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SPIRou: A NIR Spectropolarimeter/High-Precision Velocimeter for the CFHT

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SPIRou is a near-infrared (nIR) spectropolarimeter/velocimeter for the Canada-France-Hawaii Telescope (CFHT) that will focus on two forefront science topics, (i) the quest for habitable Earthlike planets around nearby M stars and (ii) the study of low-mass star/planet formation in the presence of magnetic fields. SPIRou will also efficiently tackle many key programs beyond these two main goals, from weather patterns on brown dwarfs to solar system planet and exoplanet atmospheres. SPIRou will cover a wide spectral domain in a single exposure (0.98–2.44 μm) at a resolving power of 70 K, yielding unpolarized and polarized spectra of low-mass stars with a 15% average throughput at a radial velocity (RV) precision of 1 m s−1. It consists of a Cassegrain unit mounted at the Cassegrain focus of CFHT and featuring an achromatic polarimeter, coupled to a cryogenic spectrograph cooled down at 80 K through a fluoride fiber link. SPIRou is currently integrated at IRAP/OMP and will be mounted at CFHT in 2018 Q1 for a first light scheduled in early 2018. Science operation is predicted to begin in 2018 S2, allowing many fruitful synergies with major ground and space instruments such as the JWST, TESS, ALMA, and later-on PLATO and the ELT.

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Acknowledgements

This chapter is dedicated to the memory of Leslie Saddlemyer from NRC-H and to that of Pierre Soler, Director of OMP, who passed away on January 9, 2017, and May 15, 2017, respectively. Both played major roles in helping SPIRou come to life. The SPIRou team thanks all funding agencies in France (the IDEX initiatives in Toulouse and Marseille, DIM-ACAV in Paris, Labex OSUG@2020 in Grenoble, CNRS / INSU, Universite de Toulouse Paul Sabatier, and Universite Grenoble-Alpes), Canada (CFI, NRC), Brazil (LNA), Switzerland (Geneva Observatory), Portugal (FCT), and Taiwan (ASIAA) for their financial and/or manpower contribution to SPIRou. The team also thanks CFHT for covering a significant fraction of SPIRou’s construction costs and allocating human resources to the project.

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  1. CNRS, Institut de Recherche en Astrophysique et Planétologie, Toulouse, France

    Jean-François Donati

  2. IRAP/OMP, Toulouse, France

    D. Kouach, M. Lacombe, S. Baratchart, L. Parès, Y. Micheau, N. Striebig, Z. Challita & A. Carmona

  3. UdeM/UL, Montréal, QC, Canada

    R. Doyon, O. Hernandez & S. Tibault

  4. IAP/IdF, Paris, France

    X. Delfosse & G. Hébrard

  5. Institut de Recherche sur les Exoplanètes, Département de Physique, Université de Montréal, Montréal, QC, Canada

    Étienne Artigau

  6. CNRS/CFHT, Kamuela, HI, USA

    Claire Moutou

  7. CNRS, LAM, Laboratoire d’Astrophysique de Marseille, Aix Marseille University, Marseille, France

    Claire Moutou

  8. UdeM/UL, Montréal, QC, Canada

    Claire Moutou

  9. Département d’Astronomie, Université de Genève, Versoix, GE, Switzerland

    François Bouchy

  10. Observatoire astronomique de l’Université de Genève, Versoix, Switzerland

    François Bouchy

  11. IPAG, Paris, France

    J. Bouvier & P. Rabou

  12. CFHT, Waimea, HI, USA

    G. Barrick

  13. LAM/OHP, Marseille, France

    F. Dolon & I. Boisse

  14. UFMG, Belo Horizonte, Brazil

    S. Alencar

  15. NRC-H, Victoria, Canada

    L. Saddlemyer & V. Reshetov

  16. ASIAA, Taipei, Taiwan

    S. Y. Wang

  17. LNA, Itajubá, Brazil

    E. Martioli

  18. CAUP, Porto, Portugal

    P. Figueira

  19. Département d’Astronomie, Observatoire de l’Université de Genéve, Versoix, GE, Switzerland

    Francesco Pepe

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Donati, JF. et al. (2018). SPIRou: A NIR Spectropolarimeter/High-Precision Velocimeter for the CFHT. In: Deeg, H., Belmonte, J. (eds) Handbook of Exoplanets . Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-55333-7_107

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