Consortium
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Outline • CARMENES consortium outline |
| Institutions • List of the 11 Spanish and German centres involved in the design and construction of the instrument and GTO exploitation | |
| Key names • Principal investigators, project scientists, system engineers, project managers... | |
| Sponsors • Funding bodies and agencies that have contributed in building CARMENES | |
| All consortium members • Names and current affiliations of all of us, in alphabetical order | |
| Guests • Current and former science and engineering guests and senior advisor | |
| Industrial collaborators and manufacturers • Private companies that have provided us with hardware or services | |
| Postal address • For postal packages |
Outline ↑
CARMENES is the name of the instrument,
the consortium that designed and built it, and of the
science project that is being carried out
during guaranteed and legacy time observations.
Over 200 scientists and engineers of 11
institutions in Spain and Germany have participated in the design,
construction and science exploitation of the new "planet hunter".
The consortium was built on the basis of a membership parity, with the same
number of involved institutions in each country: five in Spain, five in Germany
and the Spanish-German observatory of Calar Alto, near Almería in
southern Spain, which was operated jointly by the Max-Planck-Gesellschaft
and the Consejo Superior de Investigaciones Científicas until 2018.
The CARMENES Core Management Team (CMT) was in charge
of the day-to-day administration during the design, assembly-integration-verification and commissioning phases, and included the principal investigators, project scientists, system engineers, project managers and the observatory liaison.
There was also a country parity in charges.
During the operations phase, the most active consortium body has been the Science Coordination Team (SCT), which includes representatives of the 11 institutions.
The consortium has been a focus of high-tech industrial development, since tens
of contracts with industrial collaborators and
manufacturers were issued for completing the instrument, and some of our designs are reused by other teams worlwide.
Although some hardware had to be bought in the USA or Japan,
many components were purchased in Europe in general
and Spain and Germany in particular.
Some important private collaborators in our two countries, in term of
technical relevance and contract amount, were Ecofred, Fractal, Kaufman,
Kinkele, NTG, Pfeiffer or Trinos.
The consortium also collaborated with ESO on designs of detector cryostats, sorption pumps and the NIR-channel cooling system.
CARMENES was funded by the Max-Planck-Gesellschaft (MPG),
the Consejo Superior de Investigaciones Científicas (CSIC),
the Ministerio de Economía y Competitividad (MINECO) and the European Regional Development Fund (ERDF) through projects FICTS-2011-02, ICTS-2017-07-CAHA-4, and CAHA16-CE-3978,
and the members of the CARMENES Consortium
(Max-Planck-Institut für Astronomie,
Instituto de Astrofísica de Andalucía,
Landessternwarte Königstuhl,
Institut de Ciències de l'Espai,
Institut für Astrophysik Göttingen,
Universidad Complutense de Madrid,
Thüringer Landessternwarte Tautenburg,
Instituto de Astrofísica de Canarias,
Hamburger Sternwarte,
Centro de Astrobiología and
Centro Astronómico Hispano-Alemán),
with additional contributions by the MINECO,
the Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft through the Major Research Instrumentation Programme and Research Unit FOR2544 "Blue Planets around Red Stars",
the Klaus Tschira Stiftung,
the states of Baden-Württemberg and Niedersachsen,
and by the Junta de Andalucía.
In summer 2018, CAHA selected an upgrade of CARMENES as one of the only two projects for new instrumentation at the 3.5 m Calar Alto telescope.
Since January 2021, the CARMENES Consortium is carrying out a new 250-useful-night legacy survey and an instrument upgrade, dubbed CARMENES+.
CARMENES does radial-velocity TESS follow-up, and CARMENES+ will do so for ESA missions Gaia and, after 2026, PLATO.
