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ESPRI team

The ESPRI consortium

The consortium has three PI institutes, each of them represented by one PI. The three PIs act as a team. In addition, a number of secondary partner institutes is attached to Geneva Observatory.

The primary partners

Institute Address Country Responsible
Landessternwarte Heidelberg
ZAH, Landessternwarte
Koenigstuhl
69117 Heidelberg
Germany
D Andreas Quirrenbach
Observatoire de Genève
Observatoire de Genève
51, ch. des Maillettes
1290 Sauverny
Switzerland
CH Didier Queloz
MPIA Heidelberg
Max-Planck-Institut für Astronomie
Königstuhl 17
69117 Heidelberg
Germany
D Thomas Henning

Secondary partners

Institute Address Country Responsible
Laboratoire d'Automatique, EPF Lausanne
Automatic Control Laboratory,
School of Engineering,
EPFL - 1015 Lausanne
CH Denis Gillet
Laboratoire de Systèmes Robotiques, EPF Lausanne
Laboratoire de Systèmes Robotiques
ME3, Ch. des Machines
EPFL - 1015 Lausanne
CH Hannes Bleuler
ARC St. Imier
ARC St. Imier
Ville de Saint-Imier,
Rue Agassiz 4,
CH-2610 Saint-Imier / Suisse
CH Yves Salvade
CSEM
Centre Suisse d'Electronique et de Microtechnique SA
Rue Jaquet-Droz 1,
P.O. Box,
CH-2007 Neuchâtel
CH Lorenzo Zago

ESPRI team members at MPIA

 NameContact detailsRole
Photo of Harald Harald
Baumeister
  Mechanical design of DDL cat's eye
Photo of Peter Peter
Bizenberger
  Optical design of DDL cat's eye
Photo of UweUwe
Graser
 Manager of DDL cat's eye work package
Thomas
Henning
Principle Investigator (PI)
Ralf
Launhardt

+49 6221528 207
Project Scientist
Photo of Karl Karl
Wagner
  Electronics for DDL

Former members of our team

 NameContact detailsRole
Photo of Bob Robert
Tubbs
  Error budget and strategy
Photo of Patrick Weise Patrick
Weise
  Characterization of target and reference stars
Photo of Johny Johny
Setiawan
  Science team and characterization of target and reference stars
Photo of Norbert Norbert
Schneider
  Spectral characterization of target stars
Photo of André André
Müller
  Characterization of target and reference stars
Photo of Rainer<br><b>Köhler Rainer
Köhler
  Data reduction software
Photo of Tim Tim
Schulze-Hartung
Orbit fitting
Photo of Maren Maren
Mohler-Fischer
  RV observations and commissioning support
Photo of Neil Neil
Zimmerman
  Commissioning support, data analysis
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last update: 26-09-2013
editor of this page: Ralf Launhardt