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José Antonio Caballero2010-2014: Ramón y Cajal (CSIC)2007-2010: Juan de la Cierva (UCM)2006-2007: Alexander von Humboldt (MPIA)2006: WFC/INT support astronomer (ING)2001-2006: “astrofísico residente” & FPU (IAC)2000: “estudiante de verano” (LAEFF)1995-2000: Física (UCM)

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PhD thesis: Formation, evolution and multiplicity of brown dwarfs and giant exoplanets (2006, Universidad de La Laguna) Chapter 10: Multiplicity of L dwarfs: binarity and habitable exoplanets

Search for transits around L dwarfs – Study of radial-velocity planet detection – Astrobiology: orbit synchronisation, atmospheric physics, bacteriochlorophyll a+b…

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Refereed papers since 01 Jan 2010

1. The substellar mass function in the central region of the open cluster Praesepe from deep LBT observations (Wang et al., submitted, A&A)

2. Identification of blue high proper motion objects in Tycho-2 and 2MASS catalogues using Virtual Observatory tools (Jiménez-Esteban, Caballero, Solano 2010, A&A)

3. HRC-I/Chandra observations towards Orionis (Caballero et al. 2010c, A&A)4. The magnetically active, low-mass, triple star WDS 19312+3607 (Caballero et al.

2010b, A&A)5. Near-infrared low-resolution spectroscopy of Pleiades L-type brown dwarfs (Bihain et

al. 2010, A&A)6. Infrared and kinematic properties of the substellar object G 196-3B (Zapatero Osorio

et al. 2010, ApJ)7. Reaching the boundary between stellar kinematic groups and very wide binaries. II.

Lib + KU Lib: a common proper motion system in Castor separated by 1.0 pc (Caballero 2010c, A&A)

8. Stars and brown dwarfs in the Orionis cluster. II. A proper motion study (Caballero 2010b, A&A)

9. The occultation events of the Herbig Ae/Be star V1247 Ori (Caballero 2010a, A&A Letters)

10.Brown dwarfs and very low mass stars in the Praesepe open cluster: a dynamically unevolved mass function (Boudreault et al. 2010, A&A)

11.Finding the most variable stars in the Orion Belt with the All Sky Automated Survey (Caballero et al. 2010a, AN)

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Proceedings since 01 Jan 2010

1. Binary systems: from 0.2 arcsec to 2 deg (Caballero, Double stars)2. CARMENES: Calar Alto high-Resolution search for M dwarfs with Exoplanets with a

visible and Near-infrared Echelle Spectrograph (Quirrenbach, Amado, Mandel, Caballero et al. 2010, SPIE)

3. Optical and near-infrared study of the stellar and substellar population of the recently discovered open clusters Alessi 5 and Monocerotis (Boudreault & Caballero, Cool Stars 16)

4. Kinematics of ultra cool dwarfs: membership in moving groups and associations (Montes & Caballero, Cool Stars 16)

5. The stellar and substellar mass function in the central region of the old open cluster Praesepe (Wang et al., Cool Stars 16)

6. CARMENES: Towards the detection of exoearths (Caballero et al., Cool Stars 16)7. Estimating the age of exoplanet’s host stars by their membership in moving groups

and young associations (Montes, Caballero et al. 2010, ASPC)8. NAHUAL: a next-generation near-infrared instrument for the GTC (Martín et al. 2010,

ASPC)9. CARMENES: technical details (Caballero et al., PRVS)10.Music and Astronomy (Caballero et al. 2010, HSA5)11.Preliminary results on a virtual observatory search for companions to Luyten stars

(Caballero et al. 2010, HSA5)12.An application of the Mayrit catalogue: very wide binaries in the Orionis cluster

(Caballero 2010, HSA5)13.Formation, evolution and multiplicity of brown dwarfs and giant exoplanets

(Caballero 2010, HSA5)

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“De Mayrit al cielo”: Orionis cluster ( ~ 3 Ma, d ~ 385 pc)

• Initial Mass Function• Brown dwarfs and “(isolated) planetary-mass objects”• Circum(sub)stellar discs• X-rays• H, Li I• Photometric variability• Abundances• Proper motions• Spatial distribution• Multiplicity… -7

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science, e.g. Koenigstuhl 1AB: the (second) widest ultracool binary

• = 77.76 ± 0.07 arcsec• d = 23 ± 2 pc• r = 1800 ± 170 AU• MA = 0.103 ± 0.006 Msol

• MB = 0.079 ± 0.004 Msol

Highlight of the week in A&A. Almost cover page!

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Lecturer at the Universidad Complutense de Madrid

• From quarks to Cosmos (2007-08, 2008-09)• Astrophysics (2008-09, 2009-10)• Physics of the Solar System (2010-11; Master)• “Trabajo académicamente dirigido” (2009) & “Trabajo fin de Máster” (2010)

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Outreach: Rock’n’Astronomy

caballero@cabWSO-UV: World Space

Observatory-UltraViolet

• 1.7 m telescope• Russian-Spanish-German space mission• = 1210-6563 Å• Spanish contribution: ISSIS (imaging and slit-less spectroscopy instrument for surveys) and ground segment• Launch: 2014

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GO-IRS: GTC Optical Intermediate Resolution Spectrograph

• 10.4 m Gran Telescopio Canarias• University of Florida, China, Spain• 1000 MOS fibres in FoV = 15 arcmin + IFU• R = 20k, 10k, 5-2k; = 0.37-1.00 m (or 0.45-1.25 m…)• Project scientist

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CARMENES: Calar Alto high-Resolution search for M dwarfs with Exoearths with Near-infrared and optical Echelle Spectrographs

• 3.5 m telescope• 1 m/s radial-velocity accuracy with a double-channel spectrograph• 11 German and Spanish institutions• Deputy project manager

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