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Design of SCALES: A 2-5 Micron Coronagraphic Integral Field Spectrograph for Keck Observatory

We present the design of SCALES (Slicer Combined with Array of Lenslets for Exoplanet Spectroscopy) a new 2-5 micron coronagraphic integral field spectrograph under construction for Keck Observatory. SCALES enables low-resolution (R~50)…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2022-08-24 Andrew Skemer , R. Deno Stelter , Stephanie Sallum , Nicholas MacDonald , Renate Kupke , Christopher Ratliffe , Ravinder Banyal , Amirul Hasan , Hari Mohan Varshney , Arun Surya , Ajin Prakash , Sivarani Thirupathi , Ramya Sethuraman , Govinda K. V. , Michael P. Fitzgerald , Eric Wang , Marc Kassis , Olivier Absil , Carlos Alvarez , Natasha Batalha , Marc-Andre Boucher , Cyril Bourgenot , Timothy Brandt , Zackery Briesemeister , Katherine de Kleer , Imke de Pater , William Deich , Devika Divakar , Guillaume Filion , Etienne Gauvin , Michael Gonzales , Thomas Greene , Philip Hinz , Rebecca Jensen-Clem , Christopher Johnson , Isabel Kain , Gabriel Kruglikov , Mackenzie Lach , Jean-Thomas Landry , Jialin Li , Michael C. Liu , James Lyke , Kenneth Magnone , Eduardo Marin , Emily C. Martin , Raquel A. Martinez , Dimitri Mawet , Brittany Miles , Dale Sandford , Patrick Sheehan , Ji Man Sohn , Jordan Stone

Performance of the Southern Astrophysical Research Telescope Speckle Instrument

The High Resolution Camera (HRCam) speckle imager at the 4.1 m Southern Astrophysical Research telescope is a highly productive instrument that has accumulated about 40K observations to date. Its performance (detected flux, level of the…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2024-08-23 Andrei Tokovinin

CHIRON - A Fiber Fed Spectrometer for Precise Radial Velocities

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

Update on the Preliminary Design of SCALES: the Santa Cruz Array of Lenslets for Exoplanet Spectroscopy

SCALES (Santa Cruz Array of Lenslets for Exoplanet Spectroscopy) is a 2-5 micron high-contrast lenslet integral-field spectrograph (IFS) driven by exoplanet characterization science requirements and will operate at W. M. Keck Observatory.…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2020-12-17 R. Deno Stelter , Andrew J. Skemer , Steph Sallum , Renate Kupke , Phil Hinz , Dimitri Mawet , Rebecca Jensen-Clem , Christopher Ratliffe , Nicholas MacDonald , William Deich , Gabriel Kruglikov , Marc Kassis , Jim Lyke , Zackery Briesemeister , Brittany Miles , Benjamin Gerard , Michael Fitzgerald , Timothy Brandt , Christian Marois

Ultra-high precision speckle spectrometer enabling radio-frequency scale resolution of atomic spectra

Laser speckle, the granular intensity pattern arising from random optical interference, provides a high-dimensional encoding of spectral information that can be exploited for precision metrology. Speckle-based spectrometers have advanced…

Optics · Physics 2026-04-03 Gabriel Britto Monteiro , Christopher Perrella , Sarah K. Scholten , Morgan Facchin , Andre N. Luiten , Graham D. Bruce , Kishan Dholakia

Performance characteristics of the new Keck Observatory echelle spectrograph and imager

The Echelle Spectrograph and Imager (ESI) is a multipurpose instrument which has been delivered by the Instrument Development Laboratory of Lick Observatory for use at the Cassegrain focus of the Keck II telescope. ESI saw first light on…

Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-24 A. I. Sheinis , J. Miller , M. Bolte , B. Sutin

A small actively-controlled high-resolution spectrograph based on off-the-shelf components

We present the design and testing of a prototype in-plane echelle spectrograph based on an actively controlled fibre-fed double-pass design. This system aims to be small and efficient with the minimum number of optical surfaces - currently…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2021-03-17 H. R. A. Jones , W. E. Martin , G. Anglada-Escudé , R. Errmann , D. A. Campbell , C. Baker , C. Boonsri , P. Choochalerm

