Topic: Astrophysics

  • News
    Testing Einstein's equivalence principle at early cosmological epochs with quasar observations
    We perform a new test of Einstein's Equivalence Principle which, for the first time, extends to very early cosmological epochs (we have studied its validity in...
  • News
    Testing fundamental physics with ESPRESSO
    Many of the most basic and important physical phenomena are determined by a set of “fundamental constants”, whose values are experimentally known to high...
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    Testing the extreme acceleration mechanisms in the supermassive black holes neighborhood
    Blazars, Active Galactic Nuclei (AGN) whose relativistic jets point in the direction of the Earth, dominate the VHE (VHE, E>100 GeV) gamma-ray extragalactic sky...
  • Document
    THE "WINTER" COMES OF AGE
    The Canary Islands Winter School of Astrophysics comes of age.
    DIRECTOR.pdf
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    The agreement for the construction of the ANDES instrument on the ELT is signed
    The European Southern Observatory (ESO) has signed an agreement with an international consortium of institutions, including the Instituto de Astrofísica de...
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    The astronomer Guido Münch, a great friend of the IAC, has died
    Professor Guido Münch was the first astronomer to receive the Principe de Asturias Prize for Scientific and Technical Investigation in 1989 for which he was...
  • News
    The atmosphere of a new ultra hot Jupiter is analysed
    The combination of observations made with the CARMENES spectrograph on the 3.5m telescope at Calar Alto Observatory (Almería), and the HARPS-N spectrograph on...
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    The Canary Islands Observatories visit the European Parliament
    The exhibition "100 Square Moons" is inaugurated in Brussels, together with a model of the European Solar Telescope. For a week the European Parliament in...
  • Project
    The Central PARSEC of Galaxies using High Spatial Resolution Techniques
    PARSEC is a multi-wavelength investigation of the central PARSEC of the nearest galaxies. We work on black-hole accretion and its most energetic manifestations...