Linking Javalambre and SKA Observatories in Cosmos exploration
2023-11-28
The JAST80 telescope will carry out four new surveys led by top astrophysical institutions
2022-12-21
J-PLUS Data Release 3 (DR3) published
2022-12-15
The Science and Industry Commissions of the Cortes de Aragón visit the Observatorio Astrofísico de Javalambre and Galactica
2022-05-12
CEFCA scientists discover a supernova named JVAR21a
2022-04-21
The Observatorio Astrofísico de Javalambre (OAJ) has announced the call for proposals for observing in the first semester of 2025 with T80Cam, the scientific, panoramic camera installed at JAST80. The call corresponds to the Open Time that OAJ offers regularly to the astronomical community as national Unique Scientific and Technical Infrastructure (ICTS).
The Observatorio Astrofísico de Javalambre (OAJ) is pleased to announce the Call for Proposals for Semester 2024B (July 1st - December 31st, 2024). The deadline for proposal submissions of Regular Programs is March 15th at 23:59:59 CET.
Linking Javalambre and SKA Observatories in Cosmos exploration
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The Observatorio Astrofísico de Javalambre (OAJ) is pleased to announce the Call for Proposals for Semester 2024A (January 1st - June 30th, 2024). The deadline for proposal submissions of Regular Programs is September 15th at 23:59:59 CEST.
The Observatorio Astrofísico de Javalambre (OAJ) is pleased to announce the Call for Proposals for Semester 2023B (July 1st - December 31st, 2023). The deadline for proposal submissions of Regular Programs is March 15th at 23:59:59 CEST.
Mini-HAWKs, J-ALFIN, MUDEHaR and North-PHASE have been chosen for their "legacy" character to use the 3,250 hours of observation time offered by CEFCA in the next five years.
The Observatorio Astrofísico de Javalambre (OAJ) is pleased to announce the Call for Proposals for Semester 2023A (January 1st - June 30th, 2023). The deadline for proposal submissions of Regular Programs is September 15th at 23:59:59 CEST.
The main objective of the visit is to know the research carried out by CEFCA from the OAJ and the work that is underway for the opening of the Dissemination Center in Arcos de las Salinas
CEFCA scientists discover a supernova named JVAR21a
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The Observatorio Astrofísico de Javalambre (OAJ) is pleased to announce the Call for Proposals for Semester 2022B (July 1st - December 30th, 2022). The deadline for proposal submissions is March 15th.
CEFCA announces a Call for Letters of Intent for Surveys with the JAST80 Telescope operating at the OAJ. Deadline: 30 September 2021, 14:00 CET.
The Observatorio Astrofísico de Javalambre (OAJ) is pleased to announce the Call for Proposals for Semester 2021B (July 1st - December 30th, 2021). The deadline for proposal submissions is March 15th.
The Observatorio Astrofísico de Javalambre (OAJ) is pleased to announce the Call for Proposals for Semester 2021A (January 1st - June 30th, 2021). The deadline for proposal submissions is September 15th.
The milestone implies the technological completion of the Javalambre Astrophysical Observatory, in Teruel.
The Minister of Science of the Government of Aragon and President of the Board of CEFCA, María Eugenia Díaz, has visited the OAJ facilities.
The Observatorio Astrofísico de Javalambre (OAJ) is pleased to announce the Call for Proposals for Semester 2020B (July 1st - December 30th, 2020). The deadline for proposal submissions is March 15th.
Teruel hosts the international scientific meeting of the The Astronomy Infrastructures Network (RIA) to present the first public data of the J-PAS project taken with the JST250 Telescope of the Javalambre Astrophysical Observatory.
The President of Aragon, Javier Lambán, visits the facilities of the Observatorio Astrofísico de Javalambre.
The Observatorio Astrofísico de Javalambre (OAJ) is pleased to announce the Call for Proposals for Semester 2020A (January 1st - June 30th, 2020). The deadline for proposal submissions is September 15th.
CEFCA, responsible for the construction and operation of the telescope and the instrumentation with which the survey is carried out, also leads the scientific production
The Observatorio Astrofísico de Javalambre (OAJ) is pleased to announce the Call for Proposals for Semester 2019B (July 1st - December 30th, 2019). The deadline for proposal submissions is March 15th.
