After 101 nights of commissioning, the Gemini MCAO system (GeMS) started science operations in December 2012. After a brief reminder on GeMS specificities, we describe the overall GeMS performance, and we focus then on the first science results obtained with GeMS, illustrating the unique capabilities of this new Gemini instrument.
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@article{arxiv.1401.2009,
title = {Gems first science results},
author = {Benoit Neichel and Fabrice Vidal and Francois Rigaut and Eleazar Rodrigo Carrasco and Gustavo Arriagada and Andrew Serio and Peter Pessev and Claudia Winge and Marcos van Dam and Vincent Garrel and Constanza Araujo and Maxime Boccas and Vincent Fesquet and Ramon Galvez and Gaston Gausachs and Javier Luhrs and Vanessa Montes and Cristian Moreno and William Rambold and Chadwick Trujillo and Cristian Urrutia and Tomislav Vucina},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1401.2009},
year = {2014}
}
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9 pages, 5 figures, invited paper at the AO4ELT3 conference, Florence, 2013