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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    The “100 Square Moons” exhibition inaugurated in Tokyo
    The Cervantes Institute in Japan plays host to this educational exhibition which brings advances in Astrophysics to society via photographs with major impact...
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    Torus and polar dust dependence on active galactic nucleus properties
    We present a statistical analysis of the properties of the obscuring material around active galactic nuclei (AGN). This study represents the first of its kind...
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    Torus model properties of an ultra-hard X-ray selected sample of Seyfert galaxies
    We characterize for the first time the torus properties of an ultra-hard X-ray (14-195 keV) volume-limited (DL 40 Mpc) sample of 24 Seyfert (Sy) galaxies...
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    Tracing kinematic (mis)alignments in CALIFA merging galaxies. Stellar and ionized gas kinematic orientations at every merger stage
    We present spatially resolved stellar and/or ionized gas kinematic properties for a sample of 103 interacting galaxies, tracing all merger stages: close...
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    Tracing the formation of the Milky Way through ultra metal-poor stars
    We use Gaia DR2 astrometric and photometric data, published radial velocities and MESA models to infer distances, orbits, surface gravities, and effective...
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    Two physical regimes for the giant H II regions and giant molecular clouds in the Antennae galaxies
    We have combined observations of the Antennae galaxies from the radio interferometer ALMA (Atacama Large Millimeter/submillimeter Array) and from the optical...
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    Tycho's Supernova: The View from Gaia
    SN 1572 (Tycho Brahe’s supernova) clearly belongs to the Ia (thermonuclear) type. It was produced by the explosion of a white dwarf (WD) in a binary system. Its...
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    Uncovering the host galaxy of the γ-ray-emitting narrow-line Seyfert 1 galaxy FBQS J1644+2619
    The discovery of γ-ray emission from radio-loud narrow-line Seyfert 1 (NLSy1) galaxies has questioned the need for large black hole masses ( ≳ 108 M⊙) to launch...
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    Unexplored outflows in nearby low luminosity AGNs. The case of NGC 1052
    Context. Multi-phase outflows play a central role in galaxy evolution shaping the properties of galaxies. Understanding outflows and their effects in low...