El Ministerio de Ciencia, Innovación y Universidades has renewed the status of unique scientific and technical infrastructure (ICTS) of the Observatorio Astrofísico de Javalambre.
The Observatorio Astrofísico de Javalambre (OAJ) is pleased to announce the Call for Proposals for Semester 2019A (January 1st - June 30th, 2019). The deadline for proposal submissions is September 15th.
The J-PLUS First Data Release amounts 1022 square degrees and includes scientific information of more than thirteen million of celestial objects, from asteroids to distant galaxies, including Milky Way stars.
The Observatorio Astrofísico de Javalambre (OAJ) is pleased to announce the Call for Proposals for Semester 2018B (July 1st - December 30th, 2018). The deadline for proposal submissions is March 15th.
CEFCA announces worldwide open access to the Early Data Release (EDR) of the Javalambre Photometric Local Universe Survey. This EDR consists of 18 J-PLUS pointings at different locations of the sky, observed in the twelve J-PLUS photometric optical bands, overall amounting to 36deg2. We provide access to the J-PLUS catalogues with photometric data in all the twelve bands for more than 400.000 astronomical objects, together with the actual FITS images and proper masks to avoid bright stars and other undesired areas.
Since May 2017 CEFCA is collaborating with the Spanish Photographic
Meteor Network (SPMN) reporting bolides detected with
those instruments at the OAJ. The Perseids have already started at the OAJ.
The Observatorio Astrofísico de Javalambre (OAJ) is pleased to announce the Call for Proposals for Semester 2018A (January 1st - June 30th, 2018). The deadline for proposal submissions is September 15th.
After the first light, the Pathfinder images reach 0.4” PSF resolutions in its
first days of operation.
The J-PAS Pathfinder camera of the Javalambre Survey Telescope (JST250) received its first light on the night of 20th February, obtaining succesfully an image of the open cluster NGC1960. After the commissioning of the instrument, the Unique Scientific and Technical Infrastructure (ICTS, in their Spanish initials) Observatorio Astrofísico de Javalambre is working at full capacity, operating routinely the two main telescopes with first-level scientific instrumentation.
The Observatorio Astrofísico de Javalambre (OAJ) is pleased to announce the Call for Proposals for Semester 2017B (July 1st - December 31st, 2017). The deadline for proposal submissions is March 15th.
The certification process of the "Territorio Gúdar Javalambre" as Starlight Destination and Reserve has just successfully finished.
A collaboration agreement between the Euclid Consortium of the European Space Agency (ESA)-led space mission Euclid- and the Centro de Estudios de Física del Cosmos de Aragón (CEFCA; Teruel) has been signed for the provision of ground based scientific data with the Observatorio Astrofísico de Javalambre to complement the observations of the Euclid space telescope.
The Observatorio Astrofísico de Javalambre (OAJ) is pleased to announce the Call for Proposals for Semester 2017A (1st January - 30th June, 2017). The deadline for proposal submissions is September 15th.
After passing the verification tests, the cryogenic camera is being prepared to be delivered at CEFCA next August.
The aluminizing vacuum chamber and the cleaning unit for the maintenance of JST250 and JAST80 telescope's mirrors arrived yesterday at the Observatorio Astrofísico de Javalambre (OAJ). The chamber has been designed by CEFCA and Vacuum Technology Associates Inc, DYNAVAC (Boston, United States), responsible for its manufacture.
Optical fine tuning of the system during Final Acceptance tests provides images of 0.15” FWHM using “lucky imaging” techniques
CEFCA has proceeded with the final acceptance of the JST250 telescope installed at the Observatorio Astrofísico de Javalambre after carrying out additional tests with the verification camera in order to test proper operation of the telescope.
The Observatorio Astrofísico de Javalambre (OAJ) is pleased to announce its first Call for Proposals for Semester 2016B (1st July - 31st December, 2016). The deadline for proposal submissions is March 15th.
The OAJ already keeps the actuator system of JPCam in its clean room. After its arrival in mid January, the engineering team has carried out the integration of the system at the observatory in order to start with the verification and fine-tune processes, first in the clean room and, finally, in the JST250 telescope.
