GUAIX

The Instituto de Astrofísica de Canarias and partner institutions announce the 2010 edition of the International School for Advanced Instrumentation (IScAI).

A HST/WFC3 Multi-cycle Treasury Program, led by Sandy Faber, has been awarded to the AEGIS collaboration. We will now be able to add a chunk of high-resolution, supremely sensitive J and H band imaging and ACS parallels to the fantastic existing sets of data in our favorite regions of sky, including the EGS. In Groth, this will amount to a contiguous region of 3x15 WFC3 tiles or about 200 sq arcmins.

More info can be found at the HST Multi-cycle Treasury Program web page

Milia 0.3.0 and Pymilia 0.3.0 are now available for download.

Milia is a C++ library created to compute cosmological ages and distances in the Friedmann-Lemaître-Robertson-Walker metric. Pymilia is a python package containing python wrappers for milia.

A tragic accident has taken Dr. Kurt Birkle, former director of Calar Alto Observatory, away from us.

We are very sad and specially those GUAIX members which carried out the UCM Survey whose observations were taken with the Calar Alto Schmidt telescope. We remember his careful and detailed explanations for baking the photographic plates, for loading the chassis, for focussing the telescope, for the guiding and for the plate processing. He was a necessary contributor to the success of the UCM Survey.

Some GUAIX members joint top level astronomers (Sandy Faber, David Koo and Giovanni Fazio) for this family photo taken at Toledo during last AEGIS Meeting.

More pictures at image gallery