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 === Structure of the unit ===
 This unit is an [[https://international.cnrs.fr/en/cooperer-a-l-international/
 |“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, students, postdoctoral fellows, engineers, and technicians from the CNRS and foreign partner institutions.
 IRLs are international schemes in which research work is jointly conducted around a shared scientific focus. These structure, within an identified location, the significant and lasting presence of scientists from a limited number of French and foreign research institutions.
-The IRL2009 FSLAC administrative location is at c/o IAC Via Lactea, ES38205 La Laguna, Island of Tene-rife, 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 Haute Energie team), or our base offices at La Laguna (Tenerife, everybody) located next to the IAC headquarters.
+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.
-The main reasons to exist of our IRL 2009  FSLAC are to strengthen and facilitate the scientific and tech-nological French activities in the Canary Islands (Spain) and to strengthen and formalize a long lasting  tradition of collaboration between IAC and CNRS.   These collaborations are concentrated in three  instrumentation projects of the French and Spanish communities, and their associated scientific fields:
-.	in the field of gamma-ray astronomy at very high energies around the Cherenkov Telescope Ar-ray (CTA, ESFRI roadmap 2016) facilities development in the Canary Islands, namely the CTA North Observatory in La Palma
-.	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, that is sited in Tenerife since 1994, and also the forthcoming next generation of solar telescopes, EST (ESFRI roadmap 2016)
-.	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
-Teams, platforms, shared services, etc.:
-The IRL 2009 is currently structured in two teams, one involved in the development of the CTA northern observatory (team “Haute Energie”), and the other involved in the maintenance and exploitation of the THEMIS solar telescope (team “Themis”)
-Platforms (CNRS terminology):
--	The THEMIS team maintains, operates and makes available to the whole of the French, Spanish and European communities the platform ‘THEMIS Solar Telescope’, which is an astronomical telescope dedicated to the study of solar magnetism and solar magnetic instabilities. THEMIS is one of the four ~1 meter class solar telescopes that are world leaders in their respective com-munities.
--	The Haute Energie team currently participates to the building of the platform “CTA northern ar-ray”, 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 relativ-istic cosmic particles to the search for dark matter.
-The IRL is self-hosted in a rented “chalet adosado” located at Avenida Menceyes  93,  in La Laguna, offering 7-8  work stations,  and is also invited to the IAC premises (at the IACTEC building). The IRL by itself offers some computing facilities, a shared cloud storage and a mail service, over a 10Gb internet access provided by the RedIRIS academic network via the IAC (homologous to the French “Renater”). The IAC being a much larger institute of almost 500 persons offers the same type of shared services at a larger scale.
+The base offices are located at Avenida Menceyes  93,  in La Laguna, offering 7-8  work stations,  and is also invited to the IAC premises ( both at headquarters and at the IACTEC building). The IRL by itself offers some computing facilities, a shared cloud storage and a mail service, over a 10Gb internet access provided by the RedIRIS academic network via the IAC (homologous to the French “Renater”). The IAC being a much larger institute of almost 500 persons offers the same type of shared services at a larger scale.
 === Scientific objectives ===
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 These collaborations are concentrated in three  instrumentation projects of the French and Spanish communities, and their associated scientific fields:
-  * 1.	in the field of gamma-ray astronomy at very high energies around the [[https://www.ctao.org/|Cherenkov Telescope Array]] (CTA, ESFRI roadmap 2016) facilities development in the Canary Islands, namely the CTA North Observatory in La Palma
+  * 1.	in the field of **gamma-ray astronomy at very high energies** around the [[https://www.ctao.org/|Cherenkov Telescope Array]] (CTA, ESFRI roadmap 2016) facilities development in the Canary Islands, namely the CTA North Observatory in La Palma
-  * 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:est|EST]] (ESFRI roadmap 2016)
+  * 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:est|EST]] (ESFRI roadmap 2016)
-  * 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
+  * 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
-Teams, platforms, shared services, etc.:
-The IRL 2009 is currently structured in two teams, one involved in the development of the CTA northern observatory (team “Haute Energie”), and the other involved in the maintenance and exploitation of the THEMIS solar telescope (team “THEMIS”)
+=== FSLAC Teams ===
-Platforms (CNRS terminology):
--	The THEMIS team maintains, operates and makes available to the whole of the French, Spanish and European communities the platform ‘THEMIS Solar Telescope’, which is an astronomical telescope dedicated to the study of solar magnetism and solar magnetic instabilities. THEMIS is one of the four ~1 meter class solar telescopes that are world leaders in their respective com-munities.
--	The Haute Energie team currently participates to the building of the platform “CTA northern ar-ray”, 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 relativ-istic cosmic particles to the search for dark matter.
-The IRL is self-hosted in a rented “chalet adosado” located at Avenida Menceyes  93,  in La Laguna, offering 7-8  work stations,  and is also invited to the IAC premises (at the IACTEC building). The IRL by itself offers some computing facilities, a shared cloud storage and a mail service, over a 10Gb internet access provided by the RedIRIS academic network via the IAC (homologous to the French “Renater”). The IAC being a much larger institute of almost 500 persons offers the same type of shared services at a larger scale.
+FSLAC is currently structured in two teams, one involved in the development of the CTA northern observatory (team “Haute Energie”), and the other involved in the maintenance and exploitation of the THEMIS solar telescope (team “THEMIS”)
+  * The THEMIS team maintains, operates and makes available to the whole of the French, Spanish and European communities the platform ‘THEMIS Solar Telescope’, which is an astronomical telescope dedicated to the study of solar magnetism and solar magnetic instabilities. THEMIS is one of the four ~1 meter class solar telescopes that are world leaders in their respective communities.
+  * 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.
-=== Current FSLAC Team ===
+== Current FSLAC staff ==
 Ramon Garcia Lopez, FSLAC director, high-energy astrophysicist \\
 Bernard Gelly, FSLAC deputy-director, solar physicist \\
-Richard Drouet, Optomechanics engineer \\
+Richard Drouet, Optomechanics research engineer \\
-Didier Laforgue, Software & command-control engineer \\
+Didier Laforgue, Software & command-control research engineer \\
 Fabia Acero, high-energy astrophysicist \\
 Etienne Pariat, solar physicist \\
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 === FSLAC news and  scientific highlights ===
+  * [[science:results:fslaceval | Visit of THEMIS and FSLAC by the evaluation committee of INSU.]]
   * [[https://www.sorbonne-universite.fr/en/press-releases/switchbacks-could-solar-jets-hold-key | Switchbacks: Could Solar Jets Hold the Key?]] : Sorbonne Université press release on the publication of an article with FSLAC implication \\
-  * [[Results:GrandAtlasSoleil | Publication of 'Le Grand Atlas du Soleil']], with the participation of a FSLAC researcher.
+  * [[science:results:GrandAtlasSoleil | Publication of 'Le Grand Atlas du Soleil']], with the participation of a FSLAC researcher.