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.

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    High redshift galaxies in the ALHAMBRA survey . I. Selection method and number counts based on redshift PDFs
    Context. Most observational results on the high redshift restframe UV-bright galaxies are based on samples pinpointed using the so-called dropout technique or...
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    High redshift galaxies in the ALHAMBRA survey. II. Strengthening the evidence of bright-end excess in UV luminosity functions at 2.5 ≤ z≤ 4.5 by PDF analysis
    Context. Knowing the exact shape of the ultraviolet (UV) luminosity function (LF) of high-redshift galaxies is important to understand the star formation...
  • News
    IACTEC develops a system which can analyze subcutaneous tissues for early detection of illnesses
    The first tests of a concept using microwave radiometry have yielded promising results for the measurement of subcutaneous temperatures in biological tissues...
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    J-PLUS: The Javalambre Photometric Local Universe Survey
    The Javalambre Photometric Local Universe Survey (J-PLUS ) is an ongoing 12-band photometric optical survey, observing thousands of square degrees of the...
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    Jpcam: a 1.2 Gpixel Camera for the J-Pas Survey
    JPCam is a 14-CCD mosaic camera, using the new e2v 9k-by-9k 10 μm-pixel 16-channel detectors, to be deployed on a dedicated 2.55 m wide-field telescope at the...
  • Technical facility
    Laboratory of Integrated Circuits (LABIC)
    As part of the IAC's strategic plan, since 2019, the Electronic Department of the Instrumentation Division has been carrying out many activities to obtain the...
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    Lyman break and ultraviolet-selected galaxies at z ˜ 1 - I. Stellar populations from the ALHAMBRA survey
    We take advantage of the exceptional photometric coverage provided by the combination of GALEX data in the ultraviolet (UV) and the ALHAMBRA survey in the...
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    Lyman Break and ultraviolet-selected galaxies at z ˜ 1 - II. PACS 100 μm/160 μm FIR detections
    In this work, we report the Photodetector Array Camera and Spectrometer (PACS) 100 μm/160 μm detections of a sample of 42 GALEX-selected and far-infrared (FIR)...