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Rafael Rebolo López

Rafael Rebolo López (born September 12, 1961, in Cartagena, Spain) is a Spanish astrophysicist. In October 2013 he became the director of the Instituto de Astrofísica de Canarias[1] (Institute of Astrophysics of the Canary Islands; IAC). He is a professor at the Spanish National Research Council. In 2002 Rebolo became an external professor at the Max Planck Institute for Astronomy and a member of the Max Planck Society.

Rafael Rebolo López
Rafael Rebolo
Born
Cartagena, Spain
CitizenshipSpanish
EducationPhD, astrophysics
Alma materUniversity of Grenada, University La Laguna
Awards
  • Jaime I Research Prize (2001)
  • Medalla de Honor al Fomento de la Invención (2004)
  • Jules Janssen prize (2014)
  • Premio Nacional de Investigación Blas Cabrera (2018)
Scientific career
InstitutionsInstitute of Astrophysics of the Canary Islands, Consejo Superior de Investigaciones Científicas,

Education

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Rebolo earned a degree in physics from the University of Granada in 1984 and a doctorate in astrophysics from the University of La Laguna in 1987.[2]

Career

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1984 Rafael Rebolo began as a researcher at the Institute of Astrophysics of the Canary Islands ( IAC).

1997-1999 served as head of the IAC Research Division. In 1998

1998 Rebolo began to serve as a Spanish National Research Council (CSIC) Professor of Research in Physical Science

2002 Rebolo became a member of the Max Planck Society and External Professor at the Max Planck Institute for Astronomy in Heidelberg.[3][4][5]

Rebolo has developed research projects in cosmology,[6] in stellar physics[7][5] and exoplanets,[8] involving the study of the cosmic microwave background,[9][10] the characterization of sub-stellar objects [11][8] and black holes[12] and the search for Earth-like exoplanets.[7]

 
The TNG is a 3.58-meter Italian telescope, located at the "Roque de los Muchachos" Observatory in the Canary Islands, Spain.

Rebolo and his team were responsible for the discovery in 1995 of the first brown dwarfs[7][13][9] Brown dwarfs are objects with properties intermediate between stars and giant planets.[14][15] He was part of the discovery of several giant extrasolar planets in 2000,[9][16] Rebolo provided empirical evidence in 1999 of the physical connection between supernovae and black holes.[17] He has been a pioneer in Spain in the experimental research of the cosmic microwave background.[18][12][19] Rebolo has developed experiments in astrophysical observation at the Observatorio del Teide in collaboration with the Universities of Manchester and Cambridge.

 
Brown dwarf, artists conception, smaller than a star bigger than a planet

Rebolo leads the QUIJOTE consortium for measuring the polarization of the cosmic microwave background[20][21] with telescopes in Tenerife.[22] He is co-director of a high-precision spectrograph[16][23] ESPRESSO for detecting exo-Earths [16][24] with the 8 m Very Large Telescope (VLT) ) in Chile, and the AOLI project for high spatial resolution imaging[25] on the 4.2 m William Herschel Telescope at the Roque de los Muchachos Observatory in La Palma, Canary Islands. He is co-investigator of the European Space Agency’s Planck[16][10] and Euclid space missions, and member of the Board of the 10.4 m Gran Telescopio Canarias (GTC) and the Cherenkov Telescope Array. He was also a member of the science committee of the 40 m E-ELT telescope, the steering committees of several European networks in astronomy (OPTICON; EARA) and the US (AURA) and the Scientific Committee "Science Vision for European Astronomy" and co-chair of the "Stars and Planets" panel. He is Scientific director of the "IAC: Severo Ochoa Centre of Excellence" program since 2011.[26]

Awards and honors

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Rebolo is a corresponding member of the Royal Academy of Exact, Physical and Natural Sciences of Spain, Academician of the Academy of Science and Engineering Lanzarote, Honorary Academician of the Academy of Sciences of the Region of Murcia, Doctor Honoris Causa from the Polytechnic University of Cartagena.

  • Iberdrola Prize of Science and Technology (2000)
  • Jaime I Research Prize (2001)
  • Canary Islands Prize for Research (2002)
  • Medalla de Honor al Fomento de la Invención / Medal of Honor for the Promotion of the Invention (2004)[27]
  • Jules Janssen Prize of the French Astronomical Society (2015)
  • Premio Naciional de Investigación Blas Cabrera (2018)

