From 25 to 28 July, the workshop "China-Spain collaboration on astronomical high-resolution spectroscopy" will be held in Fuencaliente (La Palma). Its aim is to consolidate scientific collaboration between China and Spain in astronomy, especially in the context of the technological development of the CHORUS instrument and its applications in different fields of astrophysical research.
CHORUS (Canary Hybrid Optical high-Resolution Ultra-stable Spectrograph) is a high spectral resolution ultra-stable spectrograph for the Gran Telescopio Canarias (GTC or Grantecan) being developed by the National Observatories of the Chinese Academy of Sciences (NAOC- NIAOT).
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El vicepresidente de la Academia de Ciencias de China (CAS), En-Ge Wang, y una delegación científica del NAOC (National Astronomical Observatories de la CAS), encabezada por su director, Gang Zhao, visitaron el Instituto de Astrofísica de Canarias (IAC) y los Observatorios del Teide, en Izaña (Tenerife), y del Roque de los Muchachos, en Garafía (La Palma). Esta visita ha contribuido a impulsar, tal y como recogía uno de los puntos del memorandum firmado entre el IAC y el NAOC en mayo de 2016, la colaboración en el desarrollo de instrumentación científica para el Gran Telescopio Canarias (GTC
This scientific collaboration will give an impulse to the development of instruments for large telescopes, including the Gran Telescopio CANARIAS
The agreement between the two institutions aims at strengthening scientific and technological collaboration between the two countries, and to guarantee access for the astronomical community of the NAOC to observing time on the Gran Telescopio CANARIAS.
