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Precision near-infrared radial velocity instrumentation II: Non-Circular Core Fiber Scrambler
Peter P. Plavchan ; Michael Bottom ; Peter Gao ; J. Kent Wallace ; Bertrand Mennesson ; David Ciardi ; Sam Crawford ; Sean Lin ; Chas Beichman ; Carolyn Brinkworth ; John Asher Johnson ; Cassy Davison ; Russel White ; Guillem Anglada-Escude ; Kaspar von Braun ; Gautum Vasisht ; Lisa Prato ; Stephen Kane ; Angelle Tanner ; Bernie Walp ; Sean Mills ;
Date:	12 Sep 2013
Abstract:	We have built and commissioned a prototype agitated non-circular core fiber scrambler for precision spectroscopic radial velocity measurements in the near-infrared H band. We have collected the first on-sky performance and modal noise tests of these novel fibers in the near-infrared at H and K bands using the CSHELL spectrograph at the NASA InfraRed Telescope Facility (IRTF). We discuss the design behind our novel reverse injection of a red laser for co-alignment of star-light with the fiber tip via a corner cube and visible camera. We summarize the practical details involved in the construction of the fiber scrambler, and the mechanical agitation of the fiber at the telescope. We present radial velocity measurements of a bright standard star taken with and without the fiber scrambler to quantify the relative improvement in the obtainable blaze function stability, the line spread function stability, and the resulting radial velocity precision. We assess the feasibility of applying this illumination stabilization technique to the next generation of near-infrared spectrographs such as iSHELL on IRTF and an upgraded NIRSPEC at Keck. Our results may also be applied in the visible for smaller core diameter fibers where fiber modal noise is a significant factor, such as behind an adaptive optics system or on a small < 1 meter class telescope such as is being pursued by the MINERVA and LCOGT collaborations.
Source:	arXiv, 1309.2991
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