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Radial velocities (RV) measured from near-infrared (NIR) spectra are a potentially excellent tool to search for extrasolar planets around cool or active stars. High resolution infrared (IR) spectrographs now available are reaching the high…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2016-04-07 I. Carleo , N. Sanna , R. Gratton , S. Benatti , M. Bonavita , E. Oliva , L. Origlia , S. Desidera , R. Claudi , E. Sissa

The Infrared Spectrograph (IRS)is one of the three instruments on board the Space Infrared Telescope Facility (SIRTF) to be launched in December 2001. The IRS will provide high resolution spectra R~600 from 10--37microns and low resolution…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-05-23 J. Houck , J. van Cleve , B. Brandl , V. Charmandaris , D. Devost , K. Uchida

JWST's Near-Infrared Imager and Slitless Spectrograph (NIRISS) includes an Aperture Masking Interferometry (AMI) mode designed to be used between 2.7{\mu}m and 4.8{\mu}m. At these wavelengths, it will have the highest angular resolution of…

The Visible and Near Infrared (VNIR) is one of the modules of EChO, the Exoplanets Characterization Observatory proposed to ESA for an M-class mission. EChO is aimed to observe planets while transiting by their suns. Then the instrument had…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-18 A. Adriani , G. Bellucci , L. Gambicorti , M. Focardi , E. Oliva , M. Farina , A. M. Di Giorgio , F. Santoli , E. Pace , G. Piccioni , G. Filacchione , M. Pancrazzi , A. Tozzi , G. Micela

The field of exoplanet research is moving towards the detection and characterization of habitable planets. These exo-Earths can be easily found around low-mass stars by using either photometric transit or radial-velocity (RV) techniques. In…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2017-02-22 Federica Cersullo , François Wildi , Bruno Chazelas , Francesco Pepe

The James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) is ushering in a new era in remote sensing of exoplanetary atmospheres. Atmospheric retrievals of exoplanets can be highly sensitive to high-precision JWST data. It is, therefore, imperative to…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2023-07-12 Måns Holmberg , Nikku Madhusudhan

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

High-precision high-fidelity spectrographs are the most powerful instruments for exoplanets detection and characterization. The sub-m/s radial-velocity precision, required to detect Earth-mass exoplanets, necessitates tackling all the…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2026-04-13 François Bouchy , Francesco Pepe , Xavier Dumusque , Tobias Schmidt , Christophe Lovis , Stéphane Udry

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

The distribution of exoplanets around low-mass stars is still not well understood. Such stars, however, present an excellent opportunity of reaching down to the rocky and habitable planet domains. The number of current detections used for…