A high resolution, multi-epoch spectral atlas of peculiar stars including RAVE, GAIA and HERMES wavelength ranges

We present an Echelle+CCD, high S/N, high resolution (R = 20\,000) spectroscopic atlas of 108 well-known objects representative of the most common types of peculiar and variable stars. The wavelength interval extends from 4600 to 9400 Ang,…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2015-05-20 L. Tomasella , U. Munari , T. Zwitter

Design and Construction of VUES: the Vilnius University Echelle Spectrograph

In February of 2014 the Yale Exoplanet Laboratory was commissioned to design, build, and deliver a high resolution (R = 60,000) spectrograph for the 1.65-meter telescope at the Moletai Astronomical Observatory. The observatory is operated…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2016-01-25 Colby Jurgenson , Debra Fischer , Tyler McCracken , David Sawyer , Andrew Szymkowiak , Matt Giguere , Fernando Santoro , Gary Muller

Image Slicing with Infrared Fibers

We are proposing to build a new integral field instrument (OSIRIS) for use with the Keck Adaptive Optics System. It will utilize a large (1024 element) fiber optic bundle to slice the field and feed a standard infrared spectrograph with a…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-05-23 J. E. Larkin , A. Quirrenbach , J. R. Graham

MELCHIORS: The Mercator Library of High Resolution Stellar Spectroscopy

Over the past decades, libraries of stellar spectra have been used in a large variety of science cases, including as sources of reference spectra for a given object or a given spectral type. Despite the existence of large libraries and the…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2024-01-24 P. Royer , T. Merle , K. Dsilva , S. Sekaran , H. Van Winckel , Y. Frémat , M. Van der Swaelmen , S. Gebruers , A. Tkachenko , M. Laverick , M. Dirickx , G. Raskin , H. Hensberge , M. Abdul-Masih , B. Acke , M. L. Alonso , S. Bandhu Mahato , P. G. Beck , N. Behara , S. Bloemen , B. Buysschaert , N. Cox , J. Debosscher , P. De Cat , P. Degroote , R. De Nutte , K. De Smedt , B. de Vries , L. Dumortier , A. Escorza , K. Exter , S. Goriely , N. Gorlova , M. Hillen , W. Homan , A. Jorissen , D. Kamath , M. Karjalainen , R. Karjalainen , P. Lampens , A. Lobel , R. Lombaert , P. Marcos-Arenal , J. Menu , F. Merges , E. Moravveji , P. Nemeth , P. Neyskens , R. Ostensen , P. I. Pápics , J. Perez , S. Prins S. Royer , A. Samadi-Ghadim , H. Sana , A. Sans Fuentes , S. Scaringi , V. Schmid , L. Siess , C. Siopis , K. Smolders , S. Sodor , A. Thoul , S. Triana , B. Vandenbussche , M. Van de Sande , G. Van De Steene , S. Van Eck , P. A. M. van Hoof , A. J. Van Marle , T. Van Reeth , L. Vermeylen , D. Volpi , J. Vos , C. Waelkens

ANDES, the high resolution spectrograph for the ELT: science goals, project overview and future developments

