Bibcode
Cepa, Jordi; Aguiar-Gonzalez, Marta; Bland-Hawthorn, Jonathan; Castaneda, Hector; Cobos, Francisco J.; Correa, Santiago; Espejo, Carlos; Fragoso-Lopez, Ana B.; Fuentes, F. Javier; Gigante, Jose V.; Gonzalez, J. Jesus; Gonzalez-Escalera, Victor; Gonzalez-Serrano, Jose I.; Joven-Alvarez, Enrique; Lopez-Ruiz, Jose-Carlos; Militello, Carmelo; Cano, Lorenzo P.; Perez, A.; Perez, Jaime; Rasilla, Jose L.; Sanchez, Beatriz; Tejada, Carlos
Referencia bibliográfica
Instrument Design and Performance for Optical/Infrared Ground-based Telescopes. Edited by Iye, Masanori; Moorwood, Alan F. M. Proceedings of the SPIE, Volume 4841, pp. 1739-1749 (2003).
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2003
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94
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Descripción
OSIRIS (Optical System for Imaging and low Resolution Integrated
Spectroscopy) is the optical Day One instrument for the 10.4m Spanish
telescope GTC to be installed in the Observatorio del Roque de Los
Muchachos (La Palma, Spain). This instrument, operational in mid-2004,
covers from 360 up to 1000 nm. OSIRIS observing modes include direct
imaging with tunable and conventional filters, long slit and multiple
object spectroscopy and fast spectrophotometry. The OSIRIS wide field of
view, high efficiency and the new observing modes (tunable imaging and
fast spectrophotometry) for 8-10m class telescopes will provide GTC with
a powerful tool for their scientific exploitation. The present paper
provides an updated overview of the instrument development, of some of
the scientific projects that will be tackled with OSIRIS and of the
general requirements driving the optical and mechanical design.