Lines of instrumentation: Infrared instrumentation

Infrared instrumentation

The instrumentation to detect and analyze the light in the infrared range of the spectrum is one of the fields of knowledge of the Instrumentation Division. The design and construction of infrared cameras and spectrographs requires high vacuum and cryogenic technologies, involving the specialties of mechanical engineering, optics and electronics, mainly. The integration and operation of mechanisms and devices in a cryogenic environment is especially complex and requires highly specialized knowledge and equipment. The Instrumentation Division has a long history of international participation in this type of instrumentation.

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    The members of the group which is developing the HARMONI instrument for the European supertelescope ELT meet in Tenerife
    The Instituto de Astrofísica de Canarias (IAC) has been an active participant in the developement of this spectrograph which will be used for the first time on...
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    The Mice at play in the CALIFA survey. A case study of a gas-rich major merger between first passage and coalescence
    We present optical integral field spectroscopy (IFS) observations of the Mice, a major merger between two massive (≳1011 M⊙) gas-rich spirals NGC 4676A and B...
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    The miniJPAS survey: A preview of the Universe in 56 colors
    The Javalambre-Physics of the Accelerating Universe Astrophysical Survey (J-PAS) will scan thousands of square degrees of the northern sky with a unique set of...
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    The miniJPAS survey: AGN and host galaxy coevolution of X-ray-selected sources
    Studies indicate strong evidence of a scaling relation in the local Universe between the supermassive black hole mass (M BH) and the stellar mass of their host...
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    The miniJPAS Survey: The radial distribution of star formation rates in faint X-ray active galactic nuclei
    We study the impact of black hole nuclear activity on both the global and radial star formation rate (SFR) profiles in X-ray-selected active galactic nuclei...
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    The multi-object spectroscopy (MOS) observations automatized production line
    OSIRIS (Optical System for Imaging and low-Intermediate-Resolution Integrated Spectroscopy) Multi-Object Spectroscopy (MOS) observing mode is available to the...
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    The MURALES survey. IV. Searching for nuclear outflows in 3C radio galaxies at z < 0.3 with MUSE observations
    We analyze VLT/MUSE observations of 37 radio galaxies from the Third Cambridge catalogue (3C) with redshift < 0.3 searching for nuclear outflows of ionized gas...
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    The MURALES survey. VI. Properties and origin of the extended line emission structures in radio galaxies
    This is the sixth paper presenting the results of the MUse RAdio Loud Emission line Snapshot survey. We observed 37 radio sources from the 3C sample with z < 0...
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    The MUSE Atlas of Disks (MAD): resolving star formation rates and gas metallicities on <100 pc scales†
    We study the physical properties of the ionized gas in local discs using the sample of 38 nearby ˜108.5-11.2 M⊙ Star-Forming Main-Sequence (SFMS) galaxies...