Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics2020-07-21v2Cosmology and Nongalactic AstrophysicsAstrophysics of GalaxiesHigh Energy Astrophysical Phenomena
MAAT is proposed as a visitor mirror-slicer optical system that will allow the OSIRIS spectrograph on the 10.4-m Gran telescopio CANARIAS (GTC) the capability to perform Integral Field Spectroscopy (IFS) over a seeing-limited FoV 14.20''x10'' with a slice width of 0.303''. MAAT@GTC will enhance the resolution power of OSIRIS by 1.6 times as compared to its 0.6'' wide long-slit. All the eleven OSIRIS grisms and volume-phase holographic gratings will be available to provide broad spectral coverage with moderate resolution (R=600 up to 4100) in the 3600 - 10000 {\AA} wavelength range. MAAT unique observing capabilities will broaden its use to the needs of the GTC community to unveil the nature of most striking phenomena in the universe well beyond time-domain astronomy. The GTC equipped with OSIRIS+MAAT will also play a fundamental role in synergy with other facilities, some of them operating on the northern ORM at La Palma. This White Paper presents the different aspects of MAAT@GTC - including scientific and technical specifications, outstanding science cases, and an outline of the instrument concept.
@article{arxiv.2007.01603,
title = {White Paper on MAAT@GTC},
author = {Francisco Prada and Robert Content and Ariel Goobar and Luca Izzo and Enrique Pérez and Adriano Agnello and Carlos del Burgo and Vik Dhillon and José M. Diego and Lluis Galbany and Jorge García-Rojas and David Jones and Jon Lawrence and Eduardo Martín and Evencio Mediavilla and M. Ángeles Pérez García and Jorge Sánchez Almeida and José A. Acosta Pulido and Angel R. López-Sánchez and Santiago Arribas and Francisco J. Carrera and Amalia Corral and Inmaculada Domínguez and Silvia Mateos and Silvia Martínez Nuñez and Eva Villaver and María Rosa Zapatero Osorio and Conrado Albertus and Fabrizio Arrigoni Battaia and David Barrado and Víctor J. S. Bejar and Henri M. J. Boffin and Herve Bouy and Adam Burgasser and Cesar Esteban and Nicolas Lodieu and María Morales Calderón and Antonio Pérez Garrido and Pablo Rodríguez Gil and Ana Sagués Carracedo and Miguel Santander García and Enrique Solano and Manuel A. P. Torres and Roger Wesson},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2007.01603},
year = {2020}
}