IAC Projects

  • Detailed Anatomy of GALaxies - DAGAL
    Detailed Anatomy of GALaxies - DAGAL

    DAGAL is an ambitious network formed of six research groups in Spain, Germany, Finland, France, and the Netherlands. The network will collaborate very closely with the Spitzer Survey of Stellar Structure in Galaxies (S4G). We will train 8 ESRs (PhD students) and 2 ERs (postdocs) using a combination of training through high-level astrophysical

    Closed
  • Diseño conceptual de la cúpula
    ELT - European Extremely Large Telescope

    FP6 viability study proposal for a European Extremely Large Telescope. Contains studies and developments in various astrophysics-related fields: wavefront control, optics, mechanics, control, dome and infrastructure, adaptive optics, operations, instrumentation, and site characterisation.

    Marcos
    Reyes García-Talavera
    In progress
  • Ejemplos de las tecnologías involucradas en estos desarrollos: De izquierda a derecha, sensor de frente de onda de NAOS (VLT), espejos deformables utilizados para la corrección del frente de onda y red de difracción holográfica.
    Optical Infrared Co-ordination Network for Astronomy - OPTICON

    Participation in OPTICON. One of the main goals of this project, to which many of the individual activities being carried out at OPTICON are also contributing, is to produce construction specifications for a European Extremely Large Telescope.

    In progress