Bibcode
Garzón, F.; Patrick, L.; Hammersley, P.; Streblyanska, A.; Insausti, M.; Barreto, M.; Fernández, P.; Joven, E.; López, P.; Mato, A.; Moreno, H.; Núñez, M.; Patrón, J.; Pascual, S.; Cardiel, N.
Bibliographical reference
Highlights on Spanish Astrophysics X, Proceedings of the XIII Scientific Meeting of the Spanish Astronomical Society held on July 16-20, 2018, in Salamanca, Spain, ISBN 978-84-09-09331-1. B. Montesinos, A. Asensio Ramos, F. Buitrago, R. Schödel, E. Villaver, S. Pérez-Hoyos, I. Ordóñez-Etxeberria (eds.) p. 526-535
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Description
We report the results on the EMIR (Espectrógrafo Multiobjeto
Infra-Rojo) performances after two semesters of scientific operations at
the Gran Telescopio Canarias (GTC). EMIR is one of the first common user
instruments for the GTC, the 10 meter telescope operating at the Roque
de los Muchachos Observatory (La Palma, Canary Islands, Spain). EMIR
have been built by a Consortium of Spanish and French institutes led by
the Instituto de Astrofísica de Canarias. EMIR is primarily
designed to operated as a multi-object spectrograph in the K band, but
offers a wide range of observing modes, including imaging and
spectroscopy, both long slit and multi-object, in the wavelength range
0.9 to 2.5 μm. The development and fabrication of EMIR is funded by
GRANTECAN and the Plan Nacional de Astronomía y
Astrofísica. EMIR was shipped to the GTC on May 2016 for its
integration at the Nasmyth platform. From June till November 2016
several commissioning periods were conducted. Then a short Science
Verification phase was launched on which EMIR was offered to the
community to test its capabilities on sky in image and long-slit
observing modes. In March 2017, EMIR was included in the call for
observing time in semester 17B and started routine scientific operations
at the GTC from July 2017. In November 2017, EMIR was lifted off the
Nasmyth platform for the first maintenance period and resume operations
at the end of February 2018. Multi-object spectroscopy (MOS)
commissioning has taken place, in two periods, starting at the beginning
of March 18. At the time of this writing, the MOS commissioning and
internal verification phases have been completed and the open science
verification is underway. The MOS mode has been offered in the CAT19A.
This contribution summarises the results and performances of the EMIR
operation at the GTC since the beginning of its routine operation at the
GTC.