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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…

A prototype cross-dispersed optical echelle spectrograph of very high resolution has been designed and built at Steward Observatory and tested at the Starfire Optical Range (SOR) 1.5 m telescope. It is the first spectrograph to take…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-07 Jian Ge , J. R. P. Angel , B. Jacobsen , N. Woolf , R. Q. Fugate , J. H. Black

We present here the information on the design and performance of the recently commissioned 2.5-meter telescope at the PRL Mount Abu Observatory, located at Gurushikhar, Mount Abu, India. The telescope has been successfully installed at the…

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…

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

The CHIRON optical high-resolution echelle spectrometer was commissioned at the 1.5m telescope at CTIO in 2011. The instrument was designed for high throughput and stability, with the goal of monitoring radial velocities of bright stars…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-17 Andrei Tokovinin , Debra A. Fischer , Marco Bonati , Matthew J. Giguere , Peter Moore , Christian Schwab , Julien F. P. Spronck , Andrew Szymkowiak

ESPRESSO (Echelle SPectrograph for Rocky Exoplanets and Stable Spectroscopic Observations) is a VLT ultra-stable high resolution spectrograph installed at ESO's Paranal Observatory in Chile at the end of 2017 and that started regular…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2024-02-01 Jonay I. González Hernández , Francesco Pepe , Paolo Molaro , Nuno Santos

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

The eShel, an off-the-shelf, fiber-fed echelle spectrograph ($R \approx 10,000$), was installed on the 1m telescope at the Wise observatory in Israel. We report the installation of the multi-order spectrograph, and describe our pipeline to…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2017-05-03 Michael Engel , Sahar Shahaf , Tsevi Mazeh

Transmission spectroscopy is an effective technique for probing exoplanetary atmospheres. While most observations have relied on space facilities such as HST and JWST, ground-based high-resolution transmission spectroscopy (HRTS) has also…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2025-09-23 Manjunath Bestha , Athira Unni , T. Sivarani , Shivangi Menon , Parvathy M , Arun Surya , Pallavi Saraf , Devika Divakar , Lokesh Manickavasaham

A low dispersion spectrograph-cum-imager has been developed and assembled in ARIES, Nainital. The optical design of the spectrograph consists of a collimator and a focal reducer converting the f/9 beam from the 3.6-m Devasthal optical…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2022-04-20 Amitesh Omar , T. S. Kumar , B. Krishna Reddy , Jayshreekar Pant , Manoj Mahto

ProtoPol is a medium-resolution echelle spectro-polarimeter developed for Physical Research Laboratory (PRL) 1.2m and 2.5m telescopes, Mt. Abu, India. Though initially conceived to evaluate the development methodology of the echelle…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2026-03-27 Mudit K. Srivastava , Arijit Maiti , Vipin Kumar , Bhaveshkumar Mistry , Ankita Patel , Vaibhav Dixit , Kevikumar A. Lad

The current STELLA Echelle spectrograph (SES), which records 390nm to 870nm in one shot at a spectral resolution of 55000, will be replaced by a suite of specialized spectrographs in three spectral bands. The UV will be covered by a newly…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2020-12-16 Michael Weber , Manfred Woche , Klaus G. Strassmeier , Ilya Ilyin , Arto Järvinen

The EXtreme PREcision Spectrograph (EXPRES) is an optical fiber fed echelle instrument being designed and built at the Yale Exoplanet Laboratory to be installed on the 4.3-meter Discovery Channel Telescope operated by Lowell Observatory.…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2016-12-14 C. Jurgenson , D. Fischer , T. McCracken , D. Sawyer , A. Szymkowiak , A. B. Davis , G. Muller , F. Santoro

A fiber-fed Echelle spectrograph at 2.3 m Vainu Bappu Telescope (VBT), Kavalur, has been in operation since 2005. Owing to various technological advancements in precision spectroscopy in recent years, several research avenues have been…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2017-06-29 Sireesha Chamarthi , Ravinder K. Banyal , S. Sriram , Gajendra Pandey

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

We present the first X-ray spectrum obtained by the Low Energy Transmission Grating Spectrometer (LETGS) aboard the Chandra X-ray Observatory. The spectrum is of Capella and covers a wavelength range of 5-175 A (2.5-0.07 keV). The measured…

We present scientific results obtained with a recently commissioned \'{e}chelle spectrograph on the 0.5-m Solaris-1 telescope in the South African Astronomical Observatory. BACHES is a low-cost slit \'{e}chelle spectrograph that has a…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2016-06-22 Stanisław K. Kozłowski , Maciej Konacki , Piotr Sybilski , Milena Ratajczak , Rafał K. Pawłaszek , Krzysztof G. Hełminiak

The EXtreme PREcision Spectrograph (EXPRES) is an environmentally stabilized, fiber-fed, $R=137,500$, optical spectrograph. It was recently commissioned at the 4.3-m Lowell Discovery Telescope (LDT) near Flagstaff, Arizona. The spectrograph…

ESPRESSO is a new high-resolution ultra-stable spectrograph for the VLT, which had its first light on Telescope on November 27th, 2017. The instrument is installed in the Combined Coud\'{e} Laboratory and linked to the 4 Units of Telescope…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2019-02-07 A. C. O. Leite , C. J. A. P. Martins , P. Molaro , S. Monai , C. S. Alves , T. A. Silva , the ESPRESSO Science Team
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