GOYA project meeting in La Laguna

07/02/2019
The IAC headquarters in La Laguna hosted last week an international group of scientists with two main objectives. The first was to hold a meeting to prepare the first guaranteed-time observations of the GOYA (Galaxy Origins and Young Assembly) project, which will be carried out using the EMIR multi-object infrared spectrograph, installed in the Gran Telescopio Canarias (GTC), of the Observatorio del Roque de los Muchachos. EMIR was built by a consortium led by the IAC and is one of the technological projects supported by the SO Programme. The second objective was to conduct a workshop to test the EMIR data reduction pipeline, in its multi-object and image modes, created at the UCM, before offering it to the scientific community. The GOYA survey takes advantage of EMIR's multi-object capability to optimize the use of the GTC. With unique observations, it will obtain data to address different key questions about the evolution of galaxies, such as the star formation history, stellar populations, and the identification and characterization of cosmic reionization sources.