Recent GRBs observed with the 1.23m CAHA telescope and the status of its upgrade

We report on optical observations of Gamma-Ray Bursts (GRBs) followed up by our collaboration with the 1.23m telescope located at the Calar Alto observatory. The 1.23m telescope is an old facility, currently undergoing upgrades to enable fully autonomous response to GRB alerts. We discuss the current status of the control system upgrade of the 1.23m telescope. The upgrade is being done by the ARAE our group, based on members of IAA (Instituto de Astrofiisica de Andalucia). Currently the ARAE group is responsible to develop the BOOTES network of robotic telescopes based on the Remote Telescope System, 2nd Version (RTS2), which controls the available instruments and interacts with the EPICS database of Calar Alto. Currently the telescope can run fully autonomously or under observer supervision using RTS2. The fast reaction response mode for GRB reaction (typically with response times below 3 minutes from the GRB onset) still needs some development and testing. The telescope is usually operated in legacy interactive mode, with periods of supervised autonomous runs under RTS2. We show the preliminary results of several GRBs followed up with observer intervention during the testing phase of the 1.23m control software upgrade.Comment: 15 pages, 7 figures. Accepted for publication in the Special issue "Robotic Astronomy" of Advances in Astronomy. It includes two iterations with the referee

Síndrome metabólica na população adulta e associação com doenças cardiovasculares: Metabolic syndrome in the adult population and association with cardiovascular disease

O presente trabalho teve por objetivo avaliar, através de uma revisão narrativa da literatura, o efeito da Síndrome Metabólica (SM) na população adulta e sua associação com doenças cardiovasculares, a fim de compreender as principais alterações geradas no organismo. A SM é considerada pela Organização Mundial de Saúde (OMS) uma doença crônica, de evolução gradativa que gera inúmeros prejuízos à integridade fisiológica do organismo humano. Seus critérios diagnósticos são: obesidade,  hipertensão,  dislipidemia e a hiperglicemia que se tornam cada vez mais prevalentes na população mundial. Desse modo, sabendo que o acompanhamento ambulatorial é essencial no tratamento da SM, este deve ser o foco da abordagem profissional. Com isso, inúmeras metas podem ser traçadas e realizadas, sendo a perda de peso a principal, já que este evento permite a melhora da pressão arterial, redução do perfil lipídico e a melhora na resistência insulínica, consequentemente, diminuindo o risco das complicações cardiovasculares no paciente

Search for dark matter produced in association with bottom or top quarks in √s = 13 TeV pp collisions with the ATLAS detector

A search for weakly interacting massive particle dark matter produced in association with bottom or top quarks is presented. Final states containing third-generation quarks and miss- ing transverse momentum are considered. The analysis uses 36.1 fb−1 of proton–proton collision data recorded by the ATLAS experiment at √s = 13 TeV in 2015 and 2016. No significant excess of events above the estimated backgrounds is observed. The results are in- terpreted in the framework of simplified models of spin-0 dark-matter mediators. For colour- neutral spin-0 mediators produced in association with top quarks and decaying into a pair of dark-matter particles, mediator masses below 50 GeV are excluded assuming a dark-matter candidate mass of 1 GeV and unitary couplings. For scalar and pseudoscalar mediators produced in association with bottom quarks, the search sets limits on the production cross- section of 300 times the predicted rate for mediators with masses between 10 and 50 GeV and assuming a dark-matter mass of 1 GeV and unitary coupling. Constraints on colour- charged scalar simplified models are also presented. Assuming a dark-matter particle mass of 35 GeV, mediator particles with mass below 1.1 TeV are excluded for couplings yielding a dark-matter relic density consistent with measurements