SIMBAD references

We have designed and tested an in-plane echelle spectrograph configured to investigate precision radial velocities from ground-based near-infrared observations. The spectrograph operates across the spectral range of 0.9-1.7 µm at a spectral resolution of, and uses a liquid nitrogen-cooled HAWAII 1 K detector. Repeated measurements of the Earth's rotation via integrated sunlight with two different instrument arrangements in the near-infrared Y band have produced radial velocities with rms over a period of several hours. The most recent instrument configuration has achieved an unbinned rms of and suggests that infrared radial velocity precisions may be able to approach those achieved at optical wavelengths.