A high-resolution echelle spectrograph for precision Doppler observations with small telescopes

Jacob Pember; Christian Schwab; Blaise C. Kuo Tiong; Cassandra Fallscheer; Hannah Worters; David Coutts; Richard McDermid

doi:10.1117/12.2563235

13 December 2020 A high-resolution echelle spectrograph for precision Doppler observations with small telescopes

Jacob Pember, Christian Schwab, Blaise C. Kuo Tiong, Cassandra Fallscheer, Hannah Worters, David Coutts, Richard McDermid

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Proceedings Volume 11447, Ground-based and Airborne Instrumentation for Astronomy VIII; 114473O (2020) https://doi.org/10.1117/12.2563235
Event: SPIE Astronomical Telescopes + Instrumentation, 2020, Online Only

Abstract

The Macquarie University campus observatory has recently undergone a significant upgrade, with a new fully- automated 0.6 m telescope and on-site facilities including an instrumentation laboratory. Here we report on the design, assembly, and first on-sky tests of a new high-resolution echelle spectrograph for the observatory. This spectrograph will be a key resource at our campus observatory, providing high fidelity measurements that will enable future research, in particular Master and PhD theses that require stellar spectroscopy or radial velocity measurements. The instrument will also form a cornerstone of the laboratory components of the undergraduate astronomy degree, and together with the new 0.6 m telescope, a key tool for project-based learning at the campus observatory. The instrument has been developed with radial velocity precision as the driving metric, and with future work on the environmental stabilisation it is expected to reach a radial velocity precision of 3 m s⁻¹, enabling the observation of a wide range of exoplanets.

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Jacob Pember, Christian Schwab, Blaise C. Kuo Tiong, Cassandra Fallscheer, Hannah Worters, David Coutts, and Richard McDermid "A high-resolution echelle spectrograph for precision Doppler observations with small telescopes", Proc. SPIE 11447, Ground-based and Airborne Instrumentation for Astronomy VIII, 114473O (13 December 2020); https://doi.org/10.1117/12.2563235

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