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Exoplanets

Yale Astronomy

Instrumentation

The goal of our instrument development is to investigate design trade-offs for achieving sub meter per second Doppler precision. We commissioned our first spectrograph, CHIRON, in January 2011, and are currently building the Yale Doppler Diagnostic Facility (YDDF), and testing software improvements to realize the full potential of our instruments.

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Photo by Christian Schwab