NIRPS: status updates and project overview

Étienne Artigau; François Bouchy; René Doyon; Claudio Melo; Xavier Delfosse; François Wildi; Christophe Lovis; Pedro Figueira; Bruno Canto Martins; Jonay González Hernández; Simon Thibault; Vladimir Reshetov; Francesco Pepe; Nuno Santos; José Renan de Medeiros; Rafael Rebolo; Neil Cook; Nicolas Blind; Isabelle Boisse; Denis Brousseau; Uriel Conod; David Lafrenière; Izan Leão; Lison Malo; Mathieu Ouellet; Anne-Sophie Poulin-Girard; Stéphane Udry; Philippe Vallée; Andrew Cumming; Michael Sordet; Allan De Medeiros

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13 December 2020 NIRPS: status updates and project overview

Étienne Artigau, François Bouchy, René Doyon, Claudio Melo, Xavier Delfosse, François Wildi, Christophe Lovis, Pedro Figueira, Bruno Canto Martins, Jonay González Hernández, Simon Thibault, Vladimir Reshetov, Francesco Pepe, Nuno Santos, José Renan de Medeiros, Rafael Rebolo, Neil Cook, Nicolas Blind, Isabelle Boisse, Denis Brousseau, Uriel Conod, David Lafrenière, Izan Leão, Lison Malo, Mathieu Ouellet, Anne-Sophie Poulin-Girard, Stéphane Udry, Philippe Vallée, Andrew Cumming, Michael Sordet, Allan De Medeiros

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Proceedings Volume 11447, Ground-based and Airborne Instrumentation for Astronomy VIII; 114471K (2020) https://doi.org/10.1117/12.2561090
Event: SPIE Astronomical Telescopes + Instrumentation, 2020, Online Only

Abstract

NIRPS is a near-infrared (YJH bands), fiber-fed, high-resolution precision radial velocity (pRV) spectrograph currently under construction for deployment at the ESO 3.6-m telescope in La Silla, Chile. Through the use of a dichroic, NIRPS will be operated simultaneously with the optical HARPS pRV spectrograph and will be used to conduct ambitious planet-search and characterization surveys through a 720-night of guaranteed time allocation. NIRPS aims at detecting and characterizing Earth-like planets in the habitable zone of low-mass dwarfs and obtain high-accuracy transit spectroscopy of exoplanets. Here we present a summary of the full performances obtained in laboratory tests conducted at Université Laval (Canada), and the first results of the on-going on-sky commissioning of the front-end. Science operations of NIRPS is expected to start in late-2020, enabling significant synergies with major space and ground instruments such as the JWST, TESS, ALMA, PLATO and the ELT.

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Étienne Artigau, François Bouchy, René Doyon, Claudio Melo, Xavier Delfosse, François Wildi, Christophe Lovis, Pedro Figueira, Bruno Canto Martins, Jonay González Hernández, Simon Thibault, Vladimir Reshetov, Francesco Pepe, Nuno Santos, José Renan de Medeiros, Rafael Rebolo, Neil Cook, Nicolas Blind, Isabelle Boisse, Denis Brousseau, Uriel Conod, David Lafrenière, Izan Leão, Lison Malo, Mathieu Ouellet, Anne-Sophie Poulin-Girard, Stéphane Udry, Philippe Vallée, Andrew Cumming, Michael Sordet, and Allan De Medeiros "NIRPS: status updates and project overview", Proc. SPIE 11447, Ground-based and Airborne Instrumentation for Astronomy VIII, 114471K (13 December 2020); https://doi.org/10.1117/12.2561090

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