A spectrograph for exoplanet observations calibrated at the centimetre-per-second level

Nature

Volumn 485, Issue 7400, 2012, Pages 611-614

  Wilken, Tobias ^a,b   Curto, Gaspare Lo ^c   Probst, Rafael A ^a   Steinmetz, Tilo ^a,b   Manescau, Antonio ^c   Pasquini, Luca ^c   González Hernández, Jonay I ^d,e   Rebolo, Rafael ^d,e,f   Hänsch, Theodor W ^a   Udem, Thomas ^a   Holzwarth, Ronald ^a,b  

^a MAX PLANCK INSTITUT FÜR QUANTENOPTIK   (Germany)

^b MENLO SYSTEMS GMBH   (Germany)

^c EUROPEAN SOUTHERN OBSERVATORY   (Germany)

^d INSTITUTO DE ASTROFÍSICA DE CANARIAS   (Spain)

^e UNIVERSIDAD DE LA LAGUNA   (Spain)

^f CSIC   (Spain)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ASTRONOMY; CALIBRATION; DOPPLER EFFECT; LABORATORY METHOD;

ACCELERATION; ANALYTICAL EQUIPMENT; ARTICLE; ASTRONOMICAL SPECTROGRAPH; ASTRONOMY; CALIBRATION; FIBER; LASER; PHOTON; PRIORITY JOURNAL;

EID: 84864680713     PISSN: 00280836     EISSN: 14764687     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/nature11092     Document Type: Article

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