Deployment of the Hobby-Eberly telescope wide field upgrade

Gary J. Hill; Niv Drory; John M. Good; Hanshin Lee; Brian L. Vattiat; Herman Kriel; Jason Ramsey; Randy Bryant; Linda Elliot; Jim Fowler; Marco Häuser; Martin Landiau; Ron Leck; Stephen Odewahn; Dave Perry; Richard Savage; Emily Schroeder Mrozinski; Matthew Shetrone; D. L. Depoy; Travis Prochaska; J. L. Marshall; George Damm; Karl Gebhardt; Phillip J. Macqueen; Jerry Martin; Taft Armandroff; Lawrence W. Ramsey

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Deployment of the Hobby-Eberly telescope wide field upgrade

Gary J. Hill, Niv Drory, John M. Good, Hanshin Lee, Brian L. Vattiat, Herman Kriel, Jason Ramsey, Randy Bryant, Linda Elliot, Jim Fowler, Marco Häuser, Martin Landiau, Ron Leck, Stephen Odewahn, Dave Perry, Richard Savage, Emily Schroeder Mrozinski, Matthew Shetrone, D. L. Depoy, Travis ProchaskaJ. L. Marshall, George Damm, Karl Gebhardt, Phillip J. Macqueen, Jerry Martin, Taft Armandroff, Lawrence W. Ramsey

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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 corrector and prime focus instrument package to track the sidereal and non-sidereal motions of objects. We have completed a major multi-year upgrade of the HET that has substantially increased the pupil size to 10 meters and the field of view to 22 arcminutes by replacing the corrector, tracker, and prime focus instrument package. The new wide field HET will feed the revolutionary integral field spectrograph called VIRUS, in support of the Hobby-Eberly Telescope Dark Energy Experiment (HETDEX§), a new low resolution spectrograph (LRS2), an upgraded high resolution spectrograph (HRS2), and later the Habitable Zone Planet Finder (HPF). The upgrade is being commissioned and this paper discusses the completion of the installation, the commissioning process and the performance of the new HET. Keywords:.

Original language	English (US)
Title of host publication	Ground-Based and Airborne Telescopes VI
Editors	Heather K. Marshall, Helen J. Hall, Roberto Gilmozzi
Publisher	SPIE
ISBN (Electronic)	9781510601918
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1117/12.2231063
State	Published - 2016
Event	Ground-Based and Airborne Telescopes VI - Edinburgh, United Kingdom Duration: Jun 26 2016 → Jul 1 2016

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Name	Proceedings of SPIE - The International Society for Optical Engineering
Volume	9906
ISSN (Print)	0277-786X
ISSN (Electronic)	1996-756X

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Other	Ground-Based and Airborne Telescopes VI
Country/Territory	United Kingdom
City	Edinburgh
Period	6/26/16 → 7/1/16

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

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Hill, G. J., Drory, N., Good, J. M., Lee, H., Vattiat, B. L., Kriel, H., Ramsey, J., Bryant, R., Elliot, L., Fowler, J., Häuser, M., Landiau, M., Leck, R., Odewahn, S., Perry, D., Savage, R., Mrozinski, E. S., Shetrone, M., Depoy, D. L., ... Ramsey, L. W. (2016). Deployment of the Hobby-Eberly telescope wide field upgrade. In H. K. Marshall, H. J. Hall, & R. Gilmozzi (Eds.), Ground-Based and Airborne Telescopes VI Article 990606 (Proceedings of SPIE - The International Society for Optical Engineering; Vol. 9906). SPIE. https://doi.org/10.1117/12.2231063

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Hill, GJ, Drory, N, Good, JM, Lee, H, Vattiat, BL, Kriel, H, Ramsey, J, Bryant, R, Elliot, L, Fowler, J, Häuser, M, Landiau, M, Leck, R, Odewahn, S, Perry, D, Savage, R, Mrozinski, ES, Shetrone, M, Depoy, DL, Prochaska, T, Marshall, JL, Damm, G, Gebhardt, K, Macqueen, PJ, Martin, J, Armandroff, T & Ramsey, LW 2016, Deployment of the Hobby-Eberly telescope wide field upgrade. in HK Marshall, HJ Hall & R Gilmozzi (eds), Ground-Based and Airborne Telescopes VI., 990606, Proceedings of SPIE - The International Society for Optical Engineering, vol. 9906, SPIE, Ground-Based and Airborne Telescopes VI, Edinburgh, United Kingdom, 6/26/16. https://doi.org/10.1117/12.2231063

Deployment of the Hobby-Eberly telescope wide field upgrade. / Hill, Gary J.; Drory, Niv; Good, John M. et al.
Ground-Based and Airborne Telescopes VI. ed. / Heather K. Marshall; Helen J. Hall; Roberto Gilmozzi. SPIE, 2016. 990606 (Proceedings of SPIE - The International Society for Optical Engineering; Vol. 9906).

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