After an intense period of fine tuning and optimization tasks developed by the OAJ/CEFCA Team, systematic observations with T80Cam@JAST80 have started. The telescope–camera system is in optimal performance, reaching normally seeing-limited images. So far, a best gaussian FWHM of 0.63”(+/-0.09”) over the 2deg2 focal plane of T80Cam has been recorded.
Achieved images of 0.33” PSF with “lucky imaging” techniques
Last September 2015, the JST250 telescope at the Observatorio Astrofísico de Javalambre passed successfully the Provisional Acceptance test review. This milestone represents a big step forward for the completion of the project, only pending the Final Acceptance tests that shall be completed in the next weeks.
In late September, responsible members of CEFCA and the J-PAS collaboration visited e2v headquarters to see, first hand, the progress made on the set up of the cryogenic camera of JPCam, the scientific instrument designed by CEFCA and Brazil for the JST250 telescope.
During the last months has been carried out the installation process of the main storage and processing systems for the UPAD/T250. The infrastructure has been provided and installed by the companies Bull España S.A. and Fujitsu Technologies Solutions S.A. These systems increase the already existing capabilities of the UPAD/T80 in order to deal with the huge amount of data produced by JPCam once the camera is installed at JST250 telescope.
The twelve filters of the J-PLUS survey have been integrated into T80Cam, the scientific camera which is installed in the JAST80 telescope of the Observatorio Astrofísico de Javalambre.
With the successful achievement of this important milestone, e2v has demonstrated that the focal plane is well within the very strict JPCam requirements. The JPCam engineering focal plane has been successfully integrated at e2v (Chelmsford, UK). JPCam, the main scientific instrument of the JST250 telescope, is a 1.2 Gpixel camera designed to perform the J-PAS survey.
T80Cam, the scientific camera of the JAST80 telescope of the Observatorio Astrofísico de Javalambre (CEFCA's observatory), has taken its first image of the Javalambre night sky. This achievement is known as First Light, as this is the first time that light coming from an astronomical object is registered by the T80Cam detector.
The scientific instrument for the JAST80 telescope, T80Cam, has been successfully installed at the Cassegrain focus of the JAST80 telescope of the Observatorio Astrofísico de Javalambre (CEFCA).
J-PLUS filters have been received and accepted at CEFCA headquarters (Teruel).
The filters have been manufactured by SCHOTT (Yverdon-les-Bains, Switzerland). These have been specifically developed for the J-PLUS survey and have required more than two years of research and development effort both from SCHOTT and CEFCA.
With the declaration of the OAJ (CEFCA's observatory) as ICTS, the center has received a recognition for its scientific, tecnological and innovative competitiveness and quality in the Spanish R&D system.
In September 25th, at 22:57h Local Time, the Javalambre Survey Telescope (JST250) achieved engineering first light. This is a very important milestone in the project since it is the first time that photons from the Universe, in this case coming from the Polaris star, have gone through the complete optical system of the telescope as it was designed.
JST / T250 telescope of the Observatorio Astrofísico de Javalambre (OAJ) was completely integrated on September 2, 2014. The integration of the telescope with the final optical elements was made after a previous test phase in which the mechanical and control parts of the telescope were verified with dummies instead of the real optical elements.
The assembly of the main telescope of the Observatorio Astrofísico de Javalambre (OAJ) is one of the most important milestones of the project. The first structural pieces of the JST / T250 arrived last month, and now they have begun to settle in the Observatorio Astrofísico de Javalambre.
The dome of the building that will contain the JST / T250 telescope of the Observatorio Astrofísico de Javalambre has been installed this week. This operation was done once the performance and sealing tests were successfully conducted.
The JST250 telescope has passed the first test of general operation that was conducted this week at the headquarters of the Belgian company AMOS, responsible for the construction of the telescope. This is the first phase for the preliminary acceptance of the telescope.
The Centro de Estudios de Física del Cosmos de Aragón (CEFCA) will receive 6.5 million euros from Fondo de Inversiones de Teruel (FITE). This fund was signed by the Gobierno de Aragón and Gobierno de España on November 30, 2012.
