The OAO (Observatory of Aras de los Olmos – Universidad de Valencia) is the monitoring station owned by Astronomical Observatory of Universidad de Valencia. It’s situated at municipality of Aras de los Olmos, on the grindstone of Santa Catalina.
Computer for massive computing maintained by staff of the Computing Centre of the Universitat de València.
Radiometric calibration laboratory.
It uses daily data from the conventional network of observatories of the State Meteorological Agency (period 1950-2013), and data from the meteorological towers that the CEAM-UVEG Joint Unit has available for climatic analysis. The development of the software developed by the research group itself allows the validation and computer exploitation of the database, with the performance of a wide range of climatological calculations and analyses.
78 cores of dedicated use Lluís Vives computationally intensive server at the Universitat.
Several compute-intensive servers (total number of cores approx. 256; total RAM approx. 1 Tb) purchased for the research projects of the group members.
Confocal fluorescence scanning microscope.
Genetic analysis with high-performance servers, server-attached computers, bioinformatics software, development of working algorithms.
Calculation farm funded by PROMETEO projects.
Qualitative and quantitative analysis of microbial populations by flow cytometry.
Used for the spatial processing of information and databases in the UV GIS Laboratory. It has ArcGIS software, which is a powerful information platform with various applications for the processing and design of all the spatial analysis of the data.
Servers and software for spatially explicit cataloguing and integration of environmental information.
Water and sediment analysis laboratory.
Distributed computing structure: IFIC's GRID-CSIC.
System for the characterisation and optical quality control of intraocular lenses using optical interferometry techniques.
Chamber that allows experimentation with large aquariums and plant cultures.
Macrophyte live cultures resource.
Computer for massive parallel computing maintained by staff of the Computing Centre of the Universitat de València.
The UVB-1 radiometer has a spectral range between 280 and 400 nm but is designed to have a spectral sensitivity close to the erythemal action spectrum. The UVB-1 is designed to be stable over long periods of time and to operate continuously and autonomously in the field. Measurements were taken and stored with the same procedure used in the above cases. The Optronic 754 is equipped with a double monochromator, with a spectral range that extends from 250 nm to 800 nm, with a FWHM of 1.6 nm allowing measurements to be made with a minimum wavelength step of 0.05 nm. The detector is a solid-state photomultiplier, temperature stabilised by the Peltier effect.
The equipment consists of a double Nephelometer with conditioner for the measurement of aerosol dispersion, an etalometer for the measurement of aerosol absorption, and a TSI-APS for the measurement of size distribution.
Gas accumulation chambers and tubes for experimental measurements, various CO₂ and CH4 measurement systems (absorption spectroscopy, infrared detection -IRGA, semi-conduction).
It consists of two CIMEL photometers and two PREDE POM radiometers for the measurement of the aerosol column. A Ceilometer and a lidar are also available to study its vertical profile.
Research optical and fluorescence microscopes and stereo microscopes.
Molecular biology tools.
Image storage server.
For field trips and equipment transport. Also allows field measurement by placing the sensors on an additional articulated arm.
Collection of samples and cultures of the different species of Iberian inland waters.
A laboratory is available for the study of the properties and characterisation of ultra-short nanosecond pulsed light sources such as LEDs and pulsed lasers. The laboratory is equipped to measure properties such as energy, wavelength, time width and angular distribution. It has high-precision oscilloscopes, ultra-fast photomultipliers, optical tables, black boxes, energy meters, xy-positioning table and various electronic equipment.
It is a high-performance mass storage computer system, with a set of redundant disks that allows a 24-hour service to be offered. The technical characteristics of the equipment are as follows:
- 19-inch rack format.
- 4 x 10 GbE iSCSI iSCSI host channels / ports with SFP+ connector.
- 2 SAS expansion ports.
- Support for RAID 0, 1, 3, 5, 6, 10, 30, 50, 60.
- Redundant controller and hot swap.
- 2 GB cache memory per controller.
- Hot swap cache battery per controller.
- Dynamic capacity expansion.
- LUN Mapping.
- Possibility of hot spare and hot swap disks.