Institutions ↑
| Max-Planck-Institut für Astronomie,
MPIA Max-Planck-Gesellschaft Heidelberg Germany |
| Instituto de Astrofísica de Andalucía,
IAA Consejo Superior de Investigaciones Científicas Granada Spain |
| Landessternwarte Königstuhl,
LSW Zentrum für Astronomie der Universität Heidelberg Heidelberg Germany |
| Institut de Ciències de l'Espai,
ICE Consejo Superior de Investigaciones Científicas, Institut d'Estudis Espacials de Catalunya Barcelona Spain |
| Institut für Astrophysik und Geophysik,
IAG Georg-August-Universität Göttingen Göttingen Germany |
| Universidad Complutense de Madrid,
UCM Departamento de Astrofísica Madrid Spain |
| Thüringer Landessternwarte Tautenburg,
TLS Karl-Schwarzschild-Observatorium Tautenburg Germany |
| Instituto de Astrofísica de Canarias,
IAC Tenerife Spain |
| Hamburger Sternwarte,
HS Universität Hamburg Hamburg Germany |
| Centro de Astrobiología,
CAB Consejo Superior de Investigaciones Científicas, Instituto Nacional de Técnica Aeroespacial Madrid Spain |
| Centro Astronómico Hispano en Andalucía,
CAHA Consejo Superior de Investigaciones Científicas, Junta de Andalucía Calar Alto Spain |
Key names ↑
| Name | Duty | E-mail (© » @) | Phone |
|---|---|---|---|
| Pedro J. Amado |
Deputy principal investigator | pja©iaa.es | +34 958230639 |
| José A. Caballero |
Instrument astronomer | caballero©cab.inta-csic.es | +34 918131506 |
| Andreas Quirrenbach |
Principal investigator | a.quirrenbach©lsw.uni-heidelberg.de | +49 6221541792 |
| Ansgar Reiners |
Deputy project scientist | ansgar.reiners©phys.uni-goettingen.de | +49 5513913825 |
| Ignasi Ribas |
Project scientist | iribas©ice.csic.es | +34 935814371 |
| Walter Seifert |
System engineer | w.seifert©lsw.uni-heidelberg.de | +49 6221541732 |
Sponsors ↑
| Max-Planck-Gesellschaft zur Förderung der
Wissenschaften MPG Germany |
| Agencia Estatal Consejo Superior de Investigaciones Científicas CSIC Spain |
| Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft DFG Germany |
| Programa Nacional de Astronomía y Astrofísica Ministerio de Economía y Competividad / Ministerio de Ciencia e Innovación MINECO/MICINN Spain |
| Bundesministerium für Bildung und Forschung BMBF Germany |
| Klaus Tschira Stiftung gGmbH KTS Germany |
| Junta de Andalucía La Junta Spain |
| Deutsches Zentrum für Luft- und Raumfahrt e.V. DLR Germany |
| AstroMadrid Comunidad Autónoma de Madrid AstroMadrid Spain |
| Fondo Europeo de Desarrollo Regional European Regional Fund FEDER/ERDF European Union |
Consortium members ↑
| Name | Centre |
|---|---|
| Jesús Aceituno | CAHA |
| Pedro J. Amado | IAA |
| Guillem Anglada-Escudé | ICE |
| Marco Azzaro | CAHA |
| Javier Banegas | UCM |
| David Baroch | ICE |
| Víctor J. S. Béjar | IAC |
| Daniel Benítez | CAHA |
| Gilles Bergond | CAHA |
| Jordi Blanco-Pozo | ICE |
