Deployment of the Hobby-Eberly telescope wide field upgrade

Gary J. Hill, Niv Drory, John Good, Hanshin Lee, Brian Vattiat, Herman Kriel, Randy Bryant, Linda Elliot, Martin Landriau, Ron Leck, David Perry, Jason Ramsey, Richard Savage, Richard D. Allen, George Damm, D. L. DePoy, Jim Fowler, Karl Gebhardt, Marco Haeuser, Phillip MacQueenJ. L. Marshall, Jerry Martin, Travis Prochaska, Lawrence W. Ramsey, Jean Philippe Rheault, Matthew Shetrone, Emily Schroeder Mrozinski, Sarah E. Tuttle, Mark E. Cornell, John Booth, Walter Moreira

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Abstract

The Hobby-Eberly Telescope (HET) is an innovative large telescope located in West Texas at the McDonald Observatory. The HET operates with a fixed segmented primary and has a tracker, which moves the four-mirror optical 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 substantially increase the pupil size to 10 meters (from 9.2 m) and the field of view to 22 arcminutes (from 4 arcminutes) by replacing the corrector, tracker, and prime focus instrument package. In addition to supporting existing instruments, and a new low resolution spectrograph, this wide field upgrade will feed a revolutionary new integral field spectrograph called VIRUS, in support of the Hobby-Eberly Telescope Dark Energy Experiment (HETDEX§). The upgrade is being installed and this paper discusses the current status.

Original languageEnglish (US)
Title of host publicationGround-Based and Airborne Telescopes V
EditorsHelen J. Hall, Larry M. Stepp, Roberto Gilmozzi
PublisherSPIE
ISBN (Electronic)9780819496133
DOIs
StatePublished - 2014
EventGround-Based and Airborne Telescopes V - Montreal, Canada
Duration: Jun 22 2014Jun 27 2014

Publication series

NameProceedings of SPIE - The International Society for Optical Engineering
Volume9145
ISSN (Print)0277-786X
ISSN (Electronic)1996-756X

Other

OtherGround-Based and Airborne Telescopes V
Country/TerritoryCanada
CityMontreal
Period6/22/146/27/14

All Science Journal Classification (ASJC) codes

  • Electronic, Optical and Magnetic Materials
  • Condensed Matter Physics
  • Computer Science Applications
  • Applied Mathematics
  • Electrical and Electronic Engineering

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