Research Topics:
 
• Microquasars
  
 
• Unidentified EGRET sources


Members:

• Josep M. Paredes (e-mail: jmparedes at ub.edu)
  
Principal Investigator and professor at Universitat de Barcelona
 
• Josep Martí (e-mail: jmarti at ujaen.es), professor at Universidad de Jaén
  
 
• Marta Peracaula (e-mail: marta.peracaula at udg.es), Ramón y Cajal postdoctoral fellowship at Universitat de Girona
  
 
• Joan García-Sánchez (e-mail: jgarcia at am.ub.es), collaborator at Universitat de Barcelona
  
 
• Marc Ribó (e-mail: mribo at am.ub.es), Ramón y Cajal postdoctoral fellowship at Universitat de Barcelona
  
 
• Valentí Bosch-Ramon (e-mail: vbosch at mpi-hd.mpg.de), Alexander von Humboldt postdoctoral fellowship at Max Planck Institut fur Kernphysik
  
 
• Pol Bordas (e-mail: pbordas at am.ub.es), PhD student at Universitat de Barcelona
 
• Javier Moldón (e-mail: jmoldon at am.ub.es), PhD student at Universitat de Barcelona
 
• Víctor Zabalza (e-mail: vzabalza at am.ub.es), PhD student at Universitat de Barcelona


Significant discoveries:

• Discovery of a High-Energy Gamma-ray-Emitting Persistent Microquasar
  
Paredes J.M., Martí J., Ribó M., & Massi, M. 2000, Science, 288, 2340.  PDF version of the paper
Explanation for the General Public
 
• Development of a two-sided relativistic jet in Cygnus X-3
  
Martí J., Paredes J.M., Peracaula, M. 2001, A&A, 375, 480. PDF version of the paper
Explanation for the General Public


Telescopes and facilities used:

Radio telescopes	Optical telescopes	X-ray satellites	Gamma-ray satellites	Cherenkov telescopes
VLA	WHT	XMM-Newton	INTEGRAL	MAGIC
VLBA	INT	Chandra	Compton-GRO
EVN	CAHA 2.2m	BeppoSAX
MERLIN	OAN 1.5m	RXTE

 
Collaborations

 
Publications / Refereed publications present in the Astrophysics Data System (ADS)
 

Ph.D. Thesis completed in the group:

• Josep Martí 1993,
  
Radio emitting X-ray binaries,
Thesis advisor: Josep M. Paredes
 
• Marta Peracaula 1997,
  
The radio emitting X-ray binary systems LS I +61 303 and Cygnus X-3,
Thesis advisor: Josep M. Paredes
 
• Joan García-Sánchez 1999,
  
Close approaches of stars to the solar system based on Hipparcos data,
Thesis advisors: Josep M. Paredes and Paul Weissman
 
• Marc Ribó 2002,
  
Discovery and study of the microquasar LS 5039 and a search for new microquasars,
Thesis advisor: Josep M. Paredes
 
• Valentí Bosch-Ramon 2006,
  
Broadband emission from high-energy processes in microquasars
Thesis advisor: Josep M. Paredes


Contact address:

Josep M. Paredes
Departament d'Astronomia i Meteorologia
Facultat de Física
Universitat de Barcelona
Av. Diagonal 647
E-08028 Barcelona, Spain
Tel: (+34) 93 4021130
Fax: (+34) 93 4021133
e-mail: jmparedes at ub.edu


The research carried out by our group is partially supported by DGI of the Ministerio de Educación y Ciencia (Spain) under grants AYA2004-07171-C02-01 and AYA2004-07171-C02-02, by the European Regional Development Fund (ERDF/FEDER) and by the Plan Andaluz de Investigación of the Junta de Andalucía (ref. FQM801)