In these proceedings we summarize the characteristics and current status of MEGARA, the future optical IFU and MOS for the 10.4 m GTC. MEGARA is being built by...
MELCHIORS. The Mercator Library of High Resolution Stellar Spectroscopy
Aims: Over the past decades, libraries of stellar spectra have been used in a large variety of science cases, including as sources of reference spectra for a...
Metallicities in M dwarfs: Investigating different determination techniques
Deriving metallicities for solar-like stars follows well-established methods, but for cooler stars such as M dwarfs, the determination is much more complicated...
Metallicity, temperature, and gravity scales of M subdwarfs
Aims: The aim of the project is to define metallicity/gravity/temperature scales for different spectral types of metal-poor M dwarfs. Methods: We obtained...
Mid- and far-infrared spectroscopy of nucleobases: molar extinction coefficients, integrated molar absorptivity, and temperature dependence of the main bands
The nucleobases, namely the purines adenine and guanine and the pyrimidines cytosine, thymine, and uracil, are the key monomers of the information polymers DNA...
Mid-infrared imaging- and spectro-polarimetric subarcsecond observations of NGC 1068
We present subarcsecond 7.5-13 μm imaging- and spectro-polarimetric observations of NGC 1068 using CanariCam on the 10.4-m Gran Telescopio CANARIAS. At all...
Mid-infrared Spectral Variability Atlas of Young Stellar Objects
Optical and near-infrared variability is a well-known property of young stellar objects. However, a growing number of recent studies claim that a considerable...
Mid-IR cosmological spectrophotometric surveys from space: Measuring AGN and star formation at the cosmic noon with a SPICA-like mission
We use the SPace Infrared telescope for Cosmology and Astrophysics (SPICA) project as a template to demonstrate how deep spectrophotometric surveys covering...
MiNDSTEp differential photometry of the gravitationally lensed quasars WFI 2033-4723 and HE 0047-1756: microlensing and a new time delay
Aims: We present V and R photometry of the gravitationally lensed quasars WFI 2033-4723 and HE 0047-1756. The data were taken by the MiNDSTEp collaboration with...