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Dr. Nuno C. Santos

at Instituto de Astrofisica E Ciencias do Espaco

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Publications (25)

Proceedings Article | 18 July 2024 Poster + Paper

ANDES, the high-resolution spectrograph for the ELT: the front-end and its seeing limited arms

Alexandre Cabral, Bachar Wehbé, Manuel Abreu, Matteo Aliverti, Manuel Monteiro, João Coelho, Alessio Zanutta, Edoardo Redaelli, Ernesto Oliva, Paolo Di Marcantonio, Nuno Santos, Alessandro Marconi

Proceedings Volume 13096, 130964C (2024) https://doi.org/10.1117/12.3019808

KEYWORDS: Spectrographs, Calibration, Cameras, Mirror stabilization, Design, Equipment, Dichroic mirrors, Astronomy, Telescopes

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Proceedings Article | 18 July 2024 Presentation + Paper

NIRPS first light and early science: breaking the 1 m/s RV precision barrier at infrared wavelengths

Étienne Artigau, François Bouchy, René Doyon, Frédérique Baron, Lison Malo, François Wildi, Franceso Pepe, Neil Cook, Simon Thibault, Vladimir Reshetov, Xavier Dumusque, Christophe Lovis, Danuta Sosnowska, Bruno Canto Martins, Jose Renan De Medeiros, Xavier Delfosse, Nuno Santos, Rafael Rebolo, Manuel Abreu, Guillaume Allain, Romain Allart, Hugues Auger, Susana Barros, Luc Bazinet, Nicolas Blind, Isabelle Boisse, Xavier Bonfils, Vincent Bourrier, Sébastien Bovay, Christopher Broeg, Denis Brousseau, Vincent Bruniquel, Alexandre Cabral, Charles Cadieux, Andres Carmona, Yann Carteret, Zalpha Challita, Bruno Chazelas, Ryan Cloutier, João Coelho, Marion Cointepas, Uriel Conod, Nicolas Cowan, Eduardo Cristo, João Gomes da Silva, Laurie Dauplaise, Roseane Lima Gomes, Elisa Delgado-Mena, David Ehrenreich, João Faria, Pedro Figueira, Thierry Forveille, Yolanda Frensch, Jonathan Gagné, Frédéric Genest, Ludovic Genolet, Jonay González Hernández, Felix Gracia Temich, Nolan Grieves, Olivier Hernandez, Melissa Hobson, Jens Hoeijmakers, Dan Kerley, Vigneshwaran Krishnamurthy, David Lafrenière, Pierrot Lamontagne, Pierre Larue, Henry Leaf, Izan Leão, Olivia Lim, Gaspare Lo Curto, Allan Martins, Claudio Melo, Yuri Messias, Lucile Mignon, Leslie Moranta, Christoph Mordasini, Khaled Al Moulla, Dany Mounzer, Alexandrine L'Heureux, Nicola Nari, Louise Nielsen, Ares Osborn, Lena Parc, Luca Pasquini, Vera Passegger, Stefan Pelletier, Céline Peroux, Caroline Piaulet, Mykhaylo Plotnykov, Anne-Sophie Poulin-Girard, José Luis Rasilla, Jonathan Saint-Antoine, Mirsad Sarajic, Alex Segovia, Julia Seidel, Damien Ségransan, Ana Rita Silva, Avidaan Srivastava, Atanas Stefanov, Alejandro Suárez Mascareño, Michael Sordet, Márcio Teixeira, Sféphane Udry, Diana Valencia, Philippe Vallée, Thomas Vandal, Valentina Vaulato, Gregg Wade, Joost Wardenier, Bachar Wehbé, Drew Weisserman, Ivan Wevers, Gérard Zins

Proceedings Volume 13096, 130960C (2024) https://doi.org/10.1117/12.3018994

KEYWORDS: Planets, Exoplanets, Adaptive optics, Spectrographs, Calibration, Equipment, Telescopes, Infrared astronomy

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Proceedings Article | 18 July 2024 Poster + Paper

Implementation of a seeing measurement device for the PoET solar telescope

B. Wehbé, M. Abreu, A. Silva, A. Cabral, N. Santos

Proceedings Volume 13096, 1309683 (2024) https://doi.org/10.1117/12.3017481

KEYWORDS: Equipment, Sun, Telescopes, Sensors, Turbulence, Scintillation, Photodiodes, Measurement devices, Atmospheric modeling, Astronomy

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Proceedings Article | 18 July 2024 Presentation + Paper

ANDES, the high resolution spectrograph for the ELT: science goals, project overview, and future developments

