Project
News archive
- 09 Jul 2015:
Expresion of interest to host Marie Curie Fellows interested
in our exoplanet search project with CARMENES (at IAA)
The objective of the call MSCA Individual Fellows is to enhance
the creative and innovative potential of experienced researchers
who wish to diversify their individual competence in terms of
skill acquisition through advanced training, international and
inter-sectorial mobility. Individual Fellowships provide
opportunities to acquire and transfer new knowledge and to work
on research in a European context or outside Europe. This scheme
also supports the return and reintegration of researchers from
outside Europe who have previously worked here. It also develops
or helps to restart the careers of individual researchers that
show great potential, considering their experience.
- 03 Apr 2015:
NIR-channel forward-simulated spectra of
a Fabry-Pérot etalon and a U-Ne hollow-cathode lamp
- 12 Mar 2015:
A customized "CARMENES" four-port long-cable USB hub.
- 06 Mar 2015:
Front-end being tested.
"The alu profile beam on top of the FE is the mount for our
projection optics simulating the telescope optical beam as well
as a CCD camera to monitor and measure the flexures"
- 25 Feb 2015:
VIS channel initial alignment completed
- 11 Feb 2015:
The CARMENES Core Management Team visits the IAA clean room
("The Tutankhamun's tomb" = NIR optical bench and part of the
radiation shield)
- 29 Jan 2015:
CARMENES rack with pipeline and ICS computers and switch...
Or is it a Dell commercial?
- 20 Jan 2015:
Job at Göttingen: postdoctoral researcher in Doppler
search for exolanets
- 01 Jan 2015:
Calar Alto pictures by E. W. Guenther under excellent
weather conditions (seeing 0.54 arcsec in V)
- 19 Dec 2014:
The CARMENES team at IAA wishes you merry christmas and a
happy first light year
- 11 Dec 2014:
The NIR and VIS cross-disperser mounts arrive to IAA and LSW from IAC
- 27 Nov 2014:
The gold-coated NIR collimator mirror at IAA, Granada
- 17 Nov 2014:
Two monitors for kapteyn, one of the 14 CARMENES computers in Calar Alto
- 01 Nov 2014:
CARMENES:
el cazador de exoplanetas de Calar Alto, an outreach
article in Spanish by José A. Caballero in
AstronomíA magazine
- 14-17 Oct 2014:
2nd science and 6th technical
joint meeting at ICE, Barcelona
- 10 Oct 2014:
The
NIR and VIS
collimator mirrors finished to be polished and coated by
Winlight Optics
- 07 Oct 2014:
The
3.5 m telescope coudé room is being refurbished by
Ecofred to accommodate CARMENES
- 02 Oct 2014:
The
VIS optical bench arrives LSW
- 01 Oct 2014:
The
CSIC deputy vice-president of scientific and technological
areas Miguel Ángel Bañares and the CSIC
delegate in Andalucía, Miguel Ferrer, visit CARMENES at IAA
- 11 Sep 2014:
The NIR
camera, made by Winlight, ready for installing its optics (IAA)
- 25 Aug 2014:
The
NIR CalUnit, made in Tautenburg, starts its trip to Granada
(IAA/TLS)
- 30 Jun 2014:
AIV
of NIR vacuum tank, Pfeiffer pumps, CAHA interlocks, N2GPU and
test facility also operate nicely in the IAA instrument
assembly room (IAA)
- 16 Jun 2014:
NTG
VIS vacuum tank, Pfeiffer pumps and CAHA interlocks operate
nicely in the MPIA instrument assembly room
(LSW/MPIA/CAHA/IAG)
- 13 Jun 2014:
The
recently-born pipeline computers, lalande and
barnard, now have "CARMENES wallpapers" (IAG/CAHA)
- 13 Jun 2014:
First image of the science CCD while being cooling down
(Fractal/UCM/LSW)
- 09-13 Jun 2014:
Quirrenbach (13MB),
Alonso-Floriano (2.5MB),
Cortés-Contreras (1.5MB) and
Montes (2.3MB) posters at CoolStars18, Flagstaff AZ
(CAB-UCM);
see David Montes'
pictures
- 05-06 and 12 Jun 2014:
successful integration tests between the Instrument Control
System and the 3.5 m Calar Telescope, first, and the calibration
units, next
- 12 Jun 2014:
Calar Alto and CARMENES, Jesús Aceituno and Antonio Arias
in Radio3
(Hoy empieza todo: Estrellas, satélites
y otros cuerpos)
- 11 Jun 2014:
VIS camera (manufactured by FISBA, Switzerland) is accepted!
