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OSIRIS software: the Mask Designer Tool

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OSIRIS is a Day One instrument that will be available at the 10m GTC telescope which is being built at La Palma observatory in the Canary Islands. This optical instrument is designed to obtain wide-field narrow-band images using tunable filters and to do low-resolution spectroscopy in both long-slit and multislit modes. For the multislit spectroscopy mode, we have developed a software to assist the observers to design focal plane masks. In this paper we describe the characteristics of this Mask Designer tool. We discuss the main design concepts, the functionality and particular features of the software.

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  1. Instituto de Física de Cantabria (CSIC-Universidad de Cantabria), Avda. de los Castros s/n, 39005, Santander, Spain

    J. I. GonzáLez-Serrano & R. Quirk

  2. Universidad Pontifícia de Salamanca en Madrid, 28040, Madrid, Spain

    M. Sánchez-Portal

  3. Instituto de Astrofísica de Canarias, 38200, La Laguna, Tenerife, Spain

    H Castañeda, M. Aguiar & J. Cepa

  4. GMV S.A., 28760, Tres Cantos, Madrid, Spain

    E. D. de Miguel

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GonzáLez-Serrano, J.I., Sánchez-Portal, M., Castañeda, H. et al. OSIRIS software: the Mask Designer Tool. Exp Astron 18, 65–75 (2004). https://doi.org/10.1007/s10686-005-9003-4

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