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July 9, 2020
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MEGARA: a new generation optical spectrograph for GTC

Publicated to:Proceedings Of Spie - The International Society For Optical Engineering. 9147 (91470O): 91470O- - 2014-01-01 9147(91470O), DOI: 10.1117/12.2047825

Authors: Gil de Paz, A; Gallego, J; Carrasco, E; Iglesias-Paramo, J; Cedazo, R; Vilchez, J M; Garcia Vargas, M L; Arrillaga, X; Carrera, M A; Castillo-Morales, A; Castillo-Dominguez, E; Eliche-Moral, M C; Ferrusca, D; Gonzalez-Guardia, E; Lefort, B; Maldonado, M; Marino, R A; Martinez-Delgado, I; Morales Duran, I; Mujica, E; Paez, G; Pascual, S; Perez-Calpena, A; Sanchez-Penim, A; Sanchez-Blanco, E; Tulloch, S; Velazquez, M; Zamorano, J; Aguerri, A L; Barrado y Navascues, D; Bertone, E; Cardiel, N; Cava, A; Cenarro, J; Chavez, M; Garcia, M; Guichard, J; Guzman, R; Herrero, A; Huelamo, N; Hughes, D; Jimenez-Vicente, J; Kehrig, C; Marquez, I; Masegosa, J; Mayya, Y D; Mendez-Abreu, J; Molla, M; Munoz-Tunon, C; Peimbert, M; Perez-Gonzalez, P G; Perez Montero, E; Rodriguez, M; Rodriguez-Espinosa, J M; Rodriguez-Merino, L; Rosa-Gonzalez, D; Sanchez-Almeida, J; Sanchez Contreras, C; Sanchez-Blazquez, P; Sanchez Moreno, F M; Sanchez, S F; Sarajedini, A; Serena, F; Silich, S; Simon-Diaz, S; Tenorio-Tagle, G; Terlevich, E; Terlevich, R; Trujillo, I; Tsamis, Y; Vega, O; Villar, V

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AVS SL, Mexico City, DF, Mexico - Author
CIEMAT, Madrid, Spain - Author
CSIC, Inst Astrofis Andalucia, Barcelona, Spain - Author
Ctr Astrobiol, Madrid, Spain - Author
Ctr Estudios Fis Cosmos Aragon, Teruel, Spain - Author
Ctr Invest Opt, Mexico City, DF, Mexico - Author
FRACTAL SLNE, Madrid, Spain - Author
Inst Astrofis Canarias, San Cristobal la Laguna, Spain - Author
Inst Nacl Astrofis Opt & Electr, Puebla, Mexico - Author
Open Univ, Hyderabad, Andhra Pradesh, India - Author
Univ Autonoma Madrid, E-28049 Madrid, Spain - Author
Univ Autonoma Mexico, Mexico City, DF, Mexico - Author
Univ Complutense Madrid, E-28040 Madrid, Spain - Author
Univ Florida, Gainesville, FL 32611 USA - Author
Univ Geneva, CH-1211 Geneva 4, Switzerland - Author
Univ Granada, E-18071 Granada, Spain - Author
Univ La Laguna, E-38207 San Cristobal la Laguna, Spain - Author
Univ Politecn Madrid, E-28040 Madrid, Spain - Author
Univ St Andrews, St Andrews KY16 9AJ, Fife, Scotland - Author
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Abstract

MEGARA (Multi-Espectrografo en GTC de Alta Resolucion para Astronomia) 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 arcsec(2) with a spaxel size of 0.62 arcsec (Large Compact Bundle; LCB) and another one covering 8.5x6.7 arcsec(2) 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 arcmin(2) around the two IFU bundles. Both the LCB IFU and MOS capabilities of MEGARA will provide intermediate-to-high spectral resolutions (R-FWHM similar to 6,000, 12,000 and 18,700, respectively for the low-, mid-and high-resolution Volume Phase Holographic gratings) in the range 3650-9700 angstrom angstrom. These values become R-FWHM similar to 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.

Keywords

Galaxies: local groupInstrumentation: spectrographsIsm: kinematics and dynamicsKinematics and dynamicsSpiralTechniques: spectroscopic

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