A. Marconi, M. Abreu, V. Adibekyan, V. Alberti, S. Albrecht, J. Alcaniz, M. Aliverti, C. Allende Prieto, J. Alvarado-Gomez, C. Alves, P. Amado, M. Amate, M. Andersen, S. Antoniucci, E. Artigau, C. Bailet, C. Baker, V. Baldini, A. Balestra, S. Barnes, F. Baron, S. C. Barros, S. Bauer, M. Beaulieu, O. Bellido-Tirado, B. Benneke, T. Bensby, E. Bergin, P. Berio, K. Biazzo, L. Bigot, A. Bik, J. Birkby, N. Blind, O. Boebion, I. Boisse, E. Bolmont, J. Bolton, M. Bonaglia, X. Bonfils, L. Bonhomme, F. Borsa, J.-C. Bouret, A. Brandeker, W. Brandner, C. Broeg, M. Brogi, D. Brousseau, A. Brucalassi, J. Brynnel, L. Buchhave, D. Buscher, L. Cabona, A. Cabral, G. Calderone, R. Calvo-Ortega, F. Cantalloube, B. Canto Martins, L. Carbonaro, Y. Caujolle, G. Chauvin, B. Chazelas, A.-L. Cheffot, Y. Cheng, A. Chiavassa, L. Christensen, R. Cirami, M. Cirasuolo, N. Cook, R. Cooke, I. Coretti, S. Covino, N. Cowan, G. Cresci, S. Cristiani, V. Cunha Parro, G. Cupani, V. D'Odorico, K. Dadi, I. de Castro Leão, A. De Cia, J. De Medeiros, F. Debras, M. Debus, A. Delorme, O. Demangeon, F. Derie, M. Dessauges-Zavadsky, P. Di Marcantonio, S. Di Stefano, F. Dionies, A. Domiciano de Souza, R. Doyon, J. Dunn, S. Egner, D. Ehrenreich, J. Faria, D. Ferruzzi, C. Feruglio, M. Fisher, A. Fontana, B. Frank, C. Fuesslein, M. Fumagalli, T. Fusco, J. Fynbo, O. Gabella, W. Gaessler, E. Gallo, X. Gao, L. Genolet, M. Genoni, P. Giacobbe, E. Giro, R. Gonçalves, O. Gonzalez, J. González-Hernández, C. Gouvret, F. Gracia Témich, M. Haehnelt, C. Haniff, A. Hatzes, R. Helled, H. Hoeijmakers, I. Hughes, P. Huke, Y. Ivanisenko, A. Järvinen, S. Järvinen, A. Kaminski, J. Kern, J. Knoche, A. Kordt, H. Korhonen, A. Korn, D. Kouach, G. Kowzan, L. Kreidberg, M. Landoni, A. Lanotte, A. Lavail, B. Lavie, D. Lee, M. Lehmitz, J. Li, W. Li, J. Liske, C. Lovis, S. Lucatello, D. Lunney, M. MacIntosh, N. Madhusudhan, L. Magrini, R. Maiolino, J. Maldonado, L. Malo, A. W. Man, T. Marquart, C. M. Marques, E. Marques, P. Martinez, A. Martins, C. J. A. Martins, J. H. Martins, P. Maslowski, C. Mason, E. Mason, R. McCracken, M. A. Melo e Sousa, P. Mergo, G. Micela, D. Milaković, P. Mollière, M. Monteiro, D. Montgomery, C. Mordasini, J. Morin, A. Mucciarelli, M. Murphy, M. N'Diaye, N. Nardetto, B. Neichel, N. Neri, A. Niedzielski, E. Niemczura, B. Nisini, L. Nortmann, P. Noterdaeme, N. Nunes, L. Oggioni, F. Olchewsky, E. Oliva, H. Önel, L. Origlia, G. Östlin, N. N.-Q. Ouellette, E. Pallé, P. Papaderos, G. Pariani, L. Pasquini, J. Peñate Castro, F. Pepe, C. Peroux, L. Perreault Levasseur, S. Perruchot, P. Petit, O. Pfuhl, L. Pino, J. Piqueras, N. Piskunov, A. Pollo, K. Poppenhaeger, M. Porru, J. Puschnig, A. Quirrenbach, E. Rauscher, R. Rebolo, E. M. Redaelli, S. Reffert, D. Reid, A. Reiners, P. Richter, M. Riva, S. Rivoire, C. Rodríguez-López, I. Roederer, D. Romano, M. Roth, S. Rousseau, J. Rowe, A. Saccardi, S. Salvadori, N. Sanna, N. Santos, P. Santos Diaz, J. Sanz-Forcada, M. Sarajlic, J.-F. Sauvage, D. Savio, A. Scaudo, S. Schäfer, R. Schiavon, T. Schmidt, C. Selmi, R. Simoes, A. Simonnin, S. Sivanandam, M. Sordet, R. Sordo, F. Sortino, D. Sosnowska, S. Sousa, A. Spang, R. Spiga, E. Stempels, J. R. Stevenson, K. Strassmeier, A. Suárez Mascareño, A. Sulich, X. Sun, N. Tanvir, F. Tenegi-Sanginés, S. Thibault, S. Thompson, P. Tisserand, A. Tozzi, M. Turbet, J.-P. Véran, P. Vallée, I. Vanni, R. Varas, A. Vega-Moreno, K. Venn, A. Verma, J. Vernet, M. Viel, G. Wade, C. Waring, M. Weber, J. Weder, B. Wehbé, J. Weingrill, M. Woche, M. Xompero, E. Zackrisson, A. Zanutta, M. Zapatero Osorio, M. Zechmeister, J. Zimara

