Microwave instrumentation

Since the 1980s the Instrumentation Division has been developing instrumentation and experiments in the microwave range with the main objective of characterizing the radiation of the Cosmic Microwave Background (FCM) and other processes of galactic and extra-galactic emission.

  • Publication
    GLACE survey: OSIRIS/GTC multi-object spectroscopy of the rich galaxy cluster ZwCl 0024.0+1652 at z∼0.4: III. The mass–SFR relation and the quenching of cluster galaxies
    Context. Galaxy clusters are among the largest and densest structures in the Universe. Their high density generally increases the suppression of star formation...
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    GLACE survey: OSIRIS/GTC tuneable filter Hα imaging of the rich galaxy cluster ZwCl 0024.0+1652 at z = 0.395. I. Survey presentation, TF data reduction techniques, and catalogue
    The cores of clusters at 0 ≲ z ≲ 1 are dominated by quiescent early-type galaxies, whereas the field is dominated by star-forming late-type galaxies. Clusters...
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    GLACE survey: OSIRIS/GTC tuneable imaging of the galaxy cluster ZwCl 0024.0+1652. II. The mass-metallicity relationship and the effect of the environment
    Aims: In this paper, we revisit the data for the galaxy cluster ZwCl 0024.0+1652 provided by the GLACE survey and study the mass-metallicity function and its...
  • Installation
    Gran Telescopio CANARIAS
    The Gran Telescopio CANARIAS (GTC) is a 10,4 metres primary mirror reflecting telescope. It is designed to incorporate the most up-to-date technology and it is...
  • Publication
    Gran Telescopio Canarias OSIRIS transiting exoplanet atmospheric survey: detection of potassium in XO-2b from narrowband spectrophotometry
    We present Gran Telescopio Canarias (GTC) optical transit narrowband photometry of the hot-Jupiter exoplanet XO-2b using the OSIRIS instrument. This unique...
  • Grant
    Grants for predoctoral mobility for short stays in centres of R&D: Call 2017
  • Grant
    Grants for predoctoral mobility for short stays in centres of R&D: Call 2017
  • Publication
    Herschel far-IR counterparts of SDSS galaxies: analysis of commonly used star formation rate estimates
    We study a hundred of galaxies from the spectroscopic Sloan Digital Sky Survey (SDSS) with individual detections in the far-infrared Herschel Photodetector...
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    Herschel-PACS far-infrared detections of Lyman-α emitters at 2.0 ≲ z ≲ 3.5
    In this work we analyse the physical properties of a sample of 56 spectroscopically selected star-forming (SF) Lyα emitting galaxies at 2.0 ≲ z ≲ 3.5 using both...