The cylindrical cryogenic chamber in which the optical components of the NIRPS instrument are installed. The cryogenic chamber maintains the components in a vacuum environment and cooled to a freezing temperature of -190 degrees Celsius.
The cylindrical cryogenic chamber in which the optical components of the NIRPS instrument are installed. The cryogenic chamber maintains the components in a vacuum environment and cooled to a freezing temperature of -190 degrees Celsius. The Near InfraRed Planet Searcher instrument, designed in part at Laval University, has successfully made its first observations The Near InfraRed Planet Searcher (NIRPS) instrument, designed in part at the University of Montreal and Laval University, has successfully made its first observations. Installed on the European Southern Observatory's (ESO) 3.6-meter telescope at the La Silla Observatory in Chile, NIRPS' mission is to search for new exoplanets around stars in the solar neighborhood. NIRPS was built by an international collaboration led by the team of the Observatoire du Mont-Mégantic and theInstitut de recherche sur les exoplanètes de l'Université de Montréal in Canada and the Observatoire astronomique de l'Université de Genève in Switzerland. A large part of the assembly and the mechanical and optical tests of the spectrograph of the instrument were carried out during the last years in the laboratories of the Centre d'Astronomie du Québec.years in the laboratories of the Centre d'optique, photonique et lasers (COPL) of Laval University by Professor Simon Thibault and his team. The Herzberg Institute of Astronomy and Astrophysics contributed to the design and construction of the spectrograph.
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