Lines of instrumentation: Research and Development

Research and Development

This line includes cross-cutting technological projects and studies that represent a substantial technical advance in precise aspects of utility, whether in future astronomical instruments or projects of non-astronomical technical applications.

  • News
    Launch of Europe’s largest astronomy network
    Two astronomy networks are coming together to form the OPTICON-RadioNet PILOT ( ORP), the Europe’s largest ground-based astronomy collaborative network that it...
  • Publication
    Liverpool telescope 2: a new robotic facility for rapid transient follow-up
    The Liverpool Telescope is one of the world's premier facilities for time domain astronomy. The time domain landscape is set to radically change in the coming...
  • Grant
    LT2/NRT New Robotic Telescope
    The NRT (New Robotic Telescope) is a project to design and build a 4-meter telescope within five years, which from the ORM will operate in a totally autonomous...
  • Capability
    National and international relations in the field of large scientific facilities with other public and private entities
    One of the missions of the IAC is to point out the value of the international nature of the center, by improving the relationships that are already underway...
  • News
    Nobel Physics Laureate Donna Strickland Visits IAC
    The Instituto de Astrofísica de Canarias (IAC) has welcomed Donna Strickland, 2018 Nobel Prize in Physics, who delivered a lecture entitled " From Nonlinear...
  • News
    Nube, the almost invisible galaxy which challenges the dark matter model
    A group of astrophysicists led by Mireia Montes, a researcher at the Instituto de Astrofísica de Canarias (IAC), has discovered the largest and most diffuse...
  • Capability
    Processing of confidentiality and industrial property agreements
    The IAC promotes scientific and technological cooperations through agreements for the exchange of confidential information, including ideas for the exploitation...
  • News
    Public talk: The Milky Way and its impacts with other galaxies
    Tomorow, 10th November, at 18:00 the Museum of Science and the Cosmos will offer, free, a lectura with the title “The Milky Way and its encounters with other...
  • Capability
    R&D&I project management
    The development of large and complex scientific instruments has led the IAC to specialize in project management techniques, a discipline to coordinate the human...