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Coordination:
PIs: René Doyon (UdeM, OMM and iREx, Canada) and François Bouchy (Observatoire de Genève, Switzerland)
Portuguese participation:
Board Members: Nuno C. Santos
Core Science Team Members: Pedro Figueira, Elisa Delgado Mena
Funding:
a Generation of Earth-ANalogs Exploration Spectrographs (G.EANES)
COMPETE2020: POCI-01-0145-FEDER-032113 & FCT: PTDC/FIS-AST/32113/2017
Partners:
Université de Montreal
Université de Genève
Instituto de Astrofísica e Ciências do Espaço
Instituto de Astrofísica de Canarias
Université de Grenoble – Alpes
Universidade Federal do Rio Grande do Norte
NIRPS (Near Infra-Red Planet Searcher) is a new high resolution spectrograph for the ESO-3.6m telescope in La Silla Observatory (Chile). It covers the NIR spectral region (970-1810 nm) and its focus is the discovery of planets around the cool and red M dwarf stars. These low-mass stars are prime targets for the search of Earth-like planets in the habitable zone by means of the Radial Velocity technique. Other main science topics include the characterization of already discovered transiting planets and the study of planetary atmospheres.