The prototype design of most powerful exoplanet tracker based on LAMOST

Kai Zhang; Yongtian Zhu; Lei Wang

doi:10.1117/12.856237

14 July 2010 The prototype design of most powerful exoplanet tracker based on LAMOST

Kai Zhang, Yongtian Zhu, Lei Wang

Proceedings Volume 7735, Ground-based and Airborne Instrumentation for Astronomy III; 773510 (2010) https://doi.org/10.1117/12.856237
Event: SPIE Astronomical Telescopes + Instrumentation, 2010, San Diego, California, United States

Abstract

Chinese national science project-LAMOST successfully received its official blessing in June, 2009. Its aperture is about 4m, and its focal plane of 1.75m in diameter, corresponding to a 5° field of view, can accommodate as many as 4000 optical fibers, and feed 16 multi-object low-medium resolution spectrometers (LRS). In addition, a new technique called External Dispersed Interferometry (EDI) is successfully used to enhance the accuracy of radial velocity measurement by heterodyning an interference spectrum with absorption lines. For further enhancing the survey power of LAMOST, a major astronomical project, Multi-object Exoplanet Survey System (MESS) based on this advanced technique, is being developed by Nanjing Institute of Astronomical Optics and Technology (NIAOT) and National Astronomical Observatories of China (NAOC), and funded by Joint Fund of Astronomy, which is set up by National Natural Sciences Foundation of China (NSFC) and Chinese Academy of Sciences (CAS). This system is composed of a multi-object fixed delay Michelson interferometer (FDMI) and a multi-object medium resolution spectrometer (R=5000). In this paper, a prototype design of FDMI is given, including optical system and mechanical structure.

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Kai Zhang, Yongtian Zhu, and Lei Wang "The prototype design of most powerful exoplanet tracker based on LAMOST", Proc. SPIE 7735, Ground-based and Airborne Instrumentation for Astronomy III, 773510 (14 July 2010); https://doi.org/10.1117/12.856237

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