HORuS - High Optical Resolution Spectrograph

Optical bench
Start year
2010
End year
2019
Organizational Unit
INSTRUMENTATION DIVISION
Organizing institutions
Instituto de Astrofísica de Canarias (IAC)
General
Description

The High Optical Resolution  Spectrograph (HORuS) is a high-resolution spectrograph in operation at the 10-m Gran Telescopio Canarias (GTC) based on components from UES. HORuS is a cross-dispersed echelle spectrograph to observe in the range 380-800 nm with a FWHM resolving power of about 25,000. 

HORuS is being actively used for research in the chemical composition of stars and planets.

Principal investigator
Project manager
Project staff

HORuS está siendo utilizando principalmente para investigar las composiciones químicas de estrellas y planetas.

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Type
Instrumentation
State
Closed
HORuS web site
GTC HORuS web site
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Exoplanetary Systems & Solar System (SEYSS)
Stellar & Interstellar Physics (FEEI)
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