MEGARA, the new IFU & MOS for the 10.4m GTC telescope

Armando Gil de Paz
Universidad Complutense de Madrid

Resumo
MEGARA (Multi-Espectrógrafo en GTC de Alta Resolución para Astronomía) is the new high-throughput intermediate-resolution (R=6000-20000) optical Integral-Field Unit and Multi-Object Spectrograph for the 10.4m GTC telescope. In this talk I will describe the characteristics of the instrument and its construction and AIV status along with its main scientific drivers. These include the study Galactic nebulae and low-mass stars in stellar clusters, resolved (w. MOS) and unresolved (w. IFU) stellar populations in nearby galaxies, and galaxy evolution in general. MEGARA will be delivered to GTC at the end of this year and will see first light in Spring 2017.

4 fevereiro 2016, 13:30

Centro de Astrofísica
Rua das Estrelas
4150-762 Porto