OSIRIS, the main optical (360-1000nm) 1st-generation instrument for GTC, is being integrated. Except for some grisms and filters, all main optical components...
Expected performance and simulated observations of the instrument HARMONI at the European Extremely Large Telescope (E-ELT)
HARMONI has been conceived as a workhorse visible and near-infrared (0.47-2.45 microns) integral field spectrograph for the European Extremely Large Telescope...
Expected Performance of the CoRoT Planet Search from Light Curve Beauty Contests
The CoRoT space mission, scheduled for launch in December 2006, has two primary science goals: asteroseismology and the detection of planetary transits, the...
Experience in Operating a Limited Global Network of Stations Measuring Full-Disc Oscillations of the Sun
Details are given about the operation of a two station network and of a new semi-automatic station which has recently been added. Comparison is made with...
Experience of utilising CI/CD practices in the development of software for a modern astronomical observatory
The 4m class New Robotic Telescope being built on La Palma, Canary Islands, will build upon the successful autonomous robotic operations model of the Liverpool...
Experimental test of laser beam propagation with simultaneous measurements of turbulence profiles
The experimental study of laser beam propagation in turbulence is relevant to fields such as adaptive optics and optical communications. Turbulence sensing for...
Experiments with a Parallel Monte Carlo Simulation of Space Cosmic Particles Detector
Work in progress in the design of a parallel simulation of a multipurpose cosmic rays detector is presented. The detector is part of an experiment whose main...
Exploitation of CanariCam: Opening new windows for spanish astrophysics
CanariCam is the Day One mid-infrared imager for the Spanish 10 m Gran Telescopio Canarias (GTC). With its multimode options that allow spectroscopy...
Exploring circumstellar effects on the Li abundances in massive Galactic AGB stars.
We have explored the circumstellar effects on the Li abundance determination in a complete sample of O-rich Galactic asymptotic giant branch (AGB) stars...