Title: Astrophysics in the Canary Islands
1Astrophysics in theCanary Islands
- A bridge to European Convergence
- Mr Campbell Warden
- IAC
Research Infrastructures and their Structuring
Dimension Within the European Research Area 5-6
March 2008 Brdo, Slovenia
Session N 1
2Where is the IAC?
Research Infrastructures and their Structuring
Dimension Within the European Research Area 5-6
March 2008 Brdo, Slovenia
Session N 1
3European Northern Observatory
- 1979 Starting point of the internationalisation
of the IAC observatories - Over the last 30 years more than sixty research
institutions from 20 countries have installed
their telescopes and instruments here. - The construction and operation of these
telescopes and instruments are a driving force
for sustainable regional socio-economic
development
Research Infrastructures and their Structuring
Dimension Within the European Research Area 5-6
March 2008 Brdo, Slovenia
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5TEIDE OBSERVATORY
- 3 solar telescopes
- 5 highly specialised radio telescopes
- 5 optical telescopes
- An infrared telescope
- 3 dedicated outreach telescopes
- ICT dark fibre (10 GByte) within ENO
- Only 640M bytes to Madrid ( GEANT)
Research Infrastructures and their Structuring
Dimension Within the European Research Area 5-6
March 2008 Brdo, Slovenia
6 Research Infrastructures and their Structuring
Dimension Within the European Research Area 5-6
March 2008 Brdo, Slovenia
Session N 1
7ROQUE DE LOS MUCHACHOS OBSERVATORY
- 8 Optical telescopes
- 2 Solar telescopes
- 2 Cherenkov telescopes (MAGIC)
- An Automatic Transit Circle
- Gran Telescopio Canarias (10 m)
- ICT dark fibre (10 GByte) within ENO
- Only 640M bytes to Madrid ( GEANT)
Research Infrastructures and their Structuring
Dimension Within the European Research Area 5-6
March 2008 Brdo, Slovenia
8Gran Telescopio Canarias
Research Infrastructures and their Structuring
Dimension Within the European Research Area 5-6
March 2008 Brdo, Slovenia
9Future continue building the bridge to European
convergence
- Advanced socio-economic analysis of the impact of
the construction and operation of next-generation
Extremely Large Telescopes, funded by the Spanish
Ministry of Education and Science. - Future candidates for this Observatory include
- 40m E-ELT (European Extremely Large Telescope)
- 2.5m EST (European Solar Telescope)
Research Infrastructures and their Structuring
Dimension Within the European Research Area 5-6
March 2008 Brdo, Slovenia