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Paper Abstract
ESPRESSO is a fibre-fed, cross-dispersed, high-resolution, echelle spectrograph. Being the first purpose of ESPRESSO
to develop a competitive and innovative high-resolution spectrograph to fully exploit the VLT (Very Large Telescope),
and allow new science, it is important to develop the VLT array concept bearing in mind the need to obtain the highest
stability, while preserving its best efficiency. This high-resolution ultra-stable spectrograph will be installed in the VLT
at the Combined Coudé Laboratory (CCL), fed by four Coudé Trains, which brings the light from the Nasmyth platforms
of the four VLT Unit Telescopes to the CCL. ESPRESSO will combine the efficiency of modern echelle spectrograph
with extreme radial-velocity precision. It will achieve a gain of two magnitudes with respect to its predecessor HARPS,
and the instrumental radial-velocity precision will be improved to reach cm/s level. Thanks to its ability of combining
incoherently the light of the 4 UTs, ESPRESSO will offer new possibilities in various fields of astronomy. The Coudé
Train is composed of a set of prisms, mirrors and lenses to deliver a pupil and an image in the CCL, including an
Atmospheric Dispersion Compensator. The use of mainly refractive optics, and Total Internal Reflection, has the
advantage of the inherent higher throughput, especially in the blue region of the spectrum.
In this paper, we present the design of the Coudé Train, the evolution of the concept towards the manufacturing phase, its
main characteristics and performances, and detail its subsystems: optical, mechanical and control electronics and
software.
Paper Details
Date Published: 28 July 2014
PDF: 11 pages
Proc. SPIE 9147, Ground-based and Airborne Instrumentation for Astronomy V, 91478Q (28 July 2014); doi: 10.1117/12.2055876
Published in SPIE Proceedings Vol. 9147:
Ground-based and Airborne Instrumentation for Astronomy V
Suzanne K. Ramsay; Ian S. McLean; Hideki Takami, Editor(s)
PDF: 11 pages
Proc. SPIE 9147, Ground-based and Airborne Instrumentation for Astronomy V, 91478Q (28 July 2014); doi: 10.1117/12.2055876
Show Author Affiliations
Alexandre Cabral, Ctr. de Astronomia e Astrofísica da Univ. de Lisboa (Portugal)
Manuel Abreu, Ctr. de Astronomia e Astrofísica da Univ. de Lisboa (Portugal)
João Coelho, Ctr. de Astronomia e Astrofísica da Univ. de Lisboa (Portugal)
Ricardo Gomes, Ctr. de Astronomia e Astrofísica da Univ. de Lisboa (Portugal)
Manuel Monteiro, Ctr. de Astrofísica da Univ. do Porto (Portugal)
António Oliveira, Univ. de Lisboa (Portugal)
Pedro Santos, Univ. de Lisboa (Portugal)
Gerardo Ávila, European Southern Observatory (Germany)
Manuel Abreu, Ctr. de Astronomia e Astrofísica da Univ. de Lisboa (Portugal)
João Coelho, Ctr. de Astronomia e Astrofísica da Univ. de Lisboa (Portugal)
Ricardo Gomes, Ctr. de Astronomia e Astrofísica da Univ. de Lisboa (Portugal)
Manuel Monteiro, Ctr. de Astrofísica da Univ. do Porto (Portugal)
António Oliveira, Univ. de Lisboa (Portugal)
Pedro Santos, Univ. de Lisboa (Portugal)
Gerardo Ávila, European Southern Observatory (Germany)
Bernard-Alexis Delabre, European Southern Observatory (Germany)
Marco Riva, INAF - Osservatorio Astronomico di Brera (Italy)
Paolo Di Marcantonio, INAF - Osservatorio Astronomico di Trieste (Italy)
Igor Coretti, INAF - Osservatorio Astronomico di Trieste (Italy)
Nuno C. Santos, Univ. de Lisboa (Portugal)
Univ. do Porto (Portugal)
Filippo Zerbi, INAF - Osservatorio Astronomico di Brera (Italy)
Denis Mégevand, Observatoire de l’Univ. de Genève (Switzerland)
Marco Riva, INAF - Osservatorio Astronomico di Brera (Italy)
Paolo Di Marcantonio, INAF - Osservatorio Astronomico di Trieste (Italy)
Igor Coretti, INAF - Osservatorio Astronomico di Trieste (Italy)
Nuno C. Santos, Univ. de Lisboa (Portugal)
Univ. do Porto (Portugal)
Filippo Zerbi, INAF - Osservatorio Astronomico di Brera (Italy)
Denis Mégevand, Observatoire de l’Univ. de Genève (Switzerland)
Published in SPIE Proceedings Vol. 9147:
Ground-based and Airborne Instrumentation for Astronomy V
Suzanne K. Ramsay; Ian S. McLean; Hideki Takami, Editor(s)
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