• openAccess   A Geometrical Study about the Biparametric Family of Anomalies in the Elliptic Two-Body Problem with Extensions to Other Families 

      López Ortí, José Antonio; Marco Castillo, Francisco José; Martínez Usó, María José MDPI (2024-02)
      In the present paper, we efficiently solve the two-body problem for extreme cases such as those with high eccentricities. The use of numerical methods, with the usual variables, cannot maintain the perihelion passage ...
    • openAccess   Global and Local Three-dimensional Studies of The Residual Vector Field from 2MASS and Hipparcos-2 Catalog 

      Marco Castillo, Francisco José; Martínez Usó, María José; López, J.A. Astronomical Society of the Pacific (2019-04)
      The Gaia mission will provide a six-parameter solution for millions of stars, including a tridimensional map of our Galaxy. The estimation of distances has been made for the Tycho-Gaia Astrometric Solution (TGAS), while ...
    • openAccess   New and improved orbits of historical comets: Late 4th and 5th century 

      Marco Castillo, Francisco José; Martínez Usó, María José; Sicoli, Piero; Gorelli, Roberto Elsevier (2022-05-22)
      Since as early as the 19th century, many scholars have devoted themselves to the calculation of sets of orbital elements for particular historical comets. In many cases, these studies have led to proposing orbits that have ...
    • openAccess   Occultation of Planets by the Moon in European Narrative Medieval Sources 

      Martínez Usó, María José; Marco Castillo, Francisco José Sage (2019-05)
      Existing research dealing with astronomical observations from medieval Europe have extensively covered topics such as solar and lunar eclipses and sightings of comets and meteors, but no compilation of occultations of ...
    • openAccess   The Lyrids meteor shower: A historical perspective 

      Martínez Usó, María José; Marco Castillo, Francisco José; López Ortí, José Antonio Elsevier Science Direct (2023-10-26)
      The April Lyrid meteor shower is the oldest meteor shower ever recorded continuously throughout history, dating as far back as 687 BC. Before the 20th century, historical sources only provided reports of two years of strong ...
    • closedAccess   Written on stone: Engraved European medieval solar eclipses 

      Martínez Usó, María José; Marco, Francisco J. Cambridge University Press (2019-12)
      In the context of the European Middle Ages as the period roughly covering from the 5th to the 15th centuries, the astronomical records are rarery found in scientific treatises. At least, not until the 15th century. A few ...