The Canarias InfraRed Camera Experiment (CIRCE) and the Study of XRBs

Bibcode
2008AIPC.1010..186E
DOI
10.1063/1.2945035
Edwards, Michelle L.; Eikenberry, Stephen S.; Charcos-Llorens, Miguel; Lasso, Nestor; Julian, Jeff; Raines, S. Nicholas; Packham, Christopher; Hanna, Kevin; Bandyopadhyay, Reba M.; Marin-Franch, Antonio; Rodgers, J. Michael
Bibliographical reference

A POPULATION EXPLOSION: The Nature & Evolution of X-ray Binaries in Diverse Environments. AIP Conference Proceedings, Volume 1010, pp. 186-188 (2008).

Advertised on:
5
2008
Number of authors
11
IAC number of authors
1
Citations
0
Refereed citations
0
Description
We report on the status of the Canarias InfraRed Camera Experiment (CIRCE), a near-infrared visitor instrument for the 10.4 meter Gran Telescopio Canarias (GTC). Besides functioning as a 1-2.5 micron imager with a 3.4×3.4 arcminute field-of-view and 0.10 arsecond pixels, CIRCE will have the capacity for low and moderate resolution grism spectroscopy and imaging and spectro- polarimetry. Furthermore, it will be equipped with J, H, and Ks broad-band filters and a several narrow-band filters, including He I (2.058) and Brγ (2.16). We anticipate CIRCE's myriad capabilities will allow it to play a vital role in a variety of projects involving X-ray binaries including: the search for counterparts to INTEGRAL sources in the heavily obscured Galactic Plane, follow-up spectroscopy of potential HMXB and LMXB counterparts, polarimetry and monitoring of microquasar flares, and the study of extragalactic XRB environments.
Type
Non-refereed

It may interest you

  • Non-refereed
    Study of basaltic asteroids through their phase curves
    Introduction Classified as type-V, the basaltic asteroids of the Main Belt (MB), for the most part, are connected to Vesta's dynamic family. However, since the discovery of the V-type asteroid (1459) Magnya in the outer MB, several new asteroids have been found in different regions, including V-types from inner regions not belonging to the Vesta
    Arcoverde, Plicida et al.

    Advertised on:

    9
    2024
    Bibcode
    2024EPSC...17..999A
    Citations
    0
  • Non-refereed
    Conceptual design of the infrared integral field spectropolarimeter for the European Solar Telescope
    The European Solar Telescope (EST) will be Europe's most ambitious ground-based infrastructure in solar physics. It will have a primary mirror with a diameter of 4.2m, which will make it the largest in Europe, and of identical aperture as the largest solar telescope available worldwide, namely the Daniel K. Inouye Telescope (DKIST) installed at the
    Quintero Noda, C. et al.

    Advertised on:

    8
    2024
    Bibcode
    2024SPIE13094E..2CQ
    Citations
    0
  • Non-refereed
    Detector upgrade in EMIR@GTC: on-sky performances
    EMIR was shipped to the GTC on May 2016 and had its first light on June 2016. Since the beginning, the EMIR performances have been severely hampered by the many instabilities in the infrared detector, a 2048x2048 Hawaii2, built with the old original technology of the Teledyne Hawaii series. Despite of this, the instrument has proven to be powerful
    Garzón, Francisco et al.

    Advertised on:

    7
    2024
    Bibcode
    2024SPIE13096E..27G
    Citations
    0