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.

  • Project
    WEAVE - WHT Enhanced Area Velocity Explorer
    New multi-object spectrograph planned for the 4.2m William Herschell Telescope (WHT) located in the Observatorio del Roque de los Muchachos, on La Palma island.
  • News
    WEAVE is ready to start operating in La Palma
    All the main components of the new multiobject spectrograph WEAVE on the William Herschel Telescope (WHT) in the Roque de los Muchachos Observatory (Garafía, La...
  • Grant
    WEAVE: Exploring new scientific horizons through spectroscopic surveys.
    The William Herschel Telescope (WHT) has been a key player in the take-off of Spanish astronomy in the last 25 years. With the access of the Spanish community...
  • Grant
    WEAVE: the next-generation wide-field spectrograph for the William Herschel Telescope
    The world-class 4.2m William Herschel telescope (WHT), with its comprehensive instrument suite at the superb site of the Observatorio del Roque de los Muchachos...
  • Publication
    X-ray luminosity functions of different morphological and X-ray type AGN populations
    Luminosity functions are one of the most important observational clues when studying galaxy evolution over cosmic time. In this paper we present the X-ray...
  • Publication
    Young LMC clusters: the role of red supergiants and multiple stellar populations in their integrated light and CMDs
    The optical integrated spectra of three Large Magellanic Cloud young stellar clusters (NGC 1984, NGC 1994 and NGC 2011) exhibit concave continua and prominent...
  • Publication
    Young stellar populations in type II quasars: timing the onset of star formation and nuclear activity
    Despite the emerging morphological evidence that luminous quasar-like active galactic nuclei (AGN) are triggered in galaxy mergers, the natures of the...
  • News
    “Las nubes de Andrómeda”, Astronomy Picture of the Day
    At the beginning of last year, the newly released Astrograph STC (Sky Treasure Chest) of the Unit of Communication and Scientific Culture of the Canary Islands...