Bibcode
Marconi, A.; Allende Prieto, C.; Amado, P. J.; Amate, M.; Augusto, S. R.; Becerril, S.; Bezawada, N.; Boisse, I.; Bouchy, F.; Cabral, A.; Chazelas, B.; Cirami, R.; Coretti, I.; Cristiani, S.; Cupani, G.; de Castro Leão, I.; de Medeiros, J. R.; de Souza, M. A. F.; Di Marcantonio, P.; Di Varano, I.; D'Odorico, V.; Drass, H.; Figueira, P.; Fragoso, A. B.; Fynbo, J. P. U.; Genoni, M.; González Hernández, J. I.; Haehnelt, M.; Hughes, I.; Huke, P.; Kjeldsen, H.; Korn, A. J.; Landoni, M.; Liske, J.; Lovis, C.; Maiolino, R.; Marquart, T.; Martins, C. J. A. P.; Mason, E.; Monteiro, M. A.; Morris, T.; Murray, G.; Niedzielski, A.; Oliva, E.; Origlia, L.; Pallé, E.; Parr-Burman, P.; Parro, V. C.; Pepe, F.; Piskunov, N.; Rasilla, J. L.; Rees, P.; Rebolo, R.; Riva, M.; Rousseau, S.; Sanna, N.; Santos, N. C.; Shen, T.-C.; Sortino, F.; Sosnowska, D.; Sousa, S.; Stempels, E.; Strassmeier, K.; Tenegi, F.; Tozzi, A.; Udry, S.; Valenziano, L.; Vanzi, L.; Weber, M.; Woche, M.; Xompero, M.; Zackrisson, E.
Bibliographical reference
Proceedings of the SPIE, Volume 10702, id. 107021Y 16 pp. (2018).
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We present the results from the phase A study of ELT-HIRES, an
optical-infrared High Resolution Spectrograph for ELT, which has just
been completed by a consortium of 30 institutes from 12 countries
forming a team of about 200 scientists and engineers. The top science
cases of ELT-HIRES will be the detection of life signatures from
exoplanet atmospheres, tests on the stability of Nature's fundamental
couplings, the direct detection of the cosmic acceleration. However, the
science requirements of these science cases enable many other
groundbreaking science cases. The baseline design, which allows to
fulfil the top science cases, consists in a modular fiber- fed
cross-dispersed echelle spectrograph with two ultra-stable spectral arms
providing a simultaneous spectral range of 0.4-1.8 μm at a spectral
resolution of 100,000. The fiber-feeding allows ELT-HIRES to have
several, interchangeable observing modes including a SCAO module and a
small diffraction-limited IFU.
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The search for life in the universe has been driven by recent discoveries of planets around other stars (known as exoplanets), becoming one of the most active fields in modern astrophysics. The growing number of new exoplanets discovered in recent years and the recent advance on the study of their atmospheres are not only providing new valuable
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