ExGal-Twin: Excellence in Galaxies - Twinning the IAC
This Twinning action aims to strengthen the research and networking capacity, profile and impact of the Instituto de Astrofísica de Canarias (IAC) in the area...
The search for life in the universe has been driven by recent discoveries of planets around other stars (known as exoplanets), becoming one of the most active...
Formation and Evolution of Galaxies: Observations in Infrared and other Wavelengths
This IAC research group carries out several extragalactic projects in different spectral ranges, using space as well as ground-based telescopes, to study the...
FRIDA - inFRared Imager and Dissector for Adaptive optics
FRIDA (inFRared Imager and Dissector for Adaptive optics) is an integral field spectrograph in the near infrared, also with image mode, which will be installed...
Galaxies in the universe can be located in different environments, some of them are isolated or in low density regions and they are usually called field...
Galaxy formation and evolution is a fundamental Astrophysical problem. Its study requires “travelling back in time”, for which there are two complementary...
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...
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...