SciOps Director, Two-meter Twin Telescope (https://xitter.cf/t.co/OcHfoRVEVo) Telescopes, asteroids, algorithms and light pollution.
Canary Islands
Joined April 2018
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‼️Join our Operations Team: we're looking for a PhD Instrument Scientist to keep pushing the optical quality of our telescopes, the Two-meter Twin Telescope (TTT) and the Transient Survey Telescope (TST), and design new instrumentation.
👉 More info: lightbridges.es/wp-content/u…
‼️We're hiring 2 PhD scientists/engineers to help us build a GPU-accelerated detection platform for hazardous near-Earth objects and space debris, as part as our project CORVUS.
Fully remote, worldwide.
👉More info: lightbridges.es/wp-content/u…
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Using old data, and cloud computing scientists working at the Asteroid Institute identified 27,500 new asteroids. These were objects that had been imaged in the past but hadn't had orbits calculated from those images. And a big part of this is because there's new algorithms that can exploit massive increases in computer power available today.
#AsteroidInstitute together with @GoogleCloud, we've identified 27,500 new asteroids using @NOIRLabAstro data, propelling us into a new era of asteroid discovery thanks to our donors! bit.ly/3Wni8rC
#AsteroidDiscovery #spaceexploration #TechInnovation #GoogleCloud
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☄️ Using observations made with the @GTCtelescope, a study led from the #IACastrofísica and the @unicomplutense has confirmed a new Trojan asteroid that shares an orbit with Mars 🔴
ℹ️ ow.ly/AUaW50QXY5V
🖼️ Gabriel Pérez (SMM, IAC)
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The citizen scientists at @ActiveAsteroids announced the discoveries of 15 rare active asteroids! Congratulations to Colin Chandler & the team!
science.nasa.gov/get-involve…
One of our latest works, published this month on A&A
aanda.org/articles/aa/full_h…
Once again, the rapid first-response capability of the Canary Islands Observatories (GTC & TTT telescopes) has contributed to a significant advancement in our knowledge of Near-Earth Objects.
🧐☄️Astronomers make a significant advance in our knowledge of the asteroids nearest to the Earth, the Arjunas
@unicomplutense
+ℹ️: ow.ly/9QyI50Qrapo
📸Gabriel Pérez (IAC)
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Meet the fastest large telescope in the world, the 8.4m Simonyi Survey Telescope at the heart of @VRubinObs. 200+ tons of glass and steel, able to make a 180° turn in less than 20 seconds.
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I'm starting a curated list of interactive machine learning demos:
github.com/MilesCranmer/awes…. Looking for more suggestions!
My plan is to incorporate some into the ML modules of Cambridge's new MPhil in Data Intensive Science, as a way to hone students' intuition.
Miguel R. Alarcon retweeted
La semana pasada nos encontrábamos en el sur de Groenlandia, retransmitiendo las auroras boreales que veíamos desde el campamento Fletanes, frente al glaciar Qaleraliq.
Una experiencia inolvidable, que puedes ver aquí ⬇️
ow.ly/6Ygf50PKaZi
Miguel R. Alarcon retweeted
We found our first potentially hazardous asteroid, 2022 SF289, using the HelioLinC3D code that will power @VRubinObs's LSST survey!! Written by @uwdirac's Ari Heinze, the new code can identify asteroids with half the observations as needed before. washington.edu/news/2023/07/… . 🧵 👇
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And @jgserrb will be presenting his work on the genomic history of the Canary Islands in poster #961 – at Ferrara, Emilia Romagna
Miguel R. Alarcon retweeted
Astrónomos de @astrosabadell junto con los Técnicos de Operaciones Telescópicas del @IAC_Astrofisica han detectado con el telescopio #IAC80 del #OTTenerife el débil tránsito del #exoplaneta WASP-156b.
ℹ️ ow.ly/Igaz50GNKQ4
📸 Daniel Lopez/IAC
📈 #ExoClock @ArielTelescope
Miguel R. Alarcon retweeted
A simulated image of the solar system around a nearby star at 10 microns with an ELT like TMT or GMT. Just sayin' ... #Astro2020
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All 6 huge filters for the @VRubinObs camera have been fabricated, coated & delivered to @SLAClab! The 3200-megapixel Legacy Survey of Space & Time Camera will be the largest digital camera ever built. ow.ly/AJvA50Gy2C7
Credit:@Livermore_Lab/G.McLeod
ALT Three people in cleanroom suits stand behind a very large orange camera filter.
Los últimos trabajos del grupo @EELabs_eu, portada de la revista @astronomia_mag de noviembre.
Y para empezar el fin de semana, la portada de @astronomia_mag de noviembre con un tema "brillante".
Miguel R. Alarcon retweeted
The paper describing design, construction and deployment of our prototype GOTO instrument on La Palma has now been accepted by @RAS_Journals! An important milestone for our collaboration, but we're already working hard on the next stage of upgrades arxiv.org/abs/2110.05539
Miguel R. Alarcon retweeted
Nuestro compañero Jaime Zamorano (@cefalopodo), galardonado con el Crawford Hunter Lifetime Achievement Award de la @IDADarkSky por su lucha contra la contaminación lumínica.
¡Enhorabuena por ese merecidísimo reconocimiento!
➡️ sea-astronomia.es/noticias/j…
❗️Nuevas oportunidades para trabajar en los Observatorios de Canarias (@IAC_Astrofisica )
El @TOG_IAC convoca 2 nuevas plazas para titulados en Física, Matemáticas o Ingeniería:
Operador de Telescopios: iac.es/es/ofertas-de-trabajo…
Ing. de Software: iac.es/es/ofertas-de-trabajo…
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Comunicado del @IAC_Astrofisica sobre la erupción volcánica en La Palma
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