Bibcode
di Cesare, M. A.; Hammersley, P. L.; Rodriguez Espinosa, J. M.
Bibliographical reference
XI IAU Regional Latin American Meeting of Astronomy (Eds. L. Infante & M. Rubio) Revista Mexicana de Astronomía y Astrofísica (Serie de Conferencias) Vol. 26, pp. 208
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2006
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Description
We are currently developing the calibration programme for GTC using
techniques similar to the ones use for the space telescope calibration
(Hammersley et al. 1998, A&AS, 128, 207; Cohen et al. 1999, AJ, 117,
1864).
We are planning to produce a catalogue with calibration stars which are
suitable for a 10-m telescope. These sources will be not variable, non
binary and do not have infrared excesses if they are to be used in the
infrared.
The GTC science instruments require photometric calibration between 0.35
and 2.5 microns. The instruments are: OSIRIS (Optical System for Imaging
low Resolution Integrated Spectroscopy), ELMER and EMIR
(Espectrógrafo Multiobjeto Infrarrojo) and the Acquisition and
Guiding boxes (Di Césare, Hammersley, & Rodriguez Espinosa
2005, RevMexAA Ser. Conf., 24, 231).
The catalogue will consist of 30 star fields distributed in all of North
Hemisphere. We will use fields containing sources over the range 12 to
22 magnitude, and spanning a wide range of spectral types (A to M) for
the visible and near infrared.
In the poster we will show the method used for selecting these fields
and we will present the analysis of the data on the first calibration
fields observed.