Today, in an attempt to make our simulated extreme-precision radial-velocity fake data as conservative as possible, Megan Bedell (Chicago) and I built a ridiculously pessimistic model for un-modeled (and unknown) telluric lines that could be hiding in the spectra, at amplitudes too low to be clearly seen in any individual spectrum, but with the full wavelength range bristling with lines. Sure enough, these “micro-tellurics” (as you might call them) do indeed mess up radial-velocity measurements. The nice thing (from our perspective) is that they mess up the measurements in a way that is co-variant with barycentric velocity, and they mess up synthetic-spectrum-based RV measurements less than binary-mask-based RV measurements.
At MPIA Galaxy Coffee, Irina Smirnova-Pinchukova (MPIA) gave a great talk about her trip on a SOFIA flight.
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