Following the recently reported decline of the X-ray flux from the millisecond pulsar HETE J1900.1-2455 (Galloway et al. 2007, ATel #1086), we acquired images...
Optical design of an image slicer-based integral field unit for the THEMIS solar telescope
THEMIS, a 90 cm solar telescope, offers spectropolarimetric observations in the VIS and NIR spectral ranges through a long-slit spectrograph. Now, an image...
Optical design of MAAT: an IFU for the GTC OSIRIS spectrograph
The Mirror-slicer Array for Astronomical Transients (MAAT) is a new IFU for the OSIRIS spectrograph on the 10.4-m Gran Telescopio CANARIAS (GTC) at La Palma...
Optical design of the 1-5-um infrared camera of the IAC
An infrared liquid nitrogen (LN2) cooled focal reducer camera has been designed to be used at the 1.5 m (f/13.8) Carlos Sanchez IR Telescope (CST) at the...
Optical design of the Chromospheric LAyer Spectro-Polarimeter (CLASP2)
Chromospheric LAyer Spectro-Polarimeter (CLASP2) was a sounding rocket experiment, which is a follow-up mission to the Chromospheric Lyman-Alpha Spectro...
Optical design of the ESPRESSO spectrograph at VLT
ESPRESSO, a very high-resolution, high-efficiency, ultra-high stability, fiber-fed, cross-dispersed echelle spectrograph located in the Combined-Coudé focus of...
Optical Emission of Ultraluminous X-ray Sources: Donor Star or Disk Irradiation?
After a decade of intense studies using the latest X-ray and optical telescopes, the nature of ultraluminous X-ray sources (ULXs) is still largely unknown. No...