Grants Severo Ochoa for centres of excellence Call 2015
The IAC is the most important astrophysics research centre in Spain. Its new Strategic Plan mainly seeks excellence in science and to strengthen and consolidate the IAC´s position as a centre of international reference for astrophysical research.The Strategic Plan involves exploration and discovery using major world facilities (like GTC, VLT and
EMIR, the common user NIR camera and multi-object spectrograph of the GTC, is currently at the end of its system final verification phase, prior to its shipping to the GTC for integration and commissioning at the telescope. EMIR is being realized by a Consortium lead by the Instituto de Astrofísica de Canarias (IAC) and including the Universidad
The objective of this project is to fund the activities of our group for the next four years related to our participation in the OSORIS-REx mission, our research in the mineralogical characterization of primitive asteroids collisional families and populations in the Solar System, and our research on near-Earth asteroids (NEAs) that may be the