Development and construction of MAROON-X

Andreas Seifahrt; Jacob L. Bean; Julian Stürmer; Luke Gers; Deon S. Grobler; Tony Reed; Damien J. Jones

doi:10.1117/12.2232069

Development and construction of MAROON-X

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics 2016-12-14 v1 Earth and Planetary Astrophysics

Authors: Andreas Seifahrt , Jacob L. Bean , Julian Stürmer , Luke Gers , Deon S. Grobler , Tony Reed , Damien J. Jones

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We report on the development and construction of a new fiber-fed, red-optical, high-precision radial-velocity spectrograph for one of the twin 6.5m Magellan Telescopes in Chile. MAROON-X will be optimized to find and characterize rocky planets around nearby M dwarfs with an intrinsic per measurement noise floor below 1 m/s. The instrument is based on a commercial echelle spectrograph customized for high stability and throughput. A microlens array based pupil slicer and double scrambler, as well as a rubidium-referenced etalon comb calibrator will turn this spectrograph into a high-precision radial-velocity machine. MAROON-X will undergo extensive lab tests in the second half of 2016.

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astronomical instrumentation and telescopes radio astronomy instrumentation space missions and instrumentation

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@article{arxiv.1606.07140,
  title  = {Development and construction of MAROON-X},
  author = {Andreas Seifahrt and Jacob L. Bean and Julian Stürmer and Luke Gers and Deon S. Grobler and Tony Reed and Damien J. Jones},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1606.07140},
  year   = {2016}
}

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14 pages, 10 figures, submitted to SPIE Astronomical Telescopes & Instrumentation 2016 (9908-45)

Development and construction of MAROON-X

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