Talk type: Telescopes and instrumentation

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    First on-sky results with the CANARY multi-object AO demonstrator on the WHT
    CANARY is a technical demonstrator for the proposed EAGLE instrument for European ELT. EAGLE will have twenty Integral Field Units patrolling a 5 arcminute...
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    Future Exploration of the Solar System: NASA's Moon to Mars Initiative
    A major goal for NASA's human spaceflight program is to send astronauts to the Moon and beyond in the coming decades. The first missions would focus on...
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    Futuros Telescopios Gigantes
    El coste de los mayores telescopios actualmente en construcción es tal que la extrapolación de estos diseños a tamaños superiores a ~50 metros de diámetro...
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    Gravitational waves: a new window onto the Universe
    Over the next decade or so, the gravitational-wave window onto the Universe will be opened in four frequency bands that span 22 orders of magnitude: The high...
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    GRB 101225A: a stellar murder on Christmas Day
    Long Gamma-Ray Bursts (GRBs) are the most dramatic examples of massive stellar deaths, usually associated with supernovae ( Woosley et al. 2006). They release...
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    GTC OSIRIS spectroscopy of a faint L subdwarf identified in UKIDSS
    In this Breaking News seminar, I will describe our project dedicated to the search for ultracool low-metallicity dwarfs (or subdwarfs) in the large-scale...
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    GTC/OSIRIS data reduction system
    I present the online and the offline data reduction system for OSIRIS, the optical multi-mode instrument for GranTeCan. The software is written in Python and...
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    Haciendo simple la gestión de documentos con la herramienta de gestión documental del EST.
    La gestión de documentos es una tarea compleja que implica múltiples cuestiones, especialmente en proyectos como la definición y creación de un telescopio. Una...
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    HaGS: a survey of star forming galaxies in the local Universe
    I will present results from a survey of the star formation properties of nearby galaxies, using H alpha narrow-band imaging. The first half of the talk will...