On-sky commissioning of MAROON-X: a new precision radial velocity spectrograph for Gemini North
Abstract
MAROON-X is a fiber-fed, red-optical, high precision radial velocity spectrograph recently commissioned at the Gemini North telescope on Mauna Kea, Hawai'i. With a resolving power of 85,000 and a wavelength coverage of 500-920 nm, it delivers radial velocity measurements for late K and M dwarfs with sub-50 cm s-1 precision. MAROON-X is currently the only optical EPRV spectrograph on a 8 m-class telescope in the northern hemisphere and the only EPRV instrument on a large telescope with full access by the entire US comm report here on the results of the commissioning campaign in December 2019 and early science results.
- Publication:
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Ground-based and Airborne Instrumentation for Astronomy VIII
- Pub Date:
- December 2020
- DOI:
- 10.1117/12.2561564
- arXiv:
- arXiv:2106.02157
- Bibcode:
- 2020SPIE11447E..1FS
- Keywords:
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- Astrophysics - Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics
- E-Print:
- 21 pages, 14 figures