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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.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.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.IM2024★ 1 cited

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…

astro-ph.IM2023★ 56 cited

The Near Infrared Imager and Slitless Spectrograph for the James Webb Space Telescope -- III. Single Object Slitless Spectroscopy

Loic Albert, David Lafreniere, Rene Doyon +37

The Near Infrared Imager and Slitless Spectrograph instrument (NIRISS) is the Canadian Space Agency (CSA) contribution to the suite of four science instruments of JWST. As one of t…

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★ 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…