Setting New Standards with HARPS

By M. Mayor, F. Pepe, D. Queloz, F. Bouchy, G. Rupprecht, G. Curto, G. Avila, W. Benz, Jean-Loup Bertaux, X. Bonfils and 22 more. 2003

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The HARPS search for Earth-like planets in the habitable zone - I. Very low-mass planets around HD 20794, HD 85512, and HD 192310 (2011, methodology): “ESO’s HARPS instrument (Mayor et al. 2003) has certainly played a key role by delivering more than 100 new candidates in its first eight years of operation.”
Spectrum radial velocity analyser (SERVAL). High-precision radial velocities and two alternative spectral indicators (2017, methodology): “The HARPS instrument and its data reduction software has demonstrated long-term 1 m/s precision since its installation in 2003 (Mayor et al. 2003).”
ESPRESSO: the Echelle spectrograph for rocky exoplanets and stable spectroscopic observations (2010, background): “6m telescope [2] has been a pioneering instrument in this respect.”
The Solar Twin Planet Search. I. Fundamental parameters of the stellar sample (2014, methodology): “C-0265, P.I. J. Meléndez) to characterize planets around solar twins using the HARPS spectrograph, the worlds most powerful ground-based planethunting machine (e.g., Mayor et al. 2003).”
Spectrally resolved detection of sodium in the atmosphere of HD 189733b with the HARPS spectrograph (2015, methodology): “Using observations with the Harps spectrograph from the ESO 3.6 m installed at La Silla, in Chile, under the allocated programmes 072.”
The HARPS search for southern extra-solar planets - VI. A Neptune-mass planet around the nearby M dwarf Gl 581 (2005, background): “It has proved to be the most precise spectrovelocimeter to date, reaching an instrumental RV accuracy better than 1 m s−1 (Mayor et al., 2003; Santos et al., 2004a; Pepe et al., 2004; Lovis et al., 2005), and even better on the short-term scales of interest for asteroseismology.”
High‐precision calibration of spectrographs (2010, methodology): “In this work, we demonstrate that a precision spectrograph such as the High Accuracy Radial velocity Planet Searcher (HARPS, e.g. Mayor et al. 2003; Lovis & Pepe 2007) can be calibrated with significantly lower uncertainty using an LFC.”
High‐precision wavelength calibration of astronomical spectrographs with laser frequency combs (2007, unknown): “Many of the above techniques have already been demonstrated (e.g. Baranne et al. 1996; Mayor et al. 2003).”
The HARPS search for southern extra-solar planets - XVII. Super-Earth and Neptune-mass planets in multiple planet systems HD 47 186 and HD 181 433 (2008, unknown): “The HARPS consortium started 5 years ago as an ambitious and comprehensive Guaranteed Time Observations (GTO) program of high-precision systematic searches for exoplanets in the Southern sky (Mayor et al. 2003, 2009).”
The HARPS search for southern extra-solar planets. XI. Super-Earths (5 and 8 M{⊕}) in a 3-planet system (2007, methodology): “To find such very light planets in the habitable zone of M dwarfs, our consortium (Mayor et al. 2003) dedicates ∼10% of the Guaranteed Time Observations on HARPS to the precise radial-velocity monitoring of some 100 nearby M dwarfs.”
Accurate fundamental parameters for 23 bright solar-type stars (2010, methodology): “For the HARPS spectra we also measuredR from the Th-Ar calibration spectra, and in this case we measuredR = 107 000±3000 (rms scatter from eight lines), which is close to the instrumental specification (R = 115 000, Mayor et al. 2003).”
High-precision abundances of elements in solar twin stars - Trends with stellar age and elemental condensation temperature (2015, background): “The HARPS spectra have a resolution ofR ≃115 000 (Mayor et al. 2003).”
APF—The Lick Observatory Automated Planet Finder (2014, methodology): “This echelle is a mosaic of two matched segments pulled from the same master that was ruled for the UVES (Dekker et al. 2000) and HARPS (Pepe et al. 2000) spectrometers and replicated onto a Zerodur substrate of size 214 mm × 840 mm × 125 mm thick.”
Determining stellar macroturbulence using asteroseismic rotational velocities from Kepler (2014, background): “The typical resolution is ∼112 000, in agreement with Mayor et al. (2003), where the resolution is given as 115 000.”
Exploring the Milky Way stellar disk - A detailed elemental abundance study of 714 F and G dwarf stars in the solar neighbourhood (2013, methodology): “HARPS: The HARPS (High Accuracy Radial velocity Planet Searcher) spectrograph (Mayor et al. 2003) on the ESO 3.6-m telescope on La Silla has a fixed wavelength coverage between 378.0 and 691.0nm.”
Transiting exoplanets from the CoRoT space mission (2009, unknown): “We performed radial velocity (RV) observations of CoRoT16 with the HARPS spectrograph (Pepe et al. 2002b; Mayor et al. 2003), based on the 3.6-m ESO telescope (Chile) and with the HIRES spectrograph based on the 10-m Keck I telescope (Hawaii).”
HAT-P-11b: A SUPER-NEPTUNE PLANET TRANSITING A BRIGHT K STAR IN THE KEPLER FIELD (2009, background): “…surveys have been reaching down to Neptune-mass planets, thanks to high precision and high signal-to-noise spectrographs that deliver radial velocities at the m s−1 level over an extended time, such as HARPS (Mayor et al. 2003) on the ESO 3.6m telescope, or HIRES on Keck (Vogt et al. 1994).”
The planet search programme at the ESO CES and HARPS - IV. The search for Jupiter analogues around solar-like stars (2012, methodology): “The HARPS spectrograph is described in the literature (e.g. Mayor et al. 2003; Pepe et al. 2004).”
Hot Exoplanet Atmospheres Resolved with Transit Spectroscopy (HEARTS) (2020, methodology): “We analyzed RV data points of WASP-121 obtained with the Coralie (Baranne et al. 1996; Queloz et al. 2000) and HARPS (Mayor et al. 2003) spectrographs to revise the semi-amplitude of the stellar reflex motion and the mass of WASP-121b (the complete RV dataset is shown in Fig.”