Astrophysical: Telescopes

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    Proposal generation tools for the GTC : Phase II
    We present an overview of the life-cycle of the observing proposals to the GTC and the software tools designed to help the astronomers to create and submit...
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    pt5m - a 0.5 m robotic telescope on La Palma
    pt5m is a 0.5 m robotic telescope located on the roof of the 4.2 m William Herschel Telescope (WHT) building, at the Roque de los Muchachos Observatory, La...
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    ROGER DAVIES: “It would be wonderful to have the TMT here in La Palma, at the Roque, and of course there would be the potential for European participation”
    He was one of the “Seven Samurai” who in 1986 published that the Milky Way, together with its neighbour galaxies, in clusters and superclusters, forms a huge...
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    Science with a Wide-field 6.5-m Spectroscopic Telescope
    This document describes the scientific case for a wide-field 6.5-m spectroscopic telescope. The key scientific aims are linked to two different modes of...
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    Search for Very High Energy Gamma-ray Emission from Pulsar-Pulsar Wind Nebula Systems with the MAGIC Telescope
    The MAGIC collaboration has searched for high-energy gamma-ray emission of some of the most promising pulsar candidates above an energy threshold of 50 GeV, an...
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    Simultaneous UBVRI photopolarimetric observations of blazars. II
    Results are presented from simultaneous UBVRI photopolarimetric observations of eight blazars at the 2.56-m Nordic Optical Telescope during winter 1991. In 3C...
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    Site properties of the Canarian observatories. Proceedings. Workshop on Site Properties of the Canarian Observatories, La Palma (Spain), 29 - 30 Oct 1997.
    The following topics were dealt with: atmospheric optics, image quality, the Gran Telescopio Canarias project, site testing, meteorological effects, the Galileo...
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    Site Selection for the European ELT: working package included in the European FP6 ``ELT design study'' contract
    The site selection for the future European Large Telescope (E-ELT) is a key issue within the European proposal funded by the European Union (EU), within the `...
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    Size matters
    The new generation of ground-based, large-aperture solar telescopes promises to significantly increase our capabilities to understand the many basic phenomena...