MARVEL: Extracting high-precision radial velocities of exoplanet hosts

N. Jannsen*, D. Seynaeve, J. De Ridder, J. Stürmer, J. Pember, C. Schwab, L. A. Buchhave, G. Raskin, B. Vandenbussche, H. Sana, A. Tkachenko, P. Royer, W. De Meester, H. Van Winckel, I. Ribas

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Abstract

The future ESA space mission PLATO aims to detect thousands of exoplanets, including Earth-like planets, and constrain their radius and mean density. To achieve this goal, the space based photometric observations are not enough but need to be complemented by ground-based observations to measure the Radial Velocity (RV) of the exoplanet host stars. MARVEL is such a facility consisting of four 80 cm telescope linked through optical fibers to a single high-resolution echelle spectrograph, designed for high-precision RV measurements with a uncertainty of 1 ms -1. MARVEL is build by a consortium led by the KU Leuven with contributions from the UK, Austria, Australia, Sweden, Denmark, and Spain, and will be commissioned in 2023. To reach such high RV precision, not only ultra-stable hardware is currently being developed, but also a state-of-The-Art data processing pipeline for which we present the first results in this poster.

Original languageEnglish
Title of host publicationProceedings of SPIE : Observatory Operations: Strategies, Processes, and Systems IX
EditorsDavid S. Adler, Robert L. Seaman, Chris R. Benn
Number of pages11
PublisherSPIE - International Society for Optical Engineering
Publication date2022
Article number121861U
ISBN (Electronic)9781510653535
DOIs
Publication statusPublished - 2022
EventSPIE Astronomical Telescopes + Instrumentation 2022 - Montreal, Canada
Duration: 17 Jul 202223 Jul 2022

Conference

ConferenceSPIE Astronomical Telescopes + Instrumentation 2022
Country/TerritoryCanada
CityMontreal
Period17/07/202223/07/2022
SeriesProceedings of SPIE - The International Society for Optical Engineering
ISSN0277-786X

Keywords

  • Exoplanets
  • Pipeline
  • Radial velocity
  • Simulations
  • Spectrograph
  • Telescopes

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