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| ===== French-Spanish Laboratory for Astrophysics in Canarias ===== | ===== French-Spanish Laboratory for Astrophysics in Canarias ===== | ||
| - | The **French-Spanish Laboratory for Astrophysics in Canarias (FSLAC)**, is a joint international research Laboratory between the French CNRS and the Instituto de Astrofísica de Canarias (IAC). | + | The **French-Spanish Laboratory for Astrophysics in Canarias (FSLAC)**, is a joint international research Laboratory between the French CNRS and the Instituto de Astrofísica de Canarias (IAC) that operates since January 2021. |
| This new structure builds on the collaboration that began in the 1980s with the decision to install the French THEMIS telescope in Tenerife. | This new structure builds on the collaboration that began in the 1980s with the decision to install the French THEMIS telescope in Tenerife. | ||
| The scientific cooperation agreement providing for the creation of FSLAC was signed on March 15th, 2021. FSLAC is jointly supervised by the two organizations. | The scientific cooperation agreement providing for the creation of FSLAC was signed on March 15th, 2021. FSLAC is jointly supervised by the two organizations. | ||
| - | Within CNRS, FSLAC has the structure name IRL2009. | + | === Structure of the unit === |
| - | | CNRS IRLs]] are international schemes in which research work is jointly conducted around a shared scientific focus. | + | |
| + | This unit is an [[https:// | ||
| + | |“International Research Laboratory” (IRL) of CNRS]], e.g. a long lasting joint research structure created outside of the French territory. IRLs exist to bring together teams of researchers, | ||
| + | IRLs are international schemes in which research work is jointly conducted around a shared scientific focus. | ||
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| + | The IRL2009 FSLAC administrative location is at c/o IAC Via Lactea, ES38205 La Laguna, Island of Tenerife, Spain. The staff may work at 3 possible locations, either the Teide Observatory (Tenerife, for the Themis team), or the Roque de los Muchachos Observatory (La Palma, for the high-energy team), or our base offices at La Laguna (Tenerife, everybody) located next to the IAC headquarters. | ||
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| + | The base offices are located at Avenida Menceyes | ||
| === Scientific objectives === | === Scientific objectives === | ||
| - | Three major scientific projects are outlined in the FSLAC agreement: | ||
| - | * participation in the future Cherenkov Telescope Array in the Canary Islands for astronomy; | ||
| - | * use of the [[: | ||
| - | * the development of a spectrometer on the QUIJOTE telescope for observing the cosmic microwave background. | ||
| - | === Current | + | The main purposes of FSLAC are to strengthen and facilitate the scientific and technological French activities in the Canary Islands (Spain) and to strengthen and formalize a long lasting |
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| + | These collaborations are concentrated in three instrumentation projects of the French and Spanish communities, | ||
| + | * 1. in the field of **gamma-ray astronomy at very high energies** around the [[https:// | ||
| + | * 2. in the field of **solar physics**, where both parties have been jointly engaged since many years in the building and exploitation of the French telescope THEMIS, located in Tenerife since 1994, and also the forthcoming next generation of solar telescopes, [[project: | ||
| + | * 3. in the field the **Cosmic Microwave Background (CMB)** observations with the development of the KISS spectrometer and the NIKA2 cameras to be installed on the QUIJOTE telescope at the Teide Observatory | ||
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| + | === FSLAC Teams === | ||
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| + | FSLAC is currently structured in two teams, one involved in the development of the CTA northern observatory (team “Haute Energie”), | ||
| + | * The THEMIS team maintains, operates and makes available to the whole of the French, Spanish and European communities the platform ‘THEMIS Solar Telescope’, | ||
| + | * The high-energy team currently participates to the building of the platform “CTA northern array”, a gamma-ray Cherenkov observatory which, when completed, will become the foremost global observatory for very high-energy gamma-ray astronomy over the next decade and be-yond. The scientific potential of CTA is extremely broad: from understanding the role of relativistic cosmic particles to the search for dark matter. | ||
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| + | == Current FSLAC staff == | ||
| Ramon Garcia Lopez, FSLAC director, high-energy astrophysicist \\ | Ramon Garcia Lopez, FSLAC director, high-energy astrophysicist \\ | ||
| Bernard Gelly, FSLAC deputy-director, | Bernard Gelly, FSLAC deputy-director, | ||
| - | Richard Drouet, Optomechanics engineer \\ | + | Richard Drouet, Optomechanics |
| - | Didier Laforgue, Software & command-control engineer \\ | + | Didier Laforgue, Software & command-control |
| Fabia Acero, high-energy astrophysicist \\ | Fabia Acero, high-energy astrophysicist \\ | ||
| Etienne Pariat, solar physicist \\ | Etienne Pariat, solar physicist \\ | ||
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| === FSLAC news and scientific highlights === | === FSLAC news and scientific highlights === | ||
| + | * [[science: | ||
| * [[https:// | * [[https:// | ||
| - | * [[Results: | + | * [[science: |
