The NEID port adapter: on-sky performance

Sarah E. Logsdon; Marsha J. Wolf; Dan Li; Jayadev Rajagopal; Mark Everett; Qian Gong; Eli Golub; Jesus Higuera; Emily Hunting; Kurt P. Jaehnig; Jessica Klusmeyer; Ming Liang; Wilson Liu; William R. McBride; Michael W. McElwain; Jeffrey W. Percival; Susan Ridgway; Heidi Schweiker; Michael P. Smith; Erik Timmermann; Fernando Santoro; Christian Schwab; Chad F. Bender; Cullen H. Blake; Arvind F. Gupta; Samuel Halverson; Fred Hearty; Shubham Kanodia; Suvrath Mahadevan; Andrew J. Monson; Joe P. Ninan; Lawrence Ramsey; Paul Robertson; Arpita Roy; Ryan C. Terrien; Jason T. Wright

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The NEID port adapter: on-sky performance

Sarah E. Logsdon^*, Marsha J. Wolf, Dan Li, Jayadev Rajagopal, Mark Everett, Qian Gong, Eli Golub, Jesus Higuera, Emily Hunting, Kurt P. Jaehnig, Jessica Klusmeyer, Ming Liang, Wilson Liu, William R. McBride, Michael W. McElwain, Jeffrey W. Percival, Susan Ridgway, Heidi Schweiker, Michael P. Smith, Erik TimmermannFernando Santoro, Christian Schwab, Chad F. Bender, Cullen H. Blake, Arvind F. Gupta, Samuel Halverson, Fred Hearty, Shubham Kanodia, Suvrath Mahadevan, Andrew J. Monson, Joe P. Ninan, Lawrence Ramsey, Paul Robertson, Arpita Roy, Ryan C. Terrien, Jason T. Wright

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Australian Astronomical Optics

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Here we detail the on-sky performance of the NEID Port Adapter one year into full science operation at the WIYN 3.5m Telescope at Kitt Peak National Observatory. NEID is an optical (380-930 nm), fiber-fed, precision Doppler radial velocity system developed as part of the NASA-NSF Exoplanet Observational Research (NN-EXPLORE) partnership. The NEID Port Adapter mounts directly to a bent-Cassegrain port on the WIYN Telescope and is responsible for precisely and stably placing target light on the science fibers. Precision acquisition and guiding is a critical component of such extreme precision spectrographs. In this work, we describe key on-sky performance results compared to initial design requirements and error budgets. While the current Port Adapter performance is more than sufficient for the NEID system to achieve and indeed exceed its formal instrumental radial velocity precision requirements, we continue to characterize and further optimize its performance and efficiency. This enables us to obtain better NEID datasets and in some cases, improve the performance of key terms in the error budget needed for future extreme precision spectrographs with the goal of observing ExoEarths, requiring ∼ 10 cm/s radial velocity measurements.

Original language	English
Title of host publication	Ground-based and Airborne Instrumentation for Astronomy IX
Editors	Christopher J. Evans, Julia J. Bryant, Kentaro Motohara
Place of Publication	Washington, DC
Publisher	SPIE
Pages	1-7
Number of pages	7
ISBN (Electronic)	9781510653504
ISBN (Print)	9781510653498
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1117/12.2629004
Publication status	Published - 2022
Event	Conference on Ground-based and Airborne Instrumentation for Astronomy IX - Montreal, Canada Duration: 17 Jul 2022 → 22 Jul 2022

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Name	Proceedings of SPIE
Publisher	SPIE
Volume	12184
ISSN (Print)	0277-786X
ISSN (Electronic)	1996-756X

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Conference	Conference on Ground-based and Airborne Instrumentation for Astronomy IX
Country/Territory	Canada
City	Montreal
Period	17/07/22 → 22/07/22

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radial velocity instrumentation
NEID
exoplanets
systems engineering

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Logsdon, S. E., Wolf, M. J., Li, D., Rajagopal, J., Everett, M., Gong, Q., Golub, E., Higuera, J., Hunting, E., Jaehnig, K. P., Klusmeyer, J., Liang, M., Liu, W., McBride, W. R., McElwain, M. W., Percival, J. W., Ridgway, S., Schweiker, H., Smith, M. P., ... Wright, J. T. (2022). The NEID port adapter: on-sky performance. In C. J. Evans, J. J. Bryant, & K. Motohara (Eds.), Ground-based and Airborne Instrumentation for Astronomy IX (pp. 1-7). Article 121844N (Proceedings of SPIE; Vol. 12184). SPIE. https://doi.org/10.1117/12.2629004

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Logsdon, SE, Wolf, MJ, Li, D, Rajagopal, J, Everett, M, Gong, Q, Golub, E, Higuera, J, Hunting, E, Jaehnig, KP, Klusmeyer, J, Liang, M, Liu, W, McBride, WR, McElwain, MW, Percival, JW, Ridgway, S, Schweiker, H, Smith, MP, Timmermann, E, Santoro, F, Schwab, C, Bender, CF, Blake, CH, Gupta, AF, Halverson, S, Hearty, F, Kanodia, S, Mahadevan, S, Monson, AJ, Ninan, JP, Ramsey, L, Robertson, P, Roy, A, Terrien, RC & Wright, JT 2022, The NEID port adapter: on-sky performance. in CJ Evans, JJ Bryant & K Motohara (eds), Ground-based and Airborne Instrumentation for Astronomy IX., 121844N, Proceedings of SPIE, vol. 12184, SPIE, Washington, DC, pp. 1-7, Conference on Ground-based and Airborne Instrumentation for Astronomy IX, Montreal, Canada, 17/07/22. https://doi.org/10.1117/12.2629004

The NEID port adapter: on-sky performance. / Logsdon, Sarah E.; Wolf, Marsha J.; Li, Dan et al.
Ground-based and Airborne Instrumentation for Astronomy IX. ed. / Christopher J. Evans; Julia J. Bryant; Kentaro Motohara. Washington, DC: SPIE, 2022. p. 1-7 121844N (Proceedings of SPIE; Vol. 12184).

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