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Alignment, Integration and Verification (AI&V) has begun!
After many months of careful coating and testing, all of NEID’s optical components have arrived safely at Penn State. For the instrument team, this means it’s go time. We’ve begun the process of adding...
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Successful Pre-Ship Review!
NEID successfully passed its Pre Ship Review, held on the 17th and 18th of September 2019, at the Penn Stater Hotel & Conference Center. Time to ship to WIYN! NEID team picture. Regrettably Ryan...
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NEID has shipped for WIYN!
This morning the first truck left from Penn State for WIYN university. This truck along with NEID also contains the etalon and the calibration bench for the system. It was surely a nerve wracking few...
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NEID sees its first light on 51 Peg!
NEID sees its first light on 51 Pegasi, the host star around which Michel Mayor and Didier Queloz discovered the first exoplanet to orbit a solar type star in 1995! NEID Project Scientist Jason Wright...
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NEID Team Receives NASA Group Achievement Award
This week, the NEID instrument team was recognized by NASA with the Group Achievement Award, which is presented to groups who have distinguished themselves through outstanding contributions to NASA’s...
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NEID graces the cover of IEEE Spectrum
An article discussing the innovative technology used in the NEID Spectrometer is featured in this month’s issue of IEEE Spectrum Magazine. IEEE Spectrum is the official magazine of the Institute of...
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NEID Passes Operational Readiness Review
It’s been a long time coming! As of this writing, it has been almost exactly five years since NEID was selected as the design for the extremely precise radial velocity instrument to be developed...
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NEID Validates a Venus-like Exoplanet
Despite challenges caused by a global pandemic, the NEID team has adapted, and is already putting out important new exoplanet science. Much of the early science efforts with NEID have focused on...
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Constraining the Spin-Orbit angle of the Young Warm Neptune TOI-2076b with NEID
Beyond Discovery High-resolution, super-precise instruments like NEID can do much more than just discover new exoplanets and measure their masses. For certain planets, NEID may be able to detect...
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NEID measures a spin-orbit angle for a long period planet
Background The TESS mission continues to discover fruitful exoplanet systems ripe for various types of detailed study, including with NEID. Recently, we investigated the spin-orbit angle of a planet in...
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