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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    DRAGO supera las pruebas para ser lanzado al espacio
  • Project
    EMIR - Multi-object Infrared Spectrograph
    EMIR is a wide-field camera and intermediate resolution near infrared spectrograph. It is a criogenic multi-object spectrograph installed and in operation in...
  • News
    EMIR and MEGARA, two instruments giving excellent results on GRANTECAN
    The two spectrographs on the Gran Telescopio Canarias have reached their full operating level and have become two of the most requested instruments for...
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    EMIR: Infrared Multiobject Spectrograph for GTC
  • Grant
    EMIR: scientific exploitation phase
    EMIR, the common user NIR camera and multi-object spectrograph of the GTC, is currently at the end of its system final verification phase, prior to its shipping...
  • Publication
    Exploring the Mid-infrared SEDs of Six AGN Dusty Torus Models. I. Synthetic Spectra
    At distances from the active galaxy nucleus where the ambient temperature falls below ̃1500-1800 K, dust is able to survive. It is thus possible to have a large...
  • Publication
    Exploring the Mid-infrared SEDs of Six AGN Dusty Torus Models. II. The Data
    This is the second in a series of papers devoted to exploring a set of six dusty models of active galactic nuclei (AGN) with available spectral energy...
  • Publication
    Extended warm gas in the ULIRG Mrk273: Galactic outflows and tidal debris
    We present new HST/ACS medium- and narrow-band images and optical Isaac Newton Telescope long-slit spectra of the merging system Mrk273. The HST observations...
  • News
    Fast and furious: detection of powerful winds driven by a supermassive black hole from La Palma
    This is the first publication based entirely on data obtained with EMIR, an instrument developed in the Instituto de Astrofísica de Canarias (IAC) which...