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Terra Hunting Experiment @terrahunting.bsky.social · 10d

HARPS3 arrives in the Canary Islands today! Next stop ... La Palma!

Terra Hunting Experiment @terrahunting.bsky.social · 28d

It's time for another theme song of the day! www.youtube.com/watch?v=LTrk... HARPS3 sets sail!!! See you on the other side of the sea!

Enya - Orinoco Flow (Official 4K Music Video)

YouTube video by enyatv

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Terra Hunting Experiment @terrahunting.bsky.social · Sep 8

Today HARPS3 is leaving the nest and migrating south!

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Terra Hunting Experiment @terrahunting.bsky.social · Aug 6

And the theme tune of today is ... www.youtube.com/watch?v=9jK-... It's T minus zero on the HARPS3 lab AIT! 🤯

Europe - The Final Countdown (Official Video)

YouTube video by EuropeVEVO

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Terra Hunting Experiment @terrahunting.bsky.social · Jul 18

The HARPS3 science-grade CCD is installed in the detector head - hooray! Images below show the CCD after installation into the chip carrier and then afterwards when it is sealed behind the last lens/cryostat window ready for vacuum pumping (and then cooling) ...

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Terra Hunting Experiment @terrahunting.bsky.social · Jul 17

Today's the day we switch out the engineering grade CCD with the science grade (0) CCD! << Deep breath, steady hands >>

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A. Suárez Mascareño @asuarezmascareno.com · Jun 30

Moving on, René Tronsgaard is presenting HARPS-3 (@terrahunting.bsky.social), the third instrument in the HARPS family, that will observe a selected number of stars every night for 10 years, from the Isaac Newton telescope in La Palma. #eprv6

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Terra Hunting Experiment @terrahunting.bsky.social · Jun 3

240 x 240 mm

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Terra Hunting Experiment @terrahunting.bsky.social · May 28

Because you can never see too many rainbows, and the HARPS3 grism is just so awesome ... take a look at the HARPS3 lab through the eye of the grism

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Terra Hunting Experiment @terrahunting.bsky.social · May 28

... and the picture of the grism in its holder just before installation - how beautiful is this?!

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Terra Hunting Experiment @terrahunting.bsky.social · May 28

I'm running a bit behind with the news from the lab! Not long after my last post, we installed the grism (grating + prism = grism) - the HARPS3 cross-disperser which separates the high-order overlapping diffraction orders. The world looks rainbow beautiful through the grism! 😍

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Terra Hunting Experiment @terrahunting.bsky.social · May 15

... last week we installed the camera objective to the underside of the custom optical table (which fits in a large vacuum vessel). The camera objective consists of a set of 6 custom lenses - 5 of which are mounted in the barrel shown on the photo and the 6th is the detector cryostat window.

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Terra Hunting Experiment @terrahunting.bsky.social · May 15

What you might have missed the past few months (because I've been too busy to post!) - intense period of sub-system integration and verification for the HARPS3 spectrograph. The past few weeks - integration of the main optical components ...

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Terra Hunting Experiment @terrahunting.bsky.social · May 10

Just used Porto (web extension) to import all our old tweets. The dates below aren't preserved but they span from 2015 when the project first started to August last year for the INT robotization preliminary acceptance review :)

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Terra Hunting Experiment @terrahunting.bsky.social · Apr 6

Hello World!

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Terra Hunting Experiment @terrahunting.bsky.social · May 10

The newly refurbished/roboticized Isaac Newton Telescope @INGLaPalma detects its first Saturn-mass planet ;-) ... HARPS3 has an awesome telescope to install on! #INT-Preliminary-Acceptance-passed #ProjectSoft.cz #robotic-telescope-ops

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Terra Hunting Experiment @terrahunting.bsky.social · May 10

A truckload full of HARPS3 goodies is on its way from @obsge to @DeptofPhysics ... exciting times!

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Terra Hunting Experiment @terrahunting.bsky.social · May 10

some of the tiniest optics in HARPS3. Never let it be said optics can't be cute :) (no optics were harmed/defaced in the making of this image! :D

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Terra Hunting Experiment @terrahunting.bsky.social · May 10

The development for the HARPS3 astrocomb is in the news todayCongrats to our Heriot-Watt colleagues for their laser wizardry! Published paper here:

nature.com/articles/s4146… news.sky.com/story/astrocom…

Astrocomb breakthrough could help discover Earth-like planets

Researchers say the development could help them find a planet similar to our own that orbits a sun-like star.

news.sky.com

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Terra Hunting Experiment @terrahunting.bsky.social · May 10

We had an awesome visit toyesterday. Thanks to the great team (group lead @DerryckReid) there for showing us their amazing research, including the prototype HARPS3 laser frequency-comb🤩 ... the most high-tech rainbow you'll ever see! 🌈

ultrafast.hw.ac.uk

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Terra Hunting Experiment @terrahunting.bsky.social · May 10

Terra Hunting Experiment already finds alien life ... our PI @DidierQueloz😁

t.co/jS7ILTyrCc

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Terra Hunting Experiment @terrahunting.bsky.social · May 10

HARPS3 was presented at last week's PLATO mission conferenceTake a look:slides) andrecorded talk)

drive.google.com/file/d/1r8yCSu… zenodo.org/record/5565004… platomissionconference2021.iaa.es

platomissionconference2021.iaa.es

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Terra Hunting Experiment @terrahunting.bsky.social · May 10

YES! The monster HARPS3 vacuum vessel is in the lab. Awesome!

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Terra Hunting Experiment @terrahunting.bsky.social · May 10

What's that coming over the hill (well, round the corner)? ... Is it a monster?

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Terra Hunting Experiment @terrahunting.bsky.social · May 10

In more recent news, the development of HARPS3 and the Terra Hunting Experiment were presented in two posters at #EASLeiden2021. Check them out:and

k-poster.kuoni-congress.info/eas2021/poster… k-poster.kuoni-congress.info/eas2021/poster…

The Terra Hunting Experiment

k-poster.kuoni-congress.info

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