Photsat is the first astrophysics observatory being prepared by the Institut d'Estudis Espacials de Catalunya (IEEC) to be allocated in a cubesat mission to be launched in 2027-2028. The mission aims to survey the full sky during 2-3 years, obtaining photometric lightcurves for V<12-15 mag in several photometric filters, covering the optical and the ultraviolet range with a cadence of one datapoint every 2 days. This will complement the information of the transient sky at the bright end that other projects, as LSST, are not able to provide.
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GMV offers the opportunity to participate in a remunerated project for the Final Master's Thesis (TFM). The increasing density of satellites and space debris in Earth's orbit poses significant challenges for space operations and safety. Traditional ground-based observation methods have limitations in detecting small-sized debris, especially those smaller than 10cm.
Supermassive black holes (SMBHs) reside at the centres of most massive galaxies, where they grow by accreting matter from their surroundings. During periods of intense accretion, they become active and release vast amounts of energy that can regulate the star formation of their host galaxies. Despite their fundamental role in galaxy evolution, the mechanisms that fuel SMBH activity are not yet fully understood, as the material feeding the black hole must be transported from galactic or even larger scales down to the central parsec of the galaxy.
What does a scattering process know? High-energy physicists have long catalogued cross sections and decay rates, but a complementary question has only recently come into focus: how much (and what kind of) quantum information is generated when elementary particles interact?