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Andreas Quirrenbachand the CARMENES
Consortium
Searching for Blue Planets Orbiting Red
Dwarfs
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CARMENES – the Acronym
• Calar Alto• High-Resolution Search for• M Dwarfs with • Exo-Earths• With Near-Infrared and Optical• Echelle Spectrographs
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The 3.5m Telescope on Calar Alto (Southern Spain)
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The CARMENES Consortium• Landessternwarte Königstuhl, U Heidelberg,
Germany• Insitut für Astrophysik, U Göttingen, Germany• MPI für Astronomie, Heidelberg, Germany• Thüringer Landessternwarte, Tautenburg, Germany• Hamburger Sternwarte, U Hamburg, Germany
• Instituto de Astrofísica de Andalucía, Granada, Spain• Universidad Complutense de Madrid, Madrid, Spain• Institut de Ciències de l’Espai, Barcelona, Spain• Instituto de Astrofísica de Canarias, Tenerife, Spain• Centro de Astrobiología, Madrid, Spain
• Centro Astronómico Hispano-Alemán
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Why M Dwarfs?
• M dwarfs are very abundant (almost 2/3 of all stars) and thus nearby – Excellent targets for follow up
• M dwarfs are small (< 0.5 M) and faint “habitable zone” is close to star relatively large signal good chance to find Earth-like planets
• Currently no RV instrument optimized for M stars exists
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Goals and Plan for CARMENES• Search for Earth-like “habitable”
planets around low-mass stars (M-stars)– Number and formation mechanisms– Properties and “habitability” follow-up
• Radial velocity survey of 300 M stars– Simultaneously in visible light and near-IR
• At least 50 data points per star– 600 nights needed– Guaranteed in contract with observatory
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PHZ (0.4 M) = 25 d
PHZ (0.3 M) = 18 d
PHZ (0.2 M) = 12 d
A “Shortcut”: M-Type Dwarfs
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The SED of M-Type Stars
8“classical” visible light RV instruments
near-IRefficiency peak
If possible,you want to observe here!
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RV curve of the active M9 dwarf LP-944 20
UVES (visual)
NIRSPEC (nIR)
Martin et al. 2006
Let’s Talk About ij tt er
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– S1: 100 stars with M < 0.25 M (SpType M4 and later)
– S2: 100 stars with 0.30 > M > 0.25 M (SpType M3-M4)
– S3: 100 stars with 0.60 > M > 0.30 M (SpType M0-M2; bright)
<dS1+S2+S3> = 13 pc
Stellar sample
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Detectability Simulations
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Guiding Principles for Instrument• Single-purpose instrument
– Design driven by survey requirements• High stability for terrestrial planet
detection– Thermal and mechanical stability– Stable input– No moving parts in spectrographs
• High resolution for slow rotators• Large wavelength coverage for
discrimination against intrinsic variability• High efficiency for faint stars
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Instrument Overview
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Properties of Spectrographs• Optical spectrograph
– 0.53 … 1.05 μm, R = 82,000– Precision ~1 m/s– Vacuum tank, stable temperature– 4k x 4k deep depletion CCD detector
• Near-Infrared spectrograph– 0.95 … 1.7 μm, R = 82,000– Vacuum tank, cooled to 140K, stabilized– Precision goal 1 m/s– Two 2k x 2k Hawaii 2.5 µm detectors
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Spectrograph and Vacuum Tank Layout
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Stellar Spectrum with Calibration Lines
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Relative Shift:1/1000 Pixel
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Tests of Octagonal Fibers
Input
Far Field
Near Field
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Conclusions: What we’ll get• Radial velocity curves of 300 M stars
– Precision good for terrestrial planets– Orbits and multiplicity– Very nearby stars (typically 13 pc)– A few transiting planets ( follow-up)
• Detailed information on target stars– R = 82,000 spectra from 0.53 to 1.7μm– Key activity indicators (Hα, Ca IR triplet)– Line variability and RV jitter
• Excellent instrument for transit follow-up