Physics
Scientific paper
May 2008
adsabs.harvard.edu/cgi-bin/nph-data_query?bibcode=2008aps..dmp.u5002l&link_type=abstract
American Physical Society, 39th Annual Meeting of the APS Division of Atomic, Molecular, and Optical Physics, May 27-31, 2008, a
Physics
Scientific paper
Searches for extrasolar planets using the periodic Doppler shift of stellar lines are approaching Earth-like planet sensitivity. To find a 1-Earth-mass planet in an Earth-like orbit, an order of magnitude improvement in state-of-the-art radial velocity spectroscopy is necessary. An approach that combines a laser frequency comb with a Fabry-Perot cavity has been suggested as a promising avenue to improved wavelength calibration. Here we report the fabrication of such a laser comb with up to 40 GHz ( 1 å) line-spacing, without compromise of long-term stability, reproducibility or spectral resolution and that is well matched to the resolving power of high-resolution astrophysical spectrographs. The instrument will be deployed on the MMT in May 2008 to calibrate the Hectochelle spectrograph in a demonstration project to search for dark matter in globular clusters and in 2009/10 at the HARPS clone spectrograph on the William Herschel telescope to search for exoplanets.
Benedick Andrew J.
Fendel Peter
Glenday Alex
Kaertner Franz X.
Li Chih-Hao
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