Organizational unit: INSTRUMENTATION DIVISION

Email
secins [at] iac.es
Headquarter
Headquarters
Description
The Instrumentation Division provides technological support in the elaboration and execution of research and development projects to fulfil the aims of the IAC. Among the objectives of the Division are the development of new instrumentation for astronomical research, the maintenance of the existing astronomical instrumentation, the utilization of its technological capabilities in other fields of science and engineering to benefit the society, the training of technical personnel, and the generation and transfer of technology. The Division is divided into various engineering departments (Software, Electronics, Optics, Mechanics, and Projects) and Production (Mechanics, Electronics, and Technical Drawing workshops, and Specific Software Services).
  • 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.
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    EDIFISE
    EDiFiSE - Equalized and Diffraction-limited field spectrograph experiment - is an instrument developed by IAC for tehcnological demonstration. It includes one...
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    ELT - European Extremely Large Telescope
    FP6 viability study proposal for a European Extremely Large Telescope. Contains studies and developments in various astrophysics-related fields: wavefront...
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    EMIR - Multi-object Infrared Spectrograph
    EMIR is a wide-field camera and intermediate resolution near infrared spectrograph. It is a criogenic multi-object spectrograph installed and in operation in...
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    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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    FastCam
    High temporal and spatial resolution in the optical for the IAC
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    First science with adaptive optics at GTC with GRANCAIN, the provisional IR camera for the GTCAO system.
    GTCAO is the single-conjugate aAdaptive Optics system being developed for the GTC. In its first light it will consist of a natural star system (NGS), which will...
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    FRIDA - inFRared Imager and Dissector for Adaptive optics
    FRIDA (inFRared Imager and Dissector for Adaptive optics) is an integral field spectrograph in the near infrared, also with image mode, which will be installed...
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    GRIS: The GREGOR Infrared Spectrograph
    GRIS is the spectrograph developed by IAC, installed in the German telescope GREGOR, in the Teide Observatory. It is dedicated to the research in solar...