Lines of instrumentation: Visible instrumentation

Visible instrumentation

From its origins, the Instrumentation Division has participated in the construction of instrumentation to detect and analyze light in the visible range of the spectrum. Cameras, spectrographs, polarization analyzers, optical fibers fed systems, among others, have been designed, built, integrated and verified in our facilities.

  • Grant
    Science with OSIRIS-REX
    The objective of this project is to fund the activities of our group for the next four years related to our participation in the OSORIS-REx mission, our...
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    Scrutinizing evidence for the triggering of active galactic nuclei in the outskirts of massive galaxy clusters at z ≈ 1
    Environmental effects are believed to play an important yet poorly understood role in triggering accretion events onto the supermassive black holes (SMBHs) of...
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    SDSS galaxies with double-peaked emission lines: double starbursts or active galactic nuclei?
    With the aim of investigating galaxies with two strong simultaneous starbursts, we have extracted a sample of galaxies with double-peaked emission lines in...
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    Searching for molecular gas inflows and outflows in the nuclear regions of five Seyfert galaxies
    Active galactic nucleus (AGN) driven outflows are believed to play an important role in regulating the growth of galaxies, mostly via negative feedback. However...
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    Serendipitous detection of an overdensity of Herschel-SPIRE 250 μm sources south of MRC 1138-26
    We report the serendipitous detection of a significant overdensity of Herschel-Spectral and Photometric Imaging Receiver 250 μm sources in the vicinity of MRC...
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    SHARDS: An Optical Spectro-photometric Survey of Distant Galaxies
    We present the Survey for High-z Absorption Red and Dead Sources (SHARDS), an ESO/GTC Large Program carried out using the OSIRIS instrument on the 10.4 m Gran...
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    Shock-driven heating in the circumnuclear star-forming regions of NGC 7582: insights from JWST NIRSpec and MIRI/MRS spectroscopy
    We present combined James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) NIRSpec and MIRI/MRS integral field spectroscopy data of the nuclear and circumnuclear regions of the...
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    Signs of 'Everything Everywhere All at Once' formation in low-surface-brightness globular-cluster-rich dwarf galaxies
    Context. Only two ultra-diffuse galaxies (UDGs) have spatially resolved stellar population properties, showing flat to rising metallicity profiles, indicative...
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    Smooth kinematic and metallicity gradients reveal that the Milky Way's nuclear star cluster and disc might be part of the same structure
    Context. The innermost regions of most galaxies are characterised by the presence of extremely dense nuclear star clusters. Nevertheless, these clusters are not...