Science with the GTC 10-m Telescope

Granada, febrero 6-8

Editors: José Miguel Rodríguez Espinosa, Francisco Garzón López, and Verónica Melo Martín


Table of Contents

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Foreword
Francisco Sánchez
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Preface
J. M. Rodríguez Espinosa, F. Garzón, & V. Melo Martín
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The GTC and Its Instrumentation

The GTC: Status and Operation Plans
J. M. Rodríguez Espinosa & P. Alvarez
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The Scientific capabilities of Elmer
M. García Vargas, P. L. Hammersley, E. Sánchez-Blanco, L. Cavaller, J. Martín-Fleitas, R. Kohley, & M. Medina
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OSIRIS tunable imager and spectrograph: Instrument status
J. Cepa, M. Aguiar, J. Bland-Hawthorn, H. Castañeda, F. Cobos, S. Correa, C. Espejo, A. B. Fragoso, J. Fuentes, J. V. Gigante, J. González, V. González-Escalera, J. I. González-Serrano, E. Joven, J. C. López, C. Militello, L. Peraza, A. Pérez, J. Pérez, J. L. Rasilla, B. Sánchez, & C. Tejada
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CanariCam: The GTC's Multimode Mid-Infrared Camera for Day One
C. Telesco
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EMIR: a Near-Infrared Multiobject Spectrograph
for the GTC

F. Garzón, F. J. Fuentes, A. Manescau, J. J. Díaz, J. Patrón, R. Pelló, J. C. López, J. Pérez, A. B. Fragoso, F. Gago, F. Beigbeder, V. Sánchez, S. Correa & A. Villegas
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More on Instrumentation

Paranal Observatory Instrumentation: current status
G. Monnet & A. Prieto
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The Advanced Camera for Surveys
N. Benítez, H. Ford, G. Illingworth, M. Postman, T. Broadhurst, & the ACS Science Team
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LIRIS (Long-slit Intermediate Resolution Infrared Spectrograph) Project status
A. Manchado, M. Barreto, J. Acosta-Pulido, F. Prada, C. Domínguez-Tagle, S. Correa, J. M. Delgado, E. Hernández, R. López, A. Manescau, H. Moreno, P. Redondo, V. Sánchez, & F. Tenegi
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Exploitation of CanariCam: Opening new windows for spanish astrophysics
M. R. Kidger
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Cosmology and Structure Formation with the GTM and GTC
E. Gaztañaga, D. Hughes, I. Aretxaga, & E.Chapin
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In Preparation for the GTC

Commissioning plans for the GTC
P. L. Hammersley & J. M. Rodríguez-Espinosa
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The Science Program of OSIRIS
H. O. Castañeda & J. Cepa
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OTELO: a proposal for a GTC Key Project
J. Cepa, E. J. Alfaro, J. Bland-Hawthorn, H. O. Castañeda, J. Ga-llego, I. González-Serrano, J. J. González, & M. Sánchez-Portal
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EMIR science prospects
M. Balcells
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A New Approach in Data Reduction: Proper Handling of Random Errors and Image Distortions
N. Cardiel, J. Gorgas, J. Gallego, Á. Serrano, J. Zamorano, M. L. García-Vargas, P. Gómez-Cambronero, & J. M. Filgueira
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The BOOTES experiment in support of the Gran Telescopio Canarias (GTC) in the study of the high energy Universe
J. M. Castro Cerón, A. de Ugarte Postigo, C. E. García-Dabó, T. J. Mateo Sanguino, P. Páta, M. Bernas, M. Jelínek, R. Hudec, J. Á. Berná, J. Gorosabel, J. M. Más-Hesse, & A. J. Castro-Tirado
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Low Mass Objects

A view of young circumstellar disks with the GTC
C. Eiroa
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Mass accretion onto low mass stars and
the search for planets around young stars

M. Fernández & R. Neuhäuser
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Detection of giant planets with the GTC
R. Rebolo
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Performance of Adaptive Optics in Ground-Based Very Large Telescopes: Applications to Brown Dwarf Research
E. L. Martín
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Integrated Study of the Physical Characteristics of Primitive Solar System Bodies
L. Kolokolova, B. Å. S. Gustafson, L. M. Lara, J. Licandro, & G. P. Tozzi
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Studies of Atmospheric Phenomena in the Giant Planets with Grantecan
A. Sánchez-Lavega
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Stellar Populations and Stellar Abundances

Line Strength Mapping of the Stellar Populations within Elliptical Galaxies
A. Vazdekis, J. J. González, L. Olguín, J. Gorgas, J. Cenarro, N. Cardiel, P. Sánchez-Blázquez, & S. Pedraz
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The Nature of Dwarf Elliptical Galaxies: An Observing Project for OSIRIS
J. Gorgas, S. Pedraz, J. J. González, A. Vazdekis, N. Cardiel, A. J. Cenarro, & P. Sánchez-Blázquez
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Chemical Abundances of Extragalactic H II regions
M. Peimbert & A. Peimbert
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Probing the chemical abundances in distant galaxies with 10 m class telescopes
T. Contini
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Emission line ratio mapping with OSIRIS
J. E. Beckman, A. Zurita, M. Relaño, & A. Cardwell
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Star Formation and H II Regions

