El Instituto de Astrofísica de Canarias (IAC) y el Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS), el mayor organismo público de investigación de Francia, firmaron ayer, reunidos por videoconferencia y en el marco de las actividades de la XXVI Cumbre Hispano-Francesa, un acuerdo por el que se establece la creación del primer laboratorio internacional del CNRS en territorio español. Firmaron el convenio el Dr. Guy Perrin, director del I nstitut National des Sciences de l'Univers ( INSU ) del CNRS, y el Prof. Rafael Rebolo, director del IAC, en presencia de otros miembros directivos y

The two spectrographs on the Gran Telescopio Canarias have reached their full operating level and have become two of the most requested instruments for observing time on this major telescope which has produced over 500 publications in high level journals and has accumulated over 10,000 citations.

El equipo preparó las observaciones que se realizarán con el espectrógrafo EMIR instalado en el Gran Telescopio Canarias.

The IAC is a member of the consortium of this instrument, which has passed its critical tests, and incorporates a powerfuls system of adaptive optics which will help it to correct the atmospheric turbulence above the future 39m telescope.

The IAC is organizing a conference in Tenerife about the first four years of Science with the Hertzsprung SONG telescope, the first in an international network, which was inaugurated at the Teide Observatory in October 2014.

This instrument, in which the Instituto de Astrofísica de Canarias (IAC) has collaborated, has used, for the first time, the combined light of the four telescopes which make up the Very Large Telescope (VLT) of the European Southern Observatory (ESO) in Chile.