Proceedings Volume 13096, 1309613 (2024) https://doi.org/10.1117/12.3017966

KEYWORDS: Stars, Spectrographs, Physics, Equipment, Observational astronomy, Exoplanets, Galactic astronomy, Planets, Telescopes, Absorption

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Proceedings Article | 18 July 2024 Poster + Paper

PoET, the Paranal solar ESPRESSO Telescope: a spatially resolved Sun in a high-resolution spectrograph

Inês Leite, Alexandre Cabral, Nuno Santos, André Silva, António Oliveira, Bachar Wehbé, David Alves, Jorge Martins, Manuel Abreu, Manuel Monteiro, Pedro Moreno, Ricardo Gafeira

Proceedings Volume 13096, 1309674 (2024) https://doi.org/10.1117/12.3016776

KEYWORDS: Telescopes, Spectrographs, Sun, Equipment, Stars, Exoplanets, Spectroscopy, Fiber science, Astronomical instrumentation

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Proceedings Article | 18 July 2024 Poster + Paper

NIRPS near-infrared spectrograph: AITV phase at ESO3.6m/La Silla

Lison Malo, Frédérique Baron, Anne-Sophie Poulin-Girard, Philippe Vallée, Jonathan St-Antoine, Denis Brousseau, Hugues Auger, Vladimir Reshetov, François Wildi, Michaël Sordet, Étienne Artigau, René Doyon, Simon Thibault, François Bouchy, Neil Cook, Yolanda Frensch, Gaspare Lo Curto, Gérard Zins, Danuta Sosnowska, Ivan Wevers, Dan Kerley, Guillaume Allain, Romain Allart, Norbert Hubin, Charles Cadieux, Andres Carmona, Zalpha Challita, Nolan Grieves, Olivier Hernandez, Thomas Vandal, Nicolas Blind, Lucile Mignon, Louise Nielsen, Francesco Pepe, Xavier Dumusque, Christophe Lovis, Bruno L. Canto Martins, José Renan de Medeiros, Xavier Delfosse, Nuno Santos, Jonay González-Hernández, Rafael Rebolo, Gregg Wade, Manuel Abreu, Susana Barros, Luc Bazinet, Isabelle Boisse, Xavier Bonfils, Vincent Bourrier, Sébastien Bovay, Christopher Broeg, Vincent Bruniquel, Alexandre Cabral, Yann Carteret, Bruno Chazelas, Ryan Cloutier, João Coelho, Marion Cointepas, Uriel Conod, Nicolas Cowan, Eduardo Cristo, Joao Gomes da Silva, Laurie Dauplaise, Roseane de Lima Gomes, Elisa Delgado-Mena, David Ehrenreich, Joao Faria, Pedro Figueira, Thierry Forveille, Jonathan Gagne, Frederic Genest, Ludovic Genolet, Félix Gracia Témich, Melissa Hobson, Jens Hoeijmakers, Vigneshwaran Krishnamurthy, David Lafreniere, Pierrot Lamontagne, Pierre Larue, Henry Leath, Izan Leão, Olivia Lim, Allan Martins, Claudio Melo, Yuri Messias, Leslie Moranta, Christoph Mordasini, Khaled Al Moulla, Dany Mounzer, Alexandrine L’Heureux, Nicola Nari, Ares Osborn, Lena Parc, Luca Pasquini, Vera Passegger, Stefan Pelletier, Celine Peroux, Caroline Piaulet, Mykhaylo Plotnykov, José Luis Rasilla, Mirsad Sarajlic, Alex Segovia, Julia Seidel, Damien Segransan, Ana Rita Costa Silva, Avidaan Srivastava, Atanas Stefanov, Alejandro Suárez Mascareño, Marcio Teixeira, Stephane Udry, Diana Valencia, Valentina Vaulato, Joost Wardenier, Bachar Wehbé, Drew Weisserman, Benjamin Kung, Anne Boucher, Robin Schnell, Armin Silber, Ivo Saviane, Emanuela Pompei, Peter Sinclaire

Proceedings Volume 13096, 1309646 (2024) https://doi.org/10.1117/12.3020168

KEYWORDS: Vacuum, Spectrographs, Thermal stability, Sensors, Optical components, Lanthanum, Equipment, Cryogenics, Design, Control systems

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Proceedings Article | 29 August 2022 Presentation + Paper

ANDES, the high resolution spectrograph for the ELT: science case, baseline design and path to construction

