MARVEL: approaching instrument assembly and commissioning

Jacob Pember; MARVEL Consortium; Ioannis Argyriou; Gerardo Avila; Vincent Benz; Alexis Brandeker; Lars A. Buchhave; Heather Cegla; David Coutts; Wim De Meester; Joris De Ridder; Denis Defrère; Alistair Glasse; Manuel Güdel; Mariam Haidar; Kautubh Hakim; Samuel Halverson; Joel Harman; Nicholas Jannsen; Markus Janson; Ailidh Kinney; Suzanne Kovacs; Romain Laugier; Matteo Mallia; Chris Miller; Kwinten Missiaen; Benjamin Montet; Johan Morren; Enric Palle; Jesús Pérez Padilla; Wim Pessemier; Don Pollaco; Benjamin Pope; Saskia Prins; Andreas Quirrenbach; Alex Raskin; Gert Raskin; Maddalena Reggiani; Ignasi Ribas; Hugues Sana; Tommy Sandu; Christian Schwab; Dries Seynaeve; Robin Sharman; Julien Storm; Louis Storm; Julian Stürmer; Giovanna Tinetti; Andrew Tkachenko; Hans Van Winckel; Bart Vandenbussche; Pieter Vuylsteke; Chris Waring; Rob Wittenmyer; Duncan Wright; Yanjun Zhou; DOT-HRS Team; Nick Binos; Jurek Brzeski; Zhemin Cai; Timothy Chin; Simon Ellis; Tony Farrell; Tobias Feger; Ali Ghari Zadeh; Dani Guzman; Yevgen Kripak; Nirmala Kunwar; Celestina Saavedra Lacombe; Jon Lawrence; Helen McGregor; David Robertson; Sana Syed; Lew Waller; Jahanzaib Zahoor; Ross Zhelem

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MARVEL: approaching instrument assembly and commissioning

Jacob Pember, MARVEL Consortium, Ioannis Argyriou, Gerardo Avila, Vincent Benz, Alexis Brandeker, Lars A. Buchhave, Heather Cegla, David Coutts, Wim De Meester, Joris De Ridder, Denis Defrère, Alistair Glasse, Manuel Güdel, Mariam Haidar, Kautubh Hakim, Samuel Halverson, Joel Harman, Nicholas Jannsen, Markus JansonAilidh Kinney, Suzanne Kovacs, Romain Laugier, Matteo Mallia, Chris Miller, Kwinten Missiaen, Benjamin Montet, Johan Morren, Enric Palle, Jesús Pérez Padilla, Wim Pessemier, Don Pollaco, Benjamin Pope, Saskia Prins, Andreas Quirrenbach, Alex Raskin, Gert Raskin, Maddalena Reggiani, Ignasi Ribas, Hugues Sana, Tommy Sandu, Christian Schwab, Dries Seynaeve, Robin Sharman, Julien Storm, Louis Storm, Julian Stürmer, Giovanna Tinetti, Andrew Tkachenko, Hans Van Winckel, Bart Vandenbussche, Pieter Vuylsteke, Chris Waring, Rob Wittenmyer, Duncan Wright, Yanjun Zhou, DOT-HRS Team, Nick Binos, Jurek Brzeski, Zhemin Cai, Timothy Chin, Simon Ellis, Tony Farrell, Tobias Feger, Ali Ghari Zadeh, Dani Guzman, Yevgen Kripak, Nirmala Kunwar, Celestina Saavedra Lacombe, Jon Lawrence, Helen McGregor, David Robertson, Sana Syed, Lew Waller, Jahanzaib Zahoor, Ross Zhelem

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The MARVEL dedicated radial velocity facility will soon be commissioned at the Mercator Observatory at La Palma, Spain. MARVEL comprises four 0.8m telescopes, each feeding starlight via optical fibres into a single high-resolution spectrograph tuned for precision radial velocity measurements. The four telescopes and their domes have been successfully installed at the observatory site, and are regularly being used for initial photometric observations. In this proceeding we provide a general status update of the facility, covering the procurement, assembly, and laboratory testing of spectrometer optics, mechanics, and detector; developments in the calibration system; the PLC-based control software; the dedicated solar telescope; and a photometry programme that is already underway, making use of the MARVEL telescopes before the installation of the spectrograph.

Original language	English
Title of host publication	Ground-based and Airborne Instrumentation for Astronomy XI
Editors	Joël D. R. Vernet, Julia J. Bryant, Kentaro Motohara
Place of Publication	Bellingham, Washington
Publisher	SPIE
Pages	141499I-1-141499I-9
Number of pages	9
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1117/12.3104659
Publication status	Published - 21 Aug 2026
Event	Ground-based and Airborne Instrumentation for Astronomy XI - Copenhagen, Denmark Duration: 5 Jul 2026 → 11 Jul 2026

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Name	Proceedings of SPIE
Volume	14149
ISSN (Print)	0277-786X
ISSN (Electronic)	1996-756X

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Conference	Ground-based and Airborne Instrumentation for Astronomy XI
Country/Territory	Denmark
City	Copenhagen
Period	5/07/26 → 11/07/26

Keywords

MARVEL
radial velocity
spectrograph
Doppler spectroscopy
exoplanets
Mercator telescope

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Pember, J., MARVEL Consortium, Argyriou, I., Avila, G., Benz, V., Brandeker, A., Buchhave, L. A., Cegla, H., Coutts, D., Meester, W. D., Ridder, J. D., Defrère, D., Glasse, A., Güdel, M., Haidar, M., Hakim, K., Halverson, S., Harman, J., Jannsen, N., ... Zhelem, R. (2026). MARVEL: approaching instrument assembly and commissioning. In J. D. R. Vernet, J. J. Bryant, & K. Motohara (Eds.), Ground-based and Airborne Instrumentation for Astronomy XI (pp. 141499I-1-141499I-9). Article 141499I (Proceedings of SPIE; Vol. 14149). SPIE. https://doi.org/10.1117/12.3104659

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MARVEL: approaching instrument assembly and commissioning. / Pember, Jacob; MARVEL Consortium; Argyriou, Ioannis et al.
Ground-based and Airborne Instrumentation for Astronomy XI. ed. / Joël D. R. Vernet; Julia J. Bryant; Kentaro Motohara. Bellingham, Washington: SPIE, 2026. p. 141499I-1-141499I-9 141499I (Proceedings of SPIE; Vol. 14149).

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