First scientific observations with MEGARA at GTC

Autor: Eleazar R. Carrasco, J. Jiménez-Vicente, R. A. Marino, Casiana Muñoz-Tuñón, Mónica Rodríguez, R. M. Gonzalez-Delgado, A. Herrero, Ignacio Trujillo, M. Maldonado, J. Guichard, África Castillo-Morales, J. Cenarro, Rafael Izazaga-Pérez, J. L. Avilés, L. Rodríguez Merino, P. Gómez-Alvarez, S. Esteban San Román, S. F. Sanchez, Enrique Pérez-Montero, David H. Hughes, Olga Vega, Sergio Pascual, J. Mendez-Abreu, Jose Miguel Rodriguez-Espinosa, Jorge García-Rojas, A. Gil de Paz, M. Peimbert, Rafael Guzman, B. Lefort, Isabel Márquez, Bililign T. Dullo, Antonio Cava, Y. G. Tsamis, Silvia Torres-Peimbert, J. Sánchez-Almeida, Nicolás Cardiel, Patricia Sanchez-Blazquez, R. Cedazo, Pablo G. Pérez-González, X. Arrillaga, S. Silich, L. Rodríguez-Muñoz, Jaime Zamorano, I. Morales-Durán, Simon Tulloch, Sergio Simón-Díaz, E. Castillo-Domínguez, Ana Pérez-Calpena, D. Mayya, Gonzalo Paez, Miguel Chavez, Roberto Terlevich, A. Sánchez-Penim, C. Kehrig, Guillermo Tenorio-Tagle, Josefa Masegosa, J. Carbajo, D. Barrado y Navascués, Daniel Rosa-Gonzalez, Daniel Ferrusca, E. Mujica, Cristina Catalán-Torrecilla, Miriam Garcia, Ernesto Sánchez-Blanco, P. Picazo, Jesús Gallego, Alexandre Y. K. Bouquin, M. L. García-Vargas, C. Sanchez-Contreras, Jorge Iglesias-Páramo, Alfonso L. Aguerri, Ata Sarajedini, Nuria Huélamo, Emanuele Bertone, M. Velázquez, Elena Terlevich, I. Martínez-Delgado, M. Mollá, José M. Vílchez, José Antonio López-Orozco, S. R. Berlanas, M. A. Carrera
Rok vydání: 2018
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Zdroj: E-Prints Complutense: Archivo Institucional de la UCM
Universidad Complutense de Madrid
E-Prints Complutense. Archivo Institucional de la UCM
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Popis: On June 25th 2017, the new intermediate-resolution optical IFU and MOS of the 10.4-m GTC had its first light. As part of the tests carried out to verify the performance of the instrument in its two modes (IFU and MOS) and 18 spectral setups (identical number of VPHs with resolutions R=6000-20000 from 0.36 to 1 micron) a number of astronomical objects were observed. These observations show that MEGARA@GTC is called to fill a niche of high-throughput, intermediateresolution IFU and MOS observations of extremely-faint narrow-lined objects. Lyman-¿ absorbers, star-forming dwarfs or even weak absorptions in stellar spectra in our Galaxy or in the Local Group can now be explored to a new level. Thus, the versatility of MEGARA in terms of observing modes and spectral resolution and coverage will allow GTC to go beyond current observational limits in either depth or precision for all these objects. The results to be presented in this talk clearly demonstrate the potential of MEGARA in this regard. © 2018 SPIE.
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