Initial proposal for the ORM 8-m telescope control system design
The Instituto de Astrofisica de Canarias (IAC) is taking preliminary steps towards the building of an 8-m class optical-infrared telescope to be placed at the...
Initial Results from Near-infrared Spectroscopy of the Klio and Sulamitis Primitive Inner-belt Families: a New "Klio-like" Compositional Group
The PRIMitive Asteroid Spectroscopic Survey (PRIMASS) is a visible and near-infrared study of primitive asteroids throughout the asteroid belt. Nesvorny et al...
Inner and Outer Photometric Structure of Elliptical Galaxies
The Nuker model, when applied to the inner regions of ``core'' galaxies, is shown to produce systematic biases in the determination of the core ``break-radii''...
Innovative aspects to shrink the volume of the future laser guide star facility for the Gran Telescopio Canarias adaptive optics system
This contribution is focused on the innovative aspects of the design of the Laser Guide Star (LGS) Facility for the Gran Telescopio Canarias (GTC) Adaptive...
Innovative real-time processing for solar adaptive optics
Themis is a 90 cm solar telescope which undergoes a rejuvenation of its scientific instruments. In particular, it is about to be equipped with an adaptive...
Innovative solution for upgrading commercial bearings for use in cryogenic instruments
Infrared instruments for astronomy require many bearings for motion that must move in cryogenic conditions. There are poor and expensive options for this, and...
Input parameters of the HV model above Canarian observatories
The possibility of using high-data-rate optical transmitters for satellite communication has generated interest in laser communication systems for ground-to...
A significant fraction of the present day massive galaxies have compact cores embedded inside their disks or halos. Strikingly, those compact cores are similar...