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CARMENES A. Quirrenbach, LSW Heidelberg. Search for terrestrial planets in habitable zones around M dwarfs Project for the 3.5m Telescope on Calar Alto German-Spanish team Two stable spectrographs covering 0.53 to 1.7µm at R = 85,000 Coupled with fibers from telescope
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CARMENESA. Quirrenbach, LSW Heidelberg • Search for terrestrial planets in habitable zones around M dwarfs • Project for the 3.5m Telescope on Calar Alto • German-Spanish team • Two stable spectrographs covering 0.53 to 1.7µm at R = 85,000 • Coupled with fibers from telescope • Calibration with lamp or stabilized etalon • 600 useful nights from 2014 to 2018 • Approval to go ahead received today! 1