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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…
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…
Test of a 34 GHz EOM laser frequency comb at ESPRESSO
Tobias M. Schmidt, Ewelina Obrzud, François Bouchy +18
Laser frequency combs (LFCs) are a promising technology for wavelength calibration of astronomical high-resolution spectrographs requiring utmost accuracy and stability, since they…
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…
The Phase Induced Amplitude Apodizer and Nuller -- High transmission, high dispersion coronagraphy at 2λ/D
N. Blind, N. Restori, B . Chazelas +3
Context. Proxima Cen b is the prime target for the search of life around a nearby exoplanet by characterizing its atmosphere in reflected light. Due to the very high star/companion…
The RISTRETTO simulator: Exoplanet reflected spectra
M. Bugatti, C. Lovis, F. Pepe +4
The upcoming Ristretto spectrograph is dedicated to the detection and analysis of exoplanetary atmospheres, with a primary focus on the temperate rocky world Proxima b. This scient…
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…
RISTRETTO: a VLT XAO design to reach Proxima Cen b in the visible
N. Blind, M. Shinde, I. Dinis +10
RISTRETTO is the evolution of the original idea of coupling the VLT instruments SPHERE and ESPRESSO \cite{lovis_2016a}, aiming at High Dispersion Coronagraphy. RISTRETTO is a visit…
ANDES, the high resolution spectrograph for the ELT: science goals, project overview and future developments
A. Marconi, M. Abreu, V. Adibekyan +286
The first generation of ELT instruments includes an optical-infrared high-resolution spectrograph, indicated as ELT-HIRES and recently christened ANDES (ArmazoNes high Dispersion E…
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…
ANDES, the high-resolution spectrograph for the ELT: RIZ Spectrograph preliminary design
Bruno Chazelas, Yevgeniy Ivanisenko, Audrey Lanotte +44
We present here the preliminary design of the RIZ module, one of the visible spectrographs of the ANDES instrument 1. It is a fiber-fed high-resolution, high-stability spectrograph…
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…
The Near-Infrared Gatherer of Helium Transits (NIGHT)
Casper Farret Jentink, Francesco Pepe, Christophe Lovis +10
This paper provides a comprehensive overview of the subsystems of the NIGHT instrument. NIGHT (the Near Infrared Gatherer of Helium Transits) is a narrowband, high-resolution spect…
RISTRETTO: Seven Spaxels Single Mode Spectrograph Design
Bruno Chazelas, Christophe Lovis, Nicolas Blind +6
The RISTRETTO project is aiming to build an instrument that will detect the reflected light from close-by exoplanet. It is a two stage instrument: An extreme AO system in the visib…
RISTRETTO: coronagraph and AO designs enabling High Dispersion Coronagraphy at 2 lambda/D
N. Blind, B. Chazelas, J. Kühn +13
RISTRETTO is the evolution of the original idea of coupling the VLT instruments SPHERE and ESPRESSO, aiming at High Dispersion Coronagraphy. RISTRETTO is a visitor instrument that…
Chromatic Drift of the Espresso Fabry-Pérot Etalon
Tobias M. Schmidt, Bruno Chazelas, Christophe Lovis +5
In the last decade, white-light illuminated Fabry-Pérot interferometers wave been established as a widely used, relatively simple, reliable, and cost-effective way to precisely cal…
KalAO the swift adaptive optics imager on 1.2m Euler Swiss telescope in La Silla, Chile
Janis Hagelberg, Nathanaël Restori, François Wildi +6
KalAO is a natural guide star adaptive optics (AO) imager to be installed on the second Nasmyth focus of the 1.2m Euler Swiss telescope in La Silla, Chile. The initial design of th…
RISTRETTO: a pathfinder instrument for exoplanet atmosphere characterization
Bruno Chazelas, Christophe Lovis, Nicolas Blind +8
We introduce the RISTRETTO instrument for ESO VLT, an evolution from the original idea of connecting the SPHERE high-contrast facility to the ESPRESSO spectrograph (Lovis et al 201…
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…
The CHEOPS mission
Willy Benz, Christopher Broeg, Andrea Fortier +107
The CHaracterising ExOPlanet Satellite (CHEOPS) was selected in 2012, as the first small mission in the ESA Science Programme and successfully launched in December 2019. CHEOPS is…
SPIRou: nIR velocimetry & spectropolarimetry at the CFHT
J. -F. Donati, D. Kouach, C. Moutou +63
This paper presents an overview of SPIRou, the new-generation near-infrared spectropolarimeter / precision velocimeter recently installed on the 3.6-m Canada-France-Hawaii Telescop…
Expected performances of the Characterising Exoplanet Satellite (CHEOPS). I. Photometric performances from ground-based calibration
Adrien Deline, Didier Queloz, Bruno Chazelas +6
The Characterising Exoplanet Satellite (CHEOPS) is a space mission designed to perform photometric observations of bright stars to obtain precise radii measurements of transiting p…
A new wavelength calibration for echelle spectrographs using Fabry-Perot etalons
F. Cersullo, A. Coffinet, B. Chazelas +2
The study of Earth-mass extrasolar planets via the radial-velocity technique and the measurement of the potential cosmological variability of fundamental constants call for very-hi…
A new infrared Fabry-Pérot-based radial-velocity-reference module for the SPIRou radial-velocity spectrograph
Federica Cersullo, François Wildi, Bruno Chazelas +1
The field of exoplanet research is moving towards the detection and characterization of habitable planets. These exo-Earths can be easily found around low-mass stars by using eithe…