The plans for the commissioning of the GTC are being drawn up at the GTC Project Office. The commissioning will start before first light, with the commissioning...
Commissioning tests of an Integral Field Unit (IFU) at GREGOR solar telescope
We present the commissioning of an IFU based on image-slicers and a 2D-Field-of-View Scanning System (FoV-SS) for the GREGOR Infrared Spectrograph (GRIS). The...
Commissioning the CMB polarization telescope GroundBIRD with the full set of detectors
GroundBIRD is a ground-based cosmic microwave background (CMB) experiment for observing the polarization pattern imprinted on large angular scales (ℓ > 6 ) from...
Commissioning, on sky performance and first operations of JPCam, a 1.2 Gpixel camera for the wide-field 2.6m Javalambre Survey Telescope
Commissioning results, on-sky performance and first operations of the Javalambre Panoramic Camera (JPCam) are presented in this paper. JPCam is a 1.2 Gpixel...
Compact Galaxies at Z = 0. 2 - 1. 3: Implications for Galaxy Evolution and the Star Formation History of the Universe
The authors have studied the global properties of 51 compact field galaxies with redshifts z ≡ 0.2 - 1.3 and apparent magnitudes I814 23.74 in the flanking...
Compact Groups of Galaxies: Evolution of the Stellar Population
We present a study focusing on the nature of compact groups (CGs) through the study of their elliptical (E) galaxies. Parameters describing the internal...