id author title date pages extension mime words sentence flesch summary cache txt 9s161547f8q Eric B. Bechter Advancing Spectrograph Designs and Doppler Measurements through Numerical Simulations 2020 .txt text/plain 417 18 36 The thesis concludes with example scientific applications that involve AO and RV measurements, including: high-contrast imaging of stars that exhibit long-term RV trends; and the discovery that two transiting planets that reside in hierarchical triple star systems (Chapter 6). Earth's Barycentric motion creates multi-pixel lateral Doppler shifts across the detector that cannot be tracked using conventional wavelength calibration; simulations of the spectrograph optical components are used to quantify this effect, along with the impact of spatially varying aberrations, on RV precision when operating near the diffraction-limit (Chapter 5). cache/9s161547f8q.txt txt/9s161547f8q.txt