- Redundant power supply and fan modules.
- Backplane for 16 SAS 6 Gbit disks.
- 16 Hitachi 600 Gbytes 15,000 rpm 6 Gbit SAS disks.
- Capacity to support up to 112 SAS 6 Gbit disks.
- SES/SMART.
- Management via LCD with keypad, telnet over Ethernet and web browser with GUI.
- Remote alarm notification.
There is currently a network of radiometers located in part of the CEAM Foundation's network of meteorological stations that are in operation and distributed throughout the Valencian Community.
Six workstations with computers. Own software + 3 ENVI-IDL licences + 2 ARCGIS 8 licences.
The UCG has, among other scientific instrumentation, two satellite image reception antennas corresponding to the MSG (Meteosat Second Generation) and NOAA satellites, as well as a reception station for obtaining images from the TERRA, AQUA and NPP satellites (www.uv.es/iplsat/).
Measurement of optical aberrations of ophthalmic lenses.
Monte Carlo simulations induced on Markov chains.
Numerical simulation of lattice field theories is computationally intensive and requires very sophisticated algorithms. Our group has extensive experience in the use of these techniques.
The UCG has software licences for satellite image processing.
Kipp & Zonen Solar Station. It's available since 2010. The solar station is composed of a solar tracker Solys-2 with active solar tracking. On this solar tracker have been installed some instruments such as the CMP21 radiometer for the measurement of global and diffuse solar radiation (in broadband), CHP1 pyrheliometer for the measurement of direct broadband solar radiation and CGR4 pyrgeometer for the measurement of long-wave downward radiance. The group has two measuring stations in Burjassot and Aras de los Olmos.
High-precision spectrofluorometer.
The UV Statistics Unit works with experts in the use of computer equipment and specific software. The main software used for data analysis is the free R Software.
A steel gantry with a span of 18 m and a gauge of 550 m, located on the CV 35 road, is available for the evaluation of traffic monitoring systems in real conditions of luminosity and traffic. The gantry consists of 3 mobile CCTV cameras of different quality, an infrared spotlight, an electronic toll sensor and a magnetic sensor located under the gantry. The information from the systems is sent to an ERU and from there to the laboratory from where images are received in real time and the installed equipment can be controlled.
The T50 telescope is a 51 cm aperture reflector with a Robotic German Equatorial mount that can autonomously perform the observations programmed for it. It is located at the Aras de los Olmos Observatory.
The TROBAR telescope (Aras Robotic Telescope) is a 60 cm aperture reflector with a Robotic German Equatorial mount that can autonomously perform the observations programmed for it. It is located at the Aras de los Olmos Observatory.
The UCG has thermal cameras working in the 8-14 micrometre band for in situ measurement of the earth’s surface temperature.
The UCG has numerous thermal radiometers working in the 8-14 micrometre band for in situ measurement of the earth’s surface temperature.
The Turia 1 telescope is a 14 cm wide-field aperture refractor with a Robotic German Equatorial mount that can autonomously perform the observations programmed for it. It is located at the Aras de los Olmos Observatory.
The Turia 2 telescope is a 51 cm wide-field aperture reflector with a Robotic German Equatorial mount that can autonomously perform the observations programmed for it. It is located at the Aras de los Olmos Observatory.
The aim is to search for accumulations of events in the sky above what is expected from the background of muons and neutrinos produced by cosmic rays in the atmosphere. From the estimates of this background, the characteristics of the signal (spatial distribution and energy spectrum) and of the detector (angular resolution and effective area), it is possible to establish event selection criteria that optimise the sensitivity of the analysis. The main element to distinguish between signal and background is the fact that the latter is diffuse while the former is spatially concentrated around the source. In addition, this discrimination is also aided by the difference in energy spectra. The algorithm to perform this search is based on a likelihood function where this information is included. A "blinded" procedure is followed for the data, i.e. the complete information about the position of the events is not accessed until the selection criteria have been optimised.
Computer for massive computing also maintained by staff of the Computing Centre of the Universitat de València.
24 and 48 core servers with Infiniband.
High-performance cluster with 48 processors (232 cores) with Infiniband.