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Andreas Quirrenbach and the CARMENES Consortium

Searching for Blue Planets Orbiting Red Dwarfs. Andreas Quirrenbach and the CARMENES Consortium. CARMENES – the Acronym. C alar A lto High- R esolution Search for M Dwarfs with E xo-Earths With N ear-Infrared and Optical E chelle S pectrographs.

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Andreas Quirrenbach and the CARMENES Consortium

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  1. Searching for Blue Planets Orbiting Red Dwarfs Andreas Quirrenbach and the CARMENES Consortium

  2. CARMENES – the Acronym • Calar Alto • High-Resolution Search for • M Dwarfs with • Exo-Earths • With Near-Infrared and Optical • Echelle Spectrographs

  3. The 3.5m Telescope on Calar Alto (Southern Spain)

  4. The CARMENES Consortium • LandessternwarteKönigstuhl, U Heidelberg, Germany • InsitutfürAstrophysik, U Göttingen, Germany • MPI fürAstronomie, Heidelberg, Germany • ThüringerLandessternwarte, 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

  5. 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

  6. 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

  7. A “Shortcut”: M-Type Dwarfs PHZ (0.4 M) = 25 d PHZ (0.3 M) = 18 d PHZ (0.2 M) = 12 d

  8. near-IRefficiency peak If possible,you want to observe here! “classical” visible light RV instruments The SED of M-Type Stars 8

  9. t r t Let’s Talk About i j e UVES (visual) NIRSPEC (nIR) Martin et al. 2006 RV curve of the active M9 dwarf LP-944 20

  10. Stellar sample • 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

  11. Detectability Simulations

  12. 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

  13. Instrument Overview

  14. 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

  15. Spectrograph and Vacuum Tank Layout

  16. Stellar Spectrum with Calibration Lines Relative Shift: 1/1000 Pixel

  17. Tests of Octagonal Fibers Input Near Field Far Field

  18. 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

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