ESPRESSO: Projecting a rocky exoplanet hunter for the VLT

Proceedings of SPIE - The International Society for Optical Engineering

Volumn 7735, Issue PART 1, 2010, Pages

  Mégevand, Denis ^a   Herreros, José Miguel ^b   Zerbi, Filippo ^c   Cabral, Alexandre ^d   Di Marcantonio, Paolo ^e   Lovis, Christophe ^a   Pepe, Francesco ^a   Cristiani, Stefano ^e   Rebolo, Rafael ^b   Santos, Nuno C ^f  

^a UNIVERSITY OF GENEVA   (Switzerland)

^b INSTITUTO DE ASTROFÍSICA DE CANARIAS   (Spain)

^c INAF OSSERVATORIO ASTRONOMICO DI BRERA   (Italy)

^d UNIVERSITY OF LISBON   (Portugal)

^e INAF OSSERVATORIO ASTRONOMICO DI TRIESTE   (Italy)

^f CENTRO DE ASTROFÍSICA   (Portugal)

Author keywords

exoplanets; high resolution; high stability; radial velocity; Spectrograph; VLT

Indexed keywords

EXO-PLANETS; HIGH RESOLUTION; HIGH STABILITY; RADIAL VELOCITY; VLT;

ASTRONOMY; OPTICAL TELESCOPES; SPECTROGRAPHS; STABILITY;

INSTRUMENTS;

EID: 78149260088     PISSN: 0277786X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1117/12.856656     Document Type: Conference Paper

References (3)

1. Pepe, F. A. et al, "ESPRESSO: the Echelle spectrograph for rocky exoplanet and stable spectroscopic observations", Proc SPIE 7735, Paper 14 (2010).
2. Cabral, A. P. et al., "ESPRESSO: Design and analysis of Coudé-Train concepts for stable and efficient optical feeding", Proc. SPIE 7739, Paper 178 (2010).
3. Spanò, P. et al., "Optical design of the ESPRESSO spectrograph at the VLT", Proc. SPIE 7735, Paper 20 (2010).