Science of active galactic nuclei with the GTC and CanariCam
CanariCam is the facility mid-infrared (MIR) instrument for the Gran Telescopio Canarias (GTC), a 10.4m telescope at the Observatorio del Roque de los Muchachos...
Science opportunities enabled by the era of Visible Band Stellar Imaging with sub-100 μarc-sec angular resolution.
This white paper briefly summarizes stellar science opportunities enabled by ultra-high resolution (sub-100 μarc-sec) astronomical imaging in the visible (U/V)...
Science with a Wide-field 6.5-m Spectroscopic Telescope
This document describes the scientific case for a wide-field 6.5-m spectroscopic telescope. The key scientific aims are linked to two different modes of...
Scientific CMOS sensors in Astronomy: QHY600 and QHY411
With the emergence of so-called scientific CMOS sensors, some of the new high-cadence and cost-limited surveys are considering this technology as a low-cost...
The performance of CoRoT in the detection of planetary transits was estimated using different approachs, from simple modeling to more elaborate tests in which...