CARMENES
Webpage: Twitter: @CARMENES_exopl
Press releases:
- El instrumento CARMENES demuestra su capacidad para hallar planetas similares a la Tierra
(5 de octubre de 2017)
- El instrumento CARMENES descubre su primer exoplaneta
(18 de diciembre de 2017)
- Descubierto un planeta orbitando el segundo sistema estelar más cercano a la Tierra (una supertierra fría alrededor de la estrella de Barnard)
(14 de noviembre de 2018)
- Detección de una atmósfera de helio en el exoplaneta WASP-69 b indicando una cola cometaria extensa.
(6 de diciembre de 2018)
- CARMENES encuentra dos planetas templados de masas similares a la de la Tierra alrededor de una pequeña estrella cercana (La Estrella de Teegarden es la más pequeña para la cual ha sido posible medir las masas de sus planetas por el método de las velocidades radiales)
(18 de junio de 2019)
Recent Publications:
- "The CARMENES search for exoplanets around M dwarfs. First visual-channel radial velocity measurements and orbital parameter updates of seven M-dwarf planetary systems". T. Trifonov, M. Kürster, M. Zechmeister, L. Tal-Or, J. A. Caballero, A. Quirrenbach, P.J. Amado, I. Ribas, A. Reiners, S. Reffert, S. Dreizler, A. P. Hatzes, A. Kaminski, R. Launhardt, Th. Henning, D. Montes, et al. 2018, Astronomy & Astrophysics, A&A 609, A117 - DOI: https://doi.org/10.1051/0004-6361/201731442
- The CARMENES search for exoplanets around M dwarfs. HD147379 b: A nearby Neptune in the temperate zone of an early-M dwarf
A. Reiners, I. Ribas, M. Zechmeister, J.A. Caballero, T. Trifonov, S. Dreizler, J.C. Morales, L. Tal-Or, M. Lafarga, A. Quirrenbach, P.J. Amado, A. Kaminski, S.V. Jeffers, J. Aceituno, V.J.S. Béjar, J. Guàrdia, E.W. Guenther, H.-J. Hagen1, D. Montes et al.
2018, Astronomy & Astrophysics Letters, A&A, 609, L5 - DOI: https://doi.org/10.1051/0004-6361/201732165 - A&A Highlight
- A candidate super-Earth planet orbiting near the snow line of Barnard’s star
I. Ribas, M. Tuomi, A. Reiners, R. P. Butler, J. C. Morales, M. Perger, S. Dreizler, C. Rodríguez-López, J. I. González Hernández, A. Rosich, F. Feng, T. Trifonov, S. S. Vogt, J. A. Caballero, A. Hatzes, E. Herrero, S. V. Jeffers, M. Lafarga, F. Murgas, R. P. Nelson, E. Rodríguez, J. B. P. Strachan, L. Tal-Or, J. Teske, B. Toledo-Padrón, M. Zechmeister, A. Quirrenbach, P. J. Amado, M. Azzaro, V. J. S. Béjar, J. R. Barnes, Z. M. Berdiñas, J. Burt, G. Coleman, M. Cortés-Contreras, J. Crane, S. G. Engle, E. F. Guinan, C. A. Haswell, Th. Henning, B. Holden, J. Jenkins, H. R. A. Jones, A. Kaminski, M. Kiraga, M. Kürster, M. H. Lee, M. J. López-González, D. Montes, J. Morin, A. Ofir, E. Pallé, R. Rebolo, S. Reffert, A. Schweitzer, W. Seifert, S. A. Shectman, D. Staab, R. A. Street, A. Suárez Mascareño, Y. Tsapras, S. X. Wang & G. Anglada-Escudé
2018, Nature 563, 365–368 (15 nov 2018)
- "Ground-based detection of an extended helium atmosphere in the Saturn mass exoplanet WASP-69 b", de Nortmann, L.; Pallé, E.; Salz, M.; Sanz-Forcada, J.; Nagel, E.; Alonso-Floriano, F. J.; Czesla, S.; Yan, F.; Chen, G., Snellen I. A. G.;Zechmeister, M.; Schmitt, J. H. M. M.; López-Puertas, M.; Casasayas-Barris, N.; Bauer, F. F.; Amado, P.; Caballero, J.; Dreizler, S.; Henning, T.; Lampón, M.; Montes, D.; Molaverdikhani, K.; Quirrenbach, A.; Reiners, A.; Ribas, I.; Sánchez-López, A.; Schneider, C.; Zapatero Osorio, M. R., que aparece en la revista Science el 6 de diciembre de 2018.
