27 | | || '''15.01.2016''' || '''Andreas Quirrenbach (ZAH, LSW Heidelberg)''' || '''The commissioning of CARMENES'''[[BR]] [[BR]]CARMENES is as new instrument, which has been installed and commissioned at Calar Alto in the second half of 2015. Besides the Landesternwarte, MPIA and CAHA another eight institutions in Germany and in Spain participated in the development of CARMENES.[[BR]][[BR]]This consortium will devote the coming three years to search for planets around very small and low-mass stars (so-called red dwarfs). One prime goal is the discovery of earth-like planets comprising surface temperatures, which allow for the evolution of life.[[BR]][[BR]]To reach the necessary sensitivity and precision, CARMENES is equipped with two extremely stable spectrographs, one for the visible and one for the NIR wavelength range. Those are installed inside dedicated vacuum tanks in the dome's Coudé lab and coupled via fibers to the 3.5m telescope. [[BR]][[BR]] Between 2016 and 2018, 80% of the observing time of the 3.5m telescope are reserved for the CARMENES survey. The remaining night time is available for any other project. [[BR]][[BR]]Presentation: German [[BR]][https://svn.mpia.de/trac/gulli/att/raw-attachment/wiki/AlteVortraege2016S1/2015-09-18_Wie_gross.pdf Slides: German][[BR]]Questions: German, English || |
| 27 | || '''15.01.2016''' || '''Andreas Quirrenbach (ZAH, LSW Heidelberg)''' || '''The commissioning of CARMENES'''[[BR]] [[BR]]CARMENES is as new instrument, which has been installed and commissioned at Calar Alto in the second half of 2015. Besides the Landesternwarte, MPIA and CAHA another eight institutions in Germany and in Spain participated in the development of CARMENES.[[BR]][[BR]]This consortium will devote the coming three years to search for planets around very small and low-mass stars (so-called red dwarfs). One prime goal is the discovery of earth-like planets comprising surface temperatures, which allow for the evolution of life.[[BR]][[BR]]To reach the necessary sensitivity and precision, CARMENES is equipped with two extremely stable spectrographs, one for the visible and one for the NIR wavelength range. Those are installed inside dedicated vacuum tanks in the dome's Coudé lab and coupled via fibers to the 3.5m telescope. [[BR]][[BR]] Between 2016 and 2018, 80% of the observing time of the 3.5m telescope are reserved for the CARMENES survey. During the remaining night time the instrument is available for any other project. [[BR]][[BR]]Presentation: German [[BR]][https://svn.mpia.de/trac/gulli/att/raw-attachment/wiki/AlteVortraege2016S1/2015-09-18_Wie_gross.pdf Slides: German][[BR]]Questions: German, English || |