| Carles Blázquez-López | ICE |
| Étienne Bonnassieux | IAA |
| José A. Caballero | CAB |
| Rocío Calvo Ortega | IAA |
| Chaturvedi Priyanka | TLS |
| Carlos Cifuentes | CAB |
| Stefan Cikota | CAHA |
| Josep Colomé | ICE |
| Miriam Cortés-Contreras | UCM |
| Camilla Danielski | UV* |
| Stefan Dreizler | IAG |
| Christian Duque-Arribas | UCM |
| Matilde Fernández | IAA |
| Birgit Fuhrmeister | HS |
| María C. Gálvez-Ortiz | CAB |
| Samuel Geraldía-González | IAC |
| Nuno Gomes | ICE |
| Esther González-Álvarez | CAB |
| Jonay I. González Hernández | IAC |
| Paula Gorrini | IAG |
| Eike W. Guenther | TLS |
| Ana Guijarro | CAHA |
| Enrique de Guindos | CAHA |
| Artie P. Hatzes | TLS |
| Peter H. Hauschildt | HS |
| Jens Helmling | CAHA |
| Thomas Henning | MPIA |
| Israel Hermelo | CAHA |
| Luis Hernández Castaño | CAHA |
| Enrique Herrero | ICE |
| Jorge Iglesias-Páramo | CAHA |
| Sandra V. Jeffers | MPS* |
| Enrique de Juan | CAHA |
| Adrian Kaminski | LSW |
| Kaur Simranpreet | ICE |
| Laura Kreidberg | MPIA |
| Martin Kürster | MPIA |
| Fernando Labarga | UCM |
| Gaia Lacedelli | IAC |
| Marina Lafarga | Warwick* |
| Manuel Lampón | IAA |
| Fabio Lesjak | IAG |
| Nicolas Lodieu | IAC |
| María J. López-González | IAA |
| Manuel López-Puertas | IAA |
| Hans-G. Ludwig | LSW |
| Rafael Luque | UGR* |
| Héctor Magán | CAHA |
| Manuel Mallorquín-Díaz | IAC |
| Susana Martín-Ruiz | IAA |
| Richard J. Mathar | MPIA |
| Kai O. Meister | IAG |
| Paulo Miles-Páez | CAB |
| David Montes | UCM |
| Juan Carlos Morales | ICE |
| Óscar Morata | ICE |
| Giuseppe Morello | IAC |
| Felipe Murgas | IAC |
| Evangelos Nagel | IAG |
| Nina Nemec | ICE |
| Lisa Nortmann | IAG |
| Enric Pallé | IAC |
| Alexey Pavlov | MPIA |
| Alberto Peláez-Torres | IAA |
| Luis Peña-Moñino | IAA |
| Miguel Pérez-Torres | IAA |
| Manuel Perger | ICE |
| Viktoria Pinter | CAHA |
| &Ooacute;scar Porqueras-León | ICE |
| Francisco J. Pozuelos | IAA |
| Angelica Psaridi | ICE |
| Andreas Quirrenbach | LSW |
| Rafael Rebolo | IAC |
| Sabine Reffert | LSW |
| Ansgar Reiners | IAG |
| Daniel Revilla | IAA |
| Ignasi Ribas | ICE |
| Hans-W. Rix | MPIA |
| Eloy Rodríguez | IAA |
| Cristina Rodríguez López | IAA |
| Henrik L. Ruh | IAG |
| Alejandro Sánchez-López | IAA |
| David Sánchez-Sánchez | IAA |
| Jorge Sanz-Forcada | CAB |
| Sebastian Schäfer | IAG |
| Jürgen H. M. M. Schmitt | HS |
| Patrick Schöfer | IAA |
| Andreas Schweitzer | HS |
| Walter Seifert | LSW |
| Yutong Shan | IAG |
| Enrique Solano | CAB |
| Fabio del Sordo | ICE |
| Sophie Stucki | ICE |
| Julian Stürmer | LSW |
| Hugo M. Tabernero | ICE |
| Trifon Trifonov | LSW |
| Roberto Varas | IAA |
| Almudena Velasco | CAB |
| Daniele Viganò | ICE |
| María R. Zapatero Osorio | CAB |
| Mathias Zechmeister | IAG |
Former members.
