Bibcode
Méndez-Abreu, J.
Bibliographical reference
Fourth Science Meeting with the GTC (Eds. C. Muñoz-Tuñón & J. M. Rodríguez-Espinosa) Revista Mexicana de Astronomía y Astrofísica (Serie de Conferencias) Vol. 42, pp. 20-21 (2013) (http://www.astroscu.unam.mx/~rmaa/)
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2013
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Description
We investigate the suitability of GTC/OSIRIS Tunable Filters (TFs) for
obtaining emission-line maps of extended objects. We developed a
technique to reconstruct an emission-line image from a set of images
taken at consecutive central wavelengths. We demonstrate the feasibility
of the reconstruction method by generating a flux calibrated Hα
image of the well-known spiral galaxy M101. We tested our emission-line
fluxes and ratios by using data present in the literature. We found that
the differences in both Hα fluxes and N II/Hα line ratios
are ~15% and ~50%, respectively. These results are fully in agreement
with the expected values for our observational setup. The proposed
methodology will allow us to use OSIRIS/GTC to perform accurate
spectrophotometric studies of extended galaxies in the local Universe.