The HARPS-N spectrograph is a high-precision instrument, similar to HARPS on the 3.6-m ESO telescope in Chile. It will be located in the Northern hemisphere on the William-Herschel Telescope to allow for synergy with the NASA Kepler mission. The main scientific rationale of HARPS-N is the characterization and discovery of terrestrial planets by combining transits and Doppler measurements.
The HARPS-N team is a collaboration between the New Earths Facility
scientists of the Harvard Origins of Life Initiative and the HARPS team
at the Geneva Observatory.
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