Research Division Seminar
First light of CARMENES, the Calar Alto exoplanet hunter

Dr. Jose A. Caballero

Abstract

CARMENES may find the first uncontrovertible exoearth in the habitable zone of a star in the solar neighbourhood. Its acronym, 'Calar Alto high-Resolution search for M dwarfs with Exoearths with Near-infrared and optical Échelle Spectrographs', is long but self-explanatory. After six years of hard design and construction, CARMENES is currently being commissioned at the German-Spanish 3.5 m Calar Alto telescope in Almería. Well in advance of its American, Japanese and Canadian-French competitors, it will be in January 2016 the first and only ultra-stable high-resolution spectrograph covering the red optical and near-infrared. As its co-project manager, I will give a summary of the homonymous CARMENES instrument, the international consortium that has built it, the on-going on-sky commissioning, and the science project that will be carried with it during guaranteed time observations.

About the talk

First light of CARMENES, the Calar Alto exoplanet hunter
Dr. Jose A. Caballero
Centro de Astrobiología (CAB-INTA)
Thursday October 22, 2015 - 10:30 GMT+1  (Aula)
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