The UKIRT planet finder

Hugh R.A. Jones; John Barnes; Ian Bryson; Andy Adamson; David Henry; David Montgomery; Derek Ives; Ian Egan; David Lunney; Phil Rees; John Rayner; Larry Ramsey; Bill Vacca; Chris Tinney; Mike Liu

doi:10.1007/978-94-007-7432-2_31

The UKIRT planet finder

Hugh R.A. Jones, John Barnes, Ian Bryson, Andy Adamson, David Henry, David Montgomery, Derek Ives, Ian Egan, David Lunney, Phil Rees, John Rayner, Larry Ramsey, Bill Vacca, Chris Tinney, Mike Liu

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We present a conceptual design for the UKIRT Planet Finder (UPF). It is a fibre-fed high resolving power (R ∼ 70,000 at 2.5 pixel sampling) cryogenic echelle spectrograph operating in the near infrared (0.95–1.8 μm) and is designed to provide 1 m/s radial velocity measurements. We identify the various error sources to overcome in order to achieve the required stability. We have constructed models simulating likely candidates and demonstrated the ability to recover exoplanetary radial-velocity (RV) signals in the infrared. UPF should achieve a total RV error of around 1 m/s on a typical M6V star. We use these results as an input to a simulated 5-year survey of nearby M stars, which has the sensitivity to detect of the order of 30 terrestrial mass planets in the habitable zone around those stars. UPF will thus test theoretical planet formation models, which predict an abundance of terrestrial-mass planets around low-mass stars enabling critical tests of planet-formation theories and allowing the identification of nearby planets with conditions potentially suitable for life.

Original language	English (US)
Title of host publication	Astrophysics and Space Science Proceedings
Publisher	Springer Netherlands
Pages	329-341
Number of pages	13
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-007-7432-2_31
State	Published - 2013

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Name	Astrophysics and Space Science Proceedings
Volume	37
ISSN (Print)	1570-6591
ISSN (Electronic)	1570-6605

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General Physics and Astronomy
Computer Science Applications
Spectroscopy
Space and Planetary Science
Nuclear and High Energy Physics

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Jones, H. R. A., Barnes, J., Bryson, I., Adamson, A., Henry, D., Montgomery, D., Ives, D., Egan, I., Lunney, D., Rees, P., Rayner, J., Ramsey, L., Vacca, B., Tinney, C., & Liu, M. (2013). The UKIRT planet finder. In Astrophysics and Space Science Proceedings (pp. 329-341). (Astrophysics and Space Science Proceedings; Vol. 37). Springer Netherlands. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-007-7432-2_31

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