During March 2009 the EMIR optical bench, a critical component of the instrument, has been successfully integrated by the IAC technicians at the IAC instrumentation clean room. This is indeed a major step towards the completion of EMIR, expected to be ready during the first semester of 2011.
We publish here two images kindly provided by M. Balcells. On the left, P. Garzón (EMIR PI), M. prieto (EMIR Co-I) and Vicente Sánchez (Head of Mechanical Group).