People come and go. There are many team members who helped make CARMENES happen but who no longer work at the institute that is part of the CARMENES consortium or whose direct involvement with CARMENES has ended. We are very grateful for their contribution! The following people have been involved in the project:
Francisco J. Abellán (UCM),
Miguel Abril (IAA),
Cristina Afonso (MPIA),
J. Manuel Alacid (CAB),
Matthias Ammler-von Eiff (TLS),
F. Javier Alonso-Floriano (UCM),
Regina Antona Jiménez (IAA),
Heiko Anwand-Heerwart (IAG),
David Barrado (CAB),
Florian F. Bauer (IAA, IAG),
Jacob L. Bean (IAG),
Santiago Becerril (IAA),
Zaira M. Berdiñas (IAA),
Bertram Bitsch (MPIA),
Jordi Blanco Pozo (ICE),
Paz Bluhm (LSW),
Manuel Blümcke (TLS),
Armin Böhm (MPIA),
Martin Brinkmöller (LSW),
José Cano (UCM),
Pascal Capone (LSW),
Carlos Cardona Guillén (IAC),
Ilaria Carleo (IAC),
Jorge Carro (UCM),
M. Concepción Cárdenas (IAA, MPIA),
Estefanía Casal (IAA),
Núria Casasayas-Barris (IAC),
Guo Chen (IAC),
Antonio Claret (IAA),
Luis P. Costillo (IAA),
Jane Crowley (IAG),
Niall R. Deacon (MPIA),
Jason A. Dittmann (MPIA),
Michaela Doellinger (TLS),
Alejandro J. Domínguez-Fernández (UCM),
Ricardo Dorda (UCM),
Jan Eberhardt (MPIA),
Iván Encinas (UCM),
Néstor Espinoza (CAB),
Carmen Feiz (LSW),
Irene M. Ferro (IAA),
Xavier Francisco (ICE),
Kai Fröhlich (HS),
Guillaume Gaisné (IAC, Erasmus),
David Galadí-Enríquez (CAHA),
Iván Gallardo (UCM),
Álvaro García-Piquer (ICE),
Almudena García López (CAB),
Emilio García Quintana (ICE),
Rafael Garrido (IAA),
Lluís Gesa (ICE),
Elisa Goffo (TLS),
Vicente Gómez-Galera (CAHA),
Samuel Góngora (CAHA),
Lucía González Cuesta (IAC),
Rodrigo González Peinado (UCM),
Luis González-Ramírez (UCM),
Stefan Grohnert (LSW),
Ulrich Grözinger (MPIA),
Josep Guàrdia (ICE),
Juan Gutiérrez-Soto (IAA),
Andrea Guzmán Mesa (IAG),
Lara Hartung (TLS),
Hans-J. Hagen (HS),
Oliver Herbort (IAG),
Dieter Hermann (MPIA),
Ricardo Hernández Arabí (CAHA),
Francisco Hernández Hernando (CAHA),
Diego Hidalgo (UCM),
Dominik Hintz (HS),
Gonzalo Holgado (UCM),
Armin Huber (MPIA),
Ángel L. Huelmo (IAA*),
Klaus F. Huber (HS),
Elias Hühn (LSW),
Philipp Huke (IAG),
Panagiotis Ioannidis (HS),
Viki Joergens (MPIA),
Erik N. Johnson (IAG),
Michael Kehr (TLS),
Jonas Kemmer (LSW),
Jessica Khaimova (IAG),
Sara Khalafinejad (LSW),
Minjae Kim (LSW),
Hubert Klahr (MPIA),
Ralf Klein (MPIA),
Alexis Klutsch (UCM),
Sarah-J. Köntges (TLS),
Diana Kossakowski (MPIA),
Nicolas Labiche (LSW),
André Lamert (IAG),
Luisa M. Lara (IAA),
Werner Laun (MPIA),
Ralf Launhardt (MPIA),
F. Javier Lázaro (UCM),
Ulrike Lemke (IAG),
Rainer Lenzen (MPIA),
Florian Liebing (IAG),
Jorge Lillo-Box (CAB),
Manuel Llamas (UCM),
Mauro López del Fresno (CAB),
Álvaro López-Gallifa (UCM),
Belén López-Martí (CAB),
Juan F. López-Salas (CAHA),
Javier López-Santiago (CAB*, UCM),
Héctor Magán Madinabeitia (CAHA),
Ulrich Mall (MPIA),
Luigi Mancini (MPIA),
Holger Mandel (LSW),
Julio Marín Molina (CAHA),
David Maroto Fernández (CAHA),
Eduardo L. Martín (IAC),
Héctor Martínez-Rodríguez (UCM),
Christian Matthe (LSW),
Andrés Megías-Toledano (UCM),
Eduard Mirabet (IAA),
María Morales-Calderón (CAB),
Rafael Morales Muñoz (IAA),
Andrés Moya (IAA, CAB),
Reinhard Mundt (MPIA),
Vianak Naranjo (MPIA),
Grzegorz Nowak (IAC),
Aviv Ofir (IAG),
Julia Olivares (IAA),
Raquel Oreiro (IAA),
Mahmoudreza Oshagh (IAA, IAG),
Johana Panduro (MPIA),
Fabian Pannek (HS),
Santos Pedraz (CAHA),
Enrique Pérez (IAA),
David Pérez Medialdea (IAA),
Hanna L. Pleteit (IAG),
Michael Pluto (TLS),
José M. Quintana (CAHA),
Valentin Öttinger (LSW),
Ovidio Rabaza (IAA),
Alejandro Ramón (IAA),
Pablo Redondo (IAC),
Santiago Reinhart (CAHA),
Petra Rhode (IAG),
Florian Rodler (ICE, MPIA),
Alicia Rodríguez Trinidad (IAA),
Ralf-Reiner Rohloff (MPIA),
Albert Rosich (ICE),
Sairam Lalitha (IAG),
Silvia Sabotta (TLS, LSW),
Sepideh Sadegi (LSW),
Michael Salz (HS),
