Bibcode
Gil de Paz, A.; Gallego, J.; Carrasco, E.; Iglesias, J.; Sánchez, F.; Vílchez, J.; García Vargas, M.; Andrés, P.; Arrillaga, X.; Avilés, J.; Bonache, J.; Carrera, M.; Castillo, A.; Castillo, E.; Cedazo, R.; Dormido, J.; Eliche Moral, C.; Esteban, S.; Ferrusca, D.; González, E.; Lefort, B.; López, J.; Maldonado, M.; Marino, R.; Martínez, I.; Morales, I.; Mujica, E.; Páez, G.; Pascual, S.; Pérez, A.; Sánchez, A.; Sánchez, E.; Tolloch, S.; Velázquez, M.; Zamorano, J.; Aguerri, J. A. L.; Barrado, D.; Bertone, E.; Cardiel, N.; Cava, A.; Cenarro, A.; Chávez, M.; García, M.; González Delgado, R.; Guichard, J.; Guzmán, R.; Herrero, A.; Huélamo, N.; Hughes, D.; Jiménez, J.; Kehrig, C.; Márquez, I.; Masegosa, J.; Mayya, D.; Méndez Abreu, J.; Mollá, M.; Muñoz Tuñón, C.; Peimbert, M.; Pérez González, P.; Pérez Montero, E.; Rodríguez, M.; Rodríguez Espinosa, J. M.; Rodríguez, L.; Rosa, 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
Multi-Object Spectroscopy in the Next Decade: Big Questions, Large Surveys, and Wide Fields. Proceedings of a conference held at Teatro Circo de Marte, Santa Cruz de La Palma, Canary Islands, Spain on 2-6 March 2015. Edited by Ian Skillen, Marc Barcells, and Scott Trager. ASP Conference Series, Vol. 507. San Francisco: Astronomical Society of the Pacific, 2016, p.103
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2016
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Description
MEGARA (Multi-Espectrógrafo en GTC de Alta Resolución
para Astronomía) is the new optical spectrograph for the 10.4 m
Gran Telescopio CANARIAS (GTC). Once installed at GTC by the end of
2016, MEGARA will provide both Integral Field Unit and Multi-Object
Spectroscopy capabilities covering a field-of-view of 12.5×11.3
arcsec2 and 3.5×3.5 arcmin2, respectively.
The MEGARA spectrograph will yield spectral resolutions in the range
R=6,000-18,700 across the entire optical window with superb image
quality and throughput, thanks to the use of state-of-the-art optical
fibers, pupil elements (VPHs) and CCD detector. In this contribution
we provide a brief description of the status of the instrument
construction and of the science that our Science Team is aiming to
pursue with MEGARA, with special emphasis on potential synergies with
the future Multi-Object Spectrograph for the William Herschel
Telescope (WHT), WEAVE.