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A High Accuracy Radial Velocity Spectrometer

R. S. McMillan, P. H. Smith, J. E. Frecker, M. L. Perry, N. D. Castillo, and W. J. Merline

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Abstract

The large format and high detective quantum efficiency of the RCA 512 × 320 CCD, combined with the use of discriminating algorithms to process the images, are allowing us to make our high resolution spectrometer capable of detecting changes as small as 15 meters/second in the Doppler shift of 6th magnitude solar-type stars. If each such star is observed 10 times/year for five years, this accuracy will be sufficient to detect the reflex Doppler shift due to the orbital motion of a planet with the mass of Jupiter and an orbital semimajor axis of 3 astronomical units.

© 1983 Optical Society of America

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