Megara, the Next Generation Optical Mos and Ifu for Gtc

MEGARA (Multi-Espectrografo en GTC de Alta Resolucion para Astronomia) is the new optical spectrograph for the 10.4 m Gran Telescopio CANARIAS (GTC). Once installed at GTC by the end of 2016, MEGARA will provide both Integral Field Unit and Multi-Object Spectroscopy capabilities covering a field-of-view of 12.5x11.3 arcsec(2) and 3.5x3.5 arcmin(2), respectively. The MEGARA spectrograph will yield spectral resolutions in the range R=6,000-18,700 across the entire optical window with superb image quality and throughput, thanks to the use of state-of-the-art optical fibers, pupil elements (VPHs) and CCD detector. In this contribution we provide a brief description of the status of the instrument construction and of the science that our Science Team is aiming to pursue with MEGARA, with special emphasis on potential synergies with the future Multi-Object Spectrograph for the William Herschel Telescope (WHT), WEAVE.