The first generation of ELT instruments includes an optical-infrared high-resolution spectrograph, indicated as ELT-HIRES and recently christened ANDES (ArmazoNes high Dispersion Echelle Spectrograph). ANDES consists of three fibre-fed…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2024-07-23 A. Marconi , M. Abreu , V. Adibekyan , V. Alberti , S. Albrecht , J. Alcaniz , M. Aliverti , C. Allende Prieto , J. D. Alvarado Gómez , C. S. Alves , P. J. Amado , M. Amate , M. I. Andersen , S. Antoniucci , E. Artigau , C. Bailet , C. Baker , V. Baldini , A. Balestra , S. A. Barnes , F. Baron , S. C. C. Barros , S. M. Bauer , M. Beaulieu , O. Bellido-Tirado , B. Benneke , T. Bensby , E. A. Bergin , P. Berio , K. Biazzo , L. Bigot , A. Bik , J. L. Birkby , N. Blind , O. Boebion , I. Boisse , E. Bolmont , J. S. Bolton , M. Bonaglia , X. Bonfils , L. Bonhomme , F. Borsa , J. -C. Bouret , A. Brandeker , W. Brandner , C. H. Broeg , M. Brogi , D. Brousseau , A. Brucalassi , J. Brynnel , L. A. Buchhave , D. F. Buscher , L. Cabona , A. Cabral , G. Calderone , R. Calvo-Ortega , F. Cantalloube , B. L. Canto Martins , L. Carbonaro , Y. Caujolle , G. Chauvin , B. Chazelas , A. -L. Cheffot , Y. S. Cheng , A. Chiavassa , L. Christensen , R. Cirami , M. Cirasuolo , N. J. Cook , R. J. Cooke , I. Coretti , S. Covino , N. Cowan , G. Cresci , S. Cristiani , V. Cunha Parro , G. Cupani , V. D'Odorico , K. Dadi , I. de Castro Leão , A. De Cia , J. R. De Medeiros , F. Debras , M. Debus , A. Delorme , O. Demangeon , F. Derie , M. Dessauges-Zavadsky , P. Di Marcantonio , S. Di Stefano , F. Dionies , A. Domiciano de Souza , R. Doyon , J. Dunn , S. Egner , D. Ehrenreich , J. P. Faria , D. Ferruzzi , C. Feruglio , M. Fisher , A. Fontana , B. S. Frank , C. Fuesslein , M. Fumagalli , T. Fusco , J. Fynbo , O. Gabella , W. Gaessler , E. Gallo , X. Gao , L. Genolet , M. Genoni , P. Giacobbe , E. Giro , R. S. Goncalves , O. A. Gonzalez , J. I. González Hernández , C. Gouvret , F. Gracia Temich , M. G. Haehnelt , C. Haniff , A. Hatzes , R. Helled , H. J. Hoeijmakers , I. Hughes , P. Huke , Y. Ivanisenko , A. S. Järvinen , S. P. Järvinen , A. Kaminski , J. Kern , J. Knoche , A. Kordt , H. Korhonen , A. J. Korn , D. Kouach , G. Kowzan , L. Kreidberg , M. Landoni , A. A. Lanotte , A. Lavail , B. Lavie , D. Lee , M. Lehmitz , J. Li , W. Li , J. Liske , C. Lovis , S. Lucatello , D. Lunney , M. J. MacIntosh , N. Madhusudhan , L. Magrini , R. Maiolino , J. Maldonado , L. Malo , A. W. S. Man , T. Marquart , C. M. J. Marques , E. L. Marques , P. Martinez , A. Martins , C. J. A. P. Martins , J. H. C. Martins , P. Maslowski , C. A. Mason , E. Mason , R. A. McCracken , M. A. F. Melo e Sousa , P. Mergo , G. Micela , D. Milaković , P. Molliere , M. A. Monteiro , D. Montgomery , C. Mordasini , J. Morin , A. Mucciarelli , M. T. Murphy , M. N'Diaye , N. Nardetto , B. Neichel , N. Neri , A. T. Niedzielski , E. Niemczura , B. Nisini , L. Nortmann , P. Noterdaeme , N. J. Nunes , L. Oggioni , F. Olchewsky , E. Oliva , H. Onel , L. Origlia , G. Ostlin , N. N. -Q. Ouellette , E. Palle , P. Papaderos , G. Pariani , L. Pasquini , J. Peñate Castro , F. Pepe , C. Peroux , L. Perreault Levasseur , S. Perruchot , P. Petit , O. Pfuhl , L. Pino , J. Piqueras , N. Piskunov , A. Pollo , K. Poppenhaeger , M. Porru , J. Puschnig , A. Quirrenbach , E. Rauscher , R. Rebolo , E. M. A. Redaelli , S. Reffert , D. T. Reid , A. Reiners , P. Richter , M. Riva , S. Rivoire , C. Rodriguez-López , I. U. Roederer , D. Romano , M. Roth , S. Rousseau , J. Rowe , A. Saccardi , S. Salvadori , N. Sanna , N. C. Santos , P. Santos Diaz , J. Sanz-Forcada , M. Sarajlic , J. -F. Sauvage , D. Savio , A Scaudo , S. Schäfer , R. P. Schiavon , T. M. Schmidt , C. Selmi , R. Simoes , A. Simonnin , S. Sivanandam , M. Sordet , R. Sordo , F. Sortino , D. Sosnowska , S. G. Sousa , A. Spang , R. Spiga , E. Stempels , J. R. Y. Stevenson , K. G. Strassmeier , A. Suárez Mascareño , A. Sulich , X. Sun , N. R. Tanvir , F. Tenegi-Sangines , S. Thibault , S. J. Thompson , P. Tisserand , A. Tozzi , M. Turbet , J. -P. Veran , P. Vallee , I. Vanni , R. Varas , A. Vega-Moreno , K. A. Venn , A. Verma , J. Vernet , M. Viel , G. Wade , C. Waring , M. Weber , J. Weder , B. Wehbe , J. Weingrill , M. Woche , M. Xompero , E. Zackrisson , A. Zanutta , M. R. Zapatero Osorio , M. Zechmeister , J. Zimara