- 11 Jun 2014:
CARMENES in YouTube
(Andreas Quirrenbach sends greetings from the
Cool Stars 18 meeting in Flagstaff, AZ, for the joint
CALIFA-CARMENES large surveys event on Calar Alto)
- 11 Jun 2014:
De CALIFA a CARMENES: Futuras grandes exploraciones del cielo desde
Calar Alto
(IAA press release)
- 06 Jun 2014:
The calibration units 'trailer' in YouTube;
see also our
webcam in Tautenburg, only on 06 Jun 09:00-12:00 (TLS)
- 04 Jun 2014:
Ancient worlds around Kapteyn's star:
Guillem Anglada-Escudé and other ten CARMENES members in
an international team discover
a cold and a temperate super-Earth orbiting the
nearest halo red-dwarf
(PHL,
IAA,
Sad Kapteyn)
- 02 Jun 2014:
The VIS vacuum tank arrives Heidelberg; the NIR vacuum tank
starts its trip to Granada (IAG)
- 30 May 2014:
De CALIFA a CARMENES: Futuras grandes exploraciones del cielo desde
Calar Alto (IAA)
- 09 May 2014:
The VIS Calibration Unit makes its trip from Tautenburg to
Heidelberg, is re-integrated and accepted by LSW (TLS)
- 05 May 2014:
CARMENES assembly phase begins at IAA and CAHA: press
releases at RTVE,
CAHA (in English) and
IAA, and in YouTube
- 25 Apr 2014:
Postdoctoral position on laser optics and frequency
standards: at the IAG Göttingen, for doctors in Physics
(Reiners)
- 23 Apr 2014:
Image-slicer tests:
(carried out in February) with four beam-splitter
image-slicer units and two different optical contacts, with and
without epoxy, under very low temperature and pressure
(Pérez)
- 28 Mar 2014:
Assembly of the NIR detector head at the
MPIA: test installation of the pre-amplifier boards on the
reverse side of the head and of the detector dummy on the front
side of the head (Panduro, Mundt, Mall, Hermann)
- 18 Feb 2014:
CARMENES starts taking shape: one of the two
main vacuum tanks before hole drilling and polishing at the NTG
Neue Technologien GmbH & Co. KG factory in Gelnhausen, Germany
- 10 Feb 2014:
CARMENES in Barcelona: "5th technical
meeting: AIV progress"
- 03 Feb 2014:
in Garching...: "Exoplanet
Observations with the E-ELT 2014"
- 22 Jan 2014:
The CARMENES soundtrack in TV: Antonio
Arias and Soleá Morente in "Los conciertos de Radio 3 en
La 2", min 22:45
- 18 Jan 2014:
and in Forbes!: "On The Hunt For The
Very Nearest Alien Earths"
- 17 Jan 2014:
Richardson Gratings produces large mosaic
echelle grating for planet-finder spectrograph (HzPF)
- 24 Dec 2013:
Merry Christams
and a happy New Year from Andreas Quirrenbach:
[...]
One year ago I wrote that 2013 would be an exciting year for us
all. Well, as we know now, the year was a lot more exciting than
we had imagined, and a lot more exciting than we would have
liked. I thank you all who kept on going with an excellent team
spirit in spite of adverse circumstances, which put a lot of
strain on our project. We have achieved a number of important
milestones, from passing the Final Design Review early in the
year to "first calibration light" in Tautenburg very recently.
We have received a fair number of parcels containing components
and sub-systems, and are looking forward to more shipments and
to putting everything together in the coming months. Activities
at Calar Alto are also progressing. The coudé room will be
prepared for CARMENES as soon as winter weather is behind us,
and we expect to install, test, and commission the front end at
the telescope in mid-2014. Data reduction software is being
written, and our science program is taking shape. With all work
packages running in high gear, I am confident that we are on
track towards a successful completion of the instrument [...]
- 19 Dec 2013:
Gaia en route to L2!
