Meeting in La Palma of the International Scientific Committee of the Canary Islands Observatories

International Scientific Committee (CCI) of the Canary Islands Observatories
Representatives of the different institutions that make up the International Scientific Committee (CCI) of the Canary Islands Observatories. Credit: Nira Llarena
Advertised on

Members of the different institutions that make up the International Scientific Committee (CCI) of the Canary Islands Observatories met last Tuesday, 31 October, in the island of La Palma. The meeting was attended by Rafael Rebolo, Director of the Instituto de Astrofísica de Canarias (IAC), and Casiana Múñoz, Deputy Director of the IAC. The CCI is the committee created in the International Agreements that established the Canary Islands Observatories for an effective participation of the User Institutions in the adoption of decisions related to the use and improvement of the observatories.

The CCI working groups shared information on the latest scientific discoveries that have been made at the Canarian observatories, the Observatorio del Teide (OT) and the Observatorio del Roque de los Muchachos (ORM), in Tenerife and La Palma, respectively, as well as projects for future facilities. In particular, the plans for the completion of the Large-Sized Telescope (LST) array and the plans for the deployment of the European Solar Telescope (EST) at the ORM and the steps for the extension of the ASTRI project at the OT were presented. Likewise, through the reports of the Observatory Administrators, the current state of both centres, the services provided by them to the scientific community and the efforts made to better connect the Observatories with the Canary Islands society were inspected. 

Related news
News type
Photomontage
Astrophysics
Agreements

It may interest you

  • Illustration of the UNDARK project
    Press release
    The IAC aims to illuminate the dark side of the universe with the UNDARK project
    UNDARK is a pioneering project led by the Instituto de Astrofísica de Canarias (IAC) bringing together outstanding international institutions in the fields of astrophysics, cosmology, and particle physics. Funded for three years via the 'Widening' programme of the European Union, its objective is to tackle one of the major puzzles of contemporary physics: the dark universe. The major part of the Cosmos is composed by the so-called “dark universe”. Barely 18% of the total matter in the universe is made up of the elements in atoms with which we are familiar, while the remaining 82%, termed
    Advertised on
  • La ministra de Ciencia, Innovación y Universidades ha presidido este jueves en el CaixaForum el acto de reconocimiento de las Acreditaciones Severo Ochoa y María de Maeztu, que concede el Ministerio de Ciencia, Innovación y Universidades (MICIU), a través de la Agencia Estatal de Investigación (AEI), a centros y unidades de investigación de excelencia.
    Photomontage
    The Instituto de Astrofísica de Canarias, present during the formal awarding of the Severo Ochoa and María de Maeztu qualification
    The Instituto de Astrofísica de Canarias (IAC) participated, during the afternoon of September 5th, in the awarding of the qualifications Severo Ochoa and María de Maeztu, offered by the Ministry of Science, Innovation and Universities (MICIU) via the National Agency for Research (AEI) to centres and research units of excellence in our country. For the IAC this qualification refers to the period 2020-2024, and was received by the outgoing Director, Rafael Rebolo, who was accompanied by the Director Valentín Martínez Pillet and by the project manager Dahimar Sánchez.
    Advertised on
  • Black hole of Andromeda
    Press release
    Observers measure how Andromeda’s central black hole is fed
    A team of scientists led by the Observatory of Munich University and the Instituto de Astrofísica de Canarias have obtained direct visualization of the process of feeding the supermassive black hole at the centre of the Andromeda galaxy. The study reveals the existence of long filamentary structures of gas and dust which move in a spiral starting at a distance from the black hole and ending up at the black hole itself. The results, which have been published in the Astrophysical Journal, were obtained using images from the Hubble and Spitzer space telescopes. The Andromeda Galaxy, which is
    Advertised on