Table · dataset · 2019
Correcting HIRES/Keck RVs for systematic errors
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The HIRES spectrograph, mounted on the 10-m Keck-I telescope, belongs to a small group of radial-velocity (RV) instruments that produce stellar RVs with long-term precision down to ~1m/s.
Description
In 2017, the HIRES team published 64480 RVs of 1699 stars, collected between 1996 and 2014. In this bank of RVs, we identify a sample of RV-quiet stars, whose RV scatter is <10m/s, and use them to reveal two small but significant nightly zero-point effects: a discontinuous jump, caused by major modifications of the instrument in August 2004, and a long-term drift.
The size of the 2004 jump is 1.5+/-0.1m/s, and the slow zero-point variations have a typical magnitude of <1m/s. In addition, we find a small but significant correlation between stellar RVs and the time relative to local midnight, indicative of an average intranight drift of 0.051+/-0.004m/s/h. We correct the 64480 HIRES RVs for the systematic effects we find, and make the corrected RVs publicly available.
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Our findings demonstrate the importance of observing RV-quiet stars, even in the era of simultaneously-calibrated RV spectrographs. We hope that the corrected HIRES RVs will facilitate the search for new planet candidates around the observed stars.
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Where it is published
- Reference page cdsarc.cds.unistra.fr/viz-bin/cat/J/MNRAS/484/L8 ↗
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Documentation and papers
- ADS 2019MNRAS.484L...8T ui.adsabs.harvard.edu/abs/2019MNRAS.484L...8T ↗
publication · from IVOA Registry
Catalogue records · 2
- VOResource record dc.g-vo.org/oai.xml?verb=GetRecord&metadataPrefix=ivo_vor&identifier=ivo%3… ↗
metadata API · from IVOA Registry
- Registry record (GAVO) dc.g-vo.org/I/cds.vizier/j/mnras/484/l8 ↗
catalogue entry · from IVOA Registry
Topics
- From keywords
- Astronomy & Astrophysics
Provenance · 1 source records, 7 field assertions
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