towards a Strategic Plan for European Astronomy.- Development of a Virtual Observatory Tool for the Characterization of Stellar Objects in the DUNES Project Framework.- Simulations of Array Configurations for the Square Kilometre Array (SKA).- Metallicity Estimation Using N2 Method with OSIRIS.- Supervised Star Classification System for the OMC Archive.- Preparation of the Gaia Data Processing: First Astrometric Results.- Fast-Switching in the Submillimeter Array: A Step Toward Gain Calibration in ALMA.- The Gaia Simulator: Design and Results.- Infrared Instrumentation for Dome C: Conceptual Design.- Data Quality Check and On-Site Analysis of the MAGIC Telescope.- Free Software in Astronomy: Fedora Astronomy.- A Fully GTC-Compliant Pipeline for the Direct Imaging Mode of EMIR.- Calar Alto Academy.- INSA Scientific Activities in the Space Astronomy Area.- Theoretical Models in the Virtual Observatory.- Searching for New Hot Subdwarfs by Means of the Virtual Observatory.- Virtual Observatory Activities in the AMIGA Group.- Light Pollution in Spain: A European Perspective.- The Herschel Space Observatory: Mission Overview and Observing Opportunities.- Astrophysics on the Edge: New Instrumental Developments at the ING.- Data Mining Projects, Discoveries and Statistics in Large Astronomical Archives: The Astrostatistics Group of the Spanish Virtual Observatory.- Gas Cell Development for Infrared Spectra Calibration.- The COROT Archive at LAEFF.- The Music and The Astronomy.- Failed Subject: Communication and Didactics of Astronomy.- Teaching and Communicating Astronomy at Rey Juan Carlos University.- I Workshop on Science and Astronomy at the DAM of the UB.- Astronomical Activities with Disabled People.- PARTNeR: A Tool for Outreach and Teaching Astronomy.