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  • TANNHAUSER C-Band Optical Communications System for the Nasmyth Focus of the Two-Meter Twin Telescope (TTT) at Teide Observatory
    The TANNHAUSER project is a public-private collaboration initiative in which the Instituto de Astrofísica de Canarias (IAC) participates as a collaborating partner. Its main objective is to develop and integrate an advanced optical communications system into the Nasmyth platform of the Two-meter Twin Telescope (TTT), located at the Teide
    Valentín Juan
    Martínez Pillet
    Jeffrey Richard
    Kuhn
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    In force
  • A pilot survey to unveil dormant black holes
    Black holes (BHs) are the pinnacle of extreme gravity. They are responsible for the most violent phenomena observed in the Universe, from long gamma-ray bursts, tidal disruption events to gravitational waves (GW). Despite the recent growth in extragalactic BH discoveries by LIGO-VIRGO, our knowledge of the seed BH population is severely hindered by
    Artemio
    Herrero Davo
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    In force
  • Polarimetric inference of magnetic fields
    The magnetic field is the main driver of the spectacular activity of the solar atmosphere, which covers the photosphere, chromosphere, transition region, and corona. This is true also for many other stars, although it is in the Suns atmosphere where we can observe the consequences of the interaction between an astrophysical plasma and its magnetic
    Artemio
    Herrero Davo
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    In force
  • Enabling precision cosmology with the cosmic microwave background: QUIJOTE and other microwave experiments at the Teide Observatory
    The main goal of this project is to support, during the period 2024-2027, the scientific exploitation of the cosmic microwave background (CMB) experiments in which the IAC cosmology group is involved (QUIJOTE, TMS, GroundBIRD, LSPE-STRIP, ELFS-SA), to contribute to the design of the new generation of ground-based CMB instruments, and to prepare for
    José Alberto
    Rubiño Martín
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    In force
  • The LiteBIRD space mission: development of the thermal monitoring and control system and scientific preparation
    The main goal of this project is to guarantee and strengthen the technological and scientific contributions of the IAC to LiteBIRD, a JAXAled space mission, currently in phase A and with launch planned for 2032. The ultimate goal of this mission is to constrain to unprecedented sensitivity levels (tensor-to-scalar ratio of r = 0.001) the expected B
    Ricardo Tanausú
    Genova Santos
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    In force
  • Big problems for small bodies: DISrupting COmetary BOdies and asteroids using Large Objects
    Planetesimals are, by number, the overwhelming component of the proto-planetary disks that surround young stars. Besides their fundamental role as the building blocks of planets they are, as well, expected to play other, no minor, tasks: i) when delivered from beyond the ice-line and impacting in rocky planet surfaces could fill them with their
    Eva Gloria
    Villaver Sobrino
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