Miguel A. Sánchez Carrasco (IAA),
David Sánchez-Sánchez (UCM),
Jan-C. Sarfeld (IAG),
Paula Sarkis (MPIA),
Luis F. Sarmiento (IAG),
Jörg Schiller (TLS),
Christof Schmidt (IAG),
Martin Schlecker (MPIA),
Elyar Sedaghati (IAA),
Johny Setiawan (MPIA),
Denis Shulyak (IAG),
Sebastián L. Skrzypinski (UCM),
Maritza G. Soto (IAA*),
Otmar Stahl (LSW),
Monika Stangret (IAC),
Stephan A. Stock (LSW),
Clemens Storz (MPIA),
Thomas A. Stuber (LSW),
John B. P. Strachan (IAA*),
Juan Carlos Suárez (IAA),
Marcelo Tala-Pinto (LSW),
Ulli Thiele (CAHA),
Rainer-G. Ulbrich (IAG),
Gerardo Veredas (LSW),
José I. Vico Linares (CAHA),
Manuela Vidal-Dasilva (CAB),
Aarón Vinagre (UCM),
Karl Wagner (MPIA, LSW),
Günter Wiedemann (HS),
Johannes Winkler (TLS),
Thomas Winterhalder (LSW),
Vera Wolthoff (LSW),
Zinglin Zhao (IAG)
Guests ↑
Current science guests: Antonio Bello-García, David Cont, Stefan Czesla, Ana González-Marcos, Boyue Guo, Emilio Marfil, Karan Molaverdikhani, Joaquín Ordieres-Mere, Jaume Orell-Miquel, Vera M. Passegger, Volker Perdelwitz, Lev Tal-Or, Fei Yan, Siegfried Vanaverbeke
Former science and engineering guests: Moritz Besser, Carlos del Burgo, María L. García-Vargas (Fractal), Roger Haynes, Juan Herranz Álvarez (Proactive R&D), Josef Hron, Thomas Kallinger, Jean-Louis Lizon (ESO), Luciano Mantegazza, Nicolás Nardetto, Ana Pérez-Calpena (Fractal), Michael A. C. Perryman (MPG), Ennio Poretti, William Rambold, Philipp Richter, Alberto Riva, Martin M. Roth, Ernesto Sánchez-Blanco (DSO), Luis M. Sarro, Andreas Seifahrt, Simon M. Tulloch (Qucam), Werner W. Weiss, Wenli Xu (WXOSE), Filippo Zerbi
Industrial collaborators and manufacturers ↑
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ARC Astronomical Research Cameras Inc. USA (Electronics for VIS detector) |
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AsScientific AS Scientific Products Ltd. UK (LN2 feeding system components) |
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CeramOptec CeramOptec GmbH Germany (Fibre optics) |
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Cryotherm Cryotherm GmbH & Co. KG Germany (LN2 feeding system tanks) |
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Cryovac Cryovac Anevac S.L. Spain (NIR in-vacuum cooling system hardware) |
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Dell Dell Inc. USA/Spain/Germany (Computers and servers) |
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DHF D.H. Frank mbH Germany (Front-end concept design) |
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Optical Development Diseño de Sistemas Ópticos Ernesto Sánchez-Blanco Spain (NIR channel optics and PDR fibres design) |
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e2v e2v UK (VIS channel detector) |
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Ecofred Ecofred Sistemes S.L. Spain (Coudé room refurbishment and clean tent) |
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Edmund Optics Edmund Optics Inc. USA (Small optical equipment) |
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EHD EHD imaging GmbH Germany (Filter wheels for exposure meters) |
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ESO European Southern Observatory European Union (NIR channel cooling unit, detector cryostats design, sorption pumps) |
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Fisba Fisba Optik AG Switzerland (VIS camera) |
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Fractal Fractal SLNE Spain (Project management, system engineering, documentation, management software suite, VIS channel detector electronics) |
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Glenair Glenair Iberica USA/Spain (Connectors for VIS detector cryostat) |
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Hamamatsu Hamamatsu Photonics K.K. Japan (NIR and VIS exposure meter cameras) |