A. Marconi, M. Abreu, V. Adibekyan, V. Alberti, S. Albrecht, J. Alcaniz, M. Aliverti, C. Allende Prieto, J. D. Alvarado Gómez, P. J. Amado, M. Amate, M. I. Andersen, E. Artigau, C. Baker, V. Baldini, A. Balestra, S. A. Barnes, F. Baron, S. C. C. Barros, S. M. Bauer, M. Beaulieu, O. Bellido-Tirado, B. Benneke, T. Bensby, E. A. Bergin, K. Biazzo, A. Bik, J. L. Birkby, N. Blind, I. Boisse, E. Bolmont, M. Bonaglia, X. Bonfils, F. Borsa, A. Brandeker, W. Brandner, C. H. Broeg, M. Brogi, D. Brousseau, A. Brucalassi, J. Brynnel, L. A. Buchhave, D. F. Buscher, A. Cabral, G. Calderone, R. Calvo-Ortega, B. L. Canto Martins, F. Cantalloube, L. Carbonaro, G. Chauvin, B. Chazelas, A.-L. Cheffot, Y. S. Cheng, A. Chiavassa, L. Christensen, R. Cirami, N. J. Cook, R. J. Cooke, I. Coretti, S. Covino, N. Cowan, G. Cresci, S. Cristiani, V. Cunha Parro, G. Cupani, V. D'Odorico, I. de Castro Leão, A. De Cia, J. R. De Medeiros, F. Debras, M. Debus, O. Demangeon, M. Dessauges-Zavadsky, P. Di Marcantonio, F. Dionies, R. Doyon, J. Dunn, D. Ehrenreich, J. P. Faria, C. Feruglio, M. Fisher, A. Fontana, M. Fumagalli, T. Fusco, J. Fynbo, O. Gabella, W. Gaessler, E. Gallo, X. Gao, L. Genolet, M. Genoni, P. Giacobbe, E. Giro, R. S. Gonçalves, O. Gonzalez, J. I. González Hernández, F. Gracia Témich, M. G. Haehnelt, C. Haniff, A. Hatzes, R. Helled, H.J. Hoeijmakers, P. Huke, S. Järvinen, A. Järvinen, A. Kaminski, A. Korn, D. Kouach, G. Kowzan, L. Kreidberg, M. Landoni, A. Lanotte, A. Lavail, J. Li, J. Liske, C. Lovis, S. Lucatello, D. Lunney, M. MacIntosh, N. Madhusudhan, L. Magrini, R. Maiolino, L. Malo, A. Man, T. Marquart, E. L. Marques, A. M. Martins, C. J. A. P. Martins, P. Maslowski, C. Mason, E. Mason, R. A. McCracken, P. Mergo, G. Micela, T. Mitchell, P. Mollière, M. Monteiro, D. Montgomery, C. Mordasini, J. Morin, A. Mucciarelli, M. T. Murphy, M. N'Diaye, B. Neichel, A. T. Niedzielski, E. Niemczura, L. Nortmann, P. Noterdaeme, N. Nunes, L. Oggioni, E. Oliva, H. Önel, L. Origlia, G. Östlin, E. Palle, P. Papaderos, G. Pariani, J. Peñate Castro, F. Pepe, L. Perreault Levasseur, P. Petit, L. Pino, J. Piqueras, A. Pollo, K. Poppenhaeger, A. Quirrenbach, E. Rauscher, R. Rebolo, E. M. A. Redaelli, S. Reffert, D. T. Reid, A. Reiners, P. Richter, M. Riva, S. Rivoire, C. Rodríguez-López, I. U. Roederer, D. Romano, S. Rousseau, J. Rowe, S. Salvadori, N. Santos, P. Santos Diaz, J. Sanz-Forcada, M. Sarajlic, J.-F. Sauvage, S. Schäfer, R. P. Schiavon, T. M. Schmidt, C. Selmi, S. Sivanandam, M. Sordet, R. Sordo, F. Sortino, D. Sosnowska, S. G. Sousa, E. Stempels, K. G. Strassmeier, A. Suárez Mascareño, A. Sulich, X. Sun, N.R. Tanvir, F. Tenegi-Sanginés, S. Thibault, S. J. Thompson, A. Tozzi, M. Turbet, P. Vallée, R. Varas, K. Venn, J.-P. Véran, A. Verma, M. Viel, G. Wade, C. Waring, M. Weber, J. Weder, B. Wehbe, J. Weingrill, M. Woche, M. Xompero, E. Zackrisson, A. Zanutta, M. R. Zapatero Osorio, M. Zechmeister, J. Zimara

Proceedings Volume 12184, 1218424 (2022) https://doi.org/10.1117/12.2628689

KEYWORDS: Physics, Spectrographs, Stars, Astronomy, Galactic astronomy, Astrophysics, Exoplanets, Planets, Spectral resolution, Absorption

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Proceedings Article | 29 August 2022 Poster + Paper

NIRPS – the Near Infra-Red Planet Searcher: design, integration, and tests of the atmospheric dispersion corrector

Alexandre Cabral, Bachar Wehbé, Nicolas Blind, João Coelho, Manuel Abreu, Alex Segovia, Michael Sordet, François Wildi, François Bouchy, Nuno Santos, René Doyon, Gaspare Lo Curto, Gerard Zins, Johann Kolb

