Accreting black-holes and neutron stars in X-ray binaries provide an ideal laboratory for exploring the physics of compact objects, yielding not only...
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ProjectBlack holes, neutron stars, white dwarfs and their local environment
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ProjectCharacterization of the Canary Island Observatories
The IAC has long been aware of the importance of promoting initiatives for the characterization and protection of the Canarian Observatories (Roque de los...
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ProjectChemical Abundances in Stars
Stellar spectroscopy allows us to determine the properties and chemical compositions of stars. From this information for stars of different ages in the Milky...
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ProjectCHromospheric magnetic fields in fLAREs and their evolution CHLARE
This project aims to study the variations of the solar magnetic field in flares, the most energetic events in our solar system. Flares accelerate charged...
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ProjectCosmoeduca
Cosmoeduca is an education project from the Instituto de Astrofísica de Canarias (IAC) aimed at teachers in Secondary and Bachillerato schools across Spain. Its...
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ProjectCosmoLAB: The Solar System as a laboratory in the classroom
"CosmoLAB" is a project run by the Instituto de Astrofísica de Canarias (IAC) with funding from the Cabido de Tenerife, and in collaboration with the Consejería...
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ProjectCosmology with Large Scale Structure Probes
The Cosmic Microwave Background (CMB) contains the statistical information about the early seeds of the structure formation in our Universe. Its natural...
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ProjectDIMMA -Automatic Differential Image Motion Monitor
Improvement and modernisation of the seeing monitor, which was developed at the IAC and has been in regular use since 1995.
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ProjectEDIFISE
EDiFiSE - Equalized and Diffraction-limited field spectrograph experiment - is an instrument developed by IAC for tehcnological demonstration. It includes one...