Bibcode
García-Vargas, M. L.; Rodríguez-Espinosa, J. M.; Martín-Fleitas, J. M.; Kohley, R.; Sánchez-Blanco, E.; Hammersley, P. L.; Cabrera-Lavers, A.; Maldonado, M.; Vilela, R.
Bibliographical reference
Ground-based and Airborne Instrumentation for Astronomy. Edited by McLean, Ian S.; Iye, Masanori. Proceedings of the SPIE, Volume 6269, pp. 62690L (2006).
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Description
Elmer is an imager and spectrograph in the visible range that has been
designed and managed within the GTC Project Office. Elmer will be
installed at the telescope at the beginning of the commissioning phase.
The observing modes of the instrument are: Imaging, Long Slit, Mask and
Slit-less multi-object Spectroscopy, Fast Photometry and Fast short-slit
Spectroscopy. The pupil elements are a set of conventional broad band
and narrow band filters as well as a set of prisms, grisms and VPHs,
that allow spectroscopy with resolving powers of 200, 1000 and 2500
between 365 and 1000nm. Elmer has been exhaustively tested and each of
its observing modes has been fully characterized at the laboratory. This
contribution summarizes the results of this Test Plan, showing the
excellent performance of Elmer in both, Imaging and Spectroscopy modes
that, together with the GTC, will lead to a powerful scientific return.