SECOND BLAS CABRERA WORKSHOP ON
USING THE GTC AND ITS DAY ONE INSTRUMENTS


2nd to 7th of November 2008, Mérida, México
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CanariCam

Name Role Workshop Specialty
Charlie Telesco CanariCam PI CanariCam description, operation & science
Chris Packham CanariCam deputy-PI CanariCam operation, imaging & polarimetry data reduction
Almudena Alonso-Herrero CanariCam science team member Fusion of ground- and space-based MIR observations
Nancy Levenson CanariCam science team member MIR modeling: interpreting MIR data
Tanio Diaz-Santos (TBC) CanariCam science team member Spectroscopy data reduction

Monday 3 rd Morning CanariCam Instrument
09:00 - 09:30 GTC status: José Miguel Rodriguez Espinosa
09:30 - 11:00 CanariCam technical description, operation & science: Charlie Telesco
11:00 - 11:30 Coffee Break
11:30 - 13:00 CanariCam technical description, operation & science: Charlie Telesco
13:00 - 15:00 Lunch
Monday 3 rd Afternoon  
15:00 - 16:30 CanariCam observing preparations, IRAF & imaging data reduction: Chris Packham
16:30 - 17:00 Coffee Break
17:00 - 18:00 Imaging data reduction : Chris Packham
Tuesday 4 th Morning

CanariCam Instrument

09:00 - 10:30 MIR science from space & ground: Almudena Alonso
10:30 - 11:00 Coffee Break
11:00 - 12:30 Spectroscopy data reduction: Tanio Díaz-Santos
12:30 - 14:30 Lunch
Tuesday 4 th Afternoon  
16:30 - 16:00 MIR data modeling: Nancy Levenson
16:00 - 16:30 Coffee Break
16:30 - 18:00 Polarimetry data reduction: Chris Packham
18:00 - 19:00 Mayan Archaeo-astronomy: Jesús Galindo
Wednesday 5th  
09:00 Archaeological Tour
19:00 Special Dinner

Osiris

J. Acosta E. J. Alfaro A. Bongiovanni
H. Castañeda J. Cepa A. Ederoclite
I. González-Serrano A. Pérez-García M. Sánchez-Portal

Thursday 6 th Morning  
09:00 - 09:30 OSIRIS characteristics and status: J. Cepa
  Preparing proposals
09:30 – 09:45 Phase I: writing your proposal. Exposure Time Calculators (I. González-Serrano)
09:45 – 10:15 Phase II: once accepted. General introduction to OSIRIS OPMS (A. Ederoclite)
  Data reduction
10:15 – 11:00 OSIRIS on-line and off-line pipelines (A. Ederoclite)
11:00 – 11:30 Coffee Break
  MOS: Observing strategies and practical advice
11:30 – 12:00 Mask designer tool (M. Sánchez-Portal)
12:00 – 12:30 MOS shuffle and wavelength sorting modes (M. Sánchez-Portal)
12:30 – 13:00 Relative flux calibration. Differential refraction. Slit errors (M. Sánchez-Portal)
13:00 – 15:00 Lunch
Thursday 6 th Afternoon OPMS and MOS data reduction tutorial
15:00 – 15:30 MOS OPMS tutorial (A. Ederoclite)
15:30 – 17:00 MOS Data reduction tutorial:
 
  • Step-by-step: flat field, distortion correction, wavelength calibration, object extraction
17:00 – 17: 30 Coffee Break
17:30 – 18:30
  • Pipeline description
  • Data analysis tools
Friday 7 th Morning

Tunable Filters: Observing strategies and practical advice

09:00 – 09:30 Choosing the most appropriate mode (J. Cepa)
09:30 – 10:00 Some Science cases (H.Castañeda/E. Alfaro)
10:00 – 10:30 TF setup and sky lines (I. González-Serrano)
10:30 – 11:00 Coffee Break
11:00 – 12:30

Observational strategies (J. Cepa)

  • Photometric accuracy. Spectral response, deblending lines
  • Ghost removal
  • Techniques for observing extended objects. Wavelength variation across FOV
  • Removing sky rings
  • Examples and exercises
12:30 – 13:00 TF OPMS tutorial (A. Ederoclite)
13:00 – 15:00 Lunch
Friday 7 th Afternoon  
15:00 – 17:00

TF data reduction tutorial:

  • Image preparation (including wavelength calibration, sky ring removal, etc).
  • Pipeline description
17:00 – 17: 30 Coffee Break
17:30 – 18:30 Flux calibration

 

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