Bibcode
Gil de Paz, A.; Gallego, J.; Carrasco, E.; Iglesias-Páramo, J.; Sánchez Moreno, F. M.; Vílchez, J. M.; García Vargas, M. L.; Arrillaga, X.; Carrera, M. A.; Castillo-Morales, A.; Castillo-Domínguez, E.; Cedazo, R.; Eliche-Moral, M. C.; Ferrusca, D.; González-Guardia, E.; Lefort, B.; Maldonado, M.; Marino, R. A.; Martínez-Delgado, I.; Morales Durán, I.; Mujica, E.; Páez, G.; Pascual, S.; Pérez-Calpena, A.; Sánchez-Penim, A.; Sánchez-Blanco, E.; Tulloch, S.; Velázquez, M.; Zamorano, J.; Aguerri, A. L.; Barrado y Naváscues, D.; Bertone, E.; Cardiel, N.; Cava, A.; Cenarro, J.; Chávez, M.; García, M.; Guichard, J.; Guzmán, R.; Herrero, A.; Huélamo, N., Hughes, D.; Jiménez-Vicente, J.; Kehrig, C.; Márquez, I.; Masegosa, J.; Mayya, Y. D.; Méndez-Abreu, J.; Mollá, M.; Muñoz-Tuñón, C.; Peimbert, M.; Pérez-González, P. G.; Pérez Montero, E.; Rodríguez, M.; Rodríguez-Espinosa, J. M.; Rodríguez-Merino, L.; Rosa-González, D.; Sánchez-Almeida, J.; Sánchez Contreras, C.; Sánchez-Blázquez, P.; Sánchez, S. F.; Sarajedini, A.; Silich, S.; Simón-Díaz, S.; Tenorio-Tagle, G.; Terlevich, E.; Terlevich, R.; Torres-Peimbert, S.; Trujillo, I.; Tsamis, Y.; Vega, O.; Villar, V.
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. 804-809
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Description
MEGARA (Multi-Espectrógrafo en GTC de Alta Resolución para
Astronomía) is the future intermediate-resolution optical
Integral-Field Unit (IFU) and Multi-Object Spectrograph (MOS) of the
10.4m GTC telescope. The instrument can be used to observe either a
contiguous (100% filling factor) field-of-view of 12.5×11.3
arcsec^{2} or 92 objects anywhere in a 3.5×3.5 arcmin^{2} field
patrolled by robotic actuactors attached to optical-fiber minibundles,
respectively in its IFU and MOS modes. The MEGARA Consortium is led by
the Universidad Complutense de Madrid (UCM, Spain) and also includes the
Instituto Nacional de Astrofísica, óptica y
Electrónica (INAOE, Mexico), the Instituto de Astrofísica
de Andalucía (IAA-CSIC, Spain) and the Universidad
Politécnica de Madrid (UPM, Spain). The instrument passed its
Critical Design Review (CDR) on late 2014 and is currently in
construction phase with a planned date for the start of operations at
GTC on early 2017. In this paper we summarize the main characteristics
of the instrument and the status of the project.