The exoplanet hunter HARPS: Unequalled accuracy and perspectives toward 1 cm s-1 precision

Proceedings of SPIE - The International Society for Optical Engineering

Volumn 6269 I, Issue , 2006, Pages

  Lovis, Christophe ^a   Pepe, Francesco ^a   Bouchy, François ^b   Curto, Gaspare Lo ^c   Mayor, Michel ^a   Pasquini, Luca ^d   Queloz, Didier ^a   Rupprecht, Gero ^d   Udry, Stéphane ^a   Zucker, Shay ^e  

^a UNIVERSITÉ DE GENÈVE   (Switzerland)

^b OBSERVATOIRE DE HAUTE PROVENCE   (France)

^c EUROPEAN SOUTHERN OBSERVATORY   (Chile)

^d EUROPEAN SOUTHERN OBSERVATORY   (Germany)

^e WEIZMANN INSTITUTE OF SCIENCE   (Israel)

Author keywords

CODEX; Extrasolar planets; HARPS; Radial velocities; ThAr lamps; Wavelength calibration

Indexed keywords

AIRBORNE TELESCOPES; CALIBRATION; DOPPLER EFFECT; PLANETS; SPECTROGRAPHS; VELOCITY MEASUREMENT;

CODEX; EXTRASOLAR PLANETS; RADIAL VELOCITIES; WAVELENGTH CALIBRATION;

ASTRONOMY;

EID: 33749326342     PISSN: 0277786X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1117/12.669991     Document Type: Conference Paper

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