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  • 2017 European Conference on Lasers and Electro-Optics and European Quantum Electronics Conference
  • (Optica Publishing Group, 2017),
  • paper CF_13_6

High Resolution On-Sky Spectroscopy Calibrated with a Partially Stabilized 15-GHz Astrocomb from 550–890-nm

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Abstract

Astronomical spectrographs combining high resolution (R >> 10,000) with high stability provide unique scientific capabilities, e.g. for observing the small Doppler shifts which are signatures of Earth-like exoplanets or sensitively measuring isotopic ratios in ancient stars to reveal details of the early universe. Laser frequency combs with mode spacings from 12.5–50 GHz [1] have been shown to offer unprecedented precision for calibrating astronomical spectrographs, and have been demonstrated on-sky across bandwidths up to 150 nm (visible) [2] and 400 nm (near-infrared) [3]. Here we demonstrate practical calibration of on-sky spectrograph data from the 10-m Southern African Large Telescope (SALT) telescope using a 15-GHz to 25-GHz comb with an instantaneous visible coverage from 555–890 nm. This broad spectral bandwidth makes it possible to completely calibrate the diffraction orders of the red channel of SALT's R = 65,000 Échelle spectrograph.

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