{"id":2076,"date":"2016-10-01T12:30:47","date_gmt":"2016-10-01T12:30:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/riastronomia.es\/new-instrumentation-and-legacy-projects-for-calar-alto\/"},"modified":"2022-05-08T21:15:56","modified_gmt":"2022-05-08T21:15:56","slug":"new-instrumentation-and-legacy-projects-for-calar-alto","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/riastronomia.es\/en\/new-instrumentation-and-legacy-projects-for-calar-alto\/","title":{"rendered":"New Instrumentation and Legacy Projects for Calar Alto"},"content":{"rendered":"
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<\/i> Start date<\/span>: 13\/10\/2016<\/p>\n

<\/i> End date<\/span>: 14\/10\/2016<\/div>\n

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<\/i> Place:<\/strong> Instituto de Astrof\u00edsica de Andaluc\u00eda (IAA-CSIC)
\n<\/i> Organizer:<\/strong> Jorge Iglesias (IAA-CSIC) y Jes\u00fas Aceituno (CAHA)<\/p>\n<\/div>

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Rationale:<\/strong><\/p>\n

Calar Alto observatory is an astronomical reference for the Spanish and international communities,\u00a0because of the quality of its telescopes and astronomical instrumentation, which has been enlarged with the recent incorporations of PANIC (a wide-field NIR camera for the 2.2m and 3.5m telescopes) and\u00a0CARMENES (a very high resolution spectrograph, working at visible and NIR wavelengths, especially designed to\u00a0discover earth-like planets in the habitable zone). As of today, CARMENES is a unique instrument worldwide, and a key challenge that has driven the instrumentation of the observatory to the\u00a0cutting edge of the astronomical technology.<\/p>\n

In addition to PANIC and CARMENES, Calar Alto observatory offers a wide variety of instruments among which we can mention\u00a0here the Integral Field Unit PMAS-PPAK; the CAFE and CAFOS spectrographs or the imagers BUSCA and LAICA.\u00a0 The current exploitation planning for CARMENES is already set up until 2019. Beyond this date the observatory will incorporate the new instrumentation and its new legacy projects, which should become then a reality in order to\u00a0keep the telescopes – and the observatory as a whole – at the highest competitive level.<\/p>\n

For this reason the time has arrived to propose and select the last generation and unique instrumentation\u00a0the community considers the optimum one to perform front-line scientific projects unaffordable in other observatories. \u00a0To this respect we should bear in mind that Calar Alto is especially suited to develop ambitious projects, allowing important amounts of observing time to be allocated to large projects and international legacy programs selected on scientific merits.<\/p>\n

This workshop is the starting point for this next stage of the observatory,\u00a0and will open the debate in the Spanish and international communities to select the best proposals for the new instrumentation of the observatory and for most challenging Legacy projects.<\/p>\n

Scientific organization:<\/strong><\/p>\n

We plan a total of 60 participants.\u00a0Oral contributions will be selected by the SOC on the basis\u00a0of the abstracts submitted. All the contributions will be made public electronically\u00a0after the workshop by the RIA web, including a summary paper with the fundamental questions raised and main conclusions achieved in the workshop.<\/p>\n<\/div>

The workshop is structured in three main sessions:<\/p>\n

Session I.- \u00a0 Proposals for new instrumentation at Calar Alto telescopes
\nSession II.- \u00a0New legacy projects with Calar Alto facilities
\nSession III.- Calar Alto and technology companies<\/p>\n

Confirmed invited speakers include:
\nL. Drissen (U. Laval), \u00a0A. Gil de Paz (UCM), \u00a0K. Meisenheimer (MPIA), J. Torra (UB), M. Roth (AIP)<\/p>\n

Scientific Organizing Committee (SOC):<\/strong><\/p>\n

J. Aceituno (CAHA, co-chair),\u00a0J. Iglesias (IAA-CSIC, co-chair), G. Bergond (CAHA), N. Cardiel (UCM), \u00a0A. D\u00edaz (UAM), L. Drissen (U. Laval), O. Mu\u00f1oz (IAA-CSIC), A. Pasquali (U. Heidelberg), M. Roth (AIP), C. Turon (OPM), J.M. Vilchez (IAA-CSIC), A. Zurita (U. Granada)<\/p>\n

Local Organizing Comittee (LOC):<\/strong><\/p>\n

A. Guijarro (CAHA Co-chair), C. Kehrig (IAA-CSIC co- chair), \u00a0S. Duarte (IAA-CSIC),\u00a0 E. P\u00e9rez-Montero (IAA-CSIC), G. Bergond (CAHA) \u00a0J. Iglesias (IAA-CSIC), J. Aceituno (CAHA), E. Calle (RIA).<\/p>\n

Fees:<\/strong><\/p>\n

This is a RIA supported workshop (AYA2014-53365-REDT): \u00a0NO FEE is requested<\/b>.<\/p>\n

Registration and abstract submission:<\/strong><\/p>\n

Register and provide the abstract of your proposed\u00a0contribution\u00a0using the registration form to be found in the link below;\u00a0also you can contact the organization via email (jiglesia@iaa.es) before that date.\u00a0 The deadline for registration is September 25th<\/b>.\u00a0 If you have any question just use the email address provided above.<\/p>\n

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