Proceedings Volume 12184, 121844M (2022) https://doi.org/10.1117/12.2628930

KEYWORDS: Prisms, Planets, Telescopes, Adaptive optics, Stars, Glasses, Spectrographs, Atmospheric modeling

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Proceedings Article | 13 December 2020 Presentation

NIRPS: status updates and project overview

Étienne Artigau, François Bouchy, René Doyon, Claudio Melo, Xavier Delfosse, François Wildi, Christophe Lovis, Pedro Figueira, Bruno Canto Martins, Jonay González Hernández, Simon Thibault, Vladimir Reshetov, Francesco Pepe, Nuno Santos, José Renan de Medeiros, Rafael Rebolo, Neil Cook, Nicolas Blind, Isabelle Boisse, Denis Brousseau, Uriel Conod, David Lafrenière, Izan Leão, Lison Malo, Mathieu Ouellet, Anne-Sophie Poulin-Girard, Stéphane Udry, Philippe Vallée, Andrew Cumming, Michael Sordet, Allan De Medeiros

Proceedings Volume 11447, 114471K (2020) https://doi.org/10.1117/12.2561090

KEYWORDS: Spectrographs, Telescopes, Lanthanum, Planets, Spectroscopes, Exoplanets, Aerospace engineering, Space operations, James Webb Space Telescope

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Proceedings Article | 3 October 2019 Paper

ESPRESSO Coudé-Train: ESO's VLT working as 16-metre telescope

Alexandre Cabral, Manuel Abreu, João Coelho, Gerardo Ávila, Marco Riva, Denis Mégevand, Nuno Santos, Francesco Pepe

Proceedings Volume 11207, 112070V (2019) https://doi.org/10.1117/12.2527260

KEYWORDS: Telescopes, Prisms, Lenses, Mirrors, Spectrographs, Beam splitters, Image quality, Optical components, Observatories

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Proceedings Article | 9 July 2018 Presentation

The near-infrared planet searcher (NIRPS) (Conference Presentation)

Rene Doyon, François Bouchy, Étienne Artigau, Olivier Hernandez, François Wildi, Claudio Melo, Philippe Vallée, Simon Thibault, Xavier Delfosse, Christophe Lovis, Francesco Pepe, Pedro Figueira, Vladimir Reshetov, Nuno Santos, Lison Malo, Mathieu Ouellet, Denis Brousseau, Rafael Rebolo-López, Nicolas Blind, Uriel Condo, Stéphane Dry, Jonay González Hernández, Bruno Chazelas, Bruno Canto Martins, Jose de Medeiros

Proceedings Volume 10702, 1070210 (2018) https://doi.org/10.1117/12.2313050

KEYWORDS: Planets, Infrared telescopes, Infrared radiation, Spectrographs, Telescopes, Lanthanum

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Proceedings Article | 6 July 2018 Presentation + Paper

ELT-HIRES, the high resolution spectrograph for the ELT: results from the Phase A study

A. Marconi, C. Allende Prieto, P. Amado, M. Amate, S. Augusto, S. Becerril, N. Bezawada, I. Boisse, F. Bouchy, A. Cabral, B. Chazelas, R. Cirami, I. Coretti, S. Cristiani, G. Cupani, I. de Castro Leão, J. R. de Medeiros, M. A. F. de Souza, P. Di Marcantonio, I. Di Varano, V. D'Odorico, H. Drass, P. Figueira, A. B. Fragoso, J. P. U. Fynbo, M. Genoni, J. I. González Hernández, M. Haehnelt, I. Hughes, P. Huke, H. Kjeldsen, A. Korn, M. Landoni, J. Liske, C. Lovis, R. Maiolino , T. Marquart, C. J. A. P. Martins, E. Mason, M. Monteiro, T. Morris, G. Murray, A. Niedzielski, E. Oliva, L. Origlia, E. Pallé, P. Parr-Burman, V. C. Parro, F. Pepe, N. Piskunov, J. L. Rasilla, P. Rees, R. Rebolo, M. Riva, S. Rousseau, N. Sanna, N. Santos, T.-C. Shen, F. Sortino, D. Sosnowska, S. Sousa, E. Stempels, K. Strassmeier, F. Tenegi, A. Tozzi, S. Udry, L. Valenziano, L. Vanzi, M. Weber, M. Woche, M. Xompero, E. Zackrisson

Proceedings Volume 10702, 107021Y (2018) https://doi.org/10.1117/12.2311664

KEYWORDS: Spectrographs, Stars, Physics, Galactic astronomy, Astronomy, Exoplanets, Spectral resolution, Calibration, Absorption, Spectroscopy

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Proceedings Article | 1 September 2017 Paper

NIRPS: an adaptive-optics assisted radial velocity spectrograph to chase exoplanets around M-stars

