Revista Mexicana de Astronomía y Astrofísica Serie de Conferencias, Vol. 24, Diciembre 2005

Series Editor: Silvia Torres-Peimbert
Associate Editor: William Henney

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II International GTC Workshop: Science with GTC 1st-light instruments and the LMT

México, DF, México, February 16-18, 2004
Proceedings Editors: A. M. Hidalgo-Gámez, J. J. González, J. M. Rodríguez Espinosa & S. Torres-Peimbert

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TABLE OF CONTENTS
PREFACE
A. M. Hidalgo-Gámez, J. J. González, J. M. Rodríguez Espinosa, & S. Torres-Peimbert
GROUP PHOTOGRAPH
PARTICIPANTS

ORAL PRESENTATIONS

• The Osiris Tunable Imager and Spectrograph: a 2004 Status Report
  J. Cepa, M. Aguiar, H. O. Castañeda, F. Cobos, S. Correa, C. Espejo, A. B. Fragoso, F. J. Fuentes, J. Gigante, J. I. González-Serrano, J. J. González, V. González Escalera, E. Joven, J. C. López, C. Militello, L. Peraza, A. Pérez, J. Pérez, J. L. Rasilla, B. Sánchez, C. Tejada, A. M. Pérez-García, & M. Sánchez-Portal
• CanariCam: The Multi-Mode Mid-IR Instrument for the GTC
  C. Packham, C. M. Telesco, J. H. Hough, & C. Ftaclas
• Status and scientific performance of Elmer, a multi-purpose instrument for the GTC
  M. L. García-Vargas, P. L. Hammersley, E. Sánchez-Blanco, R. Kohley, J. M. Martín-Fleitas, L. Cavaller-Marqués, M. Maldonado, & R. Vilela
• EMIR: the GTC NIR multi-object imager-spectrograph
  F. Garzón, D. Abreu, S. Barrera, S. Correa, J. J. Díaz, A. B. Fragoso, F. J. Fuentes, F. Gago, C. González, P. López, A. Manescau, J. Patrón, J. Pérez, P. Redondo, R. Restrepo, V. Sánchez, & A. Villegas
• GTC and the UNAM astronomy
  J. A. López
• Update of the Commissioning plans
  P. L. Hammersley & J. M. Rodríguez Espinosa
• The GTC Scientific Data Centre
  E. Solano
• Dark Energy from the milimeter sky
  E. Gaztañaga
• NIR Studies of H II Galaxies with CANICA
  E. Recillas, L. Carrasco, & G. A. Escobedo
• Adaptive Optics Observations of Active Galactic Nuclei: Zooming into the Central Parsec Region
  M. A. Prieto
• Imaging resources for the GTC: IPHAS
  A. Mampaso & R. L. M. Corradi
• Imaging resources for the GTC: the Local Group Census
  R. L. M. Corradi & A. Mampaso
• Surveys for Pulsed Optical Emission from Radio Pulsars
  A. Carramiñana, S. Vidrih, & A. Cadez
• A Near-Infrared and Millimeter Study of the Rosette Molecular Cloud. An EMIR Teaser
  C. G. Román-Zúñiga, E. A. Lada, & J. P. Williams
• Extragalactic Science with Tunable Filters
  S. Veilleux
• Diagnostics of the Ionized ISM: The Importance of Density Fluctuations
  J. E. Beckman, C. Giammanco, A. Zurita, & M. Relaño
• The OTELO Project
  J. Cepa, E. J. Alfaro, J. Bland-Hawthorn, H. O. Castañeda, J. Gallego, J. I. González-Serrano, J. J. González, D. Heath Jones, A. M. Pérez-García, & M. Sánchez-Portal
• Formation and Evolution of Structures in the Universe
  C. M. Gutiérrez & R. Juncosa
• Some astronomical niches with 3D spectroscopy
  M. Rosado
• Commissioning Instrument for the GTC
