The purpose of the Gran Telescopio de CANARIAS (GTC) project is the design, construction, erection and startup of a telescope with a segmented primary mirror...
GTC-EMIR configurable slit unit development details
The Configurable Slit Unit (CSU) for EMIR shall enable the possibility to generate a multi-slit configuration, a long slit, or an imaging aperture at the...
GTC/CanariCam mid-IR imaging of the fullerene-rich planetary nebula IC 418
The formation process(es) of fullerenes in space is still uncertain and several mechanisms have been proposed in the literature. In particular, the most...
GTC/CanariCam Mid-IR Polarimetry of Magnetic Fields in Star-Forming Region W51 IRS2
We present 0.4 arcsec-resolution mid-IR imaging polarimetry, obtained with CanariCam at GTC, of the central 0.11 pc x 0.28 pc (4.2 arcsec x 10.8 arcsec) region...
GTCAO real time AO closed loop software implementation and initial computer performance analysis
The Gran Telescopio Canarias Adaptive Optics (GTCAO) is a single-conjugated post-focal system with a Shack Hartmann wavefront sensor working at visible...
GUACAMOLE: the GTC guiding, acquisition, and calibration module
Modern Acquisition and Guiding systems provide a range of services with the aim of optimizing telescope performance. These include wavefront sensing for active...
GUAIX: The UCM Group of Extragalactic Astrophysics and Astronomical Instrumentation
The front-ends of astronomical research are linked to new telescope improvements, like the building of 10 m-class (and probably larger in a near future)...
GUAIX: The UCM Group of Extragalactic Astrophysics and Astronomical Instrumentation
We present a short summary of the activities developed by GUAIX, the UCM Group of Instrument and Extragalactic Astrophysics. At present we are focused in the...