Veloce Rosso: Australia's new precision radial velocity spectrograph

James Gilbert; Christoph Bergmann; Gabe Bloxham; Robert Boz; Robert Brookfield; Tom Carkic; Brad Carter; Scott Case; Vladimir Churilov; Michael Ellis; Gaston Gausachs; Luke Gers; Doug Gray; Nicholas Herrald; Michael Ireland; Damien Jones; Yevgen Kripak; Jon Lawrence; Ellie O'Brien; Ian Price; Matthew Robertson; Christian Schwab; Chris Tinney; Annino Vaccarella; Colin Vest; Duncan Wright; Ross Zhelem

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Veloce Rosso: Australia's new precision radial velocity spectrograph

James Gilbert, Christoph Bergmann, Gabe Bloxham, Robert Boz, Robert Brookfield, Tom Carkic, Brad Carter, Scott Case, Vladimir Churilov, Michael Ellis, Gaston Gausachs, Luke Gers, Doug Gray, Nicholas Herrald, Michael Ireland, Damien Jones, Yevgen Kripak, Jon Lawrence, Ellie O'Brien, Ian PriceMatthew Robertson, Christian Schwab, Chris Tinney, Annino Vaccarella, Colin Vest, Duncan Wright, Ross Zhelem

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Veloce is an ultra-stable fibre-fed R4 echelle spectrograph for the 3.9 m Anglo-Australian Telescope. The first channel to be commissioned, Veloce 'Rosso', utilises multiple low-cost design innovations to obtain Doppler velocities for sun-like and M-dwarf stars at <1 ms ^-1 precision. The spectrograph has an asymmetric white-pupil format with a 100-mm beam diameter, delivering R>75,000 spectra over a 580-930 nm range for the Rosso channel. Simultaneous calibration is provided by a single-mode pulsed laser frequency comb in tandem with a traditional arc lamp. A bundle of 19 object fibres ensures full sampling of stellar targets from the AAT site. Veloce is housed in dual environmental enclosures that maintain positive air pressure at a stability of ±0.3 mbar, with a thermal stability of ±0.01 K on the optical bench. We present a technical overview and early performance data from Australia's next major spectroscopic machine.

Original language	English
Title of host publication	Ground-based and Airborne Instrumentation for Astronomy VII
Editors	Luc Simard, Luc Simard, Christopher J. Evans, Hideki Takami
Publisher	SPIE
ISBN (Print)	9781510619579
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1117/12.2312399
Publication status	Published - 2018
Event	Ground-based and Airborne Instrumentation for Astronomy VII 2018 - Austin, United States Duration: 10 Jun 2018 → 14 Jun 2018

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Name	Proceedings of SPIE - The International Society for Optical Engineering
Volume	10702
ISSN (Print)	0277-786X
ISSN (Electronic)	1996-756X

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Conference	Ground-based and Airborne Instrumentation for Astronomy VII 2018
Country/Territory	United States
City	Austin
Period	10/06/18 → 14/06/18

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Gilbert, J., Bergmann, C., Bloxham, G., Boz, R., Brookfield, R., Carkic, T., Carter, B., Case, S., Churilov, V., Ellis, M., Gausachs, G., Gers, L., Gray, D., Herrald, N., Ireland, M., Jones, D., Kripak, Y., Lawrence, J., O'Brien, E., ... Zhelem, R. (2018). Veloce Rosso: Australia's new precision radial velocity spectrograph. In L. Simard, L. Simard, C. J. Evans, & H. Takami (Eds.), Ground-based and Airborne Instrumentation for Astronomy VII Article 107020Y (Proceedings of SPIE - The International Society for Optical Engineering; Vol. 10702). SPIE. https://doi.org/10.1117/12.2312399

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Veloce Rosso: Australia's new precision radial velocity spectrograph. / Gilbert, James; Bergmann, Christoph; Bloxham, Gabe et al.
Ground-based and Airborne Instrumentation for Astronomy VII. ed. / Luc Simard; Luc Simard; Christopher J. Evans; Hideki Takami. SPIE, 2018. 107020Y (Proceedings of SPIE - The International Society for Optical Engineering; Vol. 10702).

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Gilbert J, Bergmann C, Bloxham G, Boz R, Brookfield R, Carkic T et al. Veloce Rosso: Australia's new precision radial velocity spectrograph. In Simard L, Simard L, Evans CJ, Takami H, editors, Ground-based and Airborne Instrumentation for Astronomy VII. SPIE. 2018. 107020Y. (Proceedings of SPIE - The International Society for Optical Engineering). doi: 10.1117/12.2312399

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