The Nirps Spectrograph Interview With Our Astronomers
Leave a Comment The Near InfraRed Planet Searcher (NIRPS) is an instrument that was recently installed at the 3.6-metre telescope at the La Silla Observatory in Chile. Its design was carried out by an international collaboration led by the Observatoire du Mont-Mégantic (OMM), the Institute for Research on Exoplanets at the Université de Montréal and the Observatoire astronomique de l’Université de Genève in Switzerland. The Canadian team, which also includes the Herzberg Research Centre for Astronomy and Astrophysics of the National Research Council of Canada and the Centre d’optique, de photonique et de lasers (COPL) of the Université Laval, contributed to the conception and design of the NIRPS spectrograph....