HIRES, the high-resolution spectrograph for the ELT
Abstract
HIRES will be the high-resolution spectrograph of the European Extremely Large Telescope at optical and near-infrared wavelengths. It consists of three fibre-fed spectrographs providing a wavelength coverage of 0.4-1.8 mic (goal 0.35-1.8 mic) at a spectral resolution of ~100,000. The fibre-feeding allows HIRES to have several, interchangeable observing modes including a SCAO module and a small diffraction-limited IFU in the NIR. Therefore, it will be able to operate both in seeing and diffraction-limited modes. ELT-HIRES has a wide range of science cases spanning nearly all areas of research in astrophysics and even fundamental physics. Some of the top science cases will be the detection of bio signatures from exoplanet atmospheres, finding the fingerprints of the first generation of stars (PopIII), tests on the stability of Nature's fundamental couplings, and the direct detection of the cosmic acceleration. The HIRES consortium is composed of more than 30 institutes from 14 countries, forming a team of more than 200 scientists and engineers.
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@article{arxiv.2011.12317,
title = {HIRES, the high-resolution spectrograph for the ELT},
author = {Alessandro Marconi and Manuel Abreu and Vardan Adibekyan and Matteo Aliverti and Carlos Allende Prieto and Pedro J. Amado and Manuel Amate and Etienne Artigau and Sergio R. Augusto and Susana Barros and Santiago Becerril and Bjorn Benneke and Edwin Bergin and Philippe Berio and Naidu Bezawada and Isabelle Boisse and Xavier Bonfils and Francois Bouchy and Christopher Broeg and Alexandre Cabral and Rocio Calvo-Ortega and Bruno Leonardo Canto Martins and Bruno Chazelas and Andrea Chiavassa and Lise B. Christensen and Roberto Cirami and Igor Coretti and Stefano Cristiani and Vanderlei Cunha Parro and Guido Cupani and Izan de Castro Leao and Jose Renan de Medeiros and Marco Antonio Furlan de Souza and Paolo Di Marcantonio and Igor Di Varano and Valentina D'Odorico and Rene Doyon and Holger Drass and Pedro Figueira and Ana Belen Fragoso and Johan Peter Uldall Fynbo and Elena Gallo and Matteo Genoni and Jonay I. Gonzalez Hernandez and Martin Haehnelt and Julie Hlavacek Larrondo and Ian Hughes and Philipp Huke and Andrew Humphrey and Hans Kjeldsen and Andreas Korn and Driss Kouach and Marco Landoni and Jochen Liske and Christophe Lovis and David Lunney and Roberto Maiolino and Lison Malo and Thomas Marquart and Carlos J. A. P. Martins and Elena Mason and John Monnier and Manuel A. Monteiro and Christoph Mordasini and Tim Morris and Graham J. Murray and Andrzej Niedzielski and Nelson Nunes and Ernesto Oliva and Livia Origlia and Enric Palle and Giorgio Pariani and Phil Parr-Burman and Jose Penate and Francesco Pepe and Enrico Pinna and Nikolai Piskunov and Jose Luis Rasilla and Phil Rees and Rafael Rebolo and Ansgar Reiners and Marco Riva and Sylvain Rousseau and Nicoletta Sanna and Nuno C. Santos and Mirsad Sarajlic and Tzu-Chiang Shen and Francesca Sortino and Danuta Sosnowska and Sergio Sousa and Eric Stempels and Klaus G. Strassmeier and Fabio Tenegi and Andrea Tozzi and Stephane Udry and Luca Valenziano and Leonardo Vanzi and Michael Weber and Manfred Woche and Marco Xompero and Erik Zackrisson and Maria Rosa Zapatero Osorio},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2011.12317},
year = {2021}
}
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to appear in the ESO Messenger No.182, December 2020