A laser frequency comb that enables radial velocity measurements with a precision of 1 cm s-1

Nature

Volumn 452, Issue 7187, 2008, Pages 610-612

  Li, Chih Hao ^a,b   Benedick, Andrew J ^c   Fendel, Peter ^c,d   Glenday, Alexander G ^a,b   Kärtner, Franz X ^c   Phillips, David F ^a   Sasselov, Dimitar ^a   Szentgyorgyi, Andrew ^a   Walsworth, Ronald L ^a,b  

^a HARVARD SMITHSONIAN CENTER FOR ASTROPHYSICS   (United States)

^b HARVARD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c USA   (United States)

^d MENLO SYSTEMS GMBH   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ASTROPHYSICS; LASER; MEASUREMENT METHOD; MERCURY (PLANET); PRECISION; VELOCITY;

ACCURACY; ARTICLE; ASTRONOMY; FILTRATION; LASER; MEASUREMENT; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REPRODUCIBILITY; VELOCITY;

EID: 41649122077     PISSN: 00280836     EISSN: 14764687     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/nature06854     Document Type: Article

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