Lines of instrumentation: Visible instrumentation

Visible instrumentation

From its origins, the Instrumentation Division has participated in the construction of instrumentation to detect and analyze light in the visible range of the spectrum. Cameras, spectrographs, polarization analyzers, optical fibers fed systems, among others, have been designed, built, integrated and verified in our facilities.

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    Mapping the stellar population and gas excitation of MaNGA galaxies with MEGACUBES. Results for AGN versus control sample
    We present spaxel-by-spaxel stellar population fits for the ~10 000 MaNGA data cubes. We provide multiple extension fits files, nominated as MEGACUBES, with...
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    MASCARA-2b /KELT-20b ultra hot Jupiter
    The atmosphere of a new ultra hot Jupiter is analysed. The combination of observations made with the CARMENES spectrograph on the 3.5m telescope at Calar Alto...
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    Mass constraints to Sco X-1 from Bowen fluorescence and deep near-infrared spectroscopy
    More than 50 years after the dawn of X-ray astronomy, the dynamical parameters of the prototypical X-ray binary Sco X-1 are still unknown. We combine a Monte...
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    Modeling the Strongest Silicate Emission Features of Local Type 1 AGNs
    We measure the 10 and 18 μm silicate features in a sample of 67 local (z < 0.1) type 1 active galactic nuclei (AGN) with available Spitzer spectra dominated by...
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    Modeling the Unresolved NIR-MIR SEDs of Local (z &lt; 0.1) QSOs
    To study the nuclear (≲1 kpc) dust of nearby (z < 0.1) quasi-stellar objects (QSOs), we obtained new near-infrared (NIR) high angular resolution (~0.″3)...
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    Molecular line emission in NGC 1068 imaged with ALMA. I. An AGN-driven outflow in the dense molecular gas
    Aims: We investigate the fueling and the feedback of star formation and nuclear activity in NGC 1068, a nearby (D = 14 Mpc) Seyfert 2 barred galaxy, by...
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    Morpho-kinematic properties of field S0 bulges in the CALIFA survey
    We study a sample of 28 S0 galaxies extracted from the integral field spectroscopic (IFS) survey Calar Alto Legacy Integral Field Area. We combine an accurate...
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    Multiphase feedback processes in the Sy2 galaxy NGC 5643
    We study the multiphase feedback processes in the central ∼3 kpc of the barred Seyfert 2 galaxy NGC 5643. We used observations of the cold molecular gas (ALMA...
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    MUSE crowded field 3D spectroscopy in NGC 300. I. First results from central fields
    Aims: As a new approach to the study of resolved stellar populations in nearby galaxies, our goal is to demonstrate with a pilot study in NGC 300 that integral...