Observational mission ESO - La Silla telescope: NTT/EFOSC2

• Grant number: 10/14959-0
• Support Opportunities: Scholarships abroad - Research
• Start date: February 13, 2011
• End date: May 09, 2011
• Field of knowledge: Physical Sciences and Mathematics - Astronomy - Positional Astronomy and Celestial Mechanics
• Principal Investigator: Ramachrisna Teixeira
• Grantee: Ramachrisna Teixeira
• Host Investigator: Christine Ducourant
• Host Institution: Instituto de Astronomia, Geofísica e Ciências Atmosféricas (IAG). Universidade de São Paulo (USP). São Paulo , SP, Brazil
• Institution abroad: European Southern Observatory, La Serena (ESO), Chile

Abstract

These two observational missions aim to obtain the trigonometric parallax of TW Hydrae members from which we can characterize them individually, including the determination of their ages by trace-back. (AU)