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In a companion paper, we introduced a publicly-available pipeline to characterise exoplanet atmospheres through high-resolution spectroscopy. In this paper, we use this pipeline to study the biases and degeneracies that arise in atmospheric…

We present in this paper an analysis of near-infrared observations of the 0.3-Msun protostar V347 Aur collected with the SPIRou high-resolution spectropolarimeter and velocimeter at the 3.6-m Canada-France-Hawaii Telescope from October 2019…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2024-09-04 J. -F. Donati , P. I. Cristofari , A. Carmona , K. Grankin

The Canada France Hawaii Telescope Corporation (CFHT) plans to repurpose its observatory on the summit of Maunakea and operate a new wide field spectroscopic survey telescope, the Maunakea Spectroscopic Explorer (MSE). MSE will upgrade the…

Maunakea Spectroscopic Explorer will be a 10-m class highly multiplexed survey telescope, including a segmented primary mirror and robotic fiber positioners at the prime focus. MSE will replace the Canada France Hawaii Telescope (CFHT) on…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2018-07-24 Kei Szeto , Alexis Hill , Nicolas Flagey , Calum Hervieu , Mick Edgar , Peter Gillingham , Alan McConnachie , Shan Mignot , Richard Murowinski

The Maunakea Spectroscopic Explorer (MSE) Project is a planned replacement for the existing 3.6-m Canada France Hawaii Telescope (CFHT) into a 10-m class dedicated wide field highly multiplexed fibre fed spectroscopic facility. MSE seeks to…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2018-07-25 Patrick Caillier , Will Saunders , Pierre-Henri Carton , Florence Laurent , Jean-Emmanuel Migniau , Arlette Pécontal , Johan Richard , Christophe Yèche

Near-IR atomic and molecular transitions are powerful tools to trace the warm and hot gas in the circumstellar environment of young stars. Ro-vibrational transitions of H2 and H2O, and overtone transitions of CO at 2 micron centered at the…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2013-10-09 A. Carmona , J. Bouvier , X. Delfosse

We report results of a spectropolarimetric monitoring of the young Sun-like star V1298~Tau based on data collected with the near-infrared spectropolarimeter SPIRou at the Canada-France-Hawaii Telescope between late 2019 and early 2023.…

The ESPaDOnS spectropolarimeter has been in use on the Canada-France-Hawaii Telescope (CFHT) since 2004, for studying stars, galactic objects and planets. ESPaDOnS is used in queued service observing mode since 2008, which allows an…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2015-10-07 C. Moutou , L. Malo , N. Manset , L. Selliez-Vandernotte , M. -E. Desrochers

This paper analyses spectropolarimetric observations of the classical T Tauri star (CTTS) GM Aurigae collected with SPIRou, the near-infrared spectropolarimeter at the Canada-France-Hawaii Telescope, as part of the SLS and SPICE Large…

We present new data obtained with SpIOMM, the imaging Fourier transform spectrometer attached to the 1.6-m telescope of the Observatoire du Mont-M\'egantic in Qu\'ebec. Recent technical and data reduction improvements have significantly…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-11 L. Drissen , A. Alarie , T. Martin , D. Lagrois , L. Rousseau-Nepton , A Bilodeau , C. Robert , G. Joncas , J. Iglesias-Páramo

The Maunakea Spectroscopic Explorer (MSE) is a planned 11.25-m aperture facility with a 1.5 square degree field of view that will be fully dedicated to multi-object spectroscopy. A rebirth of the 3.6m Canada-France-Hawaii Telescope on…

SPHERE is an instrument designed and built by a consortium of French, German, Italian, Swiss and Dutch institutes in collaboration with ESO. The project is currently in its Phase B. The main goal of SPHERE is to gain at least one order of…

The far-IR spectral window plays host to a wide range of both spectroscopic and photometric diagnostics with which to open the protoplanetary disks and exoplanet research to wavelengths completely blocked by the Earth's atmosphere. These…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2009-01-22 J. R. Goicoechea , K. Isaak , B. Swinyard