F. Wildi, N. Blind, V. Reshetov, O. Hernandez, L. Genolet, U. Conod, M. Sordet, A. Segovilla, J. L. Rasilla, D. Brousseau, S. Thibault, B. Delabre, T. Bandy, M. Sarajlic, A. Cabral, S. Bovay, Ph. Vallée, F. Bouchy, R. Doyon, E. Artigau, F. Pepe, J. Hagelberg, C. Melo, X. Delfosse, P. Figueira, N. C. Santos, J. I. González Hernández, J. R. de Medeiros, R. Rebolo, Ch. Broeg, W. Benz, I. Boisse, L. Malo, U. Käufl, L. Saddlemyer

Proceedings Volume 10400, 1040018 (2017) https://doi.org/10.1117/12.2275660

KEYWORDS: Spectrographs, Adaptive optics, Planets, Exoplanets, Velocity measurements, Stars, Spectroscopy, Optical fibers, Space operations, Interference (communication)

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Since 1st light in 2002, HARPS has been setting the standard in the exo-planet detection by radial velocity (RV) measurements[1]. Based on this experience, our consortium is developing a high accuracy near-infrared RV spectrograph covering YJH bands to detect and characterize low-mass planets in the habitable zone of M dwarfs. It will allow RV measurements at the 1-m/s level and will look for habitable planets around M- type stars by following up the candidates found by the upcoming space missions TESS, CHEOPS and later PLATO. NIRPS and HARPS, working simultaneously on the ESO 3.6m are bound to become a single powerful high-resolution, high-fidelity spectrograph covering from 0.4 to 1.8 micron. NIRPS will complement HARPS in validating earth-like planets found around G and K-type stars whose signal is at the same order of magnitude than the stellar noise. Because at equal resolving power the overall dimensions of a spectrograph vary linearly with the input beam étendue, spectrograph designed for seeing-limited observations are large and expensive. NIRPS will use a high order adaptive optics system to couple the starlight into a fiber corresponding to 0.4” on the sky as efficiently or better than HARPS or ESPRESSO couple the light 0.9” fiber. This allows the spectrograph to be very compact, more thermally stable and less costly. Using a custom tan(θ)=4 dispersion grating in combination with a start-of-the-art Hawaii4RG detector makes NIRPS very efficient with complete coverage of the YJH bands at 110’000 resolution. NIRPS works in a regime that is in-between the usual multi-mode (MM) where 1000’s of modes propagates in the fiber and the single mode well suited for perfect optical systems. This regime called few-modes regime is prone to modal noise- Results from a significant R and D effort made to characterize and circumvent the modal noise show that this contribution to the performance budget shall not preclude the RV performance to be achieved.

Proceedings Article | 9 August 2016 Paper

EELT-HIRES the high-resolution spectrograph for the E-ELT

A. Marconi, P. Di Marcantonio, V. D'Odorico, S. Cristiani, R. Maiolino, E. Oliva, L. Origlia, M. Riva, L. Valenziano, F. M. Zerbi, M. Abreu, V. Adibekyan, C. Allende Prieto, P. J. Amado, W. Benz, I. Boisse, X. Bonfils, F. Bouchy, L. Buchhave, D. Buscher, A. Cabral, B. Canto Martins, A. Chiavassa, J. Coelho, L. B. Christensen, E. Delgado-Mena, J. R. de Medeiros, I. Di Varano, P. Figueira, M. Fisher, J. P. Fynbo, A. C. Glasse, M. Haehnelt, C. Haniff, C. J. Hansen, A. Hatzes, P. Huke, A. Korn, I. C. Leão, J. Liske, C. Lovis, P. Maslowski, I. Matute, R. McCracken, C. J. A. Martins, M. J. P. F. Monteiro, S. Morris, T. Morris, H. Nicklas, A. Niedzielski, N. Nunes, E. Palle, P. Parr-Burman, V. Parro, I. Parry, F. Pepe, N. Piskunov, Didier Queloz, A. Quirrenbach, R. Rebolo Lopez, A. Reiners, D. Reid, N. Santos, W. Seifert, S. Sousa, H. Stempels, K. Strassmeier, X. Sun, S. Udry, L. Vanzi, M. Vestergaard, M. Weber, E. Zackrisson

Proceedings Volume 9908, 990823 (2016) https://doi.org/10.1117/12.2231653

KEYWORDS: Physics, Stars, Spectrographs, Exoplanets, Planets, Galactic astronomy, Spectral resolution, Astronomy, Atmospheric sensing, Polarimetry

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Proceedings Article | 6 August 2014 Paper

HIRES: the high resolution spectrograph for the E-ELT

F. Zerbi, F. Bouchy, J. Fynbo, R. Maiolino, N. Piskunov, R. Rebolo Lopez, N. Santos, K. Strassmeier, S. Udry, L. Vanzi, M. Riva, A. Basden, I. Boisse, X. Bonfils, D. Buscher, A. Cabral, P. Dimarcantonio, I. Di Varano, D. Henry, M. Monteiro, T. Morris, G. Murray, Ernesto Oliva, I. Parry, F. Pepe, A. Quirrenbach, J. Rasilla, P. Rees, E. Stempels, L. Valenziano, M. Wells, F. Wildi, L. Origlia, C. Allende Prieto, A. Chiavassa, S. Cristiani, P. Figueira, B. Gustafsson, A. Hatzes, M. Haehnelt, K. Heng, G. Israelian, O. Kochukhov, C. Lovis, A. Marconi, C. J. A. P. Martins, P. Noterdaeme, P. Petitjean, T. Puzia, Didier Queloz, A. Reiners, M. Zoccali

