A Laser Frequency Comb Calibrator for the Second Earth Spectrograph (2ES)
Name of applicant
Lars A. Buchhave
Title
Professor
Institution
Technical University of Denmark
Amount
DKK 4,500,000
Year
2025
Type of grant
Research Infrastructure
Summary
The Second Earth Spectrograph (2ES) is an extreme-precision spectrograph that will be installed on a 2.2 m telescope in Chile with the goal of discovering temperate terrestrial Earth-mass planets in the habitable zone around the brightest solar-type stars in the sky. These will be targets for next-gen telescopes to search for biosignatures (signs of life) in their atmospheres.