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DTSTART;TZID=Atlantic/Canary:20151022T103000
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X-WR-CALNAME: IAC Talks: Open Astronomy Seminars
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CREATED:2015-10-22T10:30:00+01:00
X-WR-CALDESC: IAC Talks upcomming talks
SUMMARY:First light of CARMENES, the Calar Alto exoplanet hunter
DESCRIPTION:First light of CARMENES, the Calar Alto exoplanet hunter\nDr. J
 ose A. Caballero\n\nCARMENES may find the first uncontrovertible exoearth 
 in the habitable zone of a star in the solar neighbourhood. Its acronym, '
 Calar Alto high-Resolution search for M dwarfs with Exoearths with Near-in
 frared and optical Échelle Spectrographs', is long but self-explana
 tory. After six years of hard design and construction, CARMENES is current
 ly being commissioned at the German-Spanish 3.5 m Calar Alto telescope in 
 Almería. Well in advance of its American, Japanese and Canadian-Fre
 nch competitors, it will be in January 2016 the first and only ultra-stabl
 e high-resolution spectrograph covering the red optical and near-infrared.
  As its co-project manager, I will give a summary of the homonymous CARMEN
 ES instrument, the international consortium that has built it, the on-goin
 g on-sky commissioning, and the science project that will be carried with 
 it during guaranteed time observations.
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