First steps of the GTC photometric calibration plan

Bibcode
2005RMxAC..24..231D
di Cesare, M. A.; Hammersley, P. L.; Rodríguez Espinosa, J. M.
Bibliographical reference

II International GTC Workshop: Science with GTC 1st-light Instruments and the LMT (Eds. A. M. Hidalgo-Gámez, J. J. González, J. M. Rodríguez Espinosa, and S. Torres-Peimbert) Revista Mexicana de Astronomía y Astrofísica (Serie de Conferencias) Vol. 24, pp. 231-232 (2005) (http://www.astroscu.unam.mx/~rmaa/)

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2005
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3
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0
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0
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0
Description
Large telescopes require a very precise calibration in order to maximize its scientific output. Current catalogues of standard stars are generally too bright for 10m telescopes. For GTC we are planning to produce a catalogue with calibration stars which are suitable for this telescope. In this paper we describe the first steps of the GTC calibration plan. This will require spectrophotometric calibration standards between 0.35 and 27 microns applicable to the GTC science instruments: OSIRIS (Optical System for Imaging low Resolution Integrated Spectroscopy), ELMER and EMIR (Espectrografo Multiobjeto Infrarrojo) as well as the Acquisition and Guiding boxes.
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Non-refereed
Galaxies
Star formation

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