The Euclid mission will conduct an extragalactic survey over 15000 deg$^2$ of the extragalactic sky. The spectroscopic channel of the Near-Infrared Spectrometer and Photometer (NISP) has a resolution of $R\sim450$ for its blue and red…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2023-06-21 Euclid Collaboration , K. Paterson , M. Schirmer , Y. Copin , J. -C. Cuillandre , W. Gillard , L. A. Gutiérrez Soto , L. Guzzo , H. Hoekstra , T. Kitching , S. Paltani , W. J. Percival , M. Scodeggio , L. Stanghellini , P. N. Appleton , R. Laureijs , Y. Mellier , N. Aghanim , B. Altieri , A. Amara , N. Auricchio , M. Baldi , R. Bender , C. Bodendorf , D. Bonino , E. Branchini , M. Brescia , J. Brinchmann , S. Camera , V. Capobianco , C. Carbone , J. Carretero , F. J. Castander , M. Castellano , S. Cavuoti , A. Cimatti , R. Cledassou , G. Congedo , C. J. Conselice , L. Conversi , L. Corcione , F. Courbin , A. Da Silva , H. Degaudenzi , J. Dinis , M. Douspis , F. Dubath , X. Dupac , S. Ferriol , M. Frailis , E. Franceschi , M. Fumana , S. Galeotta , B. Garilli , B. Gillis , C. Giocoli , A. Grazian , F. Grupp , S. V. H. Haugan , W. Holmes , A. Hornstrup , P. Hudelot , K. Jahnke , M. Kümmel , A. Kiessling , M. Kilbinger , R. Kohley , B. Kubik , M. Kunz , H. Kurki-Suonio , S. Ligori , P. B. Lilje , I. Lloro , E. Maiorano , O. Mansutti , O. Marggraf , K. Markovic , F. Marulli , R. Massey , E. Medinaceli , S. Mei , M. Meneghetti , G. Meylan , M. Moresco , L. Moscardini , R. Nakajima , S. -M. Niemi , J. W. Nightingale , T. Nutma , C. Padilla , F. Pasian , K. Pedersen , G. Polenta , M. Poncet , L. A. Popa , F. Raison , A. Renzi , J. Rhodes , G. Riccio , H. -W. Rix , E. Romelli , M. Roncarelli , E. Rossetti , R. Saglia , B. Sartoris , P. Schneider , A. Secroun , G. Seidel , S. Serrano , C. Sirignano , G. Sirri , J. Skottfelt , L. Stanco , P. Tallada-Crespí , A. N. Taylor , I. Tereno , R. Toledo-Moreo , F. Torradeflot , I. Tutusaus , L. Valenziano , T. Vassallo , Y. Wang , J. Weller , G. Zamorani , J. Zoubian , S. Andreon , S. Bardelli , E. Bozzo , C. Colodro-Conde , D. Di Ferdinando , M. Farina , J. Graciá-Carpio , E. Keihänen , V. Lindholm , D. Maino , N. Mauri , V. Scottez , M. Tenti , E. Zucca , Y. Akrami , C. Baccigalupi , M. Ballardini , A. Biviano , A. S. Borlaff , C. Burigana , R. Cabanac , A. Cappi , C. S. Carvalho , S. Casas , G. Castignani , T. Castro , K. C. Chambers , A. R. Cooray , J. Coupon , H. M. Courtois , S. Davini , G. De Lucia , G. Desprez , J. A. Escartin , S. Escoffier , I. Ferrero , L. Gabarra , J. Garcia-Bellido , K. George , F. Giacomini , G. Gozaliasl , H. Hildebrandt , I. Hook , J. J. E. Kajava , V. Kansal , C. C. Kirkpatrick , L. Legrand , A. Loureiro , M. Magliocchetti , G. Mainetti , R. Maoli , S. Marcin , M. Martinelli , N. Martinet , C. J. A. P. Martins , S. Matthew , L. Maurin , R. B. Metcalf , P. Monaco , G. Morgante , S. Nadathur , L. Patrizii , J. Pollack , C. Porciani , D. Potter , M. Pöntinen , A. G. Sánchez , Z. Sakr , A. Schneider , E. Sefusatti , M. Sereno , A. Shulevski , J. Stadel , J. Steinwagner , C. Valieri , J. Valiviita , A. Veropalumbo , M. Viel , I. A. Zinchenko

The Cambridge Infra-red Panoramic Survey Spectrograph (CIRPASS) is described. This near-infrared (NIR) spectrograph has been used on the 8m Gemini-South Telescope, the 3.9m Anglo-Australian Telescope (AAT) and the 4.2m William Herschel…

The Near-Infrared Spectrograph (NIRSpec) on the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) offers the first opportunity to use integral-field spectroscopy from space at near-infrared wavelengths. More specifically, NIRSpec's integral-field unit can…

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

The Near-infrared Spectrograph (NIRSpec) on the James Webb Space Telescope is uniquely suited to studying galaxies in the distant Universe with its combination of multi-object capabilities and sensitivity over a large range in wavelength…

We present the first results from our Red Optical Planet Survey (ROPS) to search for low mass planets orbiting late type dwarfs (M5.5V - M9V) in their habitable zones (HZ). Our observations, with the red arm of the MIKE spectrograph (0.5 -…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-04 J. R. Barnes , J. S. Jenkins , H. R. A. Jones , P. Rojo , P. Arriagada , A. Jordan , D. Minniti , M. Tuomi , S. V. Jeffers , D. Pinfield

We present the results of a precise near-infrared (NIR) radial velocity (RV) survey of 32 low-mass stars with spectral types K2-M4 using CSHELL at the NASA IRTF in the $K$-band with an isotopologue methane gas cell to achieve wavelength…

IRIS (InfraRed Imaging Spectrograph) is a first light near-infrared diffraction limited imager and integral field spectrograph being designed for the future Thirty Meter Telescope (TMT). IRIS is optimized to perform astronomical studies…

The Near Infrared Spectrograph (NIRSpec) on the James Webb Space Telescope affords the astronomical community an unprecedented space-based Multi-Object Spectroscopy (MOS) capability through the use of a programmable array of…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2024-08-29 Katie Bechtold , Torsten Böker , David E. Franz , Maurice te Plate , Timothy D. Rawle , Rai Wu , Peter Zeidler