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The Advanced Fiber-optic Echelle (AFOE) and Extrasolar Planet Searches

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  12 April 2016

P. Nisenson
Affiliation:
Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics, Cambridge, MA 02138
A. Contos
Affiliation:
Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics, Cambridge, MA 02138
S. Korzennik
Affiliation:
Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics, Cambridge, MA 02138
R. Noyes
Affiliation:
Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics, Cambridge, MA 02138
T. Brown
Affiliation:
High Altitude Observatory, CO 80307

Abstract

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The Advanced Fiber-Optic Echelle (AFOE) is a fiber-fed bench-top spectrograph specifically designed for precise radial velocity observations. The AFOE is permanently located at the 1.5-m telescope at Smithsonian’s Whipple Observatory in Arizona and is regularly used for monitoring exo-planet candidate stars and for asteroseismology observations. In this paper, we discuss the status of the instrument, as well as an upgrade to the instrument, a Fabry-Perot reference, which may prove important both for the AFOE and for all precise radial velocity (PRV) facilities.

Type
Part 3. Extrasolar Planets
Copyright
Copyright © Astronomical Society of the Pacific 1999

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