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.

  • News
    EMIR and MEGARA, two instruments giving excellent results on GRANTECAN
    The two spectrographs on the Gran Telescopio Canarias have reached their full operating level and have become two of the most requested instruments for...
  • Project
    ESPRESSO - Echelle Spectrograph for Rocky Exoplanet and Stable Spectroscopic Observation
    ESPRESSO is a fiber-fed, cross-dispersed, high resolution, Echelle spectrograph which can be operated with one or up to 4 Unit Telescopes (UTs) of ESO’s VLT.
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    ESPRESSO confirms Proxima b with unprecedented precision
    An international team, in which researchers from the Instituto de Astrofísica de Canarias participated, as well as institutions in Spain, Italy, Portugal...
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    ESPRESSO confirms the nearest exo-Earth with unprecedented precision
    An international team, in which researchers from the Instituto de Astrofísica de Canarias participated, as well as institutions in Spain, Italy, Portugal...
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    ESPRESSO has its first light on the four telescopes of the VLT at the same time
    This instrument, in which the Instituto de Astrofísica de Canarias (IAC) has collaborated, has used, for the first time, the combined light of the four...
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    ESPRESSO puts the physical constants to the test
    Why does gravity have the strength it has? What exactly determines the value of the electromagnetic force? Are the laws of Physics the same in any part of the...
  • Publication
    Exploring the Mid-infrared SEDs of Six AGN Dusty Torus Models. I. Synthetic Spectra
    At distances from the active galaxy nucleus where the ambient temperature falls below ̃1500-1800 K, dust is able to survive. It is thus possible to have a large...
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    Exploring the Mid-infrared SEDs of Six AGN Dusty Torus Models. II. The Data
    This is the second in a series of papers devoted to exploring a set of six dusty models of active galactic nuclei (AGN) with available spectral energy...
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    Extended warm gas in the ULIRG Mrk273: Galactic outflows and tidal debris
    We present new HST/ACS medium- and narrow-band images and optical Isaac Newton Telescope long-slit spectra of the merging system Mrk273. The HST observations...