| Abstract: | Astronomers have a rich tradition of building new instruments to push the discovery space. In this Prof. Vainu Bappu Award talk, I shall highlight some of the key science results from two extreme precision radial velocity spectrographs we built for exoplanet science, and particularly how they helped us in discovering new planets that push the understanding of planet and star formation.
I shall also talk about our new ongoing project to build a novel spectrograph, which will be the fastest spectrograph for ultra broad band spectroscopy survey in the world. This instrument, dubbed TA-MOONS will be a next generation instrument on DOT, that will have the unique capability to observe up to 8 targets anywhere in the 12 arc min diameter field of view in the ultra broad band wavelength range of 360 nm to 2.5 micron simultaneously. |
