First light instrumentation for the Observatorio Astrofísico de Javalambre (OAJ)

Marín-Franch, A.; Taylor, K.; Santoro, F. G.; Laporte, R.; Cepa, J.; Lasso-Cabrera, N.; Yanes-Díaz, A.; Cenarro, A. J.; Cristóbal-Hornillos, D.; Ederoclite, A.; Moles, M.; Antón, J. L.; Bello, R.; Civera, T.; Castillo, J.; de Castro, S.; Chueca, S.; Guillén-Civera, L.; Hernández-Fuertes, J.; Igual, R.; Íñiguez, C.; Jiménez-Mejías, D.; López-Alegre, G.; López-Sainz, A.; Nevot, C.; Luis-Simoes, R.; Muniesa, D.; Rueda-Teruel, F.; Rueda-Teruel, S.; Sánchez, J.; Suárez, O.; Varela, J.; Vázquez-Ramió, H.; Benítez, N.; Dupke, R.; Fernández-Soto, A.; Mendes de Oliveira, C.; Sodré, L., Jr.
Bibliographical reference

Highlights of Spanish Astrophysics VIII, Proceedings of the XI Scientific Meeting of the Spanish Astronomical Society held on September 8-12, 2014, in Teruel, Spain, ISBN 978-84-606-8760-3. A. J. Cenarro, F. Figueras, C. Hernández-Monteagudo, J. Trujillo Bueno, and L. Valdivielso (eds.), p. 743-754

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2015
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Description
The Observatorio Astrofísico de Javalambre (OAJ) is a new astronomical facility located at the Sierra de Javalambre (Teruel, Spain) whose primary role will be to conduct all-sky astronomical surveys. The main OAJ facilities are two wide-field telescopes: the JST/T250, a 2.55 m telescope with a 3° diameter FoV, and the JAST/T80, a 0.83 m telescope with a 2° diameter FoV. These telescopes are equipped with panoramic cameras that have been designed to exploit the survey capabilities of the OAJ telescopes. T80Cam will be mounted at the JAST/T80 and its large format CCD covers a large fraction of the JAST/T80 FoV with a pixel scale of 0.55"{pix}^{-1}. The JST/T250 will be equipped with JPCam, a 14-CCD mosaic camera using the new e2v 9k-by-9k, 10 μ{m} pixel detectors, providing a pixel scale of 0.2"{pix}^{-1}. It is designed to perform the J-PAS, a BAO survey of the northern sky. The J-PAS survey will use 59 filters, 56 narrow-band filters (14.5 nm width) equi-spaced between 350 and 1000 nm plus 3 broad-band filters to achieve unprecedented photometric redshift accuracies for faint galaxies over 8500°^2 of sky. In this paper, the OAJ first light instrumentation is presented.