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Veloce Rosso will be Australia’s next premier astronomical instrument. It will equip the Anglo-Australian Telescope (AAT) with a precision radial velocity spectrograph, capable of detecting Earth-like planets around sun-like stars.

Objectives

Veloce Rosso needs to be sensitive to red light between the wavelengths of 588 nm and 900 nm, with a resolution of 75,000 (0.004 nm). It also has to be extremely stable. This means our goal is for the temperature and air pressure in the instrument to be constant to within 0.01 °C and 1 mbar respectively.

Activities

Veloce Rosso was designed at the AITC and is currently under construction. It will be ready for installation early 2018.

Outcomes

Initial test results show that we have met the challenging stability requirements for Veloce Rosso’s environmental control systems.