Optical design of the SOXS spectrograph for ESO NTT

An overview of the optical design for the SOXS spectrograph is presented. SOXS (Son Of X-Shooter) is the new wideband, medium resolution (R>4500) spectrograph for the ESO 3.58m NTT telescope expected to start observations in 2021 at La…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2018-09-06 Ricardo Zanmar Sanchez , Matteo Munari , Adam Rubin , Sagi Ben-Ami , Anna Brucalassi , Hanindyo Kuncarayakti , Jani Achrén , Sergio Campana , Riccardo Claudi , Pietro Schipani , Matteo Aliverti , Andrea Baruffolo , Federico Biondi , Giulio Capasso , Rosario Cosentino , Francesco D'Alessio , Paolo D'Avanzo , Salvatore Scuderi , Fabrizio Vitali , José Antonio Araiza-Duran , Iair Arcavi , Andrea Bianco , Enrico Cappellaro , Mirko Colapietro , Massimo Della Valle , Oz Diner , Sergio D'Orsi , Daniela Fantinel , Johan Fynbo , Avishay Gal-Yam , Matteo Genoni , Ofir Hershko , Mika Hirvonen , Jari Kotilainen , Tarun Kumar , Marco Landoni , Jussi Lehti , Gianluca Li Causi , Luca Marafatto , Seppo Mattila , Giorgio Pariani , Giuliano Pignata , Michael Rappaport , Davide Ricci , Marco Riva , Bernardo Salasnich , Stephen Smartt , Massimo Turatto

Design of an IR Imaging Channel for the Keck Observatory SCALES Instrument

A next-generation instrument named, Slicer Combined with Array of Lenslets for Exoplanet Spectroscopy (SCALES), is being planned for the W. M. Keck Observatory. SCALES will have an integral field spectrograph (IFS) and a diffraction-limited…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2022-08-17 Ravinder K. Banyal , Amirul Hasan , Reni Kupke , Hari Mohan Varshney , Ajin Prakash , T. Sivarani , Andy J. Skemer , Nick MacDonald , Steph Sallum , Will Deich , Michael P. Fitzgerald , K. V. Govinda , Chris Ratliff , Ramya Sethuram , Deno Stelter , Arun Surya , Eric Wang

TEXES: A Sensitive High-Resolution Grating Spectrograph for the Mid-Infrared

We discuss the design and performance of TEXES, the Texas Echelon Cross Echelle Spectrograph. TEXES is a mid-infrared (5-25 um) spectrograph with several operating modes: high-resolution, cross-dispersed with a resolving power of R=100,000,…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-07 J. H. Lacy , M. J. Richter , T. K. Greathouse , D. T. Jaffe , Q. Zhu

PEPSI: The high-resolution echelle spectrograph and polarimeter for the Large Binocular Telescope