Proceedings Volume 9147, 914723 (2014) https://doi.org/10.1117/12.2055329

KEYWORDS: Spectrographs, Spectral resolution, Stars, Telescopes, Spectroscopy, Calibration, Collimators, Cameras, Galactic astronomy, Sensors

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Proceedings Article | 28 July 2014 Paper

ESPRESSO Coudé-Train: complexities of a simultaneous optical feeding from the four VLT unit telescopes

Alexandre Cabral, Manuel Abreu, João Coelho, Ricardo Gomes, Manuel Monteiro, António Oliveira, Pedro Santos, Gerardo Ávila, Bernard-Alexis Delabre, Marco Riva, Paolo Di Marcantonio, Igor Coretti, Nuno Santos, Filippo Zerbi, Denis Mégevand

Proceedings Volume 9147, 91478Q (2014) https://doi.org/10.1117/12.2055876

KEYWORDS: Prisms, Telescopes, Spectrographs, Mirrors, Lenses, Optics manufacturing, Control systems, Chromium, Atmospheric optics, Optical design

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Proceedings Article | 8 July 2014 Paper

ESPRESSO: the radial velocity machine for the VLT

Denis Mégevand, Filippo Zerbi, Paolo Di Marcantonio, Alexandre Cabral, Marco Riva, Manuel Abreu, Francesco Pepe, Stefano Cristiani, Rafael Rebolo Lopez, Nuno Santos, Hans Dekker, Matteo Aliverti, Carlos Allende, Manuel Amate, Gerardo Avila, Veronica Baldini, Timothy Bandy, Paul Bristow, Christopher Broeg, Roberto Cirami, João Coelho, Paolo Conconi, Igor Coretti, Guido Cupani, Valentina D'Odorico, Vincenzo De Caprio, Bernard Delabre, Reinhold Dorn, Pedro Figueira, Ana Fragoso, Samuele Galeotta, Ludovic Genolet, Ricardo Gomes, Jonay González Hernández, Ian Hughes, Olaf Iwert, Florian Kerber, Marco Landoni, Jean-Louis Lizon, Christophe Lovis, Charles Maire, Marco Mannetta, Carlos Martins, Paolo Molaro, Manuel Monteiro, Manuele Moschetti, Antonio Oliveira, Maria Rosa Zapatero Osorio, Ennio Poretti, José Rasilla, Samuel Santana Tschudi, Pedro Santos, Danuta Sosnowska, Sérgio Sousa, Fabio Tenegi, Giorgio Toso, Eros Vanzella, Matteo Viel

Proceedings Volume 9147, 91471H (2014) https://doi.org/10.1117/12.2055816

KEYWORDS: Spectrographs, Telescopes, Optical fibers, Sensors, Astronomy, Control systems, Observatories, Exoplanets, Calibration, Light

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Proceedings Article | 18 November 2013 Paper

Optical design of a Coudé-Train for a stable and efficient simultaneous feeding of the ESPRESSO spectrograph from the four VLT telescopes

Alexandre Cabral, João Coelho, Manuel Abreu, Manuel Monteiro, Ricardo Gomes, Pedro Santos, António Oliveira, Gerardo Ávila, Bernard-Alexis Delabre, Denis Mégevand, Filippo Zerbi, Paolo Di Marcantonio, Christophe Lovis, Nuno Santos

Proceedings Volume 8785, 87850L (2013) https://doi.org/10.1117/12.2026179

KEYWORDS: Prisms, Telescopes, Spectrographs, Lenses, Optical design, Atmospheric optics, Chromium, Control systems, Light sources, Interfaces

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Proceedings Article | 26 September 2013 Paper

ESPRESSO, an exo-Earths hunter for the VLT

Denis Mégevand, Filippo Zerbi, Paolo Di Marcantonio, Alexandre Cabral, Francesco Pepe, Stefano Cristiani, Rafael Rebolo, Nuno Santos, Hans Dekker, Manuel Abreu, Michael Affolter, Matteo Aliverti, Manuel Amate, Gerardo Avila, Veronica Baldini, Paul Bristow, Christopher Broeg, Roberto Cirami, João Coelho, Paolo Conconi, Igor Coretti, Guido Cupani, Valentina D'Odorico, Vincenzo De Caprio, Bernard Delabre, Reinhold Dorn, Pedro Figueira, Ana Fragoso, Samuele Galeotta, Ludovic Genolet, Ricardo Gomes, Jonay Gonzalez Hernandez, Ian Hughes, Olaf Iwert, Florian Kerber, Marco Landoni, Jean-Louis Lizon, Christophe Lovis, Charles Maire, Marco Mannetta, Carlos Martins, Paolo Molaro, Manuel Monteiro, Antonio Oliveira, Maria Rosa Zapatero Osorio, Ennio Poretti, José Luis Rasilla, Marco Riva, Samuel Santana Tschudi, Pedro Santos, Danuta Sosnowska, Sergio Sousa, Fabio Tenegi, Giorgio Toso, Eros Vanzella, Matteo Viel

