Organizational unit: INSTRUMENTATION DIVISION

Email
secins [at] iac.es
Headquarter
Headquarters
Description
The Instrumentation Division provides technological support in the elaboration and execution of research and development projects to fulfil the aims of the IAC. Among the objectives of the Division are the development of new instrumentation for astronomical research, the maintenance of the existing astronomical instrumentation, the utilization of its technological capabilities in other fields of science and engineering to benefit the society, the training of technical personnel, and the generation and transfer of technology. The Division is divided into various engineering departments (Software, Electronics, Optics, Mechanics, and Projects) and Production (Mechanics, Electronics, and Technical Drawing workshops, and Specific Software Services).
  • Project
    Optical Infrared Co-ordination Network for Astronomy - OPTICON
    Participation in OPTICON. One of the main goals of this project, to which many of the individual activities being carried out at OPTICON are also contributing...
  • Project
    OSIRIS - Optical System for Imaging low Resolution Integrated Spectroscopy
    OSIRIS is a camera and intermediate spectrograph in operation in the GTC telescope. OSIRIS has various observation modes: direct image, wide slit and multi-slit...
  • Job
    Personal laboral fijo-9 puestos de trabajo, categoría profesional de Ingeniero/a. Proceso de estabilización de personal laboral temporal. PS-2019-057
    RESOLUCIÓN del Director del Consorcio Instituto de Astrofísica de Canarias por la que se convoca proceso selectivo para el ingreso como personal laboral fijo en...
  • Project
    PLATO (PLAnetary Transits and Oscillations of stars)
    PLAnetary Transits and Oscillations of stars (PLATO) is the third medium-class mission in ESA's Cosmic Vision programme. Its objective is to find and study a...
  • Project
    Polarímetro CMB
    A Cosmic Microwave Background Polarimeter
  • Project
    QUIJOTE- Q-U-I JOint TEnerife CMB experiment
    QUIJOTE (Q-U-I JOint TEnerife CMB experiment) - is a program with two telescopes and a battery of instruments, installed in the Teide Observatory, dedicated to...
  • Project
    SCIDAR
    SCIntillation Detection And Ranging and Wave Front Sensor. The SCIDAR instrument creates profiles of atmospheric turbulence by observing binary stars.