On-sky commissioning of MAROON-X: a new precision radial velocity spectrograph for Gemini North
Andreas Seifahrt, Jacob L. Bean, Julian Stürmer, David C. Kasper, Luke Gers, Christian Schwab, M. Zechmeister, Guðmundur Stefánsson, Benjamin T. Montet, Leonardo A. Dos Santos, A. B. Peck, John White, Eduardo Tapia
Abstract
MAROON-X is a fiber-fed, red-optical, high precision radial velocity spectrograph recently commissioned at the Gemini North telescope on Mauna Kea, Hawai'i. With a resolving power of 85,000 and a wavelength coverage of 500-920 nm, it delivers radial velocity measurements for late K and M dwarfs with sub-50 cm s$^{-1}$ precision. MAROON-X is currently the only optical EPRV spectrograph on a 8m-class telescope in the northern hemisphere and the only EPRV instrument on a large telescope with full access by the entire US community. We report here on the results of the commissioning campaign in December 2019 and early science results.