HERMES: a high-resolution fibre-fed spectrograph for the Mercator telescope

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作者
Raskin, G. [1 ]
Van Winckel, H. [1 ]
Hensberge, H. [2 ]
Jorissen, A. [3 ]
Lehmann, H. [4 ]
Waelkens, C. [1 ]
Avila, G. [5 ]
De Cuyper, J. -P. [2 ]
Degroote, P. [1 ]
Dubosson, R. [6 ]
Dumortier, L. [2 ]
Fremat, Y. [2 ]
Laux, U. [4 ]
Michaud, B. [6 ]
Morren, J. [7 ]
Padilla, J. Perez [1 ]
Pessemier, W. [1 ]
Prins, S. [1 ]
Smolders, K. [1 ]
Van Eck, S. [3 ]
Winkler, J. [4 ]
机构
[1] Katholieke Univ Leuven, Inst Sterrenkunde, B-3001 Heverlee, Belgium
[2] Royal Observ Belgium, B-1180 Brussels, Belgium
[3] Univ Libre Bruxelles, Inst Astron & Astrophys, B-1050 Brussels, Belgium
[4] Thuringer Landessternwarte Tautenburg, D-07778 Tautenburg, Germany
[5] European So Observ, D-85748 Garching, Germany
[6] Observ Geneva, CH-1290 Chavannes Des Bois, Switzerland
[7] Katholieke Univ Leuven, Dept Phys & Astron, B-3001 Heverlee, Belgium
来源
ASTRONOMY & ASTROPHYSICS | 2011年 / 526卷
关键词
instrumentation: spectrographs; techniques: spectroscopic; techniques: radial velocities; stars: abundances; SIGNATURES; BINARIES; SPECTRA; ESO;
D O I
10.1051/0004-6361/201015435
中图分类号
P1 [天文学];
学科分类号
0704 ;
摘要
The HERMES high-resolution spectrograph project aims at exploiting the specific potential of small but flexible telescopes in observational astrophysics. The optimised optical design of the spectrograph is based on the well-proven concept of white-pupil beam folding for high-resolution spectroscopy. In this contribution we present the complete project, including the spectrograph design and procurement details, the telescope adaptor and calibration unit, the detector system, as well as the optimised data-reduction pipeline. We present a detailed performance analysis to show that the spectrograph performs as specified both in optical quality and in total efficiency. With a spectral resolution of 85 000 (63 000 for the low-resolution fibre), a spectral coverage from 377 to 900 nm in a single exposure and a peak efficiency of 28%, HERMES proves to be an ideal instrument for building up time series of high-quality data of variable (stellar) phenomena.
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