This contribution gathers the contents of the white paper submitted by the UV community to the Call issued by the European Space Agency in March 2013, for the...
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PublicationBuilding galaxies, stars, planets and the ingredients for life between the stars. The science behind the European Ultraviolet-Visible Observatory
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PublicationCCDs and CCD controllers for the GTC Day One
The need of the GTC for acquisition cameras, wavefront sensors and scientific instrumentation operating in the optical wavelength range has led to the...
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PublicationChromospheres of late-type active and quiescent dwarfs. I - an atlas of high resolution CA II H profiles
As a result of a major program of spectral observations using the CAT 1.4 m telescope and Coude Echelle Spectrograph at ESO, La Silla, 68 high resolution...
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PublicationChronos: A NIR spectroscopic galaxy survey to probe the most fundamental stages of galaxy evolution
We propose a dedicated, ultra-deep spectroscopic survey in the near infrared (NIR), that will target a mass-limited sample of galaxies during two of the most...
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PublicationCommissioning plans for the GTC
The plans for the commissioning of the GTC are being drawn up at the GTC Project Office. The commissioning will start before first light, with the commissioning...
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PublicationComparative analysis of the impact of geological activity on the structural design of telescope facilities in the Canary Islands, Hawaii and Chile
An analysis of the impact of seismic and volcanic activity has been carried out at selected astronomical sites, namely the observatories of El Teide (Tenerife...
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PublicationDENIS: A Deep Near-Infrared Survey of the southern sky
The Deep Near-Infrared Survey (DENIS) project is the first attempt to carry out a complete digitized survey of the southern sky in the range 1-2.5 micrometers...
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PublicationDistribution, sizes, and luminosity function of the HII regions in NGC 4321
From H-alpha CCD observations taken with the 4.2-m William Herschel Telescope, a catalog of 456 H II regions of the inner zone of the spiral galaxy NGC 4321 has...
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PublicationDouble-pass spectro-imaging: TUNIS
We present TUNIS, a double-pass spectro-imager built in THEMIS as a proof-of-concept for EST. Basic concepts and selected first results are shown. We introduce...