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.

  • Publication
    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...
  • Grant
    UV-sensitive detection system for the OSIRIS instrument in the GTC
  • Grant
    Vacuum equipment, cryogenics and automatic safety control in cryogenic infrastructures
    We propose the acquisition of specific technological equipment for the adaptation and safety control of the IAC infrastructures dedicated to the realization of...
  • Capability
    Valorization of technology and promotion of synergies with the productive environment
    Another purpose of the IAC is to increase the value of the research results generated by the center. The transfer of knowledge for the development of new...
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    VLA and ALMA observations of the lensed radio-quiet quasar SDSS J0924+0219: a molecular structure in a 3 μJy radio source
    We present Karl G. Jansky Very Large Array (VLA) and Atacama Large Millimetre Array (ALMA) observations of SDSS J0924+0219, a z = 1.524 radio-quiet lensed...
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    VLT FORS2 optical imaging and spectroscopy of nine luminous type 2 AGN at 0.3 < z < 0.6 - I. Ionized gas nebulae
    We present optical imaging and long slit spectroscopic observations of nine luminous type 2 active galactic nuclei (AGN) within the redshift range 0.3 z 0.6...
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    Warm molecular and ionized gas kinematics in the type-2 quasar J0945+1737
    We analyse Near-Infrared Integral Field Spectrograph (NIFS) observations of the type-2 quasar (QSO2) SDSS J094521.33+173753.2 to investigate its warm molecular...