Bibcode
Cepa, J.; Alfaro, E. J.; Bland-Hawthorn, J.; Castañeda, H. O.; Ga-Llego, J.; González-Serrano, I.; González, J. J.; Sánchez-Portal, M.
Bibliographical reference
Science with the GTC (Eds. José Miguel Rodríguez Espinosa, Francisco Garzón López, and Verónica Melo Martín) Revista Mexicana de Astronomía y Astrofísica (Serie de Conferencias) Vol. 16, pp. 64-68 (2003) (http://www.astroscu.unam.mx/~rmaa/)
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2003
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Description
OTELO (OSIRIS Tunable Emission Line Object Survey) is the GTC Key
Project that will allow an optimal exploitation of the Spanish Day One
GTC instrument OSIRIS with a high scientific output and international
impact. The survey will be made using tunable filters, a unique feature
of OSIRIS in 8-10 m telescopes, to do co-mobile tomography at a depth
enabling measurements to be made of the faintest emission line sources,
while scanning a volume of the Universe containing a statistically
significant sample of such objects. With this technique, and given the
high sensitivity gained by the use of the tunable filters, OTELO will be
the deepest and richest survey of emission line objects to date,
providing an enormous amount of valuable data to tackle a wide variety
of first-rank scientific projects.