IACTEC lines: Large telescopes

  • News
    The new IATec building is inaugurated in La Laguna
    A building for technological cooperation with companies, with over 4,000 square metres of room available for companies who want to pursue R+D+I jointly with the...
  • Talk
    The New Robotic Telescope and the Center for Advanced Optics
    The New Robotic Telescope (NRT) and the Center for Optics (CSOA) are two of the IAC's most ambitious technology initiatives for the next few years. On the one...
  • Publication
    The New Robotic Telescope: progress report
    The robotic 2-metre Liverpool Telescope (LT), located at Roque de los Muchachos, La Palma, has seen great success in its <15 year lifetime. In particular the...
  • Publication
    The Oxygen versus Sodium (Anti)Correlation(S) in ω Cen
    Recent examination of large samples of ω Cen giants shows that, as in mono-metallic globular clusters, sodium versus oxygen anticorrelation is present within...
  • Publication
    The Proper Motion of the Magellanic Clouds. I. First Results and Description of the Program
    We present the first results of a ground-based program to determine the proper motion of the Magellanic Clouds (MCs) relative to background quasars (QSO), being...
  • Publication
    The Recent Star Formation History of NGC 5102
    We present Hubble Space Telescope photometry of young stars in NGC 5102, a nearby gas-rich post-starburst S0 galaxy with a bright young stellar nucleus. We use...
  • News
    The Report on the Socio-economic Impact of the TMT on La Palma has been presented
    This morning, in the Cultural Space of the CajaCanarias Foundation in Santa Cruz de La Palma there was a public presentation of the Report on the Socio-economic...
  • News
    The Roque de los Muchachos Observatory serves as an inspiration to the world tourism summit which is being held on La Palma
    A delegation made up of political authorities and representatives of some of the institutions taking part today in the world summit Setting the Recovery of...
  • Publication
    The star formation history and dust content in the far outer disc of M31
    We present a detailed analysis of two fields located 26 kpc (˜5 radial scalelengths) from the centre of M31 along the south-west semimajor axis of the disc. One...