Observations of Radial Velocity Variability in Stars from the Spectra Obtained with the BTA Fiber-Fed Spectrograph in High Spectral Resolution Mode

Abstract

Abstract—We present the results of observations of radial velocity variability in stars with exoplanets. Observations of a number of stars with characteristic stellar magnitudes from 8.54m to 10.5m were carried out using a new high-resolution (R = 35 000–120 000) fiber-fed spectrograph mounted at the foundation of the 6-m BTA telescope, in the mode of resolutions from R = 45 000 to R = 65 000 with a simultaneous registration of the calibration spectrum of a thorium–argon hollow cathode lamp. The achieved characteristic measurement accuracies ranged from a few to several tens of m s−1. In the future, the thorium-argon lamp will be supplemented with a Fabri–Perot etalon to reach the radial velocity measurement accuracy in stars up to 1 m s−1.