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.

  • Capability
    Detector characterization
    The detectors, despite their widespread and simple use in many everyday applications, require a very precise knowledge for use in advanced scientific...
  • Gallery
    Día de Nuestra Ciencia 2019
    On May 28, in the Tenerife Space for the Arts (TEA) in Santa Cruz de Tenerife, the IAC celebrated the XI edition of the Day of Our Science, an annual meting at...
  • News
    Didier Queloz, Physics Nobel Prize Winner 2019, Is Developing an Advanced Terrestrial Planet Hunter for the Isaac Newton Telescope
    The Isaac Newton Group of Telescopes (ING) and the Institute of Astrophysics of the Canary Islands (IAC) warmly congratulate James Peebles (Princeton University...
  • Publication
    Differences between CO- and calcium triplet-derived velocity dispersions in spiral galaxies: evidence for central star formation?
    We examine the stellar velocity dispersions (σ) of a sample of 48 galaxies, 35 of which are spirals, from the Palomar nearby galaxy survey. It is known that for...
  • Publication
    Diffuse interstellar bands λ5780 and λ5797 in the Antennae Galaxy as seen by MUSE
    Context. Diffuse interstellar bands (DIBs) are faint spectral absorption features of unknown origin. Research on DIBs beyond the Local Group is very limited and...
  • Project
    DIMMA -Automatic Differential Image Motion Monitor
    Improvement and modernisation of the seeing monitor, which was developed at the IAC and has been in regular use since 1995.
  • Publication
    Disc galaxies are still settling. Discovery of the smallest nuclear discs and their young stellar bars
    When galactic discs settle and become massive enough, they are able to form stellar bars. These non-axisymmetric structures induce shocks in the gas, causing it...
  • Publication
    Discovery of an old nova remnant in the Galactic globular cluster M 22
    A nova is a cataclysmic event on the surface of a white dwarf in a binary system that increases the overall brightness by several orders of magnitude. Although...
  • Publication
    Disk Galaxies Are Self-similar: The Universality of the H I-to-Halo Mass Ratio for Isolated Disks
    Observed scaling relations in galaxies between baryons and dark matter global properties are key to shed light on the process of galaxy formation and on the...