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    • Observational constraints on the age-metallicity relation from white dwarf-Main sequence binaries 

      Rebassa Mansergas, Alberto; García-Berro Montilla, Enrique; Torres Gil, Santiago; Anguiano, B.; Manser, C. J.; Gänsicke, Boris T.; Liu, X. (Astronomical Society of the Pacific Conference Series (ASP), 2017)
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      The age-metallicity relation (AMR) is a fundamental observational property to understand how the Galactic disc formed and evolved chemically in time. However, there is not yet a consensus on the observed properties of the ...
    • On the origin of high-field magnetic white dwarfs 

      García-Berro Montilla, Enrique; Torres Gil, Santiago; Lorén Aguilar, Pablo; Aznar Siguan, Gabriela; Camacho Díaz, Judit; Kulebi, Baybar; Isern Vilaboy, Jordi; Althaus, Leandro Gabriel; Corsico, Alejandro H. (Astronomical Society of the Pacific, 2013-01-01)
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      Every two years, white dwarf researchers and enthusiasts meet to exchange their knowledge and discuss recent developments in white dwarf theory and observations. These proceedings are from the 18th European White Dwarf ...
    • Oxygen-neon-rich merger during common envelope evolution 

      Canals, Pere; Torres Gil, Santiago; Soker, Noam (Oxford University Press, 2018-11-01)
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      We conduct a population synthesis study of the common envelope evolution (CEE) of a white dwarf (WD) and an asymptotic giant branch (AGB) star and find that the potential number of type Ia supernovae (SNe Ia) from the core ...
    • Population Synthesis of Post-Common Envelope White-Dwarf-Main-Sequence Binaries in the Sloan Digital Sky Survey 

      Torres Gil, Santiago; Camacho Díaz, Judit; Rebassa Mansergas, Alberto; Zorotovic, Mónica; Schreiber, Mathias R.; García-Berro Montilla, Enrique (Astronomical Society of the Pacific, 2011-09-01)
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      We present preliminary results of detailed Monte Carlo simulations of the population of white dwarf-main sequence binary systems in the Sloan Digital Sky Survey Data Release 7 (SDSS DR7). We have used the most up-to-date ...
    • Population Synthesis of Post-Common Envelope White-Dwarf-Main-Sequence Binaries in the Sloan Digital Sky Survey 

      Torres Gil, Santiago; Camacho Díaz, Judit; Rebassa Mansergas, Alberto; Zorotovic, Monica; Schreiber, Mathias R.; García-Berro Montilla, Enrique (Astronomical Society of the Pacific Conference Series (ASP), 2011)
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    • Quantum computing : problems and exercises 

      Torres Gil, Santiago; Bruna Escuer, Pere; Massignan, Pietro Alberto (Iniciativa Digital Politècnica. Oficina de Publicacions Acadèmiques Digitals de la UPC, 2020-07)
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      Accés restringit a la comunitat UPC
      Quantum technology is one of the most promising and challenging fields in contemporary science. Quantum computing, quantum cryptography, and more generally quantum information technologies claim that they, in the short ...
    • Random forest classification of Gaia DR3 white dwarf-main sequence spectra: a feasibility study 

      Echeverry, David; Torres Gil, Santiago; Rebassa Mansergas, Alberto; Ferrer i Burjachs, Aina (EDP Sciences, 2022-11-01)
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      Aims. The third Gaia data release provides low-resolution spectra for around 200 million sources. It is expected that a sizeable fraction of them contain a white dwarf (WD), neither isolated, or in a binary system with a ...
    • Random Forest identification of the thin disc, thick disc, and halo Gaia-DR2 white dwarf population 

      Torres Gil, Santiago; Cantero, C.; Rebassa Mansergas, Alberto; Skorobogatov, G.; Jiménez Esteban, F. M.; Solano Márquez, Enrique (Oxford University Press, 2019-03-13)
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      Gaia-DR2 has provided an unprecedented number of white dwarf candidates of ourGalaxy. In particular, it is estimated thatGaia-DR2 has observed nearly 400 000 ofthese objects and close to 18 000 up to 100 pc from the Sun. ...
    • Revisiting the luminosity function of single halo white dwarfs 

      Cojocaru, Elena Ruxandra; Torres Gil, Santiago; Althaus, Leandro G.; Isern Vilaboy, Jordi; García-Berro Montilla, Enrique (EDP Sciences, 2015-09-01)
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      Context. White dwarfs are the fossils left by the evolution of low- and intermediate-mass stars, and have very long evolutionary timescales. This allows us to use them to explore the properties of old populations, like the ...
    • Simulación de Monte Carlo de la población de enanas blancas de la galaxia 

