The hardware of the OSIRIS instrument is nearly complete. The instrument commissioning will continue with the validation of the remaining observing modes that...
OSIRIS is a Day One instrument that will be available at the 10m GTC telescope which is being built at La Palma observatory in the Canary Islands. This optical...
OSIRIS tunable imager and spectrograph: Instrument status
OSIRIS (Optical System for Imaging and low Resolution Integrated Spectroscopy) is the optical Day One instrument for the GTC and the only Spanish Day One...
P-REx: The Piston Reconstruction Experiment for infrared interferometry
For sensitive infrared interferometry, it is crucial to control the differential piston evolution between the used telescopes. This is classically done by the...
PASS - a Permanent All Sky Survey for the detection of transits
A project to survey the entire visible sky for the presence of transits by extrasolar planets is presented. The experiment would consist of one or two fixed...
PASS: An All Sky Survey for the Detection of Transiting Extrasolar Planets and for Permanent Variable Star Tracking
An overview is given of the Permanent All Sky Survey (PASS) project. The primary goal of PASS is the detection of all transiting giant planets in the entire sky...
Performance and first measurements of the MAGIC stellar intensity interferometer
In recent years, a new generation of optical intensity interferometers has emerged, leveraging the existing infrastructure of Imaging Atmospheric Cherenkov...
Performance of the joint LST-1 and MAGIC observations evaluated with Crab Nebula data
Aims: Large-Sized Telescope 1 (LST-1), the prototype for the Large-Sized Telescope at the upcoming Cherenkov Telescope Array Observatory, is concluding its...
Phasing of segmented mirrors: a new algorithm for piston detection
The point spread function of a segmented-mirror telescope is severely affected by segment misalignment, which can nullify the performance of adaptive optics...