First results and future plans for the Canarias Infrared Camera Experiment (CIRCE) for the Gran Telescopio Canarias

Bibcode
2016SPIE.9908E..4QG
DOI
10.1117/12.2232672
Garner, A.; Eikenberry, Stephen S.; Charcos, Miguel; Dallilar, Yigit; Edwards, Michelle; Lasso-Cabrera, Nestor; Stelter, Richard D.; Marin-Franch, Antonio; Raines, S. Nicholas; Ackley, Kendall; Bennett, John G.; Cenarro, Javier A.; Chinn, Brian; Donoso, Veronica H.; Frommeyer, Raymond; Hanna, Kevin; Herlevich, Michael D.; Julian, Jeff; Miller, Paola; Mullin, Scott; Murphey, Charles H.; Packham, Christopher; Varosi, Frank; Vega, Claudia; Warner, Craig; Ramaprakash, Anamparambu N.; Burse, Mahesh; Punnadi, Sujit; Chordia, Pravinkumar; Gerarts, Andreas; Martín, Héctor de Paz; Calero, María. Martín.; Scarpa, R.; Fernandez Acosta, Sergio; Hernández Sánchez, William Miguel; Siegel, Benjamin; Pérez, Francisco Francisco; Viera Martín, Himar D.; Rodríguez Losada, José A.; Nuñez, Agustín.; Tejero, Álvaro; Martín González, Carlos E.; Rodríguez, César Cabrera; Molgó Sendra, Jordi; Rodriguez, J. Esteban; Fernádez Cáceres, J. Israel; Rodríguez García, Luis A.; Lopez, Manuel Huertas; Dominguez, Raul; Gaggstatter, Tim; Cabrera-Lavers, A.; Geier, S.; Pessev, P.; Sarajedini, Ata; Castro-Tirado, A. J.
Bibliographical reference

Proceedings of the SPIE, Volume 9908, id. 99084Q 8 pp. (2016).

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2016
Number of authors
55
IAC number of authors
4
Citations
1
Refereed citations
1
Description
CIRCE is a near-infrared (1-2.5 micron) imager (including low-resolution spectroscopy and polarimetery) in operation as a visitor instrument on the Gran Telescopio Canarias 10.-4m tele scope. It was built largely by graduate students and postdocs, with help from the UF Astronomy engineering group, and is funded by the University of Florida and the U.S. National Science Foundation. CIRCE is helping to fill the gap in time between GTC first light and the arrival of EMIR, and will also provide the following scientific capabilities to compliment EMIR after its arrival: high-resolution imaging, narrowband imaging, high-time-resolution photometry, polarimetry, and low-resolution spectroscopy. There are already scientific results from CIRCE, some of which we will review. Additionally, we will go over the observing modes of CIRCE, including the two additional modes that were added during a service and upgrading run in March 2016.
Type
Non-refereed

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