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astro-ph.IM2020★ 5 cited

Manufacturing, integration, and mechanical verification of SOXS

M. Aliverti, L. Oggioni, M. Genoni +46

SOXS (Son Of X-Shooter) is a medium resolution (~4500) wide-band (0.35 - 2.0 μm) spectrograph which passed the Final Design Review in 2018. The instrument is planned to be installe…

astro-ph.IM2020★ 9 cited

SOXS End-to-End simulator: development and applications for pipeline design

M. Genoni, M. Landoni, G. Li Causi +44

We present the development of the End-to-End simulator for the SOXS instrument at the ESO-NTT 3.5-m telescope. SOXS will be a spectroscopic facility, made by two arms high efficien…

astro-ph.IM2020★ 46 cited

Fundamental physics with Espresso: Towards an accurate wavelength calibration for a precision test of the fine-structure constant

Tobias M. Schmidt, Paolo Molaro, Michael T. Murphy +56

Observations of metal absorption systems in the spectra of distant quasars allow to constrain a possible variation of the fine-structure constant throughout the history of the Univ…

astro-ph.IM2020★ 1 cited

HIRES, the high-resolution spectrograph for the ELT

Alessandro Marconi, Manuel Abreu, Vardan Adibekyan +99

HIRES will be the high-resolution spectrograph of the European Extremely Large Telescope at optical and near-infrared wavelengths. It consists of three fibre-fed spectrographs prov…

astro-ph.EP2020★ 108 cited

ESPRESSO high resolution transmission spectroscopy of WASP-76b

H. M. Tabernero, M. R. Zapatero Osorio, R. Allart +87

Aims. We report on ESPRESSO high-resolution transmission spectroscopic observations of two primary transits of the highly-irradiated, ultra-hot Jupiter-size planet WASP-76b. We inv…

astro-ph.IM2020★ 537 cited

ESPRESSO@VLT -- On-sky performance and first results

F. Pepe, S. Cristiani, R. Rebolo +97

ESPRESSO is the new high-resolution spectrograph of ESO's Very-Large Telescope (VLT). It was designed for ultra-high radial-velocity precision and extreme spectral fidelity with th…

astro-ph.IM2020★ 1 cited

End to end simulators: A flexible and scalable Cloud-Based architecture. Application to High Resolution Spectrographs ESPRESSO and ELT-HIRES

M. Genoni, M. Landoni, G. Pariani +7

Simulations of frames from existing and upcoming high-resolution spectrographs, targeted for high accuracy radial velocity measurements, are computationally demanding (both in time…

astro-ph.EP2020★ 62 cited

A precise architecture characterization of the Men planetary system

M. Damasso, A. Sozzetti, C. Lovis +97

The bright star Men was chosen as the first target for a radial velocity follow-up to test the performance of ESPRESSO, the new high-resolution spectrograph at the ESO's Very-L…

astro-ph.EP2020★ 36 cited

Characterization of the K2-38 planetary system. Unraveling one of the densest planets known to date

B. Toledo-Padrón, C. Lovis, A. Suárez Mascareño +90

We characterized the transiting planetary system orbiting the G2V star K2-38 using the new-generation echelle spectrograph ESPRESSO. We carried out a photometric analysis of the av…

astro-ph.EP2020★ 118 cited

Revisiting Proxima with ESPRESSO

A. Suárez Mascareño, J. P. Faria, P. Figueira +88

We aim to confirm the presence of Proxima b using independent measurements obtained with the new ESPRESSO spectrograph, and refine the planetary parameters taking advantage of its…

astro-ph.IM2020★ 76 cited

Performance Verification of the EXtreme PREcision Spectrograph

Ryan T. Blackman, Debra A. Fischer, Colby A. Jurgenson +25

The EXtreme PREcision Spectrograph (EXPRES) is a new Doppler spectrograph designed to reach a radial velocity measurement precision sufficient to detect Earth-like exoplanets orbit…

astro-ph.EP2020★ 316 cited

Nightside condensation of iron in an ultra-hot giant exoplanet

David Ehrenreich, Christophe Lovis, Romain Allart +94

Ultra-hot giant exoplanets receive thousands of times Earth's insolation. Their high-temperature atmospheres (>2,000 K) are ideal laboratories for studying extreme planetary climat…