Observatorios de Canarias Últimas novedades y perspectivas futuras Álex Oscoz & Enric Pallé Instituto de Astrofísica de Canarias RIA-SpaceTec: Nuevas perspectivas en el desarrollo de instrumentación astronómica en España. 10-12 feb 2016 Telescopes & Experiments ORM OT Agreements Others TELESCOPES AND EXPERIMENTS CURRENTLY INSTALLED AT THE OOCC ø cm TELESCOPE ø cm TELESCOPE SQM-LE SuperWASP SHABAR SQM-LE XO Cameras SHABAR Canary Islands Long-Baseline Observatory Canary Islands Long-Baseline Observatory AMOS-CI AMOS-CI AStMon 20 Automatic Seeing Monitor (DIMMA) 9 Taiwan Automated Telescope 30 Automatic Seeing Monitor (DIMMA) 10 X 8 Qatar Exoplanet Survey 11 TIZON 45 Dutch Open Telescope 20 Automatic Seeing Monitor (DIMMA) 97 Swedish Solar Tower 30 EARTHSHINE 100 Jacobus Kapteyn Telescope 35 Bradford Robotic Telescope 100 Super-WASP Qatar Follow-up Telescope 40 X 2 Optical Telescope Array 120 Mercator Telescope 40 x 2 LCOGT 200 Liverpool Telescope 40 X 2 MASTER 250 Isaac Newton Telescope 45 X 2, 40-30-17 MAGEC 256 Nordic Optical Telescope 50 MONS 340 First G-APD Cherenkov Telescope 70 Vacuum Tower Telescope 350 Telescopio Nazionale Galileo 80 IAC-80 420 William Herschel Telescope 90 THEMIS 1 050 Gran Telescopio Canarias 100 SONG 100 Optical Ground Station 1 700 Cherenkov MAGIC I y II 120 X 2 STELLA 150 GREGOR 155 Carlos Sánchez Telescope QUIJOTE I – II Laboratorio Solar: Mark-I, GONG, TAT RIA-SpaceTec – Observatorios de Canarias Telescopes & Experiments ORM OT Agreements Others OBSERVATORIO DEL ROQUE DE LOS MUCHACHOS TELESCOPES JKT: re-inauguration + first remote observations with telescopes of SARA (Southeastern Association for Research in Astronomy) SARA-KP 0.91-m: CCD FoV16.8’ + Echelle Spectrograph 3800-9100 SARA-CT: 0.61-m: CCD FoV 12.6’ SARA-RM (JKT) 1.0-m: CCD LST1 – 23-m: cornerstone ceremony AMOS-CI (All-sky Meteor Orbit System-Canary Islands) Univ. Comenius, Slovakia: installation RIA-SpaceTec – Observatorios de Canarias Telescopes & Experiments ORM OT Agreements Others OBSERVATORIO DEL ROQUE DE LOS MUCHACHOS INSTRUMENTS GHaFaS on the WHT: a new and very improved version of the instrument New system to refrigerate the IPCS (photomultiplyer+CCD) New calibration system HORS HORS and CIRCE: first light at GTC CIRCE RIA-SpaceTec – Observatorios de Canarias Telescopes & Experiments ORM OT Agreements Others OBSERVATORIO DEL TEIDE TELESCOPES QUIJOTE 24 h/day monitoring of QUIJOTE-I Installation of QUIJOTE-II GREGOR: normal operation after the commisioning THEMIS: AO system being installed with SOLARNET funds A transit of an exoplanet is broadcasted live for the first time from the TCS HW and SW of the TAT Network updated to observe interstellar medium First calls to observe with SONG RIA-SpaceTec – Observatorios de Canarias Telescopes & Experiments ORM OT Agreements Others OBSERVATORIO DEL TEIDE NEW ROBOTIC FACILITIES INAUGURATED BY HM FELIPE VI AMOS-CI (All-sky Meteor Orbit System-Canary Islands, Univ. Comenius, Slovakia) MAGEC (Majorca cAnary survey of very fast movinG sky objECts, Observatorio de Mallorca-IAC, 2x45cm) MASTER (Mobile Astronomical System of the Telescope-Robots, Univer. Moscow, Russia, 2x40cm) QES (Qatar Exoplanet Survey, Qatar Foundation, 8x20cm) RIA-SpaceTec – Observatorios de Canarias Telescopes & Experiments ORM OT Agreements Others OBSERVATORIO DEL TEIDE OTHERS Joint IAC80-ESO-OGS campaigns to use a laser guide star SST observations for the S3T program Astrometrization software for CAMELOT@IAC80, CAIN@TCS and CCD@OGS: Xparallax VIU RIA-SpaceTec – Observatorios de Canarias Telescopes & Experiments ORM OT Agreements Others AGREEMENTS Signed the “Agreement for the transfer of the ING facilities to the IAC” Pending the “Agreement for the Scientific Exploitation of the telescopes” GREST – Getting Ready for the EST approved CTA-N: selection of La Palma as North-site RIA-SpaceTec – Observatorios de Canarias Telescopes & Experiments ORM OT Agreements Others AGREEMENTS ACIISI-IAC-GTC agreements: 1) focii and equipement for GTC; 2) adaptive optics for GTC: GTCAO and LGS groups created Φ_rec Φ_rec Φ_rec Φ_rec I_1 I_2 I_1 I_2 410 Zernike 410 Zernike 14 Zernike 14 Zernike AOLI data AOLI data AOLI data AOLI data Polynomials Polyn (photon Polynomials Polyn(photon (flux regime) (flux regime) (photon (phot (flux regime) regime) (flux regime) regime) regime) regime) INEUSTAR-IAC agreement: IAC-Tech and development of the observatories RIA-SpaceTec – Observatorios de Canarias Telescopes & Experiments ORM OT Agreements Others IACTech: a space for cooperation with companies Markets Astrophysics (50%) Space (30%) Medicine (20%) Medical imaging for diagnosis Segments Optical instrumentation Observational satellites and surgery Software design for optical detectors SW design for medical app. Opto-mechanical design Image acquisition and treatment Opto-mechanical for use in Control SW development and Sensors, IR vision, MW, optical cryogenic conditions real-time data Cryogenics, vacuum and Adapted sensors according to the Optical fibers, microlenses precision mechanics region to be studied Products + Real-time control of Real-time data acquisition and Real-time image reconstruction technologies detectors treatment SW Adaptive optics Control software Sensors for medical image Operation of equipment in Image representation for use in Systems engineering space surgery Use of ground-based images Training Training Training RIA-SpaceTec – Observatorios de Canarias Telescopes & Experiments ORM OT Agreements Others OTHERS Remote operation: First observations with IAC80, TCS and SARA First steps with WHT and GTC First contacts with NOT and Mercator BRT will be removed and PIRATE (Open Univ.) installed: 43-cm and 36-cm PIRATE MUSCAT: possible new instrument for TCS Multicolor (g’ r’ z’) simultaneous camera EMIR@GTC: first light and commissioning in the next months MUSCAT RIA-SpaceTec – Observatorios de Canarias Telescopes & Experiments ORM OT Agreements Others OTHERS AOLI@WHT: first light in May Mini-CAT for small remote and robotic telescopes Fist call - 2016 New web comprising all the installed facilities at the OOCC: Astronomer’s portal HARPS3@INT: % of the observing time during 10yr First light: mid 2018 Cambridge Univ., Exeter Univ., Leiden Univ./NOVA, IAC, Geneva Univ., Uppsala Univ. 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