Instrumentation

Overview Penn State professor Suvrath Mahadevan led the development of the NEID spectrograph that is searching for low-mass planets around sun-like stars using the WIYN Telescope. Penn State professors Suvrath Mahadevan and Larey Ramsey led the development of the Habitable Zone Planet Finder, a new instrument for the Hobby-Eberly Telescope that is enabling high-precision Doppler planet surveys using infrared light to target low mass stars. Mahadevan also leads the NEID project a new high...