PEPSI is the bench-mounted, two-arm, fibre-fed and stabilized Potsdam Echelle Polarimetric and Spectroscopic Instrument for the 2x8.4 m Large Binocular Telescope (LBT). Three spectral resolutions of either 43 000, 120 000 or 270 000 can…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2015-05-27 K. G. Strassmeier , I. Ilyin , A. Järvinen , M. Weber , M. Woche , S. I. Barnes , S. -M. Bauer , E. Beckert , W. Bittner , R. Bredthauer , T. A. Carroll , C. Denker , F. Dionies , I. DiVarano , D. Döscher , T. Fechner , D. Feuerstein , T. Granzer , T. Hahn , G. Harnisch , A. Hofmann , M. Lesser , J. Paschke , S. Pankratow , V. Plank , D. Plüschke , E. Popow , D. Sablowski , J. Storm

X-shooter, the new wide band intermediate resolution spectrograph at the ESO Very Large Telescope

X-shooter is the first 2nd generation instrument of the ESO Very Large Telescope(VLT). It is a very efficient, single-target, intermediate-resolution spectrograph that was installed at the Cassegrain focus of UT2 in 2009. The instrument…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2015-05-30 Joel Vernet , H. Dekker , S. D'Odorico , L. Kaper , P. Kjaergaard , F. Hammer , S. Randich , F. Zerbi , P. M. Groot , J. Hjorth , I. Guinouard , R. Navarro , T. Adolfse , P. W. Albers , J. -P. Amans , J. J. Andersen , M. I. Andersen , P. Binetruy , P. Bristow , R. Castillo , F. Chemla , L. Christensen , P. Conconi , R. Conzelmann , J. Dam , V. De Caprio , A. De Ugarte Postigo , B. Delabre , P. Di Marcantonio , M. Downing , E. Elswijk , G. Finger , G. Fischer , H. Flores , P. Francois , P. Goldoni , L. Guglielmi , R. Haigron , H. Hanenburg , I. Hendriks , M. Horrobin , D. Horville , N. C. Jessen , F. Kerber , L. Kern , M. Kiekebusch , P. Kleszcz , J. Klougart , J. Kragt , H. H. Larsen , J. -L. Lizon , C. Lucuix , V. Mainieri , R. Manuputy , C. Martayan , E. Mason , R. Mazzoleni , N. Michaelsen , A. Modigliani , S. Moehler , P. Møller , A. Norup Sørensen , P. Nørregaard , C. Peroux , F. Patat , E. Pena , J. Pragt , C. Reinero , F. Riga , M. Riva , R. Roelfsema , F. Royer , G. Sacco , P. Santin , T. Schoenmaker , P. Spano , E. Sweers , R. Ter Horst , M. Tintori , N. Tromp , P. van Dael , H. van der Vliet , L. Venema , M. Vidali , J. Vinther , P. Vola , R. Winters , D. Wistisen , G. Wulterkens , A. Zacchei

Correcting METIS spectra for telluric absorption to maximize spectral fidelity

METIS is a mid-infrared instrument proposed for the European Extremely Large Telescope (E-ELT). It is designed to provide imaging and spectroscopic capabilities in the 3 - 14 micron region up to a spectral resolution of 100000. One of the…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2010-10-22 Stefan Uttenthaler , Klaus M. Pontoppidan , Andreas Seifahrt , Sarah Kendrew , Joris A. D. L. Blommaert , Eric J. Pantin , Bernhard R. Brandl , Frank J. Molster , Lars Venema , Rainer Lenzen , Phil Parr-Burman , Ralf Siebenmorgen , the METIS team

Aberration corrected ultraviolet echelle spectrographs: straw man designs and performance

The Far Ultraviolet (FUV: hereafter 900-1150 A) is a spectral range which contains many of the ground state transitions of common elements but has had limited observational capabilities due to the unique technological requirements to…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2023-12-29 James C. Green

NEWS: the near-infrared Echelle for wideband spectroscopy

We present an updated optical and mechanical design of NEWS: the Near-infrared Echelle for Wide-band Spectroscopy (formerly called HiJaK: the High-resolution J, H and K spectrometer), a compact, high-resolution, near-infrared spectrometer…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2016-09-23 Mark Veyette , Philip Muirhead , Zachary Hall , Brian Taylor , Jimmy Ye