Author Archives: Paul M Robertson

Freezer Boxes for Frequency Combs: The First Team Trip to HET

HPF team members Suvrath Mahadevan, Larry Ramsey, Eric Levi, and Paul Robertson just returned from our team excursion to McDonald Observatory in west Texas.  The purpose of our trip was to set up an enclosure room for our instrument calibration … Continue reading

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The Echelle Grating

As fate would have it, the start of the HPF blog coincides with the arrival of the heart of the spectrograph itself: the echelle grating.  Since the grating is so important to the workings of HPF, let’s take a moment … Continue reading

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