Proceedings Volume 8864, 88640E (2013) https://doi.org/10.1117/12.2022520

KEYWORDS: Spectrographs, Stars, Telescopes, Planets, Galactic astronomy, Astronomy, Sensors, Exoplanets, Control systems, Observatories

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Proceedings Article | 24 September 2012 Paper

ESPRESSO: the ultimate rocky exoplanets hunter for the VLT

Denis Mégevand, Filippo Zerbi, Alexandre Cabral, Paolo Di Marcantonio, Manuel Amate, Francesco Pepe, Stefano Cristiani, Rafael Rebolo, Nuno Santos, Hans Dekker, Manuel Abreu, Michael Affolter, Gerardo Avila, Veronica Baldini, Paul Bristow, Christopher Broeg, Pedro Carvas, Roberto Cirami, João Coelho, Maurizio Comari, Paolo Conconi, Igor Coretti, Guido Cupani, Valentina D'Odorico, Vincenzo De Caprio, Bernard Delabre, Pedro Figueira, Michel Fleury, Ana Fragoso, Ludovic Genolet, Ricardo Gomes, Jonay Gonzalez Hernandez, Ian Hughes, Olaf Iwert, Florian Kerber, Marco Landoni, Jorge Lima, Jean-Louis Lizon, Christophe Lovis, Charles Maire, Marco Mannetta, Carlos Martins, André Moitinho, Paolo Molaro, Manuel Monteiro, José Luis Rasilla, Marco Riva, Samuel Santana Tschudi, Paolo Santin, Danuta Sosnowska, Sergio Sousa, Paolo Spanò, Fabio Tenegi, Giorgio Toso, Eros Vanzella, Matteo Viel, Maria Rosa Zapatero Osorio

Proceedings Volume 8446, 84461R (2012) https://doi.org/10.1117/12.924602

KEYWORDS: Spectrographs, Exoplanets, Telescopes, Astronomy, Planets, Optical fibers, Sensors, Observatories, Stars, Calibration

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Proceedings Article | 17 September 2012 Paper

ESPRESSO: design and analysis of a Coudé-train for a stable and efficient simultaneous optical feeding from the four VLT unit telescopes

Alexandre Cabral, André Moitinho, João Coelho, Jorge Lima, Gerardo Ávila, Bernard-Alexis Delabre, Ricardo Gomes, Denis Mégevand, Filippo Zerbi, Paolo Di Marcantonio, Christophe Lovis, Nuno Santos

Proceedings Volume 8444, 84444F (2012) https://doi.org/10.1117/12.926093

KEYWORDS: Prisms, Telescopes, Optical fibers, Lenses, Spectrographs, Glasses, Chromium, Interfaces, Mirrors, Atmospheric optics

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Proceedings Article | 20 July 2010 Paper

ESPRESSO: design and analysis of Coudé-Train concepts for stable and efficient optical feeding

Alexandre Cabral, André Moitinho, João Coelho, Jorge Lima, Pedro Carvas, Antonio Amorim, José Rebordão, Gerardo Ávila, Denis Mégevand, José-Miguel Herreros, Filippo Zerbi, Paolo Di Marcantonio, Christophe Lovis, Nuno Santos, Francesco Pepe, Stefano Cristiani, Rafael Rebolo

Proceedings Volume 7739, 77393W (2010) https://doi.org/10.1117/12.856901

KEYWORDS: Optical fibers, Prisms, Mirrors, Spectrographs, Telescopes, Glasses, Lenses, Cameras, Optical components, Optical design

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Proceedings Article | 20 July 2010 Paper

ESPRESSO: projecting a rocky exoplanet hunter for the VLT

Denis Mégevand, José-Miguel Herreros, Filippo Zerbi, Alexandre Cabral, Paolo Di Marcantonio, Christophe Lovis, Francesco Pepe, Stefano Cristiani, Rafael Rebolo, Nuno Santos

Proceedings Volume 7735, 77354Y (2010) https://doi.org/10.1117/12.856656

KEYWORDS: Telescopes, Spectrographs, Optical fibers, Exoplanets, Sensors, Space telescopes, Planets, Interfaces, Astronomy, Calibration

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Proceedings Article | 15 July 2010 Paper

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

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

Proceedings Volume 7735, 77350F (2010) https://doi.org/10.1117/12.857122

KEYWORDS: Spectrographs, Exoplanets, Planets, Stars, Optical fibers, Spectroscopy, Telescopes, Spectroscopes, Astronomy, Spectral resolution

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