A robotic auxiliary telescope for Veloce at the AAT: Veloce-RAPTOR

The aim of the Veloce-RAPTOR telescope is to overcome the insufficient availability of ultra-precise spectroscopy,which is crucial for a broad range of science cases. A dedicated, robotic telescope would enable operation of thestate-of-the-art Veloce spectrograph at the Anglo-Australian Telescope year-round, instead of only two months. Inparticular, for projects requiring many repeated observations over a long time, like the search for earth-likeexoplanets around nearby stars, the full availability of Veloce would be transformative. Veloce-RAPTOR shouldsignificantly improve the access of Australian astronomers to cutting edge spectroscopy, enabling a wide array ofscience from detecting exoplanets to investigating stellar pulsations.