Talk type: Telescopes and instrumentation

  • Charla
    The GREGOR Fabry-Pérot Interferometer: Status, prospects, and scientific aims
    The GREGOR Fabry-Pérot Interferometer (GFPI) is one of the first-light post-focus instruments for the German 1.5-meter GREGOR solar telescope at the...
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    The Iranian National Observatory project and its science case
    The plan of the Iranian National Observatory (INO) is to build within the next 5 years an active 3 meter telescope with a possible adaptive secondary on a...
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    The new laboratory for innovation in Opto-Mechanics at the IAC
    What would a 35m-scale narrow field-of-view telescope look like that is designed for high dynamic range direct imaging science? The EU has charged the IAC in a...
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    The Planck mission: Early Results
    The European Space Agency's Planck satellite was launched on 14 May 2009, and has been surveying the sky stably and continuously since 13 August 2009. Its...
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    The SARA Consortium: A Virtual Astronomy Department
    For over 20 years, the Southeastern Association for Research in Astronomy (SARA) has operated a remotely-accessible 1-m-class telescope at the Kitt Peak...
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    The Spanish participation in the Square Kilometre Array (SKA)
    The Square Kilometre Array (SKA) project intends to build a radio-interferometer with 1-sq-km collecting area, and thousands of antennas with baselines up to...
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    The Square Kilometre Array: At the Frontiers of Astronomy, Physics, and Astrobiology
    The Square Kilometre Array is intended to be the centimeter- and meter-wavelength telescope for the 21st Century. Originally proposed as the "hydrogen telescope...
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    The SuperWASP follow-up telescope
    SuperWASP is the UK's leading extra-solar planet detection program, having detected 22 of the 52 transiting planets known to date. This stems from the...
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    The UK ATC and the submillimetre revolution with SCUBA-2
    I will present a brief overview of the work of the UK ATC and then go on to describe the difficulties of producing our most challenging instrument to date...