The Third Workshop on Extremely Precise Radial Velocities: The New Instruments
Jason T. Wright, Paul Robertson
TL;DR
The paper documents the Third Workshop on Extremely Precise Radial Velocities and its aim to advance exoplanet detection through improved radial-velocity measurements. It describes the conference format, including plenary talks, poster sessions, and five technically focused breakout sessions (hardware error budgets, stellar jitter, statistical methods, computational methods, and observational strategies). A key contribution is the publication of a comprehensive, machine-readable table summarizing 23 next-generation RV instruments, complementing prior community outputs. The report highlights ongoing, collaborative efforts across instrument teams, sponsors, and institutions to push toward higher RV precision and broader exoplanet discovery capabilities.
Abstract
The Third Workshop on Extremely Precise Radial Velocities was held at the Penn Stater Conference Center and Hotel in State College, Pennsylvania, USA from 2016 August 14 to 17, and featured over 120 registrants from around the world. Here we provide a brief description of the conference, its format, and its session topics and chairs. 23 instrument teams were represented in plenary talks, and we present a table containing the basic characteristics of their new precise Doppler velocimeters.