References

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  1. ^ "Instituto de Astrofísica de Canarias - IAC - Educational Outreach". www.iac.es (in Spanish). Archived from the original on 2017-11-11. Retrieved 2017-04-05.
  2. ^ "Rafael Rebolo the new Director of the Instituto de Astrofísica de Canarias". Archived from the original on 2016-08-17. Retrieved 2016-07-12.
  3. ^ Martín, Eduardo L.; Rebolo, Rafael (November–December 1997). "The Discovery of Brown Dwarfs: These substellar objects had eluded astronomers' telescopes for decades". American Scientist. 85 (6). Sigma Xi, The Scientific Research Honor Society: 522–529. JSTOR 27856888.
  4. ^ Very low-mass stars and brown dwarfs. Rebolo, Rafael; Zapatero-Osorio, Maria Rosa; "Three-Islands" Euroconference on "Stellar Clusters and Associations" (1st : 1998 : Palma, Canary Islands). Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. 2000. ISBN 0521663350. OCLC 45336869.{{cite book}}: CS1 maint: others (link)
  5. ^ a b Planck Collaboration; Adam, R.; Ade, P. A. R.; Aghanim, N.; Arnaud, M.; Aumont, J.; Baccigalupi, C.; Banday, A. J.; Barreiro, R. B.; Bartlett, J. G.; Bartolo, N. (February 2016). "Planck intermediate results: XXX. The angular power spectrum of polarized dust emission at intermediate and high Galactic latitudes". Astronomy & Astrophysics. 586: A133. arXiv:1409.5738. Bibcode:2016A&A...586A.133P. doi:10.1051/0004-6361/201425034. S2CID 9857299.
  6. ^ Lopez, Ramon J. Garcia (1993). "Convection, Chromospheric Heating, and Mixing of Material in Main-Sequence F-type Stars". Publications of the Astronomical Society of the Pacific. 105 (687): 560. Bibcode:1993PASP..105..560G. doi:10.1086/133192. JSTOR 40680068. S2CID 250904924.
  7. ^ a b c Planck Collaboration; Ade, P. A. R.; Aghanim, N.; Arnaud, M.; Ashdown, M.; Aumont, J.; Baccigalupi, C.; Banday, A. J.; Barreiro, R. B.; Bartlett, J. G.; Bartolo, N. (October 2016). "Planck 2015 results: XV. Gravitational lensing". Astronomy & Astrophysics. 863: A15. arXiv:1502.01591. Bibcode:2016A&A...863A..15P. doi:10.1051/0004-6361/201528631. S2CID 540578.
  8. ^ a b Israelian, Garik (12 November 2009). "Enhanced lithium depletion in Sun-like stars with orbiting planets". Nature. 462 (7270): 189–191. arXiv:0911.4198. Bibcode:2009Natur.462..189I. doi:10.1038/nature08483. PMID 19907489. S2CID 388656.
  9. ^ a b c Planck Collaboration; Ade, P. A. R.; Aghanim, N.; Akrami, Y.; Aluri, P. K.; Arnaud, M.; Ashdown, M.; Aumont, J.; Baccigalupi, C.; Banday, A. J.; Barreiro, R. B. (October 2016). "Planck 2015 results: XVI. Isotropy and statistics of the CMB". Astronomy & Astrophysics. 863: A16. arXiv:1506.07135. Bibcode:2016A&A...863A..16P. doi:10.1051/0004-6361/201526681. S2CID 119178636.
  10. ^ a b Rebolo, Rafael; Zapatero-Osorio, María Rosa; Martín, Eduardo L. (September 1995). "Discovery of a brown dwarf in the Pleiades star cluster". Nature. 377 (6545): 129–131. Bibcode:1995Natur.377..129R. doi:10.1038/377129a0. S2CID 28029538.
  11. ^ Santos, N. C.; Israelian, G.; Mayor, M.; Rebolo, R.; Udry, S. (January 2003). "Statistical properties of exoplanets: II. Metallicity, orbital parameters, and space velocities". Astronomy & Astrophysics. 398 (1): 363–376. arXiv:astro-ph/0211211. Bibcode:2003A&A...398..363S. doi:10.1051/0004-6361:20021637. S2CID 17052728.
  12. ^ a b Israelian, Garik; Rebolo (September 1999). "Evidence of a Supernova Origin for the Black-Hole in GRO J1655-40". Nature. 401: 142. doi:10.1007/10720995_67.
  13. ^ Papadopoulos, D. (December 2002). "Acceleration and cyclotron radiation induced by gravitational waves". Astronomy & Astrophysics. 396 (3): 1045–1051. arXiv:gr-qc/0209033. Bibcode:2002A&A...396.1045P. doi:10.1051/0004-6361:20021427. S2CID 15875967.
  14. ^ Pérez-Garrido, A.; Lodieu, N.; Rebolo, R. (March 2017). "A new L5 brown dwarf member of the Hyades cluster with chromospheric activity". Astronomy & Astrophysics. 599: A78. arXiv:1701.03398. Bibcode:2017A&A...599A..78P. doi:10.1051/0004-6361/201628778. S2CID 54958301.
  15. ^ Jetzer, Ph. (2002). Matter in the Universe : Proceedings of an ISSI Workshop 19-23 March 2001, Bern, Switzerland. Pretzl, K., Steiger, R. Dordrecht: Springer Netherlands. ISBN 9789401722155. OCLC 851378222.