SpIOMM is an imaging Fourier transform spectrometer designed to obtain the visible range (350 to 850 nm) spectrum of every light source in a circular field of view of 12 arcminutes in diameter. It is attached to the 1.6-m telescope of the…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-13 L. Drissen , A. -P. Bernier , M. Charlebois , E. Briere , C. Robert , G. Joncas , P. Martin , F. Grandmont

Subtracting the changing sky contribution from the near-infrared (NIR) spectra of faint astronomical objects is challenging and crucial to a wide range of science cases such as estimating the velocity dispersions of dwarf galaxies, studying…

PFS (Prime Focus Spectrograph), a next generation facility instrument on the 8.2-meter Subaru Telescope, is a very wide-field, massively multiplexed, optical and near-infrared spectrograph. Exploiting the Subaru prime focus, 2394…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2016-12-14 Naoyuki Tamura , Naruhisa Takato , Atsushi Shimono , Yuki Moritani , Kiyoto Yabe , Yuki Ishizuka , Akitoshi Ueda , Yukiko Kamata , Hrand Aghazarian , Stephane Arnouts , Gabriel Barban , Robert H. Barkhouser , Renato C. Borges , David F. Braun , Michael A. Carr , Pierre-Yves Chabaud , Yin-Chang Chang , Hsin-Yo Chen , Masashi Chiba , Richard C. Y. Chou , You-Hua Chu , Judith G. Cohen , Rodrigo P. de Almeida , Antonio C. de Oliveira , Ligia S. de Oliveira , Richard G. Dekany , Kjetil Dohlen , Jesulino B. dos Santos , Leandro H. dos Santos , Richard S. Ellis , Maximilian Fabricius , Didier Ferrand , Decio Ferreira , Mirek Golebiowski , Jenny E. Greene , Johannes Gross , James E. Gunn , Randolph Hammond , Albert Harding , Murdock Hart , Timothy M. Heckman , Christopher M. Hirata , Paul Ho , Stephen C. Hope , Larry Hovland , Shu-Fu Hsu , Yen-Shan Hu , Ping-Jie Huang , Marc Jaquet , Yipeng Jing , Jennifer Karr , Masahiko Kimura , Matthew E. King , Eiichiro Komatsu , Vincent Le Brun , Olivier Le Fevre , Arnaud Le Fur , David Le Mignant , Hung-Hsu Ling , Craig P. Loomis , Robert H. Lupton , Fabrice Madec , Peter Mao , Lucas S. Marrara , Claudia Mendes de Oliveira , Yosuke Minowa , Chaz N. Morantz , Hitoshi Murayama , Graham J. Murray , Youichi Ohyama , Joseph Orndorff , Sandrine Pascal , Jefferson M. Pereira , Daniel J. Reiley , Martin Reinecke , Andreas Ritter , Mitsuko Roberts , Mark A. Schwochert , Michael D. Seiffert , Stephen A. Smee , Laerte Sodre , David N. Spergel , Aaron J. Steinkraus , Michael A. Strauss , Christian Surace , Yasushi Suto , Nao Suzuki , John Swinbank , Philip J. Tait , Masahiro Takada , Tomonori Tamura , Yoko Tanaka , Laurence Tresse , Orlando Verducci , Didier Vibert , Clement Vidal , Shiang-Yu Wang , Chih-Yi Wen , Chi-Hung Yan , Naoki Yasuda

We outline in this paper observations of the young pre-main-sequence low-mass star TWA 7, hosting a debris disk and a distant planet. Using data collected with the near-infrared SPIRou spectropolarimeter / precision velocimeter at the…

Measuring the abundances of C- and O-bearing species in exoplanet atmospheres enables us to constrain the C/O ratio, that contains indications about the planet formation history. With a wavelength coverage going from 0.95 to 2.5 microns,…