NAHUAL: A cool spectrograph for planets of ultra-cool objects

Details NAHUAL: A cool spectrograph for planets of ultra-cool objects NAHUAL: A cool spectrograph for planets of ultra-cool objects

2005-09-14

arxiv.org/abs/astro-ph/0509387v1

Proceedings of OHP Colloquium Tenth anniversary of 51 Peg-b, 2005

Astronomy and Astrophysics

Astrophysics

8 pages, 3 figures, conference

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We present the status of an ongoing study to built a a high resolution near infrared Echelle spectrograph (NAHUAL) for the 10.4-m-Gran Telescopio Canarias (GTC) which will be especially optimised for planet searches by means of high precision radial velocity measurements. We show that infrared radial velocity programs are particularly suitable to search for planets very low mass stars and brown dwarfs, as well as active stars. The goal of NAHUAL is to reach an accuracy of the radial velocity measurement of a few m/s, which would allow the detection of planets with a few earth-masses orbiting low-mass stars and brown dwarfs. It is planed that NAHUAL covers simultaneously the full wavelength range in the J, H, and K-band, and will also serve as a general purpose high resolution near infrared spectrograph of the GTC. The planed instrument will have a resolution of R=50,000 with a 0.175 arcsec slit, and an AO-system. An absorption cell will serve as a simultaneous wavelength reference.

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