HARPS3: The Terra Hunting Experiment

Description: HARPS3 is a high resolution (R~115,000) echelle spectrograph with a wavelength range from 380-690 nm. It is part of the Terra Hunting Experiment - a future 10-year radial velocity measurement programme to discover Earth-like exoplanets. The instrument design is based on the successful HARPS spectrograph on the 3.6m ESO telescope and HARPS-N on the TNG telescope.

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Nights scheduled since semester 2007B

Instrument information: http://www.terrahunting.org/harps3.html

More:
Thompson, S. et al., 2016, "HARPS3 for a roboticized Isaac Newton Telescope", Proc. SPIE, Vol. 9908, id. 99086F 13 pp (Paper).

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