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

4 August 2016 Development and construction of MAROON-X

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

Proceedings Volume 9908, Ground-based and Airborne Instrumentation for Astronomy VI; 990818 (2016) https://doi.org/10.1117/12.2232069
Event: SPIE Astronomical Telescopes + Instrumentation, 2016, Edinburgh, United Kingdom

Abstract

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 1ms^-1. 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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Andreas Seifahrt, Jacob L. Bean, Julian Stürmer, Luke Gers, Deon S. Grobler, Tony Reed, and Damien J. Jones "Development and construction of MAROON-X", Proc. SPIE 9908, Ground-based and Airborne Instrumentation for Astronomy VI, 990818 (4 August 2016); https://doi.org/10.1117/12.2232069

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