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Hot and dry: SPIRou reveals the atmosphere of hot Jupiter Tau Boötis b
Measuring the composition of the atmosphere of the hot Jupiter Tau Boötis b more precisely…
SPIRou stares at a young rebel: the AU Mic planetary system
SPIRou, the new high-precision infrared spectropolarimeter recently installed at the Canada-France-Hawaii Telescope, has measured for…
SPIRou at La preuve par l’image
An image submitted by Étienne Artigau, an OMM researcher, was selected by the jury of…
All systems go for exo-Earth hunter SPIRou
Nine months after capturing its first images from atop Maunakea in Hawaii, the scientific instrument…
SPIRou’s First Light!
After four months of hard work by engineers and scientists from France, Canada, Switzerland and…
The Delivery of SPIRou’s IR Detector
The OMM has just delivered the H2RG test detector for the SPIRou instrument currently being…
OMM in the Works to Deliver an IR Camera for SPIRou
On February 28, the OMM delivered the infrared camera for the SPIRou spectropolarimeter. SPIRou is…
SPIRou camera built and tested at UdeM and Université Laval
Our two astrophysics laboratories at Université de Montréal and Université Laval are currently working together…
Testing underway in Toulouse for SPIRou’s cryostat
The second phase of cryo-mechanical integration of the SPIRou spectrograph is underway at IRAP/OMP (Toulouse,…