The detection of extrasolar life is one of the most important scientific discoveries of the next decades. The ExoLife Finder (ELF) design is a highly flexible...
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ProjectELF - Exo Life Finder
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NewsEMIR and MEGARA, two instruments giving excellent results on GRANTECAN
The two spectrographs on the Gran Telescopio Canarias have reached their full operating level and have become two of the most requested instruments for...
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NewsESPRESSO has its first light on the four telescopes of the VLT at the same time
This instrument, in which the Instituto de Astrofísica de Canarias (IAC) has collaborated, has used, for the first time, the combined light of the four...
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ProjectFirst science with adaptive optics at GTC with GRANCAIN, the provisional IR camera for the GTCAO system.
GTCAO is the single-conjugate aAdaptive Optics system being developed for the GTC. In its first light it will consist of a natural star system (NGS), which will...
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NewsFour years with SONG
The IAC is organizing a conference in Tenerife about the first four years of Science with the Hertzsprung SONG telescope, the first in an international network...
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ProjectFRIDA - inFRared Imager and Dissector for Adaptive optics
FRIDA (inFRared Imager and Dissector for Adaptive optics) is an integral field spectrograph in the near infrared, also with image mode, which will be installed...
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NewsHARMONI pases its design revisión and will be the spectrograph on the future ELT
The IAC is a member of the consortium of this instrument, which has passed its critical tests, and incorporates a powerfuls system of adaptive optics which will...
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ProjectIAC participation in the development of the HARMONI instrument (SO 2021-2023)
HARMONI is a first light optical / infrared spectrograph of integral field and high spatial resolution for ELT. Its design and construction is carried out by an...
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ProjectIACTEC SPACE - Optical Space Communications
The Free Space Optical Communications Group is focused in develop and research of quantum optical communications equipments and implementations, between...