EMIR and MEGARA, two instruments with full performance at GTC

02/10/2019
The two spectrographs installed in the Gran Telescopio Canarias have reached their maximum level of operation and are consolidated as two of the instruments with the most requests for observation time in this scientific infrastructure that already exceeds 500 scientific publications in refereed journals and accumulates more than 10,000 citations. After their installation in June 2016 and March 2017, respectively, different observation strategies have been tested in the telescope and the data reduction algorithms have reached maturity, so they are currently working at full capacity. The EMIR infrared spectrograph is already being used to carry out a census of galaxies in the early universe, one of the scientific objectives supported by the Severo Ochoa Programme with this instrument. >> Read more