- “Detection of He I 10830 Å absorption on HD 189733 b with CARMENES high-resolution transmission spectroscopy” de Salz, M.; Czesla, S.; Schneider, P. C.; Nagel, E.; Schmitt, J. H. M. M.; Nortmann, L.; Alonso-Floriano, F. J.; López-Puertas, M.; Lampón, M.; Bauer, F. F.; Snellen, I. A. G.; Pallé, E.; Caballero, J. A.; Yan, F.; Chen, G.; Sanz-Forcada, J.; Amado, P. J.; Quirrenbach, A.; Ribas, I.; Reiners, A.; Béjar, V. J. S.; Casasayas-Barris, N.; Cortés-Contreras, M.; Dreizler, S.; Guenther, E. W.; Henning, T.; Jeffers, S. V.; Kaminski, A.; Kürster, M.; Lafarga, M.;Lara, L. M.; Molaverdikhani, K.; Montes, D.; Morales, J. C.; Sánchez-López, A.; Seifert, W.; Zapatero Osorio, M. R.; Zechmeister, M., que aparece en la revista Astronomy & Astrophysics el 7 de diciembre de 2018.
- “Multiple water band detections in the CARMENES near-infrared transmission spectrum of HD 189733 b” de Alonso-Floriano, F. J.; Sánchez-López, A.; Snellen, I. A. G.; López-Puertas, M.; Nagel, E.; Amado, P. J.; Bauer, F. F.; Caballero, J. A.; Czesla, S.; Nortmann, L.; Pallé, E.; Salz, M.; Reiners, A.; Ribas, I.; Quirrenbach, A.; Aceituno, J.; Anglada-Escudé, G.; Béjar, V. J. S.; Guenther, E. W.; Henning, T.; Kaminski, A.; Kürster, M.; Lampón, M.; Lara, L. M.; Montes, D.; Morales, J. C.; Tal-Or, L.; Schmitt, J. H. M. M.; Zapatero Osorio, M. R.; Zechmeister, M., Astronomy & Astrophysics, 2018, en prensa
- "The CARMENES search for exoplanets around M dwarfs. Two temperate Earth-mass planet candidates around Teegarden’s Star", M. Zechmeister et al., que aparece en la revista Astronomy & Astrophysics el 18 de junio de 2019, DOI https://doi.org/10.1051/0004-6361/201935460
Overview
CARMENES (Calar Alto high-Resolution search for M dwarfs with Exoearths with Near-infrared and optical Échelle Spectrographs) is a next-generation instrument built for the 3.5m telescope at the Calar Alto Observatory by a consortium of German and Spanish institutions. It consists of two separated spectrographs covering the wavelength ranges from 0.52 to 0.96 µm and from 0.96 to 1.71 µm with spectral resolutions R = 80,000-100,000, each of which performs high-accuracy radial-velocity measurements (∼1 m s-1) with long-term stability. The fundamental science objective of CARMENES is to carry out a survey of ∼300 late-type main-sequence stars with the goal of detecting low-mass planets in their habitable zones. We aim at being able to detect 2 MEarth planets in the habitable zone of M5V stars. The CARMENES first light with the two NIR and VIS channels working simultaneously occured in Nov 2015; the science survey of Guaranteed Time Observations started on 01 Jan 2016 and will last for at least three years.
IPARCOS contribution
David Montes is the institutional representative of UCM as member of this international consortium and was the PI of several MINECO coordinated projects dedicated to the construction of the instrument, the science preparation and currently another one dedicated to science exploitation. In addition, he is also member of the science coordination team that regulates the scientific exploitation of results from CARMENES data.