El Museo de la Ciencia y el Cosmos , del Organismo Autónomo de Museos y Centros del Cabildo de Tenerife, acogerá el próximo jueves 23 de octubre a las 16:30 horas una nueva cita del ciclo de divulgación científica “Del cielo a la tesis”, organizado en colaboración con la Universidad de La Laguna (ULL) y el Instituto de Astrofísica de Canarias (IAC). Este ciclo, impulsado por estudiantes de doctorado del IAC, tiene como objetivo acercar a la ciudadanía los temas más actuales de la investigación astrofísica contados en primera persona por quienes los desarrollan. Cada sesión, de carácter
The Instituto de Astrofísica de Canarias (IAC) has successfully completed the integration of the scientific detector into the FRIDA (inFRared Imager and Dissector for Adaptive Optics) instrument, an integra-field camera and spectrograph designed to work with the adaptive optics system of the Gran Telescopio Canarias (GTC or Grantecan), the world's largest optical and infrared telescope, located at the Roque de los Muchachos Observatory in La Palma. The integration was carried out in the laboratories of the National Autonomous University of Mexico (UNAM) in Mexico City by a team from the IAC
A new study published in Astronomy & Astrophysics unveils a powerful way to determine the size of dark matter haloes—the massive, invisible structures that host galaxies—by simply measuring how large galaxies appear in deep astronomical images. Researchers Ignacio Trujillo and Claudio Dalla Vecchia, from the Instituto de Astrofísica de Canarias (IAC) and the Universidad de La Laguna (ULL), demonstrate that galaxy size can serve as a precise proxy for halo size, offering measurements up to six times more accurate than previous methods. Using the cutting-edge EAGLE cosmological simulations
