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astro-ph.IM2026

Night-sky emission correction techniques for high-resolution spectroscopy: Demonstration with NIRPS

Avidaan Srivastava, François Bouchy, Xavier Dumusque +54

Ground-based spectrographs operating in the near-infrared (NIR) regime are hampered by various absorption and emission features of Earth's atmosphere. While considerable attention…

astro-ph.IM2026

RISTRETTO: Assembly and Testing of the Seven-spaxel, High-resolution, Diffraction-limited Spectrograph

Leonie Hoerner, Bruno Chazelas, Nathanaël Restori +24

The RISTRETTO project aims at the direct detection of the reflected light of extra-solar planets to measure albedos and detect possible biosignatures, using the high-contrast / hig…

astro-ph.IM2026

DD4AO control law for RISTRETTO: robustness, real-time performance, and on-sky validation with PAPYRUS

Isaac Dinis, Muskan Schinde, Nicolas Blind +11

This study presents DD4AO progress towards its implementation in the RISTRETTO instrument. DD4AO is a novel frequency-domain, data-driven controller for adaptive optics that levera…

astro-ph.IM2025★ 29 cited

NIRPS joining HARPS at ESO 3.6 m. On-sky performance and science objectives

Francois Bouchy, Rene Doyon, Francesco Pepe +131

The Near-InfraRed Planet Searcher (NIRPS) is a high-resolution, high-stability near-infrared (NIR) spectrograph equipped with an AO system. Installed on the ESO 3.6-m telescope, it…

astro-ph.IM2025

NuAncestor: an artificial satellite-borne star for accurate frequency calibration of ground-based EPRV spectrographs

F. Pepe, M. Bugatti, A. Baur +17

The accuracy of state-of-the-art Extreme Precision Radial Velocity (EPRV) spectrographs depends on the access to extremely precise and stable wavelength calibration sources. There…

astro-ph.IM2024

RISTRETTO: the PIAA Nuller in the prototyping phase

N. Restori, N. Blind, J. Kühn +6

The objective of the coronagraphic IFU of RISTRETTO is to enable High Dispersion Coronagraphy of planets at a distance of 2/D from their star, without compromising on transmissi…

astro-ph.IM2024

RISTRETTO: Manufacturing of a single-mode visible high resolution spectrograph

Bruno Chazelas, Christophe Lovis, Nicolas Blind +13

The Spectrograph of the RISTRETTO instrument is now currently being manufactured. RISTETTO is an instrument designed to detect and characterize the reflected light of nearby exopla…

astro-ph.IM2024

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

Étienne Artigau, François Bouchy, René Doyon +111

The Near-InfraRed Planet Searcher or NIRPS is a precision radial velocity spectrograph developed through collaborative efforts among laboratories in Switzerland, Canada, Brazil, Fr…

astro-ph.IM2020

Keys of a Mission to Uranus or Neptune, the Closest Ice Giants

Tristan Guillot, Jonathan Fortney, Emily Rauscher +26

Uranus and Neptune are the archetypes of "ice giants", a class of planets that may be among the most common in the Galaxy. They hold the keys to understand the atmospheric dynamics…