      Torres Gil, Santiago (Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya, 2002-07-10)
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      El estudio de las propiedades de la población de enanas blancas de la Galaxia es muy amplio, e implica aportaciones en diferentes campos de la astrofísica, tales como evolución estelar, dinámica galáctica, ...
    • Structure and evolution of ultra-massive white dwarfs in general relativity 

      Althaus, Leandro G.; Camisassa, María Eugenia; Torres Gil, Santiago; Battich, Tiara; Córsico, Alejandro H.; Rebassa Mansergas, Alberto; Raddi, Roberto (EDP Sciences, 2022-12-01)
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      Ultra-massive white dwarfs (M? & 1.05M ) are of utmost importance in view of the role they play in type Ia supernovae explosions, merger events, the existence of high magnetic field white dwarfs, and the physical processes ...
    • TECNOLOGIES D'INFORMACIÓ QUÀNTICA (Examen final, 1r quadrimestre) 

      Torres Gil, Santiago (Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya, 2023-01-19)
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    • The contribution of oxygen-neon white dwarfs to the MACHO content of the Galactic halo 

      Camacho Díaz, Judit; Torres Gil, Santiago; Isern Vilaboy, Jordi; Althaus, Leandro Gabriel; García-Berro Montilla, Enrique (2007-06-13)
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      Context. The interpretation of microlensing results towards the Large Magellanic Cloud (LMC) still remains controversial. White dwarfs have been proposed to explain these results and, hence, to contribute significantly ...
    • The contribution of red dwarfs and white dwarfs to the halo dark matter 

      Torres Gil, Santiago; Camacho Díaz, Judit; Isern Vilaboy, Jordi; García-Berro Montilla, Enrique (2008)
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    • The difficulty of finding double-degenerate progenitors of type Ia supernovae 

      Rebassa Mansergas, Alberto; Toonen, S.; Korol, V.; Torres Gil, Santiago (2018)
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      The double-degenerate progenitors of type Ia su- pernovae (SNIa) are double white dwarf binaries with a totalmass near the Chandrasekhar limit and with merger timescales smaller than the Hubble time. The fact that we ...
    • The effects of metallicity on the Galactic disk population of white dwarfs 

      Cojocaru, Elena Ruxandra; Torres Gil, Santiago; Isern Vilaboy, Jordi; García-Berro Montilla, Enrique (2014-06)
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      Context. It has been known for a long time that stellar metallicity plays a significant role in the determination of the ages of the different Galactic stellar populations, when main sequence evolutionary tracks are employed. ...
    • The effects of the Observational Selection Criteria on the post common envelope white dwarf-main sequence binary population 

      Camacho Díaz, Judit; Torres Gil, Santiago; García-Berro Montilla, Enrique; Zorotovic, Mónica; Schreiber, Mathias R.; Rebassa Mansergas, Alberto (American Institute of Physics (AIP), 2010)
      Comunicació de congrés
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      We present a detailed Monte Carlo simulator of the Galactic population of binary stars. Preliminary results are presented for the white dwarf-main sequence (WD+MS) binary population resulting from a common envelope (CE) ...
    • The effects of unresolved double degenerates in the white dwarf luminosity function 

      Rebassa Mansergas, Alberto; Torres Gil, Santiago (Oxford University Press, 2020-02-01)
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      Accés restringit per política de l'editorial
      We perform an analysis of the single white dwarf and the double degenerate binary populations in the solar neighbourhood following a population synthesis approach to investigate the effects of unresolved double degenerates ...
    • The evolution of white dwarfs resulting from helium-enhanced, low-metallicity progenitor stars 

      Althaus, Leandro G.; de Geronimo, Francisco; Córsico, Alejandro H.; Torres Gil, Santiago; García-Berro Montilla, Enrique (EDP Sciences, 2017-01-01)
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      Context. Some globular clusters host multiple stellar populations with different chemical abundance patterns. This is particularly true for ¿ Centauri, which shows clear evidence of a helium-enriched subpopulation characterized ...
    • The formation of ultra-massive carbon-oxygen core white dwarfs and their evolutionary and pulsational properties 

      Althaus, Leandro G.; Gil Pons, Pilar; Córsico, Alejandro H.; Camisassa, María Eugenia; Miller Bertolami, Marcelo M; de Geronimo, Francisco; Torres Gil, Santiago; Gutiérrez Cabello, Jordi; Rebassa Mansergas, Alberto (EDP Sciences, 2021-02)
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      The existence of ultra-massive white dwarf stars, MWD & 1.05M , has been reported in several studies. These white dwarfs are relevant for the role they play in type Ia Supernova explosions, the occurrence of physical ...