Spectrographs


Comparable spectrographs in the near infrared


Acronym Name Telescope Year
NIRSPEC Near InfraRed SPECtrograph Keck II 1999
PHOENIX A cryogenic, long slit, high resolution infrared spectrograph Gemini South 2001
CRIRES CRyogenic high-resolution InfraRed Échelle Spectrograph Very Large Telescope UT1 2006
TEXES Texas Echelon Cross Échelle Spectrograph Gemini North 2006†
T-EDI TripleSpec - Exoplanet Discovery Instrument Mt. Palomar 200 inch telescope 2008†
IR ET Infrared Exoplanet Tracker APO 3.5 m 2010
GIANO A bifront infrared spectrometer highly optimized both for low and high spectral resolution Telescopio Nazionale Galileo 2012
SPIRou A nIR échelle spectropolarimeter for CFHT Canada-France-Hawai'i Telescope 2015
HZPF Habitable Zone Planet Finder HET >2013
HRU-IRCS WINERED High Resolution Spectrograph Unit - InfraRed Camera and Spectrograph Subaru >2013
SIMPLE A "simple" high resolution near infrared spectrograph European-Extremely Large Telescope E-ELT >2020
NAHUAL Near-infrAred High-resolUtion spectrogrAph for pLanet hunting Gran Telescopio Canarias Cancelled†
UPF UKIRT Planet Finder UKIRT Cancelled†


Comparable spectrographs in the visible


Acronym Name Telescope Year
HIRES HIgh REsolution Échelle Spectrograph Keck I Telescope 1996
FEROS Fiber-fed Extended Range Optical Spectrograph MPG/ESO 2.2 m La Silla 1999 2002
UVES Ultraviolet and Visual Échelle Spectrograph Very Large Telescope UT2 2000
SARG Spettrografo ad Alta Risoluzione Galileo Telescopio Nazionale Galileo 2001
HRS High-Resolution Spectrograph Hobby-Eberly Telescope 2001
HARPS High Accuracy Radial velocity Planet Searcher ESO 3.6m La Silla 2003
SOPHIE Spectrographe pour l'Observation des PHénomenes sIsmologiques et Exoplanétaires 1.93 m OHP 2006
BESO Bochum Échelle Spectrographic Observer Hexapod 2008
PFS Planet Finder Spectrograph Magellan II Telescope 2010
CAFE Calar Alto Fiber-fed Échelle spectrograph 2.2 m CAHA 2011
HARPS-North High Accuracy Radial velocity Planet Searcher-North William Herschel Telescope 2012
ESPRESSO Échelle SPectrograph for Rocky Exoplanet- and Stable Spectroscopic Observations Very Large Telescope 2016
HORUS High Optical Resolution Ultra-Stable Spectrograph Gran Telescopio Canarias >2014
CODEX COsmic Dynamics EXperiment European-Extremely Large Telescope E-ELT >2020

Other échelle spectrographs (links at the UCM)