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Gil de Paz, A.; Carrasco, E.; Gallego, J.; Vílchez, J. M.; Sánchez, F. M.; García-Vargas, M. L.; Arrillaga, X.; Carrera, M. A.; Castillo-Morales, A.; Castillo, E.; Cedazo, R.; Eliche-Moral, M. C.; Ferrusca, D.; González, E.; Maldonado, M.; Marino, R. A.; Martínez, I.; Morales Durán, I.; Mújica, E.; Pascual, S.; Pérez-Calpena, A.; Sánchez-Penim, A.; Sánchez-Blanco, E.; Serena, F.; Tulloch, S. M.; Villar, V.; Zamorano, J.; Barrado y Naváscues, D.; Bertone, E.; Cardiel, N.; Cava, A.; Cenarro, A. J.; Chávez, M.; García, M.; Guichard, J.; Guzmán, R.; Herrero, A.; Huélamo, N.; Hughes, D.; Iglesias, J.; Jiménez-Vicente, J.; Aguerri, J. A. L.; Mayya, Y. D.; Abreu, J. M.; Mollá, M.; Muñoz-Tuñón, C.; Torres-Peimbert, S.; Peimbert, M.; Pérez-González, P. G.; Pérez-Montero, E.; Rodríguez, M.; Rodríguez-Espinosa, J. M.; Rodríguez-Merino, L.; Rosa-González, D.; Sánchez Almeida, J.; Sánchez Contreras, C.; Sánchez-Blázquez, P.; Sánchez, S.; Sarajedini, A.; Silich, S.; Simón, S.; Tenorio-Tagle, G.; Terlevich, E.; Terlevich, R.; Trujillo, I.; Tsamis, Y.; Vega, O.
Bibliographical reference
Fourth Science Meeting with the GTC (Eds. C. Muñoz-Tuñón & J. M. Rodríguez-Espinosa) Revista Mexicana de Astronomía y Astrofísica (Serie de Conferencias) Vol. 42, pp. 90-92 (2013) (http://www.astroscu.unam.mx/~rmaa/)
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Description
In these proceedings we summarize the characteristics and current status
of MEGARA, the future optical IFU and MOS for the 10.4 m GTC. MEGARA is
being built by a Consortium led by the UCM (Spain) that also includes
the INAOE (Mexico), the IAA-CSIC (Spain) and the UPM (Spain). The MEGARA
IFU offers two different bundles, one called LCB with a field-of-view of
14×12 arcsec^2 and a spaxel size of 0.685 arcsec yielding spectral
resolutions between R=6000-19000 and another one called SCB covering
10×8 arcsec^2 with 0.48 arcsec spaxels and resolutions
R=8000-25000. The MOS component allows observing up to 100 targets in
3.5×3.5 arcmin^2. In September 2010 MEGARA was selected as the
next optical spectrograph for GTC. Its PDR is scheduled for March 2012
with First Light on 2015.