Mid-Infrared Detection of a Hot Molecular Core
in G29.96-0.02

A. M. Watson, J. M. De Buizer, J. T. Radomski, R. K. Piña, & C. M. Telesco
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Spectrophotometry of massive star forming regions with the GTC
M. Castellanos, A. I. Díaz, & E. Terlevich
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Adaptive Optics imaging of Quasar Hosts
I. Márquez & P. Petitjean
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Star Formation Research at the University of Florida
J. P. Williams
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Stars and the Local Group

Stellar astrophysics in the Local Group and beyond with the GTC
S. J. Smartt
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A project to determine an accurate distance to M31 using eclipsing binaries as standard candles
I. Ribas & C. Jordi
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Doppler Tomography of Cataclysmic Variables: what can we do with the GTC?
J. Echevarría, R. Costero, L. Pineda, G. Tovmassian, S. Zharikov, & R. Michel
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Fast Variability in Compact Binaries
P. Charles
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Radiative Transfer tools for the GTC
A. Asensio Ramos, J. Trujillo Bueno, & J. Cernicharo
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Starbursts and AGN

Mid-Infrared Observations of Galaxies
D. Lutz
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Science with Tunable Filters
J. Bland-Hawthorn
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The Starburst-AGN connection in the era of the GTC
R. M. González Delgado
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The Nature of Low Luminosity Active Galaxies at z$ \sim$1
V. L. Sarajedini
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The mid-IR emission of Seyfert galaxies: Relevance for CANARICAM
J. A. Acosta-Pulido, A. M. Pérez García, M. A. Prie-to, J. M. Rodríguez-Espinosa, & L. M. Cairós
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Cosmology

Galaxy Formation and the GTC
M. A. Bershady
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COSMOS: A Comprehensive Study of Galaxies at High Redshift with EMIR on the GTC
R. Guzmán
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Probing Cosmological Parameters with H II Galaxies and the new generation telescopes
E. Terlevich, R. Terlevich, & J. Melnick
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Determining the history of obscured star formation with the GTC and the GTM
D. Hughes, E. Gaztañaga, I. Aretxaga, & E.Chapin
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Galaxy evolution studies observing
Emission Line Galaxies with the GTC

J. Gallego
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Looking for the First Galaxies with GTC + EMIR
R. Pello & D. Schaerer
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Galaxy Star Formation as a function of Environment
F. J. Castander, M. L. Balogh, M. Bernardi, R. G. Bower, D. I. Clowe, A. J. Connolly, D. G. Gilbank, P. L. Gómez, T. Goto, A. M. Hopkins, C. J. Miller, R. C. Nichol, D. P. Schneider, R. Seth, & A. I. Zabludoff
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Cosmology with the GTC:
A combined mm-optical galaxy cluster survey

J. M. Diego, E. Martínez-González, N. Benítez, J. L. Sanz, & J. Silk
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X-ray surveys with XMM-Newton and Chandra
F. J. Carrera & X. Barcons
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Tomography of high redshift clusters with OSIRIS
A. Fernández-Soto, J. Bland-Hawthorn, J. I. González-Serrano, & R. Carballo
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The study of gamma-ray bursts and their host galaxies
in the GTC era

A. J. Castro-Tirado, J. Gorosabel, & J. M. Castro Cerón
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Galaxy Assembly from Self-Consistent Hydrodynamical Simulations
R. Domínguez-Tenreiro, A. Serna, & A. Sáiz
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Posters

