The main goal of this project is to consolidate and to guarantee the scientific leadership of those CMB experiments operating from the Teide Observatory (OT), and in which the IAC’s cosmology group is involved. On the one hand, the QUIJOTE experiment and the new generation of associated microwave instrumentation (MFI2 and the TMS spectrograph). On

This funding will allow the purchase of a camera with electronic shutter and electronic multiplication as well, which is not availbable at the moment at IAC, and which will ne added to the set of cameras devoted to research and development. Since 1995, the IAC has been involved in many proyects related with optical communications in space, which

In the last two decades, Spain has built up strong IR and X-ray communities which have successfully contributed, at Co-I level, to the construction and to the scientific exploitation of basically all European InfraRed (IR) space instruments and to the participation in X-ray missions, including Athena. The IAC has contributed to the construction of

The main objective of this project is the study of the primeval star formation in nearby systems. In particular, we will address this research in three fundamental types: (1) the Local Group dwarf galaxies; (2) the Milky Way (MW) bulge and old disk populations; and (3) the Milky Way globular clusters. This kind of investigation is mandatory in

High Resolution stable spectrographs, coupled to large-size telescopes such as VLT or GTC, will allow us to extract in detail the dynamical and chemical information of stars across the Milky Way. The ESPRESSO spectrograph, in whose Science Team the PIs are involved, and which will be installed at the VLT in Winter 2017, will allows us to discover