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Espinosa, J. M. Rodríguez; Césare, A. Di; Hammersley, P. L.
Bibliographical reference
The 2007 ESO Instrument Calibration Workshop, ESO Astrophysics Symposia European Southern Observatory. ISBN 978-3-540-76962-0. Springer-Verlag Berlin Heidelberg, 2008, p. 425
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Description
The Gran Telescopio Canarias (GTC) is a 10.4,m segmented telescope that
is about to have first light. Science operation will begin in about one
year time. In order to ensure that the data coming from the GTC have the
required quality and homogeneity and to foster the re-utilization of the
data archive, a strategy for an adequate calibration of the data is
being implemented. As part of this strategy, a catalogue of standard
stars suitable for the photometric calibration of the GTC facility
instruments is being put together. The GTC facility instruments are
quite versatile and include both broad and narrowband filters plus some
tuneable filters, and span the range from the near UV to the mid IR. The
GTC Catalogue of Standard Stars that we are producing consists of a
number of calibrated stellar fields, which include stars suitable for a
10,m telescope, and are not variable, non-binary and not having infrared
excesses if they are to be used in the infrared. The catalogue consists
of 30 star fields evenly distributed across the sky. The fields contain
sources over the range 12 to 22 magnitude, spanning a wide range of
spectral types (A to M) for the visible and near infrared. The stars are
being spectro-photometrically calibrated, through the use of spectral
templates. This allows selecting the band-passes and thus the
calibration magnitudes appropriate for the variety of filters in the GTC
facility instruments.