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Lucy mission’s bold objective is to study a class of distant asteroids — the Trojan asteroids — never explored before by spacecraft, explain Deputy Project Scientist Simone Marchi and Deputy Principal Investigator Cathy Olkin.
The CONCERTO instrument paves the way to large field-of-view spectro-imagers operating at (sub-)millimetre wavelengths, write Instrument Scientist Alessandro Monfardini and Principal Investigator Guilaine Lagache.
After five years of construction, the Large High Altitude Air Shower Observatory is nearing completion, but already returning exciting results on the origin of cosmic rays, explains Principal Investigator Zhen Cao.
The Keck Planet Imager and Characterizer develops the Keck II telescope’s adaptive optics and instrument systems to enable infrared imaging and spectroscopy of gas giant exoplanets, explains Principal Investigator Dimitri Mawet.
Two novel imaging polarimeters are being installed on two 1-m-class telescopes in order to examine dust foregrounds in cosmic microwave background studies as part of the PASIPHAE survey.
Nāmakanaui, a three-band submillimetre receiver, is currently being commissioned on the James Clerk Maxwell Telescope, report Instrumentation Specialists Izumi Mizuno and Chih-Chiang Han.
The Very Large Telescope’s Ultraviolet and Visual Echelle Spectrograph (UVES) recently marked 20 years of operations, but the job is not done for this workhorse instrument, write Instrument Scientist Luca Sbordone and Fellow Camila Navarrete.
HORuS, a new high-resolution spectrograph for the Gran Telescopio Canarias, will facilitate an expanded range of optical and near-infrared studies, explains Instrument Scientist Carlos Allende Prieto.
