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  • IRyA announces its new Basic Astronomy Course
    2025/06/05

    The Institute of Radio Astronomy and Astrophysics (IRyA) at UNAM, Campus Morelia, announces its new Basic Astronomy Course 2025, which will take place from August 4th to 8th at the Institute's auditorium, located on the Antigua carretera a Pátzcuaro in front of Tenencia Morelos, from 5:00 PM to 7:00 PM.

  • A mysterious object lurks in the heart of the Cat’s Paw Nebula
    2025/05/27

    Vanessa Yanza  from IRyA*, UNAM Morelia, led a team that discovered a mysterious object that could be a huge star running away from its birthplace, or it could also be two young stars with strong winds colliding with each other.

  • This large, young star grows rapidly and in the same way as the small ones
    2025/05/05

    Carlos Carrasco González of IRyA* is part of a research team that captured a large young star “red-handed,” growing rapidly by gathering material from a disk of gas and dust around it, much in the same way that small young stars grow.

Latest publication

  • Corrigendum to "Gravitational interaction signatures in isolated galaxy triplet systems: a photometric analysis" [New Astronomy, 2021,87, 101603]
    Tawfeek, Amira A.; Saha, Kanak; Vaghmare, Kaustubh; Kembhavi, A. K.; Takey, Ali; Cervantes-Sodi, Bernardo; Fritz, Jacopo; Awad, Zainab; Ali, Gamal B.; Hayman, Z. M.
    2025/07, New Astronomy, 117, 102359

  • Next Colloquium

    2025/06/19
    Emmanuel Caux, Institut de Recherche en Astrophysique et Planétologie of Toulouse
    Host: Aina Palau
    For almost 20 years, we have been working at IRAP (Toulouse, France) on the development of the CASSIS (Centre d’Analyse Scientifique de Spectres Instrumentaux et Synthétiques) line analysis and modelling software, which is freely available to the community. CASSIS ( https://cassis.irap.omp.eu) is being developed at IRAP as part of the French ‘Observation Services’, designed to develop and supply free analysis tools and databases (based on observations and/or theories) to the worldwide astrophysics community. In this talk, I will describe the capabilities of CASSIS in its current distributed version (v6.4, in Java) - initially designed to analyse single spectra observations - and work in progress to extend these capabilities to the analysis and modelling of datacubes, enabling maps of a source's physical parameters to be produced. This new version is developed in Python 3, and we plan to distribute it via Astropy. We are currently debugging the software, implementing and testing new use cases developed with beta testers (some of whom are here at IRyA). Finally, I will present some results obtained on different types of astronomical sources, low- and high-mass star-forming regions, PDRs, Xgal sources…, from observations made with different types of single-dish telescopes (using the OTF mapping mode) and with interferometers.

    Spotlight on Research

    #1: A dying galaxy triggers the birth of new stars
    2022/01/30

    What caused our Sun to be born? A recent paper by researchers from the Instituto de Radioastronomía y Astrofísica (IRyA) suggests that the answer may lie in a small satellite galaxy that is slowly being devoured by our larger Milky Way Galaxy.

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