CAFE2: an upgrade to the CAFE high-resolution spectrograph. Commissioning results and new public pipeline
J. Lillo-Box, J. Aceituno, S. Pedraz, G. Bergond, D. Galadí-Enríquez, M. Azzaro, B. Arroyo-Torres, A. Fernández-Martín, A. Guijarro, R. P. Hedrosa, I. Hermelo, … 展开作者
J. Lillo-Box, J. Aceituno, S. Pedraz, G. Bergond, D. Galadí-Enríquez, M. Azzaro, B. Arroyo-Torres, A. Fernández-Martín, A. Guijarro, R. P. Hedrosa, I. Hermelo, F. Hoyo, P. Martín-Fernández
The Calar Alto Fiber-fed Échelle spectrograph (CAFE) is a high-resolution spectrographs with high-precision radial velocity capabilities mounted in the 2.2m telescope of Calar Alto Observatory. It suffered from strong degradation after 4 years of operations and it has now been upgraded. The upgrades of the instrument (now named CAFE$_2$) aimed at improving the throughput and stability thanks to the inclusion of a new grating, an active temperature control in the isolated coudé room, and a new scrambling system among other minor changes. In this paper, we present the results of the re-commissioning of the instrument and a new pipeline (CAFExtractor) that provides the user with fully reduced data including radial velocity measurements of FGK dwarf stars. We have monitored the upgraded instrument for several months to characterize its main properties and test the new pipeline. It uses part of the CERES code, improves the wavelength calibration and radial velocity extraction (using the HARPS masks adapted), applies nightly drift corrections. The finally reduced spectra are presented in FITS files. The commissioning results show a clear improvement in the instrument performance with respect to the degraded status before the intervention. The room temperature is now stabilized down to 5 mK during one night and below 50 mK over two months. CAFE$_2$ now provides 3 m/s precision on the reference ThAr frames and the on-sky tests provide a radial velocity precision of 8 m/s during one night (for S/N>50). The throughput of the instrument is now back to nominal values with an efficiency of around 15% at 550 nm. The limiting magnitude of the instrument for a 1h exposure and S/N=20 is V=15. With all these properties, CAFE$_2$ enters into the small family of high-resolution spectrographs mounted on 2-4 meter-class telescopes capable of reaching radial velocity precisions below 10 m/s.
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Institut Trottier de Recherche sur les Exoplanètes (IREx), Département de Physique, Université de Montréal（蒙特利尔大学特罗蒂尔系外行星研究所（IREx），物理系）；Observatoire du Mont-Mégantic（蒙梅甘蒂克天文台）
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South African Astronomical Observatory（南非天文台）；Sub-department of Astrophysics, University of Oxford（牛津大学天体物理子系）；Department of Astronomy, University of Cape Town（开普敦大学天文学系）；Space Science and Engineering Initiative, College of Engineering, University of Hawaii at Manoa（夏威夷大学马诺阿分校工程学院空间科学与工程倡议）；Centre for Space Research, North-West University（西北大学空间研究中心）；University of Wisconsin–Madison（威斯康星大学麦迪逊分校）
