Development and construction of MAROON-X

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 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.

arXiv comment14 pages, 10 figures, submitted to SPIE Astronomical Telescopes & Instrumentation 2016 (9908-45)

References in corpus (8)

• The Transiting Exoplanet Survey Satellite: Simulations of planet detections and astrophysical false positives
• Habitable planets around the star Gl 581?
• Detecting Planets Around Very Low Mass Stars with the Radial Velocity Method
• Maximizing the ExoEarth Candidate Yield from a Future Direct Imaging Mission
• Radial velocity signatures of Zeeman broadening
• The Kepler-454 System: A Small, Not-rocky Inner Planet, a Jovian World, and a Distant Companion
• Science Parametrics for Missions to Search for Earthlike Exoplanets by Direct Imaging
• Detecting Planets around Very Cool Dwarfs at Near Infrared Wavelengths with the Radial Velocity Technique

Cited by in corpus (25)

• The CARMENES search for exoplanets around M dwarfs: High-resolution optical and near-infrared spectroscopy of 324 survey stars
• Ground-based optical transmission spectroscopy of the small, rocky exoplanet GJ 1132b
• A nearby transiting rocky exoplanet that is suitable for atmospheric investigation
• The Habitable-zone Planet Finder Reveals A High Mass and a Low Obliquity for the Young Neptune K2-25b
• Mass-Radius relationship for M dwarf exoplanets: Comparing nonparametric and parametric methods
• A Second Planet Transiting LTT 1445A and a Determination of the Masses of Both Worlds
• Confirmation of Iron Emission Lines and Non-detection of TiO on the Dayside of KELT-9b with MAROON-X
• A detailed analysis of the Gl 486 planetary system
• Observing the Sun as a star: Design and early results from the NEID solar feed
• TOI-561 b: A Low Density Ultra-Short Period "Rocky" Planet around a Metal-Poor Star
• Quantifying the Observational Effort Required for the Radial Velocity Characterization of TESS Planets
• Unifying High- and Low-resolution Observations to Constrain the Dayside Atmosphere of KELT-20b/MASCARA-2b
• TOI-3984 A b and TOI-5293 A b: two temperate gas giants transiting mid-M dwarfs in wide binary systems
• Rubidium-traced white-light etalon calibrator for radial velocity measurements at the cm/s level
• An eccentric Brown Dwarf eclipsing an M dwarf
• Stable fiber-illumination for extremely precise radial velocities with NEID
• Optical and Near-Infrared Radial Velocity Content of M Dwarfs: Testing Models with Barnard's Star
• The Rotation of M Dwarfs Observed by the Apache Point Galactic Evolution Experiment
• Measuring the Obliquities of the TRAPPIST-1 Planets with MAROON-X
• High resolution near-infrared spectroscopy of a flare around the ultracool dwarf vB 10
• High-energy spectra of LTT 1445A and GJ 486 reveal flares and activity
• Another super-dense sub-Neptune in K2-182 b and refined mass measurements for K2-199 b and c
• Host Star Dependence of Small Planet Mass-Radius Distributions
• A hot Mars-sized exoplanet transiting an M dwarf
• The JWST Rocky Worlds DDT Program reveals GJ 3929b to likely be a bare rock