Otelo: A proposal for a GTC key project

J. Cepa; E. J. Alfaro; J. Bland-Hawthorn; H. O. Castañeda; J. Gallego; I. González-Serrano; J. J. González; M. Sánchez-Portal

Otelo: A proposal for a GTC key project

J. Cepa, E. J. Alfaro, J. Bland-Hawthorn, H. O. Castañeda, J. Gallego, I. González-Serrano, J. J. González, M. Sánchez-Portal

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Abstract

OTELO (OSIRIS Tunable Emission Line Object Survey) is the GTC Key Project that will allow an optimal exploitation of the Spanish Day One GTC instrument OSIRIS with a high scientific output and international impact. The survey will be made using tunable filters, a unique feature of OSIRIS in 8-10 m telescopes, to do co-mobile tomography at a depth enabling measurements to be made of the faintest emission line sources, while scanning a volume of the Universe containing a, statistically significant sample of such objects. With this technique, and given the high sensitivity gained by the use of the tunable filters, OTELO will be the deepest and richest survey of emission line objects to date, providing an enormous amount of valuable data to tackle a wide variety of first-rank scientific projects.

Original language	English
Pages (from-to)	64-68
Number of pages	5
Journal	Revista Mexicana de Astronomia y Astrofisica: Serie de Conferencias
Volume	16
State	Published - 2003
Externally published	Yes
Event	Science with the GTC 10-m Telescope - Granada, Spain Duration: 5 Feb 2002 → 8 Feb 2002

Keywords

Astronomical data bases: surveys
Cosmology: observations
Galaxies: evolution
Galaxies: interstellar matter
Galaxies: metallicity

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