Stellar Systems Group

Caballero, J. A.; Ge, J.; Moles, M.; Alfaro, E.; Montes, D.; Jing, Y. P.; Chu, J.; González, A. H.; Wang, T. G.; Hao, L.
Highlights of Spanish Astrophysics VI, Proceedings of the IX Scientific Meeting of the Spanish Astronomical Society (SEA), held in Madrid, September 13 - 17, 2010, Eds.: M. R. Zapatero Osorio, J. Gorgas, J. Maíz Apellániz, J. R. Pardo, and A. Gil de Paz., p. 769-769
11/2011

ABSTRACT

GO-IRS stands for "GTC Optical Intermediate Resolution Spectrograph". It is the answer of a big team of over 100 experienced researchers and engineersin the United States, China and Spain to the recent call for new instrumentationfor the 10.4 m Gran Telescopio Canarias. The GO-IRS main facts are: 1000 MOS fibres in a 15 arcmin circular field of view; 4 x 400 IFU fibres in the central 2 arcmin; two channels: blue Δλ = 0.37 - 0.60 μ m) and red (Δλ = 0.60 - 1.00 μ m); R= 20k, 10k, 5k (red), 2k (blue) and intermediate spectral resolutions; and use of telescope-proof technology (e.g. LAMOST, MARVELS). The GO-IRS Science Team is developing three design reference cases on near-fieldcosmology in the Milky Way, kinematics and abundances in galaxies of the LocalGroup and of the local Universe, and astrophysical properties and clustering ofdistant galaxies at z=1-4. We open our GO-IRS Science Team to all Spanish astronomers interested in workingwith us. Visit our URL at http://marvels.astro.ufl.edu/GO-IRS