Deriving Iodine-free spectra for high-resolution echelle spectrographs
arXiv:1903.11718 · doi:10.3847/1538-3881/ab14ed
Abstract
We describe a new method to derive clean, iodine-free spectra directly from observations acquired using high-resolution echelle spectrographs equipped with iodine cells. The main motivation to obtain iodine-free spectra is to use portions of the spectrum that are superimposed with the dense forest of iodine absorption lines, in order to retrieve lines that can be used to monitor the magnetic activity of the star, helping to validate candidate planets. In short, we provide a straight-forward methodology to clean the spectra by using the forward model used to derive radial velocities, the Line Spread Function information plus the stellar spectrum without iodine to reconstruct and subtract the iodine spectrum from the observations. We show our results using observations of the star Ceti acquired with the PFS, HIRES and UCLES spectrographs, reaching an iodine-free spectrum correction at the 1% RMS level. We additionally discuss the limitations and further applications of the method.
arXiv comment15 pages, 7 figures. Accepted for publication in AJ
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