The Centro de Estudios de Física del Cosmos de Aragón (CEFCA) has installed the computer equipment for the robotic control of the Observatorio Astrofísico de Javalambre (OAJ) and the storage and processing of the first data that will be provided by the telescopes of the OAJ.
Last week, CEFCA engineers moved to the Belgian company AMOS headquarters to discuss the final details of the final version of the control software of the telescope JST / T250. After the meetings, in which members of AMOS and of OSL company have participated, CEFCA engineers have given approval for the finalization of the software, which will be delivered to CEFCA in a few weeks.
This week, the Institute of Astronomy , Geophysics and Atmospheric Sciences at the University of Sao Paulo and the Spanish company NTE-Sener signed the contract of the support structure and the actuator system of the JPCam.
The arrival of the telescope to the Pico del Buitre involves starting the night activities of the Observatorio Astrofísico de Javalambre (CEFCA's observatory). This is one of the most important milestones of the project.
Last February, the factory integration phase of the JAST80 telescope of the Observatorio Astrofísico de Javalambre (CEFCA) was completed. The telescope is assembled at Bamberg (Germany) where it is currently being tested with dummy optics. Preliminary tests show that the telescope can move with a velocity of up to 40 degrees per second, which makes T80 one of the worldwide fastest telescopes.
In mid-November, the Centro de Estudios de Física del Cosmos de Aragón (CEFCA) and US company Spectral Instruments signed a contract to provide the cryogenic camera system for the JAST80 telescope of the Observatorio Astrofísico de Javalambre (OAJ).
In early December, and after an international process of peer review, Brazil’s Observatório Nacional, a partner institution in the Javalambre Physics of the Accelerated Universe Astrophysical Survey collaboration (J-PAS), and British company E2V signed a contract to provide the cryogenic camera system for the JST250 telescope of the Observatorio Astrofísico de Javalambre.
Towards the end of October, AMOS, the Belgian company responsible for the construction of the telescopes for the Observatorio Astrofísico de Javalambre (OAJ), started the manufacturing of the main mechanical parts of the JST250. The construction of the telescope, to be installed at the OAJ by mid 2012, is currently on schedule and its main structure is expected to be erected at the Belgian plant by January.
The brazilian partners of the Javalambre Physics of the Accelerated Universe Astrophysical Survey (J-PAS) collaboration, will put an identical replica of the OAJ JAST80 telescope of the Observatorio Astrofísico de Javalambre (CEFCA's observatory) in the Cerro Tololo Inter-American Observatory (CTIO), in Chile.
On September 16th 2011, the dome of the JAST80 telescope arrived at the Observatorio Astrofísico de Javalambre (CEFCA's observatory). The dome, the final design of which was approved last January, has been manufactured by Ash-Dome (Illinois, USA) in galvanized steel and holds winds up to 250 Km/h.
The call for tenders for the supply contract of the Wide Field Focal Plane Imager for the JAST80 telescope (T80lm) Javalambre Astrophysical Observatory (CEFCA) is open.
The Final Design Review of the JST250, the main telescope which will be instaled at the Observatorio Astrofísico de Javalambre, has been held at the new headquarters of the CEFCA during March 3rd and 4th. thickness of 250 mm. The inner hole, necessary for the light beam reaching the Cassegrain focus after being reflected in the secondary mirror, has a diameter of nearly 1010 mm.
In December 15th, CEFCA personnel visited AMOS headquarters in Liege (Belgium) to attend the Design Review meeting of the Javalambre JAST80 telescope. During this visit they had the opportunity to see in situ, at AMOS shops, the progress in the grinding and polishing processes of the two primary mirrors of the OAJ telescopes.
The M1 blank has been manufactured by the german company SCHOTT AG. It is made of ZERODUR, a glass ceramic with nearly null thermal expansion, commonly used for telescope mirrors and other engineering projects which require of using high accuracy not deformable surfaces. It weights 2366 kg and has an outer diameter of 2640 mm.
JST250, the largest telescope at the Observatorio Astrofísico deJavalambre, successfully passed the Preliminary Design Review (PDR) on October 27th 2010. The Final Design Review is expected to take place at the beginning of March 2011.