Bibcode
Stürmer, Julian; Seifahrt, Andreas; Schwab, Christian; Gandolfi, Davide; Montañes-Rodriguez, Pilar; Buchhave, Lars
Bibliographical reference
Proceedings of the SPIE, Volume 10702, id. 107022S 5 pp. (2018).
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2018
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Description
We report on the upgrade of the fiber link of FIES, the high-resolution
echelle spectrograph at the Nordic Optical Telescope (NOT). In order to
improve the radial velocity (RV) stability of FIES, we replaced the
circular fibers by octagonal and rectangular ones to utilize their
superior scrambling performance. Two additional fibers for a planned
polarimetry mode were added during the upgrade. The injection optics and
the telescope front-end were also replaced. The first on-sky RV
measurements indicate that the influence of guiding errors is greatly
suppressed, and the overall RV precision of FIES has significantly
improved.