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Hilsonic Hilsonic Ultrasonic Cleaning Equipment UK (Ultrasonic cleaning tank) |
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Huber Peter Huber Kältemaschinenbau GmbH Germany (Fabry-Pérot etalons thermoregulator) |
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ILFA ILFA GmbH Germany (Rigidflex printed circuit boards) |
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Indicam Indicam Technologies S.L. Spain (NIR mechanical parts) |
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Infrared Infrared Laboratories Inc. USA (Connectors for VIS detector cryostat) |
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Jehier Hutchinson Group France/Germany (NIR multi-layer insulator) |
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Kaufman Horst W. Kaufmann Präzisions-Optik Germany (NIR and VIS image slicers) |
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Kinkele Kinkele GmbH & Co. KG Germany (VIS optical bench and radiation shield) |
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Lake Shore Lake Shore Cryotronics, Inc. USA (Sensors and controllers) |
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NC solutions New Control Solutions S.L.L. Spain (Interlocks components) |
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Misumi Misumi Corp. Japan (Small mechanical components) |
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Maassen Maassen GmbH Germany (Hollow-cathode lamps) |
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Newport Newport Corporation USA/Spain/Germany (NIR and VIS échelle grating mosaics -Richardson Gratings-, NIR grism, calibration units precision rotation stages and optical benches, etalons optical bench) |
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NTE-SENER NTE-SENER Spain (Mechanical design of mounts -cross dispersers, exposure meters, NIR échelle grating and collimator mirror-, fibre exit units, baffles) |
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NTG NTG Neue Technologien GmbH & Co. KG Germany (NIR and VIS vacuum tanks) |
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Ohara Ohara Inc. Japan (Optical components) |
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Pfeiffer Pfeiffer Vacuum GmbH Germany (NIR and VIS vacuum systems) |
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Proactiverd Proactive R&D Spain (NIR channel optomechanics design) |
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Qucam Qucam Astronomical Detectors Spain (VIS channel detector electronics) |
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SDMS SDMS la chaudronnerie blanche France (Main heat exchanger of the NIR cooling unit, NIR and VIS continuous-flow cryostats) |
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SLS SLS Optics Ltd UK (Fabry-Pérot etalons opto-mechanics) |
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SX Starlight Xpress Ltd UK (A&G detector) |
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Teledyne Teledyne Scientific & Imaging USA (NIR channel sensor array) |
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Thorlabs Thorlabs Inc. USA (Small optical equipment) |
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Trinos (Trinos) The Vacuum Projects S.L.U. Spain (NIR optical bench) |
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Vacom VACOM Vakuum Komponenten & Messtechnik GmbH Germany (Fabry-Pérot etalons vacuum system) |
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XU-OSE Wenli Xu Optical System Engineering Germany (VIS channel and front-end optics design) |
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Winlight Winlight System Finance France (NIR camera, NIR and VIS collimator mirrors) |
Postal address ↑
CARMENES
c/o Dr. Sabine Reffert
Zentrum für Astronomie Universität Heidelberg (ZAH)
Landessternwarte
Königstuhl 12
D-69117 Heidelberg
Germany
