The Near-InfraRed Planet Searcher: A new ESO spectrograph in La Silla

The Near-InfraRed Planet Searcher (NIRPS) is a new ultra-stable infrared (YJH) spectrograph installed at the ESO 3.6 meters telescope in La Silla. NIRPS is designed to search for rocky planets orbiting M-dwarf stars and it operates in synergy with HARPS spectrograph. It is built with the goal of reaching a precision of 1 m/s, the typical radial velocity signal expected by an Earth analogue around a cool M-dwarf. The main goals of the mission are to perform an high-precision RV survey of M-dwarfs, to measure mass and density of known transiting planetary candidates around M stars and to characterise planetary atmospheres via transmission spectroscopy.