Bibcode
Cepa, J.; Alfaro, E. J.; Castañeda, H. O.; Gallego, J.; González-Serrano, J. I.; González, J. J.; Jones, D. H.; Pérez-García, A. M.; Sánchez-Portal, M.
Bibliographical reference
First Light Science with the GTC (Eds. R. Guzmán, C. Packham, J. M. Rodríguez-Espinosa, & S. Torres-Peimbert) Revista Mexicana de Astronomía y Astrofísica (Serie de Conferencias) Vol. 29, pp. 168-168 (2007) (http://www.astroscu.unam.mx/~rmaa/)
Advertised on:
6
2007
Citations
2
Refereed citations
1
Description
OSIRIS is the Spanish Day One instrument for the GTC 10.4-m telescope.
OSIRIS is a general purpose instrument for imaging, low-resolution long
slit and multi-object spectroscopy (MOS). OSIRIS has a field of view of
8.6×8.6 arcminutes, which makes it ideal for deep surveys, and
operates in the optical wavelength range from 365 through 1000nm. The
main characteristic that makes OSIRIS unique amongst other instruments
in 8-10m class telescopes is the use of Tunable Filters (Bland-Hawthorn
& Jones 1998). These allow a continuous selection of both the
central wavelength and the width, thus providing scanning narrow band
imaging within the OSIRIS wavelength range. The combination of the large
GTC aperture, large OSIRIS field of view and availability of the TFs
makes OTELO a truly unique emission line survey.