CanariCam is a mid-IR camera and spectrograph with coronographic and polarimetric capabilities, built by the University of Florida to operate at the GTC. CanariCam is designed to work at the diffraction limit of the GTC at 8 μm. To reach the required image quality and sensitivity, the operation must be carried out under stringent atmospheric

The OTELO Project is an extragalactic survey under way using the tunable filters of the instrument OSIRIS at the GTC. OTELO is already providing the deepest emission line survey of the universe up to a redshift 7. In this contribution, the status of the survey and the first preliminary results obtained will be presented.

LINERs have been a class of low-luminosity AGN difficult to explain under the unified model. It has been claimed (González-Martín et al. 2009b) that a high percentage of them are obscured sources. Mid-infrared high spatial resolution data will bring us the oportunity to study the obscuration of these intringuing sources. However, these observations

We present the spectral extension of our stellar population synthesis models based on the MILES and CaT empirical stellar spectral libraries. For this purpose we combine these two libraries with the Indo-US to construct composite stellar spectra to feed our models. The spectral energy distributions (SEDs) computed with these models and the

The origin of the gas in between the Magellanic Clouds (MCs)—known as the "Magellanic Bridge" (MB)—is puzzling. Numerical simulations suggest that the MB formed from tidally stripped gas and stars in a recent interaction between the MCs. However, the apparent lack of stripped intermediate- or old-age stars associated with the MB is at odds with

Studying the properties of the few compact massive galaxies that exist in the local Universe might provide a closer look to the nature of their high redshift (z ≥ 1.0) massive counterparts. By this means we have characterized their kinematics, structural properties, stellar populations and star formation histories with a set of new high quality