MARVEL: an update on the four-telescope dedicated radial velocity facility at the Mercator Observatory

Jacob Pember; Ioannis Argyriou; David Atkinson; Gerardo Ávila; Lee Barrett; Alexis Brandeker; Lars Buchhave; David Coutts; Wim De Meester; Joris De Ridder; Denis Defrère; Alistair Glasse; Manuel Güdel; Mariam Haidar; Kaustubh Hakim; Samuel Halverson; Joel Harman; Nicholas Jannsen; Markus Janson; Ailidh Kinney; Suzanne Kovacs; Johan Morren; Benjamin Montet; Romain Laugier; Jesus Pérez Padilla; Wim Pessemier; Benjamin Pope; Saskia Prins; Andreas Quirrenbach; Kwinten Missiaen; Don Pollacco; Gert Raskin; Maddalena Reggiani; Hugues Sana; Christian Schwab; Dries Seynaeve; Robyn Sharman; Andrew Tkachenko; Julian Stürmer; Ignasi Ribas; Alan Stokes; Giovanna Tinetti; Chris Waring; Enric Palle; Bart Vandenbussche; Hans Van Winckel; Duncan Wright; Yanjun Zhou; Rob Wittenmyer; David Adams; Jurek Brzeski; Zhemin Cai; Timothy Chin; Simon Ellis; Tony Farrell; Tobias Feger; Nirmala Kunwar; Celestina Saavedra Lacombe; Jon Lawrence; Helen McGregor; David Robertson; Lew Waller; Ross Zhelem

doi:10.1117/12.3021409

19 July 2024 MARVEL: an update on the four-telescope dedicated radial velocity facility at the Mercator Observatory

Jacob Pember, Ioannis Argyriou, David Atkinson, Gerardo Ávila, Lee Barrett, Alexis Brandeker, Lars Buchhave, David Coutts, Wim De Meester, Joris De Ridder, Denis Defrère, Alistair Glasse, Manuel Güdel, Mariam Haidar, Kaustubh Hakim, Samuel Halverson, Joel Harman, Nicholas Jannsen, Markus Janson, Ailidh Kinney, Suzanne Kovacs, Johan Morren, Benjamin Montet, Romain Laugier, Jesus Pérez Padilla, Wim Pessemier, Benjamin Pope, Saskia Prins, Andreas Quirrenbach, Kwinten Missiaen, Don Pollacco, Gert Raskin, Maddalena Reggiani, Hugues Sana, Christian Schwab, Dries Seynaeve, Robyn Sharman, Andrew Tkachenko, Julian Stürmer, Ignasi Ribas, Alan Stokes, Giovanna Tinetti, Chris Waring, Enric Palle, Bart Vandenbussche, Hans Van Winckel, Duncan Wright, Yanjun Zhou, Rob Wittenmyer, David Adams, Jurek Brzeski, Zhemin Cai, Timothy Chin, Simon Ellis, Tony Farrell, Tobias Feger, Nirmala Kunwar, Celestina Saavedra Lacombe, Jon Lawrence, Helen McGregor, David Robertson, Lew Waller, Ross Zhelem

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Proceedings Volume 13096, Ground-based and Airborne Instrumentation for Astronomy X; 130966B (2024) https://doi.org/10.1117/12.3021409
Event: SPIE Astronomical Telescopes + Instrumentation, 2024, Yokohama, Japan

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MARVEL is a new facility at the Mercator Observatory (La Palma) which comprises an array of four 0.8 metre telescopes, each feeding via fibre link into a single high-resolution spectrograph. The facility will provide dedicated target vetting and follow-up capability to support large exoplanet surveys through radial velocity measurements with precision at the metre-per-second level. The observatory site, with four new domes and a standalone stabilised spectrograph building, will soon be complete and ready for hardware installation and commissioning. Here we present an overview of the facility and a status update on several component subsystems: the telescope hardware, control software, and scheduling software; the fibre injection units at each telescope; the optical and mechanical design and tolerances of the spectrograph and vacuum vessel; the calibration system hardware and calibration strategies; and the progress in development of the instrument's data reduction pipeline.

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Jacob Pember, Ioannis Argyriou, David Atkinson, Gerardo Ávila, Lee Barrett, Alexis Brandeker, Lars Buchhave, David Coutts, Wim De Meester, Joris De Ridder, Denis Defrère, Alistair Glasse, Manuel Güdel, Mariam Haidar, Kaustubh Hakim, Samuel Halverson, Joel Harman, Nicholas Jannsen, Markus Janson, Ailidh Kinney, Suzanne Kovacs, Johan Morren, Benjamin Montet, Romain Laugier, Jesus Pérez Padilla, Wim Pessemier, Benjamin Pope, Saskia Prins, Andreas Quirrenbach, Kwinten Missiaen, Don Pollacco, Gert Raskin, Maddalena Reggiani, Hugues Sana, Christian Schwab, Dries Seynaeve, Robyn Sharman, Andrew Tkachenko, Julian Stürmer, Ignasi Ribas, Alan Stokes, Giovanna Tinetti, Chris Waring, Enric Palle, Bart Vandenbussche, Hans Van Winckel, Duncan Wright, Yanjun Zhou, Rob Wittenmyer, David Adams, Jurek Brzeski, Zhemin Cai, Timothy Chin, Simon Ellis, Tony Farrell, Tobias Feger, Nirmala Kunwar, Celestina Saavedra Lacombe, Jon Lawrence, Helen McGregor, David Robertson, Lew Waller, and Ross Zhelem "MARVEL: an update on the four-telescope dedicated radial velocity facility at the Mercator Observatory", Proc. SPIE 13096, Ground-based and Airborne Instrumentation for Astronomy X, 130966B (19 July 2024); https://doi.org/10.1117/12.3021409

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