Bibcode
Garzón, F.; Abreu, D.; Barrera, S.; Becerril, S.; Cairós, L. M.; Díaz, J. J.; Fragoso, A. B.; Gago, F.; Grange, R.; González, C.; López, P.; Patrón, J.; Pérez, J.; Rasilla, J. L.; Redondo, P.; Restrepo, R.; Saavedra, P.; Sánchez, V.; Tenegi, F.; Vallbé, M.
Bibliographical reference
Ground-based and Airborne Instrumentation for Astronomy. Edited by McLean, Ian S.; Iye, Masanori. Proceedings of the SPIE, Volume 6269, pp. 626918 (2006).
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Description
EMIR, currently entering into its fabrication and AIV phase, will be one
of the first common user instruments for the GTC, the 10 meter telescope
under construction by GRANTECAN at the Roque de los Muchachos
Observatory (Canary Islands, Spain). EMIR is being built by a Consortium
of Spanish and French institutes led by the Instituto de Astrofisica de
Canarias (IAC). EMIR is designed to realize one of the central goals of
10m class telescopes, allowing observers to obtain spectra for large
numbers of faint sources in an time-efficient manner. EMIR is primarily
designed to be operated as a MOS in the K band, but offers a wide range
of observing modes, including imaging and spectroscopy, both long slit
and multiobject, in the wavelength range 0.9 to 2.5 μm. It is
equipped with two innovative subsystems: a robotic reconfigurable
multislit mask and disperssive elements formed by the combination of
high quality diffraction grating and conventional prisms, both at the
heart of the instrument. The present status of development, expected
performances, schedule and plans for scientific exploitation are
described and discussed. The development and fabrication of EMIR is
funded by GRANTECAN and the Plan Nacional de Astronomia y Astrofisica
(National Plan for Astronomy and Astrophysics, Spain).