1. CARMENES: an overview six months after first light
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E. de Juan, Ignasi Ribas, R.-R. Rohloff, D. Benítez, A. Lamert, Th. Henning, P. Rhode, Karl Wagner, Josep Colomé, Sebastian Schafer, M. Cortés-Contreras, R. G. Ulbrich, F. J. Alonso-Floriano, R. Gonzalez Peinado, Simon Tulloch, H. Anwand-Heerwart, Juan Carlos Suárez, Florian Rodler, M. C. Gálvez-Ortiz, Hugo M. Tabernero, A. P. Hatzes, Jesús Aceituno, Birgit Fuhrmeister, Clemens Storz, R. Morales Muñoz, Ana Pérez-Calpena, J. Schiller, M. Llamas, Evangelos Nagel, Mercedes Lopez-Morales, Sabine Reffert, A. Garcia-Piquer, F. F. Bauer, E. Rodriguez, Ulrich Mall, Eike W. Guenther, Holger Mandel, A. Claret, Ralf Klein, Ralf Launhardt, A. Quirrenbach, P. Schöfer, David Barrado, Javier López-Santiago, E. Mirabet, Jorge Sanz-Forcada, Enric Palle, U. Lemke, V. M. Passegger, Stefan Dreizler, Víctor J. S. Béjar, J. Stürmer, C. Rodríguez López, Werner Laun, Grzegorz Nowak, M. Lafarga, Peter H. Hauschildt, E. Solano, J. Winkler, K. F. Huber, Rafael Rebolo, M. Kehr, M. C. Cardenas, D. Galadí, J. F. López Salas, A. Ramón, Manuel Perger, R. Hernández Arabí, E. de Guindos, J. Klüter, M. Tala, A. Rosich, Armin Huber, Paula Sarkis, Miguel Abril, S. Pedraz, V. Gómez Galera, Susana Martín-Ruiz, C. Feiz, C. del Burgo, M. Doellinger, Adrian Kaminski, M. L. García-Vargas, P. Redondo, M. Pluto, D. Montes, Ansgar Reiners, S. Becerril, C. J. Marvin, C. Schmidt, Mathias Zechmeister, Philipp Huke, J. I. González Hernández, I. M. Ferro, D. Maroto Fernández, Walter Seifert, H. W. Rix, Martin Kürster, M. Azzaro, Trifon Trifonov, I. Gallardo, Guillem Anglada-Escudé, Z. M. Berdiñas, M. A. Sánchez Carrasco, A. Pavlov, Sandra V. Jeffers, M. Brinkmöller, J. Helmling, L. F. Sarmiento, W. Xu, Andreas Schweitzer, A. Klutsch, Ulrich Grözinger, J. H. M. M. Schmitt, R. Garrido, H. J. Hagen, H. Magán Madinabeitia, S. Reinhart, L. M. Lara, Richard J. Mathar, Pedro J. Amado, Juan Carlos Morales, Lev Tal-Or, M. Fernandez, J. Guàrdia, F. Hernández Hernando, Johana Panduro, D. Hermann, Otmar Stahl, Luigi Mancini, E. L. Martin, L. Hernández Castaño, Denis Shulyak, M. A. C. Perryman, J. B. P. Strachan, J. L. Lizon, Manuel López-Puertas, M. Ammler-von Eiff, S. Czesla, M. R. Zapatero Osorio, Ernesto Sánchez-Blanco, J. I. Vico Linares, Lluis Gesa, Vianak Naranjo, Jose A. Caballero, M. López del Fresno, Reinhard Mundt, Francesc Vilardell, Aviv Ofir, D. Pérez-Medialdea, E. Herrero, E. Casal, G. Veredas, J. A. Marín Molina, M. Kim, Rainer Lenzen, and Enrique Pérez
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Astrofísica ,Physics ,Instrument control ,Astronomy ,First light ,01 natural sciences ,Exoplanet ,law.invention ,Astronomía ,010309 optics ,Telescope ,Observatory ,law ,0103 physical sciences ,Interlock ,010303 astronomy & astrophysics ,Spectrograph ,Data reduction ,Remote sensing - Abstract
The CARMENES instrument is a pair of high-resolution (R greater than or similar to 80, 000) spectrographs covering the wavelength range from 0.52 to 1.71 mu m, optimized for precise radial velocity measurements. It was installed and commissioned at the 3.5 m telescope of the Calar Alto observatory in Southern Spain in 2015. The first large science program of CARMENES is a survey of similar to 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.
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- 2016