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13 July 2018 The infrared Doppler (IRD) instrument for the Subaru telescope: instrument description and commissioning results
Takayuki Kotani, Motohide Tamura, Jun Nishikawa, Akitoshi Ueda, Masayuki Kuzuhara, Masashi Omiya, Jun Hashimoto, Masato Ishizuka, Teruyuki Hirano, Hiroshi Suto, Takashi Kurokawa, Tsukasa Kokubo, Takahiro Mori, Yosuke Tanaka, Ken Kashiwagi, Mihoko Konishi, Tomoyuki Kudo, Bun'ei Sato, Shane Jacobson, Klaus W. Hodapp, Donald B. Hall, Wako Aoki, Tomonori Usuda, Shogo Nishiyama, Tadashi Nakajima, Yuji Ikeda, Tomoyasu Yamamuro, Jun-Ichi Morino, Haruka Baba, Ko Hosokawa, Hiroyuki Ishikawa, Norio Narita, Eiichiro Kokubo, Yutaka Hayano, Hideyuki Izumiura, Eiji Kambe, Nobuhiko Kusakabe, Jungmi Kwon, Masahiro Ikoma, Yasunori Hori, Hidenori Genda, Akihiko Fukui, Yuka Fujii, Hajime Kawahara, Guyon Olivier, Nemanja Jovanovic, Hiroki Harakawa, Masahiko Hayashi, Masahide Hidai, Masahiro Machida, Taro Matsuo, Tetsuya Nagata, Masahiro Ogihara, Hideki Takami, Naruhisa Takato, Hiroshi Terada, Daehyeon Oh
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The Infrared Doppler (IRD) instrument is a fiber-fed high-resolution NIR spectrometer for the Subaru telescope covering the Y,J,H-bands simultaneously with a maximum spectral resolution of 70,000. The main purpose of IRD is a search for Earth-mass planets around nearby M-dwarfs by precise radial velocity measurements, as well as a spectroscopic characterization of exoplanet atmospheres. We report the current status of the instrument, which is undergoing commissioning at the Subaru Telescope, and the first light observation successfully done in August 2017. The general description of the instrument will be given including spectrometer optics, fiber injection system, cryogenic system, scrambler, and laser frequency comb. A large strategic survey mainly focused on late-type M-dwarfs is planned to start from 2019.
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Takayuki Kotani, Motohide Tamura, Jun Nishikawa, Akitoshi Ueda, Masayuki Kuzuhara, Masashi Omiya, Jun Hashimoto, Masato Ishizuka, Teruyuki Hirano, Hiroshi Suto, Takashi Kurokawa, Tsukasa Kokubo, Takahiro Mori, Yosuke Tanaka, Ken Kashiwagi, Mihoko Konishi, Tomoyuki Kudo, Bun'ei Sato, Shane Jacobson, Klaus W. Hodapp, Donald B. Hall, Wako Aoki, Tomonori Usuda, Shogo Nishiyama, Tadashi Nakajima, Yuji Ikeda, Tomoyasu Yamamuro, Jun-Ichi Morino, Haruka Baba, Ko Hosokawa, Hiroyuki Ishikawa, Norio Narita, Eiichiro Kokubo, Yutaka Hayano, Hideyuki Izumiura, Eiji Kambe, Nobuhiko Kusakabe, Jungmi Kwon, Masahiro Ikoma, Yasunori Hori, Hidenori Genda, Akihiko Fukui, Yuka Fujii, Hajime Kawahara, Guyon Olivier, Nemanja Jovanovic, Hiroki Harakawa, Masahiko Hayashi, Masahide Hidai, Masahiro Machida, Taro Matsuo, Tetsuya Nagata, Masahiro Ogihara, Hideki Takami, Naruhisa Takato, Hiroshi Terada, and Daehyeon Oh "The infrared Doppler (IRD) instrument for the Subaru telescope: instrument description and commissioning results", Proc. SPIE 10702, Ground-based and Airborne Instrumentation for Astronomy VII, 1070211 (13 July 2018); https://doi.org/10.1117/12.2311836
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