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    • PypeIt GTC-OSIRIS/OSIRIS+ Office Hours: MOS data reduction pipeline by Marta Lorenzo, On-line, 19 October 2023
    • GTC-OSIRIS/OSIRIS+ Hands-on Data Reduction Workshop, Madrid, 3-4 July 2023
    • Kick-off GTC-MAAT workshop on the OSIRIS Mask Loader upgrade & OSIRIS+MAAT Optics held at the GTC telescope on May 17-18, 2023
    • Bertin-Winlight signed the contract for the construction of MAAT in April 2023
    • The new OSIRIS detector was successfully installed and is now being commissioned!
    • First simulated MAAT observation!
    • MAAT@GTC SEA Session, 7 Sept 2022
    • Paper on the MAAT Final Optical Design presented at the SPIE July 2022 conference
    • Artículo sobre MAAT en el Boletín de la SEA Verano 2022
    • MAAT Workshop at La Palma, 10 June 2022
    • PypeIt v 1.9.0 has just been released, and included updates to GTC/OSIRIS data reduction by our MAAT collaborator Ryan Cooke (bad pixel mask, better edge detection, and improve wavelength solution+tilts)
    • Simulations of OSIRIS long-slit observations using ScopeSim
    • A video of MAAT being inserted in the OSIRIS Mask Loader
    • MAAT has successfully passed the Preliminary Design Review on April 2022
    • First science paper from the MAAT Collaboration on observing Kilonovae with MAAT@GTC
    • The MAAT Exposure Time Calculator is available
    • Verification and acceptance tests of the MAAT-Pupil camera completed on 7 Mar 2022
    • MAAT mechanical preliminary design as 11 Feb 2022
    • OSIRIS has been attached to the Cassegrain focus on 5 Feb 2022 (see here)
    • By end of August, and after 12 years in operation, OSIRIS was withdrawn from the Nasmyth-B focus for its migration to the main Cassegrain focus, see this GTC post in Facebook
    • OSIRIS 'out-of-focus' masks measurements were successfully completed on 20 August 2021. Many images and spectra were taken, and being analysed to characterise the OSIRIS optical aberrations
    • Hardware to measure the OSIRIS optical aberrations ('out-of-focus' tests) is built and shipped to La Palma (3 August 2021)
    • New OSIRIS e2v CDD as being tested at the IAC (26 July 2021)
    • The MAAT Exposure Time Calculator is functioning (18 July 2021)
    • MAAT PDR Workshop: Instrument Session (25 May 2021); Science Session & Data System Session (1 June 2021)
    • Final design of the tools to take 'out-of-focus' images to characterise the OSIRIS optical aberrations (Proactive R&D, 4 May 2021). Manufacturing of the mechanical pieces will start.
    • MAAT member David Jones's reduction of OSIRIS long-slit with PypeIt is released (Version 1.4.0) on 23 April 2021
    • MAAT Press Note 30 March 2021, (Spanish version)
    • MAAT presentation video on Youtube
    • MAAT optical preliminary design as 23 March 2021
    • MAAT Data System Workshop 2-4 March 2021
    • MAAT-module dummy_v1 testing in OSIRIS on 1-3 March 2021
    • Optical Design of MAAT presented at the SPIE 2020 Digital Forum 14-18 December 2020
    • MAAT starts its Preliminary Design Phase on 1 November 2020
    • Consensus on the MAAT Collaboration Agreement reached by IAA-CSIC, IAC, DARK and OKC on Oct. 30, 2020
    • MAAT kick-off meeting on Oct. 20, 22, and 27, 2020
    • MAAT-envelope dummy_v0 and interface testing on OSIRIS, carried out successfully by the GTC staff on Sept. 30, Oct. 1-2, 2020
    • GTC Steering Committee recommends MAAT as visitor instrument on 7 August 2020
    • White Paper on MAAT@GTC, 19 July 2020
    • MAAT@GTC Workshop, 5 May 2020

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