Announcements
Papers describing aspects of MAROON-X:
- On-sky commissioning of MAROON-X: a new precision radial velocity spectrograph for Gemini North, Seifahrt, Andreas ; Bean, Jacob L.; Stürmer, Julian; Kasper, David; Gers, Luke; Schwab, Christian; Zechmeister, Mathias; Stefánsson, Gudmundur; Montet, Ben; Dos Santos, Leonardo A.; Peck, Alison; White, John; Tapia, Eduardo; Proceedings of the SPIE, Volume 11447, id. 114471F (2020).
- MAROON-X: a radial velocity spectrograph for the Gemini Observatory, Seifahrt, Andreas; Stürmer, Julian; Bean, Jacob L.; Schwab, Christian; Proceedings of the SPIE, Volume 10702, id. 107026D 10 pp. (2018).
- Development and construction of MAROON-X, Seifahrt, Andreas; Bean, Jacob L.; Stürmer, Julian; Gers, Luke; Grobler, Deon S.; Reed, Tony; Jones, Damien J.; Proceedings of the SPIE, Volume 9908, id. 990818 14 pp. (2016).
- A microlens-array based pupil slicer and double scrambler for MAROON-X, Seifahrt, Andreas; Stürmer, Julian; Bean, Jacob L.; Proceedings of the SPIE, Volume 9912, id. 99121P 9 pp. (2016).
- Characterizing octagonal and rectangular fibers for MAROON-X, Sutherland, Adam P.; Stuermer, Julian; Miller, Katrina R.; Seifahrt, Andreas; Bean, Jacob L.; Proceedings of the SPIE, Volume 9912, id. 99125C 10 pp. (2016).
- Rubidium-traced white-light etalon calibrator for radial velocity measurements at the cm s-1 level, Stürmer, Julian; Seifahrt, Andreas; Schwab, Christian; Bean, Jacob L.; Journal of Astronomical Telescopes, Instruments, and Systems, Volume 3, id. 025003 (2017).
Selected science results highlighting the instrument capabilities:
- Confirmation of Iron Emission Lines and Nondetection of TiO on the Dayside of KELT-9b with MAROON-X, Kasper, David; Bean, Jacob L.; Line, Michael R.; Seifahrt, Andreas; Stürmer, Julian; Pino, Lorenzo; Désert, Jean-Michel; Brogi, Matteo; ApJ 921L, 18K (2021)
- A Second Planet Transiting LTT 1445A and a Determination of the Masses of Both Worlds, Winters, Jennifer, et. al; arXiv 210714737W (2021)
- A nearby transiting rocky exoplanet that is suitable for atmospheric investigation, Trifonov, Trifon, et al.; Science, Volume 371, Issue 6533 (2021).