The European Coordination Action on HELio- and ASteroseismology (HELAS) has completed its fourth and final year of initial funding by the European Commission...
FPGA-based real time controller for high order correction in EDIFISE
EDIFISE is a technology demonstrator instrument developed at the Institute of Astrophysics of the Canary Islands (IAC), intended to explore the feasibility of...
FPGA-based real time processing of the Plenoptic Wavefront Sensor
The plenoptic wavefront sensor combines measurements at pupil and image planes in order to obtain simultaneously wavefront information from different points of...
FPGA-based slope computation for ELTs adaptive optics wavefront sensors
ELTs laser guide stars wavefront sensors are planned to have specifically developed sensor chips, which will probably include readout logic and D/A conversion...
High-resolution white light and H-alpha observations are used to study the development of 15 large active solar regions. The behavior of the magnetic fragments...
The following are the main findings: (1) Fragments with typically 1021Mx preserve their identity and even survive to the decay of the sunspots. (2) Each...
Free space experimental characterization of a multilayer Fabry-Pérot resonator for DALI
The axion is a long-postulated boson that can simultaneously solve two crucial problems of Modern Physics: the unexpected charge and parity symmetry observed in...