Organizational unit: INSTRUMENTATION DIVISION

Email
secins [at] iac.es
Headquarter
Headquarters
Description
The Instrumentation Division provides technological support in the elaboration and execution of research and development projects to fulfil the aims of the IAC. Among the objectives of the Division are the development of new instrumentation for astronomical research, the maintenance of the existing astronomical instrumentation, the utilization of its technological capabilities in other fields of science and engineering to benefit the society, the training of technical personnel, and the generation and transfer of technology. The Division is divided into various engineering departments (Software, Electronics, Optics, Mechanics, and Projects) and Production (Mechanics, Electronics, and Technical Drawing workshops, and Specific Software Services).
  • Project
    GTCAO LGS. Adaptative Optics and Laser Guide Star for GTC
    The Adaptive Optics (AO) for the Gran Telescopio Canarias (GTC) corrects the effect of the atmospheric turbulence on the light, to exploit the high spatial...
  • 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)...
  • Project
    Herschel y Planck
    IAC participation in the HERSCHEL AND PLANCK SURVEYOR space missions. Since 1996 the Instituto de Astrofísica de Canarias has been a contributor to the concept...
  • Project
    HORuS - High Optical Resolution Spectrograph
    High-resolution spectrograph for the 10-m Gran Telescopio Canarias (GTC) based on components from UES, a spectrograph which was in use at the 4.2-m William...
  • Project
    IAC 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...
  • Project
    IMaX-Sunrise
    Magnetograph for SUNRISE. IMaX (Imaging Magnetograph eXperiment) is one of the postfocal instruments for the SUNRISE experiment. After two succesful flights...
  • Project
    INTEGRAL
    Built by IAC in collaboration with the Royal Greenwich Observatory (RGO) and the Isaac Newton Group of Telescopes (ING). The aim was to develop a two...
  • Project
    JEM-EUSO IRCAM
    The Infrared Camera (IRCAM) of the Japanese Experiment Module (JEM) Extreme Universe Space Observatory (EUSO)
  • Project
    Laser Guide Star with OGS
    The aim of this project is to create a sodium Laser Guide Star (LGS) using the 1m telescope OGS and a sodium dye laser. LGSs are needed by the Adaptive Optics...