The SPIRou Legacy Survey has been approved by the CFHT Board of Directors During its 2014 December meeting in Hawaii, the Board of Directors of CFHT officially approved the concept of the SPIRou Legacy Survey (SLS) – to be carried out with SPIRou once the instrument is installed and commissioned at CFHT. More specifically, the […]
SPIRou has a new graphics logo especially designed for us by JY Duhoo – a talented artist from the SPIROU magazine The graphics logo comes in 2 flavors, either as a color picture on a bright background or as a white shadow on a dark background. It also comes in 2 setups, either as a […]
The SPIRou Final Design Review was successfully held in Toulouse on 2014 April 28-30. The design phase of SPIRou was recently completed with the Final Design Review held at Cité de l’Espace in Toulouse. SPIRou is now entering the construction phase, aiming for an integration of the whole instrument in Toulouse (IRAP / OMP) in […]
Following the recent decision of the Canada-France-Hawaii Telescope (CFHT) to participate to the funding of SPIRou, the SPIROU magazine is publishing a first episode of a comic strip on SPIRou – the new generation spectropolarimeter / high-precision velocimeter being developed for CFHT within an international consortium involving France, Canada, CFHT, Taiwan, Brazil, Portugal and Switzerland, […]
The Canada France Hawaii Telescope (CFHT) confirmed its participation to the funding of SPIRou How do stars and planets arise ? How does the magnetic field affect their formation? Is the Earth, whose surface is covered by a large amount of liquid water, unique? Is our galaxy populated by similar planets? These are a few […]