  S. Cuevas, B. Sánchez, V. Bringas, C. Espejo, R. Flores, O. Chapa, G. Lara, A. Chavolla, G. Anguiano, S. Arciniega, A. Dorantes, J. L. González, J. M. Montoya, R. Toral, H. Hernández, R. Nava, N. Devaney, J. Castro, & L. Cavaller-Marqués
• Testing the Optics of the instrument Elmer
  E. Sánchez-Blanco & M. L. García-Vargas
• CCDs and CCD controllers for the GTC Day One
  R. Kohley, M. Suárez-Valles, G. Burley, L. Cavaller-Marqués, R. Vilela, A. Casanova, & A. Tomás
• The GTC Data Factory: Presentation and current status
  P. Gómez-Álvarez & C. E. García Dabó
• Proposal generation tools for the GTC : Phase II
  L. J. Corral, V. J. S. Béjar, P. L. Hammersley, R. Macías, & J. M. Rodríguez Espinosa
• Absorption line indices for studying stellar populations
  A. Vazdekis
• Stellar Tools for High Resolution Population Synthesis
  M. Chávez, E. Bertone, L. Rodríguez-Merino, & A. Buzzoni
• Understanding the history of obscured star formation in the high-redshift with coordinated GTC and LMT surveys
  D. H. Hughes & I. Aretxaga
• Star-Forming Galaxies at z $ \sim$ 2: a major science case for the EMIR/GOYA survey on GTC
  T. Contini, M. Lemoine-Busserolle, R. Pelló, J.-F. Le Borgne, & J.-P. Kneib
• Observing z > 7 sources with the GTC
  R. Pelló, D. Schaerer, J. Richard, J.-F. Le Borgne, & J.-P. Kneib
• A Search for z $ \sim$ 6 QSOs in the Palomar-Quest Sky Survey
  O. López-Cruz, S. G. Djorgovski, L. Carrasco, C. Baltay, E. Recillas, Y. D. Mayya, G. A. Escobedo, E. Castillo, A. Mahabal, D. J. Thompson, D. Rabinowitz, A. Bauer, M. Graham, R. Williams, A. Rengstorf, R. Brunner, P. Andrews, N. Ellman, S. Duffau, R. Lauer, M. Bogosavljevic, J. Musser, S. Mufson, & M. Gebhard
• High-z QSO Environments
  I. Aretxaga & D. H. Hughes
• Is the High-z Lynx Arc Nebula Ionized by an Obscured QSO?
  L. Binette, B. Groves, M. Villar-Martín, R. A. E. Fosbury, & D. J. Axon
• Core Radius-Mass Evolution of Globular Clusters
  A. González
• An empirical criterion to classify T Tauri stars and substellar analogs using low-resolution spectroscopy
  D. Barrado y Navascués & E. L. Martín
• The Optical-NIR Opacity Law in YSO Disks and Envelopes: Evidence for Dust Growth?
  A. M. Watson & K. R. Stapelfeldt
• Asteroid and minor bodies science with the Large Millimetric Telescope
  P. S. Barrera-Pineda, A. J. Lovell, F. P. Schloerb, & L. Carrasco
• A CCD Search for Wide Metal-Poor Binary Stars: Approaching the Metal-Depleted Substellar Limit
  M. R. Zapatero Osorio & E. L. Martín
• Galaxy Surveys in the Era of Large Ground-Based Telescopes
  R. Guzmán
• Cosmological Surveys with the Spitzer Space Telescope
  P. G. Pérez-González, G. H. Rieke, E. Le Floch, C. Papovich, J. S. Huang, P. Barmby, H. Dole, E. Egami, A. Alonso-Herrero, J. R. Rigby, L. Bei, M. Blaylock, C. W. Engelbracht, G. G. Fazio, K. D. Gordon, K. A. Misselt, J. E. Morrison, J. Muzerolle, M. J. Rieke, S. P. Willner, & E. T. Young
• Emission-line galaxy surveys with GTC: The H$ \alpha$ Universe
  J. Gallego, J. Zamorano, S. Pascual, & V. Villar

