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Paper Abstract
MEGARA is a multi-object spectrograph project for the 10.4m Gran Telescopio Canarias with medium to high
resolution: R ~ 5600 - 17000. The instrument operates in three modes that cover different sky areas and that can run
simultaneously: (1) the compact mode through a large central Integral Field Unit with minimum fiber pitch, covering a
field of view on sky of 12 arcsec × 14 arcsec, (2) the sparse mode with fibers covering 1 arcmin × 1arcmin in three
pointings and (3) the dispersed mode with a grid of nearly 100 robotics positioners able to place 7-fiber minibundles
over a large field of view of 3.5 arcmin × 3.5 arcmin. The spectrograph is composed by a pseudo-slit, where the fibers
are placed simulating a long slit; a slit shutter is placed just behind the pseudo-slit, a collimator, a 162mm pupil where
the volume phase holographic gratings are placed, and the camera with the detector. Here we describe the spectrograph
optical rationale, the conceptual optical design and the expected system performance.
Paper Details
Date Published: 25 October 2011
PDF: 10 pages
Proc. SPIE 8011, 22nd Congress of the International Commission for Optics: Light for the Development of the World, 80112D (25 October 2011); doi: 10.1117/12.903436
Published in SPIE Proceedings Vol. 8011:
22nd Congress of the International Commission for Optics: Light for the Development of the World
Ramón Rodríguez-Vera; Ramón Rodríguez-Vera; Ramón Rodríguez-Vera; Rufino Díaz-Uribe; Rufino Díaz-Uribe; Rufino Díaz-Uribe, Editor(s)
PDF: 10 pages
Proc. SPIE 8011, 22nd Congress of the International Commission for Optics: Light for the Development of the World, 80112D (25 October 2011); doi: 10.1117/12.903436
Show Author Affiliations
Esperanza Carrasco, Instituto Nacional de Astrofísica, Óptica y Electrónica (Mexico)
Ernesto Sánchez-Blanco, FRACTAL S.L.N.E (Spain)
María Luisa García Vargas, FRACTAL S.L.N.E (Spain)
Armando Gil de Paz, Univ. Complutense de Madrid (Spain)
Ernesto Sánchez-Blanco, FRACTAL S.L.N.E (Spain)
María Luisa García Vargas, FRACTAL S.L.N.E (Spain)
Armando Gil de Paz, Univ. Complutense de Madrid (Spain)
Jesus Gallego, Univ. Complutense de Madrid (Spain)
Gonzalo Páez, Ctr. de Investigaciones en Óptica, A.C. (Mexico)
Jaime Zamorano, Univ. Complutense de Madrid (Spain)
Jorge Castro, Instituto Nacional de Astrofísica, Óptica y Electrónica (Mexico)
Gonzalo Páez, Ctr. de Investigaciones en Óptica, A.C. (Mexico)
Jaime Zamorano, Univ. Complutense de Madrid (Spain)
Jorge Castro, Instituto Nacional de Astrofísica, Óptica y Electrónica (Mexico)
Published in SPIE Proceedings Vol. 8011:
22nd Congress of the International Commission for Optics: Light for the Development of the World
Ramón Rodríguez-Vera; Ramón Rodríguez-Vera; Ramón Rodríguez-Vera; Rufino Díaz-Uribe; Rufino Díaz-Uribe; Rufino Díaz-Uribe, Editor(s)
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