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most citedCharacterization of Single-Mode Fiber Coupling at the Large Binocular Telescope

12 citations · 23 across the 3 of their papers we have counts for

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astro-ph.IM20208 cited

EarthFinder Probe Mission Concept Study: Characterizing nearby stellar exoplanet systems with Earth-mass analogs for future direct imaging

Peter Plavchan, Gautam Vasisht, Chas Beichman +52

EarthFinder is a NASA Astrophysics Probe mission concept selected for study as input to the 2020 Astrophysics National Academies Decadal Survey. The EarthFinder concept is based on…

astro-ph.IM202012 cited

Characterization of Single-Mode Fiber Coupling at the Large Binocular Telescope

Andrew J. Bechter, Jonathan Crass, Jonathan Tesch +2

Optimizing on-sky single-mode fiber (SMF) injection is an essential part of developing precise Doppler spectrometers and new astrophotonics technologies. We installed and tested a…

astro-ph.IM2019

Assessing the Suitability of H4RG Near Infrared Detectors for Precise Doppler Radial Velocity Measurements

Eric B. Bechter, Andrew J. Bechter, Justin R. Crepp +1

At wavelengths longwards of the sensitivity of silicon, hybrid structured mercury-cadmium-telluride (HgCdTe) detectors show promise to enable extremely precise radial velocity (RV)…

astro-ph.IM20193 cited

The need for single-mode fiber-fed spectrographs

Jonathan Crass, Andrew Bechter, Eric Bechter +12

Precise Doppler radial-velocity (RV) instruments will continue to play an essential role in advancing our holistic understanding of exoplanetary systems. The combination of orbital…

astro-ph.IM2018

A Radial Velocity Error Budget for Single-mode Fiber Doppler Spectrographs

Andrew J. Bechter, Eric B. Bechter Justin R. Crepp, David King +1

Single-mode fiber (SMF) spectrographs fed with adaptive optics (AO) offer a unique path for achieving extremely precise radial velocity (EPRV) measurements. We present a radial vel…

astro-ph.IM2018

Instrument Simulator and Data Reduction Pipeline for the iLocater Spectrograph

Eric B. Bechter, Andrew J. Bechter, Justin R. Crepp +2

iLocater is a near-infrared (NIR) radial velocity (RV) spectrograph that is being developed for the Large Binocular Telescope in Arizona. Unlike seeing limited designs, iLocater us…