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The Twenty-Five Year Lick Planet Search
Debra A. Fischer, Geoffrey W. Marcy, Julien F. P. Spronck
The Lick planet search program began in 1987 when the first spectrum of Ceti was taken with an iodine cell and the Hamilton Spectrograph. Upgrades to the instrument improved th…
CHIRON - A Fiber Fed Spectrometer for Precise Radial Velocities
Andrei Tokovinin, Debra A. Fischer, Marco Bonati +5
The CHIRON optical high-resolution echelle spectrometer was commissioned at the 1.5m telescope at CTIO in 2011. The instrument was designed for high throughput and stability, with…
Fiber scrambling for high-resolution spectrographs. I. Lick Observatory
Julien F. P. Spronck, Debra A. Fischer, Zachary A. Kaplan +2
In this paper, we report all results obtained with a fiber scrambler on the Hamilton spectrograph at Lick Observatory. We demonstrate an improvement in the stability of the instrum…