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The Calar Alto Fiber-fed \'Echelle spectrograph (CAFE) is a high-resolution spectrographs with high-precision radial velocity capabilities mounted in the 2.2m telescope of Calar Alto Observatory. It suffered from strong degradation after 4…

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

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…

Within the ESPRESSO project a new flexible data reduction library is being built. ESPRESSO, the Echelle SPectrograph for Rocky Exoplanets and Stable Spectral Observations is a fiber-fed, high-resolution, cross-dispersed echelle…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2015-09-21 Danuta Sosnowska , Christophe Lovis , Pedro Figueira , Andrea Modigliani , Paolo Di Marcantonio , Denis Megevand , Francesco Pepe

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

CARMENES (Calar Alto high-Resolution search for M dwarfs with Exo-earths with Near-infrared and optical Echelle Spectrographs) is a next generation instrument being built for the 3.5-m telescope at the Calar Alto Observatory by a consortium…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2012-10-22 P. J. Amado , A. Quirrenbach , I. Ribas , J. A. Caballero , M. A. Sánchez-Carrasco , A. Reiners , W. Seifert , R. Mundt , H. Mandel , the CARMENES Consortium

We present results from the commissioning and early science programs of FIDEOS, the new high-resolution echelle spectrograph developed at the Centre of Astro Engineering of Pontificia Universidad Catolica de Chile, and recently installed at…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2018-06-06 L. Vanzi , A. Zapata , M. Flores , R. Brahm , M. Tala Pinto , S. Rukdee , M. Jones , S. Ropert , T. Shen , S. Ramirez , V. Suc , A. Jordan , N. Espinoza

We evaluate a pre-production BACHES \'{e}chelle spectrograph in terms of its usefulness for radial velocity surveys of binary stars with small telescopes in a remote and autonomous. We use the Solaris-4 observatory located in Casleo,…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-19 S. K. Kozłowski , M. Konacki , M. Ratajczak , P. Sybilski , R. K. Pawłaszek , K. G. Hełminiak

We have measured the radial velocities of five 51 Peg-type stars and one star with constant velocity. Our measurements, on 20 \AA centered at 3947 \AA, were conventional using Th/Ar comparison spectra taken every 20 or 40 minutes between…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-07 Gordon A. H. Walker , Evgenya Shkolnik , David A. Bohlender , Stephenson Yang

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

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

The Weihai Echelle Spectrograph (WES) is the first fiber-fed echelle spectrograph for astronomical observation in China. It is primarily used for chemical abundance and asteroseismology studies of nearby bright stars, as well as radial…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2016-11-14 Dong-Yang Gao , Hang-Xin Ji , Chen Cao , Shao-Ming Hu , Robert A. Wittenmyer , Zhong-Wen Hu , Frank Grupp , Hanna Kellermann , Kai Li , Di-Fu Guo

The Calar Alto Observatory, located at 2168m height above the sea level in continental Europe, holds a significant number of astronomical telescopes and experiments, covering a large range of the electromagnetic domain, from gamma-ray to…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2016-11-25 D. Barrado , U. Thiele , J. Aceituno , S. Pedraz , S. F. Sanchez , A. Aguirre , M. Alises , G. Bergond , D. Galadi , A. Guijarro , F. Hoyo , D. Mast , L. Montoya , Ch. Sengupta , E. de Guindos , E. Solano

After proposing a new method of deriving the atmospheric time constant from the speed of focus variations (Kellerer & Tokovinin 2007), we now implement it with the new instrument, FADE. FADE uses a 36-cm Celestron telescope that is modified…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-13 A. Tokovinin , A. Kellerer , V. Coude Du Foresto

We have designed and tested an in-plane echelle spectrograph configured to investigate precision radial velocities from ground-based near-infrared observations. The spectrograph operates across the spectral range of 0.9-1.7 mm at a spectral…

We present the first light commissioning results from the Physical Research Laboratory (PRL) optical fiber-fed high resolution cross-dispersed Echelle Spectrograph. It is capable of a single- shot spectral coverage of 3700A to 8600A at R ~…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2015-05-19 Abhijit Chakraborty , Suvrath Mahadevan , Arpita Roy , Fazalahmed M. Pathan , Vishal Shah , Eric H. Richardson , Girish Ubale , Rajesh Shah

CARMENES (Calar Alto high-Resolution search for M dwarfs with Exoearths with Near-infrared and optical Echelle Spectrographs) started a new planet survey on M-dwarfs in January this year. The new high-resolution spectrographs are operating…

We present the construction and early results of ESPARTACO 2, the new stellar spectrograph built for research and education at the Astronomical Observatory of the Universidad de los Andes in Bogot\'a, Colombia. This instrument offers…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2025-04-30 B. Oostra , M. G. Batista

We present PUCHEROS +, a new spectrograph developed as an enhanced version of PUCHEROS (Pontificia Universidad Catolica High Echelle Resolution Optical Spectrograph), which was the first high-resolution spectrograph built at the Pontificia…

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