Bibcode
Gil de Paz, A.; Gallego, J.; Carrasco, E.; Iglesias-Páramo, J.; Cedazo, R.; Vílchez, J. M.; García-Vargas, M. L.; Arrillaga, X.; Carrera, M. A.; Castillo-Morales, A.; Castillo-Domínguez, E.; Eliche-Moral, M. C.; Ferrusca, D.; González-Guardia, E.; Lefort, B.; Maldonado, M.; Marino, R. A.; Martínez-Delgado, I.; Morales Durán, I.; Mujica, E.; Páez, G.; Pascual, S.; Pérez-Calpena, A.; Sánchez-Penim, A.; Sánchez-Blanco, E.; Tulloch, S.; Velázquez, M.; Zamorano, J.; Aguerri, J. A. L.; Barrado y Naváscues, D.; Bertone, E.; Cardiel, N.; Cava, A.; Cenarro, J.; Chávez, M.; García, M.; Guichard, J.; Gúzman, R.; Herrero, A.; Huélamo, N.; Hughes, D.; Jiménez-Vicente, J.; Kehrig, C.; Márquez, I.; Masegosa, J.; Mayya, Y. D.; Méndez-Abreu, J.; Mollá, M.; Muñoz-Tuñón, C.; Peimbert, M.; Pérez-González, P. G.; Pérez Montero, E.; Rodríguez, M.; Rodríguez-Espinosa, J. M.; Rodríguez-Merino, L.; Rosa-González, D.; Sánchez-Almeida, J.; Sánchez Contreras, C.; Sánchez-Blázquez, P.; Sánchez Moreno, F. M.; Sánchez, S. F.; Sarajedini, A.; Serena, F.; Silich, S.; Simón-Díaz, S.; Tenorio-Tagle, G.; Terlevich, E.; Terlevich, R.; Torres-Peimbert, S.; Trujillo, I.; Tsamis, Y.; Vega, O.; Villar, V.
Bibliographical reference
Proceedings of the SPIE, Volume 9147, id. 91470O 16 pp. (2014).
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Description
MEGARA (Multi-Espectrógrafo en GTC de Alta Resolución para
Astronomía) is an optical Integral-Field Unit (IFU) and
Multi-Object Spectrograph (MOS) designed for the GTC 10.4m telescope in
La Palma. MEGARA offers two IFU fiber bundles, one covering 12.5x11.3
arcsec2 with a spaxel size of 0.62 arcsec (Large Compact
Bundle; LCB) and another one covering 8.5x6.7 arcsec2 with a
spaxel size of 0.42 arcsec (Small Compact Bundle; SCB). The MEGARA MOS
mode will allow observing up to 100 objects in a region of 3.5x3.5
arcmin2 around the two IFU bundles. Both the LCB IFU and MOS
capabilities of MEGARA will provide intermediate-to-high spectral
resolutions (RFWHM~6,000, 12,000 and 18,700, respectively for
the low-, mid- and high-resolution Volume Phase Holographic gratings) in
the range 3650-9700ÅÅ. These values become
RFWHM~7,000, 13,500, and 21,500 when the SCB is used. A
mechanism placed at the pseudo-slit position allows exchanging the three
observing modes and also acts as focusing mechanism. The spectrograph is
a collimator-camera system that has a total of 11 VPHs simultaneously
available (out of the 18 VPHs designed and being built) that are placed
in the pupil by means of a wheel and an insertion mechanism. The
custom-made cryostat hosts an E2V231-84 4kx4k CCD. The UCM (Spain) leads
the MEGARA Consortium that also includes INAOE (Mexico), IAA-CSIC
(Spain), and UPM (Spain). MEGARA is being developed under a contract
between GRANTECAN and UCM. The detailed design, construction and AIV
phases are now funded and the instrument should be delivered to GTC
before the end of 2016.
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