EMIR Science Highlights
EMIR addresses the core observing goals of a 10 m class telescope by providing multi-object near-IR spectroscopy of faint sources. Typical targets will be stellar objects in the inner parts of the Milky Way, faint galaxies, low-mass stars, brown dwarfs, distant supernovae, resolved stellar populations in external galaxies, HII regions and objects in dust obscured regions: galactic nuclei, young stellar objects and edge-on galaxies. Some representative examples of scientific projects that are ideally suited for EMIR are:
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Search for low-mass stars (brown dwarfs)
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Survey and nature of IR objects embedded in molecular clouds
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CO abundances in nearby early-type galaxies
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Nature of AGN central sources and their interaction with circumnuclear gas AGN
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IR spectroscopic follow-up of radio, IR, X-ray Sky Surveys
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Distant clusters of galaxies
The EMIR science with the guaranteed time are distributed in two main projects: GOYA and EAST.