CARMENES: Calar Alto high-resolution search for M dwarfs with exo-earths with near-infrared echelle spectrograph

Proceedings of SPIE - The International Society for Optical Engineering

Volumn 7735, Issue PART 1, 2010, Pages

  Quirrenbach, A ^a   Amado, P J ^b   Mandel, H ^a   Caballero, J A ^c   Mundt, R ^d   Ribas, I ^e   Reiners, A ^f   Abril, M ^b   Aceituno, J ^g   Afonso, C ^d   Barrado Y Navascues D ^g   Bean, J L ^f   Bejar V J S ^h   Becerril, S ^b   Bohm A ^d   Cardenas M C ^b   Claret, A ^b   Colome J ^e   Costillo, L P ^b   Dreizler, S ^f   Fernandez M ^b   Francisco, X ^e   Galadi D ^g   Garrido, R ^b   Gonzalez Hernandez J I ^h   Guardia J ^e   Guenther, E W ⁱ   Gutierrez Soto F ^b   Joergens, V ^d   Hatzes, A P ⁱ   Helmling, J ^g   Henning, T ^d   Herrero, E ^e   Kurster M ^d   Laun, W ^d   Lenzen, R ^d   Mall, U ^d   Martin E L ^c   Martin Ruiz S ^b   Mirabet, E ^b   Montes, D ^j   Morales, J C ^e   Morales Munoz R ^b   Moya, A ^c   Naranjo, V ^d   Rabaza, O ^b   Ramon A ^b   Rebolo, R ^h   Reffert, S ^a   Rodler, F ^h   Rodriguez E ^b   Rodriguez Trinidad A ^b   Rohloff, R R ^d   Sanchez Carrasco M A ^b   Schmidt, C ^f   Seifert, W ^a   Setiawan, J ^d   Solano, E ^c   Stahl, O ^a   Storz, C ^d   Suarez J C ^b   Thiele, U ^g   Wagner, K ^d   Wiedemann, G ^k   Zapatero Osorio, M R ^c   Del Burgo, C ^l   Sanchez Blanco E ^b   Xu, W ^m   more..

^a UNIVERSITÄT HEIDELBERG   (Germany)

^b INSTITUTO DE ASTROFÍSICA DE ANDALUCÍA CSIC   (Spain)

^c CENTRO DE ASTROBIOLOGÍA CSIC INTA   (Spain)

^d MAX PLANCK INSTITUT FÜR ASTRONOMIE   (Germany)

^e UNIVERSITAT AUTÒNOMA DE BARCELONA   (Spain)

^f UNIVERSITY OF GÖTTINGEN   (Germany)

^g CENTRO ASTRONÓMICO HISPANO ALEMÁN   (Spain)

^h INSTITUTO DE ASTROFÍSICA DE CANARIAS   (Spain)

ⁱ THÜRINGER LANDESSTERNWARTE TAUTENBURG   (Germany)

^j UNIVERSIDAD COMPLUTENSE DE MADRID   (Spain)

^k UNIVERSITY OF HAMBURG   (Germany)

^l UNINOVA   (Portugal)

^m Wenli Xu Optical System Engineering   (Germany)

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Author keywords

Extrasolar Planets; M Dwarfs; Near Infrared Instrumentation; Optical Instrumentation; Spectrographs

Indexed keywords

ECHELLE SPECTROGRAPH; EXOPLANET; EXTRA SOLAR PLANETS; HIGH RESOLUTION; IN-VACUUM; INTEGRAL PART; M DWARFS; M STARS; NEAR INFRARED; OPTICAL INSTRUMENTATION; RADIAL VELOCITY; WAVELENGTH RANGES;

ASTRONOMY; INFRARED DEVICES; OPTICAL TELESCOPES; PLANETS; SPECTROGRAPHS;

INSTRUMENTS;

EID: 78149238104     PISSN: 0277786X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1117/12.857777     Document Type: Conference Paper

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