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Performance Verification of the EXtreme PREcision Spectrograph

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Date Issued
2020
Author(s)
Blackman, Ryan T.
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Fischer, Debra A.
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Jurgenson, Colby A.
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Sawyer, David
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McCracken, Tyler M.
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Szymkowiak, Andrew E.
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Petersburg, Ryan R.
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Joel Ong, J. M.
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Brewer, John M.
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Zhao, Lily L.
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Leet, Christopher
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Buchhave, Lars A.
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Tronsgaard, René
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Llama, Joe
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Sawyer, Travis
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Davis, Allen B.
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Cabot, Samuel H.C.
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Shao, Michael
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Trahan, Russell
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Nemati, Bijan
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Fournier, Paul
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Pawluczyk, Rafal
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Abstract
The EXtreme PREcision Spectrograph (EXPRES) is a new Doppler spectrograph designed to reach a radial-velocity measurement precision sufficient to detect Earth-like exoplanets orbiting nearby, bright stars. We report on extensive laboratory testing and on-sky observations to quantitatively assess the instrumental radial-velocity measurement precision of EXPRES, with a focused discussion of individual terms in the instrument error budget. We find that EXPRES can reach a single-measurement instrument calibration precision better than 10 cm s-1, not including photon noise from stellar observations. We also report on the performance of the various environmental, mechanical, and optical subsystems of EXPRES, assessing any contributions to radial-velocity error. For atmospheric and telescope related effects, this includes the fast tip-tilt guiding system, atmospheric dispersion compensation, and the chromatic exposure meter. For instrument calibration, this includes the laser fRequency comb (LFC), flat-field light source, CCD detector, and effects in the optical fibers. Modal noise is mitigated to a negligible level via a chaotic fiber agitator, which is especially important for wavelength calibration with the LFC. Regarding detector effects, we empirically assess the impact on the radial-velocity precision due to pixel-position nonuniformities and charge transfer inefficiency (CTI). EXPRES has begun its science survey to discover exoplanets orbiting G-dwarf and K-dwarf stars, in addition to transit spectroscopy and measurements of the Rossiter-McLaughlin effect.
Volume
159
Issue
5
Start page
238
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0004-6256
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