MAROON-X: The first two years of EPRVs from Gemini North

Autor: Seifahrt, Andreas, Bean, Jacob L., Kasper, David, Stürmer, Julian, Brady, Madison, Liu, Robert, Zechmeister, Mathias, Stefansson, Gudmundur, Montet, Ben, White, John, Tapia, Eduardo, Mocnik, Teo, Xu, Siyi, Schwab, Christian
Rok vydání: 2022
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Zdroj: Proceedings of the SPIE, Volume 12184, id. 121841G 15 pp. (2022)
Druh dokumentu: Working Paper
DOI: 10.1117/12.2629428
Popis: MAROON-X is a fiber-fed, optical EPRV spectrograph at the 8-m Gemini North Telescope on Mauna Kea, Hawai'i. MAROON-X was commissioned as a visiting instrument in December 2019 and is in regular use since May 2020. Originally designed for RV observations of M-dwarfs, the instrument is used for a broad range of exoplanet and stellar science cases and has transitioned to be the second-most requested instrument on Gemini North over a number of semesters. We report here on the first two years of operations and radial velocity observations. MAROON-X regularly achieves sub-m/s RV performance on sky with a short-term instrumental noise floor at the 30 cm/s level. We will discuss various technical aspects in achieving this level of precision and how to further improve long-term performance
Databáze: arXiv