The Microlensing Observations in Astrophysics (MOA-II) survey has performed high cadence, wide field observations of the Galactic Bulge from New Zealand since 2005. The hourly cadence of the survey during eight months of the year, across nearly 50 deg 2 of sky, provides an opportunity to sample asteroid lightcurves in the broad MOA-R filter. We

Modern hydrodynamical simulations reproduce many properties of the real Universe. These simulations model various physical processes, but many of these are included using 'subgrid models' due to resolution limits. Although different subgrid models have been successful in modelling the effects of supernovae (SNe) and active galactic nuclei (AGNs)

ANDES is a high-resolution spectrograph, extremely stable and fed with fibres, under the development for the ELT Telescope. This paper contains an overview of the Phase-A design status of the opto-mechanics and Optical Bench structure of the visible arm of ANDES, including a materials trade-off, several FEMs and lessons learned from the projects in

The first generation of ELT instruments includes an optical-infrared high resolution spectrograph, indicated as ELT-HIRES and recently christened ANDES (ArmazoNes high Dispersion Echelle Spectrograph). ANDES consists of three fibre-fed spectrographs (UBV, RIZ, YJH) providing a spectral resolution of ∼100,000 with a minimum simultaneous wavelength

The constantly increasing needs for astronomical imaging of ever fainter objects as well as for imaging the Earth from space require much higher angular resolution and dynamic range than current optical telescopes can deliver. Mirrors are the key elements of these systems; but they are technologically difficult to improve because they must maintain

The works described in the current paper correspond to some exploratory advances that were performed by ESTEYCO in close collaboration with IAC on the European Solar Telescope (EST) main structure beyond the conceptual design activities conducted up to 2011, which were taken as the starting point. The works to develop this advanced conceptual