Lines of instrumentation: Infrared instrumentation

Infrared instrumentation

The instrumentation to detect and analyze the light in the infrared range of the spectrum is one of the fields of knowledge of the Instrumentation Division. The design and construction of infrared cameras and spectrographs requires high vacuum and cryogenic technologies, involving the specialties of mechanical engineering, optics and electronics, mainly. The integration and operation of mechanisms and devices in a cryogenic environment is especially complex and requires highly specialized knowledge and equipment. The Instrumentation Division has a long history of international participation in this type of instrumentation.

  • Grant
    Grants Ramón y Cajal: Call 2014
    Contract Ramón y Cajal to develop his research work in the specific research project "Feeding and hiding the monster: Triggering and obscuring the central...
  • Grant
    Grants Severo Ochoa for centres of excellence Call 2015
    The IAC is the most important astrophysics research centre in Spain. Its new Strategic Plan mainly seeks excellence in science and to strengthen and consolidate...
  • Grant
    Grants Severo Ochoa for centres of excellence Call 2019
    The IAC is the most important astrophysics research centre in Spain. Its new Strategic Plan mainly seeks excellence in science and to strengthen and consolidate...
  • Project
    GRIS: The GREGOR Infrared Spectrograph
    GRIS is the spectrograph developed by IAC, installed in the German telescope GREGOR, in the Teide Observatory. It is dedicated to the research in solar...
  • Publication
    HADES RV program with HARPS-N at the TNG. IX. A super-Earth around the M dwarf Gl 686
    Aims: The HArps-n red Dwarf Exoplanet Survey (HADES) is providing a major contribution to the widening of the current statistics of low-mass planets, through...
  • Project
    HARMONI
    HARMONI is one of the three ELT (European Extremely Large Telescope) first light scientific instruments. It is a visible and near-infrared (0.47 to 2.45 µm)...
  • Publication
    HARMONI view of the host galaxies of active galactic nuclei around cosmic noon. Resolved stellar morpho-kinematics and the M<SUB>BH</SUB> − σ<SUB>⋆</SUB> relation
    Context. The formation and evolution of galaxies appear linked to the growth of supermassive black holes, as evidenced by empirical scaling relations in nearby...
  • Publication
    High-resolution spectroscopy of Boyajian's star during optical dimming events
    Boyajian's star is an apparently normal main-sequence F-type star with a very unusual light curve. The dipping activity of the star, discovered during the...
  • Publication
    Hints on the Gradual Resizing of the Torus in AGNs through Decomposition of Spitzer/IRS Spectra
    Several authors have claimed that less luminous active galactic nuclei (AGNs) are not capable of sustaining a dusty torus structure. Thus, a gradual resizing of...