TY - JOUR
T1 - OSIRIS tunable imager and spectrograph for the GTC. Instrument status
AU - Cepa, Jordi
AU - Aguiar, Marta
AU - Bland-Hawthorn, Jonathan
AU - Castañeda, Héctor
AU - Cobos, Francisco
AU - Correa, Santiago
AU - Espejo, Carlos
AU - Fragoso, Ana Belén
AU - Fuentes, Javier
AU - Gigante, José Vicente
AU - González, Jesús
AU - González-Escalera, Victor
AU - González-Serrano, José Ignacio
AU - Joven, Enrique
AU - López, José Carlos
AU - Militello, Carmelo
AU - Peraza, Lorenzo
AU - Pérez, Angeles
AU - Pérez, Jaime
AU - Rasilla, José Luis
AU - Sánchez, Beatriz
AU - Tejada, Carlos
PY - 2002
Y1 - 2002
N2 - OSIRIS (Optical System for Imaging and low Resolution Integrated Spectroscopy) is the optical Day One instrument for the 10.4m Spanish telescope GTC to be installed in the Observatorio del Roque de Los Muchachos (La Palma, Spain). This instrument, operational in mid-2004, covers from 360 up to 1000 nm. OSIRIS observing modes include direct imaging with tunable and conventional filters, long slit and multiple object spectroscopy and fast spectrophotometry. The OSIRIS wide field of view, high efficiency and the new observing modes (tunable imaging and fast spectrophotometry) for 8-10m class telescopes will provide GTC with a powerful tool for their scientific exploitation. The present paper provides an updated overview of the instrument development, of some of the scientific projects that will be tackled with OSIRIS and of the general requirements driving the optical and mechanical design.
AB - OSIRIS (Optical System for Imaging and low Resolution Integrated Spectroscopy) is the optical Day One instrument for the 10.4m Spanish telescope GTC to be installed in the Observatorio del Roque de Los Muchachos (La Palma, Spain). This instrument, operational in mid-2004, covers from 360 up to 1000 nm. OSIRIS observing modes include direct imaging with tunable and conventional filters, long slit and multiple object spectroscopy and fast spectrophotometry. The OSIRIS wide field of view, high efficiency and the new observing modes (tunable imaging and fast spectrophotometry) for 8-10m class telescopes will provide GTC with a powerful tool for their scientific exploitation. The present paper provides an updated overview of the instrument development, of some of the scientific projects that will be tackled with OSIRIS and of the general requirements driving the optical and mechanical design.
KW - Fabry-Pèrot interferometers
KW - Fast spectrophotometry
KW - GTC
KW - Multiple object spectroscopy
KW - Tunable imaging
UR - http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?scp=0038295970&partnerID=8YFLogxK
U2 - 10.1117/12.460913
DO - 10.1117/12.460913
M3 - Artículo de la conferencia
AN - SCOPUS:0038295970
SN - 0277-786X
VL - 4841
SP - 1739
EP - 1749
JO - Proceedings of SPIE - The International Society for Optical Engineering
JF - Proceedings of SPIE - The International Society for Optical Engineering
IS - 3
T2 - Instrument Design for Optical/Infrared Ground-based Telescopes
Y2 - 25 August 2002 through 28 August 2002
ER -