Rovira Garcia, Adrià (Date of defense: 2016-01-21)
The research of this paper-based dissertation is focused on the Fast Precise Point Positioning (Fast-PPP) technique. The novelty relies on using an accurate ionosphere model, in combination with the ...
Gibert Gutiérrez, Ferran (Date of defense: 2016-02-23)
The LISA Pathfinder project is an ESA/NASA technology demonstrator mission that must test the critical instrumentation required for a future space-borne gravitational wave observatory based on the LISA ...
Morales Garoffolo, Antonia (Date of defense: 2016-03-08)
Core-collapse supernovae (CC-SNe) explosions represent the final demise of massive stars. Among the various types, there is a group of relatively infrequent CC-SNe termed type IIb, which appear to be ...
Cojocaru, Elena-Ruxandra (Date of defense: 2016-11-24)
As the evolutionary end-point of most main-sequence stars, white dwarfs can be used to infer important properties concerning the formation and evolution of the different Galactic stellar populations. ...
Escartín Vigo, José Antonio (Date of defense: 2016-01-21)
Computational simulation is one of the basic techniques of modern Astrophysics. The long-term time astrophysical processes cannot be treated with explicit approaches because that they are limited, in ...