Galactic Astronomy with OTELO
E. J. Alfaro, J. Cepa, J. Gallego, J. González-Serrano, J. González, & M. Sánchez
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Follow-up Science of the SIRTF GTO Cosmological Survey Program with the GTC
A. Alonso-Herrero, G. H. Rieke, H. Dole, D. Hines, M. J. Rieke, E. Egami, C. Papovich, K. Gordon, K. Misselt, & C. Engelbracht
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Quantifying high z galaxy selection and visibility with the COSMOPACK tool
M. Balcells, D. Cristóbal-Hornillos & C. Eliche-Moral
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Low Mass Stars and Brown Dwarfs in Open Clusters
D. Barrado y Navascués
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Statistics and multiwavelength synthesis models: towards a new generation of synthesis models
M. Cerviño
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Luminous Blue Variables in the local universe
L. J. Corral & A. Herrero
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Ks number counts in the Groth and Coppi fields
D. Cristóbal, M. Prieto, M. Balcells, R. Guzmán, N. Cardiel, Á. Serrano, J. Gallego, & R. Pelló
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The Nature of the Compact Group HCG 54
A. del Olmo, L. Verdes-Montenegro, J. Perea, J. Iglesias-Páramo, J. M. Vílchez, M. S. Yun, & W. Huchtmeier
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High z Radio-Loud and Radio-Quiet QSO Environments
J. A. de Diego, E. Benítez, & Y. Krongold
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Studying old populations with RR Lyrae Variables in the Local Group
C. Gallart, D. Martínez-Delgado, & Peter B. Stetson
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EMIR Data Reduction Pipeline
J. Gallego, J. Zamorano, A. Serrano, N. Cardiel, J. Gorgas, C. E. García-Dabó, & A. Gil de Paz
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Near-Infrared Surface Brightness Fluctuations as Diagnostics of Unresolved Stellar Populations
R. A. González L.& M. C. Liu
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Quasars in the OTELO survey
J. I. González-Serrano, J. Cepa, J. Gallego, E. Alfaro, M. Sánchez-Portal, & J. J. González
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EMIR: Using GRBs to probe the high redshift Universe
J. Gorosabel, N. Lund, S. Martínez Núñez, M. I. Andersen, A. J. Castro-Tirado, J. M. Castro Cerón, J. Hjorth, J. Fynbo, S. Brandt, & N. J. Westergaard
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Spectroscopy of luminous blue compact galaxies at Intermediate Redshift
C. Hoyos, R. Guzmán, A. I.  Díaz, M. A.  Bershady, & D. C. Koo
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The Impact of Starbursts in the Halos of Blue Compact Dwarf Galaxies (A Proposalfor OSIRIS)
J. Iglesias-Páramo & C. Muñoz-Tuñón
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Multiband calibration of an all-sky sample of AGN fields--extending Landolt's standards to mathrmV = 19
M. R. Kidger, J. N. González-Pérez, & F. Martín-Luis
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From dust to gas ... and the infrared to the millimetric:
Doubly deuterated molecules in protostars

L. Loinard
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The nature of the very extended emission line regions associated with active galactic nuclei
J. A. López, M. Rozas, & M. Richer
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ULIRGs: Origin and Evolution
I. Márquez & J. Masegosa
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Polarimetric calibration for large telescopes
F. Martín-Luis and M. R. Kidger
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A spectral atlas of Landolt stars for a reliable mid-IR spectrophotometric calibration for large telescopes
F. Martín-Luis, M. R. Kidger, M. Cohen, & O. Suárez
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The detection of supergalactic winds: The edge-on starburst galaxy NGC 4631
V. Melo, C. Muñoz-Tuñón, E. Recillas, G. Tenorio-Tagle, & J. M. Rodríguez-Espinosa
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Constraining the evolutionary histories of spiral disks
M. Mollá & E. Hardy
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The transition phase from AGB stars to PNe as seen by CanariCam
J. V. Perea Calderón & P. García-Lario
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Optical and near-IR spectroscopy of low excitation H II regions with the GTC
E. Pérez-Montero, M. Castellanos, & A. I. Díaz
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Spiral Galaxies: Requirements for accurate Photometric Bulge/Disk Decomposition
M. Prie-to, A. M. Varela, C. Muñoz-Tuñón, J. A. Aguerri, & E. Simonneau
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The diffuse ionized gas in galaxies
M. Rozas, J. A. López, M. Richer, J. E. Beckman, & A. Zurita
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AGN investigation in the OTELO survey
M. Sánchez-Portal, J. Cepa Nogué, E. Alfaro Navarro, J. Gallego, J. I. González-Serrano, & J. González
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A K band survey in the Groth Strip Flanking Fields
A. Serrano, N. Cardiel, J. Gallego, M. Balcells, M. Prieto, D. Cristóbal, R. Guzmán, R. Pelló, J. Gorgas, & J. Zamorano
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The need for very high resolution spectroscopy for the study of hot subdwarfs
A. Ulla, M. Manteiga, P. Thejll, R. A. Saffer, F. Pérez Hernández, J. MacDonald, A. Ferriz-Mas, V. Elkin, & R. Oreiro Rey
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Quantitative Morphological Analysis of Galaxies at Intermediate Red Shift: Clues to Galaxy Evolution
I. Trujillo, C. M. Gutiérrez, J. A. L. Aguerri & J. Cepa
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Extragalactic gravitational lenses with the GTC
A.  Ullán & L. J. Goicoechea
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The instrumental design of Elmer
M. Garcia Vargas, E. Sánchez-Blanco, L. Cavaller, J. Martín-Fleitas, R. Kohley, M. Medina, J. Rosich, P. L. Hammersley, B. Ronquillo, & M. Vega
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Some Final Thoughts

Workshop Summary
J. M. Vílchez
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Author Index

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