@inproceedings{e55a615913e34a74bbb442c12f98ea29,
title = "Current status of the Hobby-Eberly Telescope wide field upgrade",
abstract = "The Hobby-Eberly Telescope (HET) is an innovative large telescope of 9.2 meter aperture, located in West Texas at the McDonald Observatory (MDO). The HET operates with a fixed segmented primary and has a tracker which moves the four-mirror corrector and prime focus instrument package to track the sidereal and non-sidereal motions of objects. A major upgrade of the HET is in progress that will increase the pupil size to 10 meters and the field of view to 22′ by replacing the corrector, tracker and prime focus instrument package. In addition to supporting the existing suite of instruments, this wide field upgrade will feed a revolutionary new integral field spectrograph called VIRUS, in support of the Hobby-Eberly Telescope Dark Energy Experiment (HETDEXχ). This paper discusses the current status of this upgrade.",
author = "Hill, {Gary J.} and Booth, {John A.} and Cornell, {Mark E.} and Good, {John M.} and Karl Gebhardt and Kriel, {Herman J.} and Hanshin Lee and Ron Leck and Walter Moreira and MacQueen, {Phillip J.} and Perry, {Dave M.} and Rafal, {Marc D.} and Rafferty, {Tom H.} and Chuck Ramiller and Savage, {Richard D.} and Taylor, {Charles A.} and Vattiat, {Brian L.} and Ramsey, {Lawrence W.} and Beno, {Joseph H.} and Beets, {Timothy A.} and Esguerra, {Jorge D.} and Marco Hauser and Hayes, {Richard J.} and Heisler, {James T.} and Soukup, {Ian M.} and Zierer, {Joseph J.} and Worthington, {Michael S.} and Mollison, {Nicholas T.} and Wardell, {Douglas R.} and Wedeking, {Gregory A.}",
year = "2012",
doi = "10.1117/12.925435",
language = "English (US)",
isbn = "9780819491459",
series = "Proceedings of SPIE - The International Society for Optical Engineering",
booktitle = "Ground-Based and Airborne Telescopes IV",
note = "Ground-Based and Airborne Telescopes IV ; Conference date: 01-07-2012 Through 06-07-2012",
}