Portal de Periódicos da CAPES

CARMENES: an overview six months after first light

2016; SPIE; Linguagem: Inglês

10.1117/12.2231880

1996-756X

A. Quirrenbach, P. J. Amado, J. A. Caballero, R. Mundt, A. Reiners, I. Ribas, W. Seifert, Miguel Abril, J. Aceituno, F. J. Alonso-Floriano, H. Anwand-Heerwart, M. Azzaro, F. F. Bauer, D. Barrado, S. Becerril, V. J. S. Béjar, D. Benítez, Z. M. Berdiñas, M. Brinkmöller, M. Vázquez, E. Casal, A. Claret, J. Colomé, M. Cortés‐Contreras, S. Czesla, M. P. Doellinger, S. Dreizler, C. Feiz, M. Fernández, I. M. Ferro, B. Fuhrmeister, D. Galadí-Enríquez, I. Gallardo, M. C. Gálvez-Ortiz, Á. García-Piquer, R. Garrido, L. Gesa, V. Gómez Galera, J. I. Gónzalez Hernández, R. González-Peinado, U. Grözinger, J. Guàrdia, E. W. Guenther, E. de Guindos, H.-J. Hagen, A. P. Hatzes, P. H. Hauschildt, J. Helmling, Thomas Henning, D. Hermann, R. Hernández Arabí, L. Hernández Castaño, F. Hernández Hernando, E. Herrero, A. Huber, K. F. Huber, P. Huke, S. V. Jeffers, E. de Juan, A. Kaminski, M. Kehr, M. Kim, R. Klein, J. Klüter, M. Kürster, M. Lafarga, L. M. Lara, A. Lamert, W. Laun, R. Launhardt, Ulrike Lemke, R. Lenzen, María Concepción Castrillo Llamas, M. López del Fresno, M. López‐Puertas, J. López‐Santiago, J. F. López Salas, H. Magán Madinabeitia, U. Mall, H. Mandel, L. Mancini, J. A. Marín Molina, D. Maroto Fernández, E. L. Martı́n, S. Martín‐Ruiz, C. J. Marvin, Richard J. Mathar, E. Mirabet, D. Montes, J. C. Morales, R. Morales, E. Nagel, V. Naranjo, G. Nowak, Ε. Πάλλη, J. Panduro, V. M. Passegger, A. Pavlov, S. Pedraz, E. Pérez, D. Pérez-Medialdea, M. Perger, M. Pluto, A. Ramón, R. Rébolo, P. Redondo, S. Reffert, S. Reinhart, P. Rhode, Hans‐Walter Rix, F. Rodler, E. Rodrı́guez, C. López, R.-R. Rohloff, A. Rosich, M. Á. Sánchez Carrasco, J. Sanz‐Forcada, P. Sarkis, L. F. Sarmiento, Sebastian Schäfer, J. Schiller, C. Schmidt, J. H. M. M. Schmitt, P. Schöfer, A. Schweitzer, D. Shulyak, E. Solano, O. Stahl, Clemens Storz, H. M. Tabernero, Marcelo Tala Pinto, L. Tal-Or, R. G. Ulbrich, G. Veredas, José Ignacio Linares, F. Vilardell, Karl Wagner, J. Winkler, M. R. Zapatero Osorio, M. Zechmeister, M. Ammler‐von Eiff, G. Anglada‐Escudé, C. del Burgo, M. L. García-Vargas, A. Klutsch, J. L. Lizon, M. López-Morales, A. Ofir, A. Pérez-Calpena, M. A. C. Perryman, E. Sánchez-Blanco, J. B. P. Strachan, Julian Stürmer, J. C. Suárez, T. Trifonov, Simon Tulloch, Wei Xu,

Astronomy and Astrophysical Research

The CARMENES instrument is a pair of high-resolution (R⪆80,000) spectrographs covering the wavelength range from 0.52 to 1.71 μm, optimized for precise radial velocity measurements. It was installed and commissioned at the 3.5m telescope of the Calar Alto observatory in Southern Spain in 2015. The first large science program of CARMENES is a survey of ~ 300 M dwarfs, which started on Jan 1, 2016. We present an overview of all subsystems of CARMENES (front end, fiber system, visible-light spectrograph, near-infrared spectrograph, calibration units, etalons, facility control, interlock system, instrument control system, data reduction pipeline, data flow, and archive), and give an overview of the assembly, integration, verification, and commissioning phases of the project. We show initial results and discuss further plans for the scientific use of CARMENES.