  16. ^ a b c d Wilkin, Tobias (30 May 2012). "A spectrograph for exoplanet observations calibrated at the centimetre-per-second level". Nature. 485 (7400): 611–614. Bibcode:2012Natur.485..611W. doi:10.1038/nature11092. PMID 22660320. S2CID 4422175.
  17. ^ Rebolo, Rafael; Martín, Eduardo L.; Magazzu, Antonio (April 1992). "Spectroscopy of a brown dwarf candidate in the Alpha Persei open cluster". The Astrophysical Journal. 389: L83. Bibcode:1992ApJ...389L..83R. doi:10.1086/186354.
  18. ^ The LIGO Scientific Collaboration and The Virgo Collaboration; The 1M2H Collaboration; The Dark Energy Camera GW-EM Collaboration and the DES Collaboration; The DLT40 Collaboration; The Las Cumbres Observatory Collaboration; The VINROUGE Collaboration; The MASTER Collaboration (November 2017). "A gravitational-wave standard siren measurement of the Hubble constant". Nature. 551 (7678): 85–88. arXiv:1710.05835. Bibcode:2017Natur.551...85A. doi:10.1038/nature24471. PMID 29094696. S2CID 205261622.{{cite journal}}: CS1 maint: numeric names: authors list (link)
  19. ^ Hildebrandt, S. R.; Rebolo, Rafael; Rubiño-Martín, José Alberto; Watson, R. A.; Gutierrez, C. M.; Hoyland, R. J.; Battistelli, E. S. (2007-12-01). "COSMOSOMAS observations of the cosmic microwave background and Galactic foregrounds at 11 GHz: evidence for anomalous microwave emission at high Galactic latitude". Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society. 382 (2): 863–608. arXiv:0706.1873. Bibcode:2007MNRAS.382..863H. doi:10.1111/j.1365-2966.2007.12380.x. S2CID 14263503.
  20. ^ Jones, A. W.; Hancock, S.; Lasenby, A. S.; Davies, R. D.; Gutiérrez, C. M.; Rocha, G.; Watson, R. A.; Rebolo, R. (March 1998). "10-GHz Tenerife cosmic microwave background observations at 8° resolution and their analysis using a new maximum entropy method". Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society. 294 (4): 582–863. arXiv:astro-ph/9802351. Bibcode:1998MNRAS.294..582J. doi:10.1111/j.1365-8711.1998.01139.x.
  21. ^ Grainge, K.; Carreira, P.; Cleary, K.; Davies, R. D.; Davis, R. J.; Dickinson, C.; Genova-Santos, R.; Gutierrez, C. M.; Hafez, Y. A.; Hobson, M. P.; Jones, M. E. (2003-06-01). "The cosmic microwave background power spectrum out to = 1400 measured by the Very Small Array". Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society. 341 (4): L23–L28. arXiv:astro-ph/0212495. Bibcode:2003MNRAS.341L..23G. doi:10.1046/j.1365-8711.2003.06563.x.
  22. ^ Study of the background cosmic microwave radiation ; read at the reception Dr. D. Rafael Rebolo López July 11, 2009 http://www.academiadelanzarote.es Archived 2019-10-15 at the Wayback Machine
  23. ^ Lodieu, N.; Zapatero-Osorio, Maria Rosa; Martín, Eduardo L. (June 2009). "Lucky Imaging of M subdwarfs". Astronomy & Astrophysics. 499 (3): 729–736. arXiv:0903.4057. Bibcode:2009A&A...499..729L. doi:10.1051/0004-6361/200911708. S2CID 1836404.
  24. ^ Génova-Santos, Ricardo; Rubiño-Martín, José Alberto; Rebolo, Rafael; Battye, Richard A.; Blanco, Francisco; Davies, Rod D.; Davis, Richard J.; Franzen, Thomas; Grainge, Keith; Hobson, Michael P.; Lasenby, Anthony (2008-12-11). "Observations of the Corona Borealis supercluster with the superextended Very Small Array: further constraints on the nature of the non-Gaussian cosmic microwave background cold spot". Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society. 391 (3): 1127–1136. arXiv:0804.0199. Bibcode:2008MNRAS.391.1127G. doi:10.1111/j.1365-2966.2008.13985.x. S2CID 45347068.
  25. ^ Rebolo, Rafael (1998-11-13). "Discovery of a Low-Mass Brown Dwarf Companion of the Young Nearby Star G 196-3". Science. 282 (5392): 1309–1312. arXiv:astro-ph/9811413. Bibcode:1998Sci...282.1309R. doi:10.1126/science.282.5392.1309. PMID 9812893. S2CID 10595230.
  26. ^ Rebolo, Rafael; Zapatero-Osorio, Maria Rosa (14 September 1995). "Discovery of a brown dwarf in the Pleiades star cluster". Nature. 377 (6545): 129–131. Bibcode:1995Natur.377..129R. doi:10.1038/377129a0. S2CID 28029538.
  27. ^ "Rebolo, director del Astrofísico de Canarias,Premio Nacional de Investigación". Ultima Hora edicion espanol. 5 December 2018. Archived from the original on 20 July 2019. Retrieved 17 October 2019.
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