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GIARPS: commissioning and first scientific results

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics 2018-08-10 v1

Abstract

GIARPS (GIAno \& haRPS) is a project devoted to have on the same focal station of the Telescopio Nazionale Galileo (TNG) both high resolution spectrographs, HARPS-N (VIS) and GIANO-B (NIR), working simultaneously. This could be considered the first and unique worldwide instrument providing cross-dispersed echelle spectroscopy at a resolution of 50,000 in the NIR range and 115,000 in the VIS and over in a wide spectral range (0.3832.45 μ0.383 - 2.45\ \mum) in a single exposure. The science case is very broad, given the versatility of such an instrument and its large wavelength range. A number of outstanding science cases encompassing mainly extra-solar planet science starting from rocky planets search and hot Jupiters to atmosphere characterization can be considered. Furthermore both instruments can measure high precision radial velocities by means the simultaneous thorium technique (HARPS-N) and absorbing cell technique (GIANO-B) in a single exposure. Other science cases are also possible. GIARPS, as a brand new observing mode of the TNG started after the moving of GIANO-A (fiber fed spectrograph) from Nasmyth-A to Nasmyth-B where it was re-born as GIANO-B (no more fiber feed spectrograph). The official Commissioning finished on March 2017 and then it was offered to the community. Despite the work is not finished yet. In this paper we describe the preliminary scientific results obtained with GIANO-B and GIARPS observing mode with data taken during commissioning and first open time observations.

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@article{arxiv.1808.03184,
  title  = {GIARPS: commissioning and first scientific results},
  author = {R. Claudi and S. Benatti and I. Carleo and A. Ghedina and J. Guerra and F. Ghinassi and A. Harutyunyan and G. Micela and E. Molinari and E. Oliva and M. Rainer and A. Tozzi and C. Baffa and A. Baruffolo and V. Biliotti and N. Buchschacher and M. Cecconi and R. Cosentino and G. Falcini and D. Fantinel and L. Fini and E. Giani and E. Gonzalez--Alvarez and M. Gonzalez and C. Gonzalez and R. Gratton and N. Hernandez and M. Iuzzolino and M. Lodi and L. Malavolta and J. Maldonado and L. Origlia and A. Puglisi and N. Sanna and J. San Juan and S. Scuderi and U. Seemann and A. Sozzetti and M. Sozzi and H. Perez Ventura and M. Hernandez Diaz and A. Galli and C. Gonzalez and L. Riverol and C. Riverol},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1808.03184},
  year   = {2018}
}

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10 pages, 11 figures, Telescopes and Astronomical instrumentation, SPIE Conf. 2018

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