News from the Canary Islands

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Raquel Oreiro
News from the Canary Islands
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TEIDE OBSERVATORY.- TENERIFE ISLAND
First astrophysical studies (1964)
Altitude 2400 m

• Solar telescopes
• VTT (70 cm)
• Themis (90 cm)
• Gregor (1.5 m)
• Solar laboratory

• Night telescopes
• Mons (50 cm)
• IAC80 (80cm)
• Carlos Sánchez (TCS, 1.55 m)
• Big field OGS (1 m)
• Stare (10 cm)

www.iac.es/ot/indice.html
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ROQUE DE LOS MUCHACHOS OBSERVATORY.- LA PALMA
ISLAND
Inaugurated in 1985
Altitude 2400 m

• Solar telescopes
• Swedish Solar Telescope (1 m)
• DOT (45 cm)

• Night telescopes
• CMT (18 cm)
• Isaac Newton Group of Tescopes
• William Herschel (4.2 m)
• JKT (1 m)
• Isaac Newton (ING, 2.5 m)
• NOT (2.5 m)
• Galileo (TNG, 3.5 m)
• Mercator (1.2 m)
• Liverpool (2 m)

www.iac.es/gabinete/orm/indice.html
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ROQUE DE LOS MUCHACHOS OBSERVATORY.- LA PALMA
ISLAND

Gran Telescopio de Canarias (GTC, 10.4 m)
Expected first light in 2005
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LAW OF SKY QUALITY

The canarian sky is protected by law
Outdoor lightening
Electromagnetic pollution
Atmospheric pollution
Air routes
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INSTITUTO DE ASTROFÍSICA DE CANARIAS.- BASE
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INSTITUTO DE ASTROFÍSICA DE CANARIAS.- BASE
Astrophysical research
Training of researches
Instrumentation
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My news from the Canary Islands
Trying a PhD
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IAC Group on Solar and Stellar Seismology and
Exoplanet Searches

Helioseismology Asteroseismology Extrasolar
planets
P.I. Teodoro Roca Cortés Pere Pallé Antonio
Jiménez Clara Régulo Fernando Pérez Juan A.
Belmonte Sebastián Jiménez Hans Deeg
Lexter Fox (just PhD
finished) Francisco Espinosa (just PhD
finished) Roi Alonso (PhD
student) Héctor Vázquez (PhD
student) Rosa M. Domínguez (PhD
student) Raquel Oreiro (PhD
student)
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ASTEROSEISMOLOGY.- HOT B SUBDWARFS (sdBs)
Pulsations in hot B subdwarfs
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ASTEROSEISMOLOGY.- HOT B SUBDWARFS (sdBs)
My PhD project .- Observational part

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ASTEROSEISMOLOGY.- HOT B SUBDWARFS (sdBs)
My PhD project.- Observational part

Precise characterization of known sdB pulsators
seismological study
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ASTEROSEISMOLOGY.- HOT B SUBDWARFS (sdBs)
My PhD project.- Observational part

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ASTEROSEISMOLOGY.- HOT B SUBDWARFS (sdBs)
My PhD project.- Observational part

Andrzej Raquel data
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ASTEROSEISMOLOGY.- HOT B SUBDWARFS (sdBs)
Future work 2005 Balloon campaign