Physics
Scientific paper
May 2009
adsabs.harvard.edu/cgi-bin/nph-data_query?bibcode=2009aps..dmp.y1123g&link_type=abstract
American Physical Society, 40th Annual Meeting of the APS Division of Atomic, Molecular and Optical Physics, May 19-23,2009, abs
Physics
Scientific paper
Spectroscopy is a crucial tool for cosmology and the search for extrasolar planets. Broadband frequency combs have revolutionized precision spectroscopy in the laboratory with absolute frequencies determined to better than one part in 10^15. Good long-term stability and reproducibility are also major advantages of the frequency comb. However, their application to any astrophysical spectrograph requires increasing the comb-line spacing by at least 10-fold from today's high repetition rate sources operating at about 1 GHz. We report measurements of a 39-GHz comb generated from a 1-GHz source using the TRES spectrograph at the Fred Lawrence Whipple Observatory. Repeated measurements show that we can reach the expected stability limit of the spectrograph. The application of this novel technique to astrophysics should allow more than a 10-fold improvement in Doppler-shift sensitivity, with significant impact to many fields, including the search for extrasolar Earths, the direct measurement of the universe expansion and the detection of the temporal variation of physical constants.
Benedick Andrew
Cramer Claire
Glenday Alex
Kaertner Franz X.
Li Chih-Hao
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