Spectroscopy and Monitoring with the robotic 1.2m telescope TIGRE in Guanajuato, MEX
Klaus-Peter Schröder, Jürgen Schmitt, Gregor Rauw

Abstract

Tigre is a 1.2m f:8 RC robotic telescope designed to do spectroscopic monitoring of dynamical processes stellar astrophysics, for stars brighter than magnitude 10...11.
Its 2-channel (red/blue) echelle spectrograph HEROS has a uniform resolution of 20,000 and covers simultaneously almost the whole spectrum from the near IR to near UV (880 to 380 nm). These spectra have a high s/n (80-120) and can also be used to determine the exact physical properties of any star of interest, by comparison with individual PHOENIX models or by an iSpec analysis. The large amount of spectroscopic data ideally serves a large variety of undergraduate and graduate thesis projects. WE give a brief insight into this dedicated, yet economic (total cost of hardware 2 Mio EUR) international project of the universities of Hamburg, Guanajuato and Liege, its science ideas, and what it has to offer to the international community.