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Biblographical Notes
Chapter 17
Astronomical Instrumentation, Technology Transfer
and Its Impact on Industry (1974–Present)
‘Let others invent’ is paraphrase of a popular quote from Unamuno that
reflected his conviction that Spain should leave science and technology to
other Europeans, while Spain concentrated on leading the world of letters.
His exact words were: Inventen pues ellos y nosotros nos aprovecharemos de sus
invenciones (‘let them invent, then, and we’ll make use of their inventions’).
The discovery of Teide 1, the first confirmed brown dwarf, was published by
R. Rebolo, M. R. Zapatero Osorio, and E. L. Martin, Nature, 377 (1995),
129. Plans for the Imperial College’s 60-inch infrared flux collector are
described by J. Ring, ‘Infrared Astronomy, Inaugural Lecture as Professor of
Physics’ (Imperial College of Science and Technology, University of London,
1968), 210; B. V. Barlow, The Astronomical Telescope (London: Wykeham
Publications, 1975), 163–4; and Tony Jones, ‘El Teide and the flux collector’,
J. British Astronomical Association, 88 (1978), 257–66. A description of
ISOPHOT and some of the early scientific results is provided by M. F. Kessler,
‘The first results from ISO’, ESA Bulletin 86 (1996). A description of EMIR
is given in the project’s webpage: https://www.iac.es/en/observatorios- decanarias/telescopes- and- experiments/espectrografo- multiobjeto- infrarojo.
The OSIRIS instrument is described in the webpage https://www.iac.es/en/
observatorios- de- canarias/telescopes- and- experiments/osiris- nasmyth- b. The
COSMOSOMAS experiment is described by J. E. Gallegos, et al.,
‘COSMOSOMAS: a circular scanning instrument to map the sky at centimetric wavelengths’, Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, 327,
1178–86 (2001). A description of the QUIJOTE experiment is provided by
J. A. Rubiño-Martín, ‘The QUIJOTE experiment: project status and first scientific results’, in S. Arribas et al., Highlights on Spanish Astrophysics IX,
Proceedings of the XII Scientific Meeting of the Spanish Astronomical Society
(London: EDP Sciences, 2016), 99–107. The activities of the Technology
Transfer Office (OTRI) are summarized in the IAC’s annual Memoria. The
economic impact of large telescopes is described by J. Burgos-Martín,
M. Sánchez-Padrón, F. Sánchez, and C. Martínez-Roger, ‘Extremely large
telescopes as a motor of socio–economic development and implications of its
construction and installation’, SPIE Proceedings 5382: 2nd Bäckaskog
Workshop on Extremely Large Telescopes, 142 (2004).
Biblographical Notes
Chapter 17
Astronomical Instrumentation, Technology Transfer
and Its Impact on Industry (1974–Present)
‘Let others invent’ is paraphrase of a popular quote from Unamuno that
reflected his conviction that Spain should leave science and technology to
other Europeans, while Spain concentrated on leading the world of letters.
His exact words were: Inventen pues ellos y nosotros nos aprovecharemos de sus
invenciones (‘let them invent, then, and we’ll make use of their inventions’).
The discovery of Teide 1, the first confirmed brown dwarf, was published by
R. Rebolo, M. R. Zapatero Osorio, and E. L. Martin, Nature, 377 (1995),
129. Plans for the Imperial College’s 60-inch infrared flux collector are
described by J. Ring, ‘Infrared Astronomy, Inaugural Lecture as Professor of
Physics’ (Imperial College of Science and Technology, University of London,
1968), 210; B. V. Barlow, The Astronomical Telescope (London: Wykeham
Publications, 1975), 163–4; and Tony Jones, ‘El Teide and the flux collector’,
J. British Astronomical Association, 88 (1978), 257–66. A description of
ISOPHOT and some of the early scientific results is provided by M. F. Kessler,
‘The first results from ISO’, ESA Bulletin 86 (1996). A description of EMIR
is given in the project’s webpage: https://www.iac.es/en/observatorios- decanarias/telescopes- and- experiments/espectrografo- multiobjeto- infrarojo.
The OSIRIS instrument is described in the webpage https://www.iac.es/en/
observatorios- de- canarias/telescopes- and- experiments/osiris- nasmyth- b. The
COSMOSOMAS experiment is described by J. E. Gallegos, et al.,
‘COSMOSOMAS: a circular scanning instrument to map the sky at centimetric wavelengths’, Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, 327,
1178–86 (2001). A description of the QUIJOTE experiment is provided by
J. A. Rubiño-Martín, ‘The QUIJOTE experiment: project status and first scientific results’, in S. Arribas et al., Highlights on Spanish Astrophysics IX,
Proceedings of the XII Scientific Meeting of the Spanish Astronomical Society
(London: EDP Sciences, 2016), 99–107. The activities of the Technology
Transfer Office (OTRI) are summarized in the IAC’s annual Memoria. The
economic impact of large telescopes is described by J. Burgos-Martín,
M. Sánchez-Padrón, F. Sánchez, and C. Martínez-Roger, ‘Extremely large
telescopes as a motor of socio–economic development and implications of its
construction and installation’, SPIE Proceedings 5382: 2nd Bäckaskog
Workshop on Extremely Large Telescopes, 142 (2004).