- 19 Dec 2013:
Decision on
i-LINK+ CSIC programme for the promotion of scientific
international collaboration of CSIC with foreign
institutions:
the IAA, ICE and CAB have been awarded with 30,000 EUR, mostly
for travel costs and daily allowances
- 17 Dec 2013:
First
light of the VIS calibration unit in Tautenburg:
first light of the VIS calibration unit with the Th-Ne lamps and
Fabry-Pérot etalon inputs at the Coudé
Échelle Spectrograph of the 2 m Alfred-Jensch Teleskop in
the Thüringer Landessternwarte Tautenburg
[for Back to the Future fans]
- 12 Nov 2013:
CARMENES: the first and only astronomical instrument with a soundtrack
- 04 Nov 2013:
CFHT confirms participation in funding SPIRou
- 02 Oct 2013:
CSFS
= CARMENES Spectral Forward Simulator:
VIS- and NIR-channel synthetic spectra of Phoenix models of
star with Teff = 3000 K and of U-Ne lamp
- Oct 2013:
Job offer for an engineer in Heidelberg
- Oct 2013:
Signed contract with NTG for manufacturing the main vacuum tanks
- 15-20 Jul 2013:
CARMENES at "Protostars & Planets VI"
- 11 Jun 2013:
Pictures of the NIR detector array at MPIA
- Apr 2013:
Monthly Planet No. 3
(2013 Mar-Apr)
- Mar 2013:
Monthly Planet No. 2
(2013 Feb-Mar)
- Jan 2013:
Monthly Planet No. 1
(2013 Jan)
- 20 Aug 2012:
GIANO,
the new near-infrared échelle spectrograph at the TNG, sees its
first light
- 02 Jul 2012: CARMENES at the
CoolStars17
in Barcelona: posters by
Amado et al.,
Caballero et al.,
Béjar et al.,
Alonso-Floriano et al.,
Sairam et al.
- 26 Apr 2012:
three important events close in time: purchase order of the two
échelle grating mosaics (last week), delivery of the
documentation set for the optics-Final Design Review (this week)
and the Sixth CARMENES meeting in Heidelberg (next week)
- 28 Mar 2012:
Many Billions of Rocky Planets in the Habitable Zones around Red
Dwarfs in the Milky Way.
"A new result from ESO's HARPS planet finder shows that rocky
planets not much bigger than Earth are very common in the
habitable zones around faint red stars. The international team
estimates that there are tens of billions of such planets in the
Milky Way galaxy alone, and probably about one hundred in the
Sun's immediate neighbourhood. This is the first direct
measurement of the frequency of super-Earths around red dwarfs,
which account for 80% of the stars in the Milky Way"
- 06 Feb 2012: Job offers.
CARMENES-IAA (Granada) and CARMENES-UCM (Madrid) offer two
pre-doctoral fellowships (FPI) for completing a PhD degree
(more details) and CARMENES-CAB (Madrid)
offers one contract for a computer engineer for developing the
VO archive
(more details)
- 02 Feb 2012:
CARMENES becomes the first ground-telescope instrument with a
soundtrack: "CARMENES live at Calar Alto" by
•unitedsoundsofcosmos:
astroconcert video in YouTube,
mp3 audio file,
lyrics and details
of our song
- 10 Dec 2011:
Over 40 of us will meet from 12 to 14 Dec 2011 at the Instituto
de Astrofísica de Andalucía, Granada, during the
Fifth CARMENES meeting
- 28 Nov 2011:
On Friday last week, Andreas (our PI) gave an interesting talk
on CARMENES at the
MPIA & LSW Hauskolloquium and on next
Thursday, Jose (our co-PM) with
•unitedsoundsofcosmos
will broadcast via streaming a rock astroconcert from the 0.8 m
Schmidt telescope in Calar Alto
- 03 Nov 2011:
The Vuelta a España starts next week: Holger, Jose and
Reinhard will visit the CARMENES Spanish institutions in
Barcelona, Granada, Calar Alto, Torrejón de Ardoz and
Madrid in only five days. Who will win the
red jersey?
- 12 Oct 2011:
CARMENES travels around the world: since the PDR, we have held
internal meetings, given colloquia or participated in
international workshops in Madrid, Heidelberg, Potsdam,
Göttingen, Hamburg, Jena and... Sydney and the Siding
Spring observatory in Australia!
- 25 Jul 2011:
we passed the Preliminary Design Review!
See some pictures of the
panel board and the
consortium members in
action
- 06 Jun 2011:
we are very busy preparing the documentation to be delivered
soon to the board of examiners of our Preliminary Design Review.
They will be worlwide experts in astronomical instrumentation in
general and high-resolution spectroscopy in particular: H. R. A.
Jones, J.-L. Lizon, L. Pasquini, L. Ramsey and G. Raskin
- 07 May 2011:
a soundtrack for an astronomical instrument? Yes! The Spanish
musician Antonio Arias is producing a new Kraftwerk-like song,
CARMENES, which will be premiered in the
CosmoCaixa museum in Barcelona on Saturday
14 May 2011.
More details of the project at
•unitedsoundsofcosmos (in
Spanish)
- 06 Apr 2011:
technical meeting on 11-12 Apr 2011 in Madrid for the
preparation of the Preliminary Design Review in Jul 2011;
the project is paced at a breathtaking speed!
- 01 Mar 2011:
carmenes.caha.es is born!
New web domain, hosted at CAHA.
A simple, minimalist, pretty web page with more get-at-able
information and space for storage