  POSTER PRESENTATIONS

• AGN Activity and Circumnuclear Star Formation in Nearby Galaxies
  A. Alonso-Herrero, T. Díaz-Santos, L. Colina, S. D. Ryder, J. H. Knapen, A. J. Baker, & T. Takagi
• Lambda Orionis Star Forming Region: toward a comprehensive study of the stellar and substellar population
  D. Barrado y Navascués
• A T Tauri phase in brown dwarfs & the role of GTC
  D. Barrado y Navascués
• Ly$ \alpha$ emitters as tracers of proto-cluster of galaxies at z $ \sim$ 2 - 4
  E. Benítez, Y. Krongold, J. J. González, & J. A. de Diego
• The Structure of the Underlying Stellar Host in Blue Compact Dwarf Galaxies
  N. Caon, L. M. Cairós, J. A. L. Aguerri, C. Muñoz-Tuñón, P. Papaderos, & K. Noeske
• Modelling the Mgb Spectroscopic Index with the Tunable Filters of OSIRIS
  J. L. Cervantes-Rodríguez, A. Vazdekis, & J. Cepa
• Stellar masses of star-forming galaxies at 0.3 < z < 1.2 in the GOYA survey
  D. Cristóbal-Hornillos, M. Balcells, M. Prieto, R. Guzmán, C. Eliche-Moral, P. Erwin, & L. Domínguez-Palmero
• Diagnostic diagrams of H II regions in the Local Group
  G. Delgado, K. Viironen, R. L. M. Corradi, & A. Mampaso
• First steps of the GTC photometric calibration plan
  M. A. Di Cesare, P. L. Hammersley, & J. M. Rodríguez Espinosa
• The central bulges of galaxies at 0.3 < z < 1.0
  L. Domínguez-Palmero, M. Balcells, M. Prieto, D. Cristóbal-Hornillos, P. Erwin, & C. Eliche-Moral
• Status of the Canarias InfraRed Camera Experiment (CIRCE)
  M. L. Edwards, S. S. Eikenberry, A. Marin-Franch, M. Rodgers, J. Julian, & K. Hanna
• GOYA Survey: U and B Number Counts in the Groth-Westphal Strip
  C. Eliche-Moral, M. Balcells, M. Prieto, & D. Cristóbal-Hornillos
• A polarizing Fourier Transform Spectrometer to characterize millimeter-wavelength filters and measure the atmospheric opacity
  D. Ferrusca, M. Velázquez de la Rosa, D. H. Hughes, M. Devlin, & D. Swetz
• Stellar populations in interacting systems of the Second Byurakan Survey
  A. Franco-Balderas, E. Benítez, & J. A. de Diego
• Faint C and O recombination lines in H II regions and large telescopes: The case of S311
  J. García-Rojas, C. Esteban, A. Peimbert, M. Peimbert, S. Simon-Díaz, M. Rodríguez, M. T. Ruiz, & A. Herrero
• QSOs and the survey OTELO
  J. I. González-Serrano, J. Cepa, J. Gallego, E. J. Alfaro, M. Sánchez-Portal, J. J. González, & A. M. Pérez-García
• Ly$ \alpha$ emitters at z $ \simeq$ 6 in the OTELO survey
  J. I. González-Serrano, J. Cepa, A. M. Pérez-García, J. Gallego, E. J. Alfaro, M. Sánchez-Portal, & J. J. González
• Searching for High Redshift Clusters
  R. Juncosa, C. M. Gutiérrez, & A. Fernández-Soto
• The ELMER Detection Subsystem
  R. Kohley, J. M. Martín-Fleitas, L. Cavaller-Marqués, M. Suárez-Valles, P. L. Hammersley, R. Vilela, & F. Beigbeder
• Physical Properties of Molecular Gas in the Milky Way Disk
  A. Luna, W. Wall, L. Carrasco, L. Bronfman, & T. Hasegawa
• Elmer Mechanics: Manufacturing, Integration and Testing
  M. Maldonado, J. M. Martín-Fleitas, L. Cavaller-Marqués, & M. L. García-Vargas
• A New Stellar Library in the K Band
  E. Mármol-Queraltó, N. Cardiel, J. Gorgas, S. Pedraz, A. J. Cenarro, P. Sánchez-Blázquez, R. F. Peletier, & A. Vazdekis
• Elmer Electro-Mechanics
  J. M. Martín-Fleitas, M. Maldonado, M. L. García-Vargas, & L. Cavaller-Marqués
• Silicates versus Sulphur - Searching for Clues about Ionian Vulcanism with Canaricam
  F. Martín-Luis, M. Kidger, F. Anguita, J. Llorca, & J. Ruiz
• Calibration for Large Telescopes: Status and Prospects
  F. Martín-Luis & M. Kidger
• Predicted chemical evolution for spiral disks from their observed rotation curves
  M. Mollá & I. Márquez
• Properties of H$ \alpha$-selected star-forming galaxies from z $ \sim$ 0.8 to now
  S. Pascual, V. Villar, J. Gallego, J. Zamorano, R. Pelló, C. Díaz, & A. Aragón-Salamanca
• The EROs at z < 1.5 in the Groth-Westphal field of the GOYA survey
  M. Prieto, M. Balcells, L. Domínguez-Palmero, D. Cristóbal-Hornillos, P. Erwin, C. Eliche-Moral, & D. Abreu
• Strategies for AGN characterisation in the OTELO survey
  M. Sánchez-Portal, A. M. Pérez-García, J. Cepa, E. J. Alfaro, J. Gallego, J. J. González, J. I. González-Serrano, & H. O. Castañeda
• Strömgren Photometry and High Resolution Spectroscopy of Very Metal-Poor Stars
  W. J. Schuster, R. Michel, & T. C. Beers
• Young and very young stars in NGC 3372, the Carina Nebula
  M. Tapia
• Molecular and Dust emission in LIRGs and ULIRGs
  O. Vega, A. Bressan, G. L. Granato, L. Silva, M. Chávez, L. Carrasco, & Y. D. Mayya
• Multiwavelength Study of Star-Forming Galaxies in the Local Universe
  J. Zamorano, C. Díaz, J. Gallego, P. G. Pérez-González, A. Gil de Paz, S. Pascual, V. Villar, A. Alonso-Herrero, & A. Aragón-Salamanca

  ASSOCIATED WORKSHOPS

• Conclusions of the workshop on the interferometric mode of OSIRIS
  M. Rosado
• The Diffuse Ionized Gas in the large telescopes era
  A. M. Hidalgo-Gámez
• Prospects for brown dwarf and extrasolar planet research with the GTC and the LMT
  E. L. Martín, C. Allen, D. Barrado y Navascués, H. Deeg, E. Solano, A. Poveda, V. J. S. Béjar, & M. R. Zapatero Osorio

Author Index