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High precision radial velocity (RV) measurements in the near infrared are on high demand, especially in the context of exoplanet search campaigns shifting their interest to late type stars in order to detect planets with ever lower mass or…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-13 Andreas Seifahrt , Hans-Ulrich Kaeufl

We explore the radial velocity performance benefits of coupling starlight to a fast-scanning interferometer and a fast-readout spectrometer with zero readout noise. By rapidly scanning an interferometer we can decouple wavelength…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2015-11-18 Rebecca Jensen-Clem , Philip S. Muirhead , Michael Bottom , J. Kent Wallace , Gautam Vasisht , John Asher Johnson

We present here CAFE, the Calar Alto Fiber-fed Echelle spectrograph, a new instrument built at the Centro Astronomico Hispano Alem\'an (CAHA). CAFE is a single fiber, high-resolution ($R\sim$70000) spectrograph, covering the wavelength…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-12 J. Aceituno , S. F. Sanchez , F. Grupp , J. Lillo , M. Hernan-Obispo , D. Benitez , L. M. Montoya , U. Thiele , S. Pedraz , D. Barrado , S. Dreizler , J. Bean

NIRPS (Near Infra-Red Planet Searcher) is an AO-assisted and fiber-fed spectrograph for high precision radial velocity measurements in the YJH-bands. NIRPS also has the specificity to be an SCAO assisted instrument, enabling the use of…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2022-07-29 N. Blind , U. Conod , A. de Meideros , F. Wildi , F. Bouchy , S. Bovay , D. Brousseau , A. Cabral , L. Genolet , J. Kolb , R. Schnell , A. Segovia , M. Sordet , S. Thibault , B. Wehbe , G. Zins

Precise measurements of a star's radial velocity (RV) made using extremely stable, high resolution, optical or near infrared spectrographs can be used to determine the masses and orbital parameters of gravitationally-bound extra-solar…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2025-11-05 Jennifer A. Burt , Xavier Dumusque , Samuel Halverson

The EXtreme PREcision Spectrograph (EXPRES) is a new Doppler spectrograph designed to reach a radial velocity measurement precision sufficient to detect Earth-like exoplanets orbiting nearby, bright stars. We report on extensive laboratory…

PARAS is a fiber-fed stabilized high-resolution cross-dispersed echelle spectrograph, located on the 1.2 m telescope in Mt. Abu India. Designed for exoplanet detection, PARAS is capable of single-shot spectral coverage of 3800 - 9600 A, and…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2016-08-24 Arpita Roy , Abhijit Chakraborty , Suvrath Mahadevan , Priyanka Chaturvedi , Neelam J. S. S. V. Prasad , Vishal Shah , F. M. Pathan , B. G. Anandarao

We have built and commissioned a prototype agitated non-circular core fiber scrambler for precision spectroscopic radial velocity measurements in the near-infrared H band. We have collected the first on-sky performance and modal noise tests…

During the second flight of the ORFEUS-SPAS mission in November/December 1996, the Echelle spectrometer was used extensively by the Principal and Guest Investigator teams as one of the two focal plane instruments of the ORFEUS telescope. We…

Time domain astronomy and the increasing number of exoplanet candidates call for reliable, robust, and automatic wavelength calibration. We present an algorithm for wavelength calibrating \'echelle spectrographs that uses order-by-order…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2020-06-24 G. M. Brandt , T. D. Brandt , C. McCully

Doppler observations of exoplanet systems have been a very expensive technique, mainly due to the high costs of high-resolution stable spectrographs. Recent advances in instrumentation enable affordable Doppler planet detections with…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2014-01-16 B. Csák , J. Kovács , Gy. M. Szabó , L. L. Kiss , Á. Dózsa , Á. Sódor , I. Jankovics

The detection of planets around very low-mass stars with the radial velocity method is hampered by the fact that these stars are very faint at optical wavelengths where the most high-precision spectrometers operate. We investigate the…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2014-11-20 A. Reiners , J. L. Bean , K. F. Huber , S. Dreizler , A. Seifahrt , S. Czesla

Context. Radial velocity monitoring of very cool dwarfs such as late M- and hot L-dwarfs has become a promising tool to search for rocky planets as well as to follow-up planetary candidates around dwarfs found by transit surveys. These…

We present spectrograph design details and initial radial velocity results from the PRL optical fiber-fed high-resolution cross-dispersed echelle spectrograph (PARAS), which has recently been commissioned at the Mt Abu 1.2 m telescope, in…

In this paper we describe the echelle spectrograph of the 2 meter telescope of the Rozhen National Astronomical Observatory. The spectrograph is a cross-dispersed, bench-mounted, fiber-fed instrument giving a resolution from $\sim$30000 to…

We report on the development of a technique for precise radial-velocity measurements of cool stars and brown dwarfs in the near infrared. Our technique is analogous to the Iodine (I2) absorption cell method that has proven so successful in…

With the advent of high-resolution infrared spectrographs, Radial Velocity (RV) searches enter into a new domain. As of today, the most important technical question to address is which wavelength reference is the most suitable for…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2015-05-14 P. Figueira , F. Pepe , C. H. F. Melo , N. C. Santos , C. Lovis , M. Mayor , D. Queloz , A. Smette , S. Udry

We report the results of an infrared Doppler survey designed to detect brown dwarf and giant planetary companions to a magnitude-limited sample of ultracool dwarfs. Using the NIRSPEC spectrograph on the Keck II telescope, we obtained…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2015-05-19 Cullen H. Blake , David Charbonneau , Russel J. White

WINERED is a newly built high-efficiency (throughput$ > 25-30\%$) and high-resolution spectrograph customized for short NIR bands at 0.9-1.35 ${\rm \mu}$m. WINERED is equipped with ambient temperature optics and a cryogenic camera using a…

The Infrared Spectrograph (IRS) is one of three science instruments on the Spitzer Space Telescope. The IRS comprises four separate spectrograph modules covering the wavelength range from 5.3 to 38micron with spectral resolutions, R \~90…

Astrophysics · Physics 2011-05-05 J. R. Houck , the Spitzer/IRS team