HIRES, the high-resolution spectrograph for the ELT
Creators: name: Marconi, Alessandro
name: Abreu, Manuel
name: Adibekyan, Vardan
name: Aliverti, Matteo
name: Prieto, Carlos Allende
name: Amado, Pedro J.
name: Amate, Manuel
name: Artigau, Etienne
name: Augusto, Sergio R.
name: Barros, Susana
name: Becerril, Santiago
name: Benneke, Bjorn
name: Bergin, Edwin
name: Berio, Philippe
name: Bezawada, Naidu
name: Boisse, Isabelle
name: Bonfils, Xavier
name: Bouchy, Francois
name: Broeg, Christopher
name: Cabral, Alexandre
name: Calvo-Ortega, Rocio
name: Martins, Bruno Leonardo Canto
name: Chazelas, Bruno
name: Chiavassa, Andrea
name: Christensen, Lise B.
name: Cirami, Roberto
name: Coretti, Igor
name: Cristiani, Stefano
name: Parro, Vanderlei Cunha
name: Cupani, Guido
name: Leao, Izan de Castro
name: de Medeiros, Jose Renan
name: de Souza, Marco Antonio Furlan
name: Di Marcantonio, Paolo
name: Di Varano, Igor
name: D'Odorico, Valentina
name: Doyon, Rene
name: Drass, Holger
name: Figueira, Pedro
name: Fragoso, Ana Belen
name: Fynbo, Johan Peter Uldall
name: Gallo, Elena
name: Genoni, Matteo
name: Hernandez, Jonay I. Gonzalez
name: Haehnelt, Martin
name: Larrondo, Julie Hlavacek
name: Hughes, Ian
name: Huke, Philipp
name: Humphrey, Andrew
name: Kjeldsen, Hans
name: Korn, Andreas
name: Kouach, Driss
name: Landoni, Marco
name: Liske, Jochen
name: Lovis, Christophe
name: Lunney, David
name: Maiolino, Roberto
name: Malo, Lison
name: Marquart, Thomas
name: Martins, Carlos J. A. P.
name: Mason, Elena
name: Monnier, John
name: Monteiro, Manuel A.
name: Mordasini, Christoph
name: Morris, Tim
name: Murray, Graham J.
name: Niedzielski, Andrzej
name: Nunes, Nelson
name: Oliva, Ernesto
name: Origlia, Livia
name: Palle, Enric
name: Pariani, Giorgio
name: Parr-Burman, Phil
name: Penate, Jose
name: Pepe, Francesco
name: Pinna, Enrico
name: Piskunov, Nikolai
name: Rasilla, Jose Luis
name: Rees, Phil
name: Rebolo, Rafael
name: Reiners, Ansgar
name: Riva, Marco
name: Rousseau, Sylvain
name: Sanna, Nicoletta
name: Santos, Nuno C.
name: Sarajlic, Mirsad
name: Shen, Tzu-Chiang
name: Sortino, Francesca
name: Sosnowska, Danuta
name: Sousa, Sergio
name: Stempels, Eric
name: Strassmeier, Klaus G.
name: Tenegi, Fabio
name: Tozzi, Andrea
name: Udry, Stephane
name: Valenziano, Luca
name: Vanzi, Leonardo
name: Weber, Michael
name: Woche, Manfred
name: Xompero, Marco
name: Zackrisson, Erik
name: Osorio, Maria Rosa Zapatero
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics (astro-ph.IM)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: HIRES will be the high-resolution spectrograph of the European Extremely Large Telescope at optical and near-infrared wavelengths. It consists of three fibre-fed spectrographs providing a wavelength coverage of 0.4-1.8 mic (goal 0.35-1.8 mic) at a spectral resolution of ~100,000. The fibre-feeding allows HIRES to have several, interchangeable observing modes including a SCAO module and a small diffraction-limited IFU in the NIR. Therefore, it will be able to operate both in seeing and diffraction-limited modes. ELT-HIRES has a wide range of science cases spanning nearly all areas of research in astrophysics and even fundamental physics. Some of the top science cases will be the detection of bio signatures from exoplanet atmospheres, finding the fingerprints of the first generation of stars (PopIII), tests on the stability of Nature's fundamental couplings, and the direct detection of the cosmic acceleration. The HIRES consortium is composed of more than 30 institutes from 14 countries, forming a team of more than 200 scientists and engineers.
description: to appear in the ESO Messenger No.182, December 2020