Improving Planet-Finding Spectrometers

Abstract

Like the miniaturization of modern computers, next-generation radial velocity instruments will be significantly smaller and more powerful than their predecessors.

This is the author's version of the work. It is posted here by permission of the AAAS for personal use. The definitive version was published in Science on 14 November 2014, Vol. 346, #6211. Published version available from http://www.sciencemag.org

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