NEID precision radial velocity spectrometer: port adapter overview, requirements, and test plan
- Creators
- Logsdon, Sarah E.
- McElwain, Michael W.
- Gong, Qian
- Liang, Ming
- Santoro, Fernando
- Schwab, Christian
- Bender, Chad F.
- Blake, Cullen
- Halverson, Samuel
- Hearty, Fred
- Hunting, Emily
- Jaehnig, Kurt P.
- Mahadevan, Suvrath
- Monson, Andrew J.
- Percival, Jeffrey W.
- Rajagopal, Jayadev
- Ramsey, Lawrence
- Roy, Arpita
- Smith, Michael P.
- Terrien, Ryan C.
- Timmermann, Erik
- Willems, Phil
- Wolf, Marsha J.
- Wright, Jason
Abstract
The NEID spectrometer is an optical (380-930 nm), fiber-fed, precision Doppler spectrometer currently in de- velopment for the WIYN 3.5 m telescope at Kitt Peak National Observatory as part of the NN-EXPLORE partnership. Designed to achieve a radial velocity precision of < 30 cm/s, NEID will be sensitive enough to detect terrestrial-mass exoplanets around low-mass stars. Light from the target stars is focused by the telescope to a bent Cassegrain port at the edge of the primary mirror mechanical support. The specialized NEID "Port Adapter" system is mounted at this bent Cassegrain port and is responsible for delivering the incident light from the telescope to the NEID fibers. In order to provide stable, high-quality images to the science instrument, the Port Adapter houses several sub-components designed to acquire the target stars, correct for atmospheric dis- persion, stabilize the light onto the science fibers, and calibrate the spectrometer by injecting known wavelength sources such as a laser frequency comb. Here we provide an overview of the overall opto-mechanical design and system requirements of the Port Adapter. We also describe the development of system error budgets and test plans to meet those requirements.
Additional Information
© 2018 Society of Photo-optical Instrumentation Engineers (SPIE). Sarah Logsdon is supported by an appointment to the NASA Postdoctoral Program at NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, administered by USRA through a contract with NASA. This work was performed, in part, by Samuel Halverson and Christian Schwab under contract with the Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL) funded by NASA through the Sagan Fellowship Program executed by the NASA Exoplanet Science Institute. Christian Schwab also acknowledges the support of an ARC DECRA fellowship. The Center for Exoplanets and Habitable Worlds is supported by the Pennsylvania State University, the Eberly College of Science, and the Pennsylvania Space Grant Consortium.Attached Files
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- Eprint ID
- 92177
- Resolver ID
- CaltechAUTHORS:20190109-133801129
- NASA Postdoctoral Program
- NASA/JPL
- Australian Research Council
- Pennsylvania State University
- Eberly College of Science
- Pennsylvania Space Grant Consortium
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2019-01-09Created from EPrint's datestamp field
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2021-11-16Created from EPrint's last_modified field
- Series Name
- Proceedings of SPIE
- Series Volume or Issue Number
- 10702