ESPRESSO: The Echelle spectrograph for rocky exoplanets and stable spectroscopic observations

Proceedings of SPIE - The International Society for Optical Engineering

Volumn 7735, Issue PART 1, 2010, Pages

  Pepe, Francesco A ^a   Cristiani, Stefano ^b   Rebolo Lopez, Rafael ^c   Santos, Nuno C ^d   Amorim, Antonio ^e   Avila, Gerardo ^f   Benz, Willy ^g   Bonifacio, Piercarlo ^b   Cabral, Alexandre ^e   Carvas, Pedro ^e   Cirami, Roberto ^b   Coelho, João ^e   Comari, Maurizio ^b   Coretti, Igor ^b   De Caprio, Vincenzo ^h   Dekker, Hans ^f   Delabre, Bernard ^f   Di Marcantonio, Paolo ^b   D'Odorico, Valentina ^b   Fleury, Michel ^a   García, Ramón ^c   Herreros Linares, José Miguel ^c   Hughes, Ian ^a   Iwert, Olaf ^f   Lima, Jorge ^e   Lizon, Jean Louis ^f   Lo Curto, Gaspare ^f   Lovis, Christophe ^a   Manescau, Antonio ^f   Martins, Carlos ^d   Mégevand, Denis ^a   Moitinho, André ^e   Molaro, Paolo ^b   Monteiro, Mario ^d   Monteiro, Manuel ^d   Pasquini, Luca ^f   Mordasini, Christoph ^g   Queloz, Didier ^a   Rasilla, José L ^a   Rebordão, José M ^e   Santana Tschudi, Samuel ^c   Santin, Paolo ^b   Sosnowska, Danuta ^a   Spanò, Paolo ^h   Tenegi, Fabio ^c   Udry, Stéphane ^a   Vanzella, Eros ^b   Viel, Matteo ^b   Zapatero Osorio, Maria Rosa ⁱ   Zerbi, Filippo ^h   more..

^a UNIVERSITY OF GENEVA   (Switzerland)

^b INAF OSSERVATORIO ASTRONOMICO DI TRIESTE   (Italy)

^c INSTITUTO DE ASTROFÍSICA DE CANARIAS   (Spain)

^d CENTRO DE ASTROFÍSICA   (Portugal)

^e UNIVERSITY OF LISBON   (Portugal)

^f EUROPEAN SOUTHERN OBSERVATORY   (Germany)

^g UNIVERSITY OF BERN   (Switzerland)

^h INAF OSSERVATORIO ASTRONOMICO DI BRERA   (Italy)

ⁱ INSTITUTO NACIONAL DE TÉCNICA AEROESPACIAL   (Spain)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ECHELLE SPECTROGRAPH; EXO-PLANETS; FUNDAMENTAL PHYSICAL CONSTANT; LARGE TELESCOPES; SCIENTIFIC OBJECTIVES; TECHNICAL SOLUTIONS;

INSTRUMENTS; SPECTROGRAPHS;

ASTRONOMY;

EID: 77956723626     PISSN: 0277786X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1117/12.857122     Document Type: Conference Paper

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