Lines of instrumentation: Telescopes

Telescopes

As the main objective of the Division is the development of astrophysical instrumentation, frequently it is required its participation in studies and proposals for the construction of future telescopes. Since the design and construction of the IAC-80 telescope, the Instrumentation Division has contributed to several large telescopes projects

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    10 years of the GTC
    The Gran Telescopio Canarias (GTC) is celebrating the tenth anniversary of its inauguration in the Roque de Los Muchachos Observatory. During the past decade...
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    10 years of the GTC: Amazing science with an astonishing telescope
    The Gran Telescopio Canarias (GTC) is celebrating the tenth anniversary of its inauguration in the Roque de Los Muchachos Observatory. During the past decade...
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    2023 DZ2 asteroid will not collide with Earth, study finds
    An international scientific team, in which researchers from the Instituto de Astrofísica de Canarias (IAC) participate, confirms that the asteroid, discovered...
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    2nd LIOM International Workshop
    2nd LIOM International Workshop held at the IACTEC building in La Laguna.
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    A challenge to models of star-formation truncation in massive galaxies
    An international study published in Nature Astronomy, in which the Instituto de Astrofísica de Canarias (IAC) is a participant, suggests that the feedback winds...
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    A galaxy which outshines the rest
    Gas is essential to the process of forming a galaxy. During the first stages the amount of gas present determines the number of stars which will be in the...
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    A large tidal stream observed in the Sombrero galaxy
    According to the latest cosmological models, large spiral galaxies such as the Milky Way grew by absorbing smaller galaxies, by a sort of galactic cannibalism...
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    A mechanism for removing dark matter from galaxies has been found
    The small fraction of dark matter in the galaxy NGC1052-DF4 has worried the astronomical community for several years. Now a team of researchers from the...
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    A study offers new prospects for finding life outside the Earth
    An international team of astronomers, in which the Instituto de Astrofísica de Canarias (IAC) has participated, has found an exoplanetary system formed by...