Organizational unit: RESEARCH DIVISION

Email
coordinacion.investigacion [at] iac.es
Headquarter
Headquarters
Description
The Research Division engages in the elaboration and development of research projects in astrophysics and its related fields. To meet its objectives, the Division is organized with a managerial structure and services dedicated to facilitating and channeling the development of its research activities.
  • Project
    Exoplanets and Astrobiology
    The search for life in the universe has been driven by recent discoveries of planets around other stars (known as exoplanets), becoming one of the most active...
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    Formation and Evolution of Galaxies: Observations in Infrared and other Wavelengths
    This IAC research group carries out several extragalactic projects in different spectral ranges, using space as well as ground-based telescopes, to study the...
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    Frida y después: Ciencia con alta resolución
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    Galaxy Evolution in Clusters of Galaxies
    Galaxies in the universe can be located in different environments, some of them are isolated or in low density regions and they are usually called field...
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    Galaxy Evolution in the Local Group
    Galaxy formation and evolution is a fundamental Astrophysical problem. Its study requires “travelling back in time”, for which there are two complementary...
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    Helio and Astero-Seismology and Exoplanets Search
    The principal objectives of this project are: 1) to study the structure and dynamics of the solar interior, 2) to extend this study to other stars, 3) to search...
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    IACDEEP: Machine Learning in Astrophysics
    Internal transversal research project that aims to bring together the know-how in machine learning and deep learning in the IAC. This project encapsulates the...
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    Kinematic, Structural and Composition Studies of the Interstellar and Intergalactic Media
    The basic objective of the broject is to investigate the evolution of galaxies by deepening our understanding of the interaction between the insterstellar...
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    Magnetism, Polarization and Radiative Transfer in Astrophysics
    Magnetic fields pervade all astrophysical plasmas and govern most of the variability in the Universe at intermediate time scales. They are present in stars...