Deployment of the Hobby-Eberly Telescope Wide Field Upgradet Conference Paper uri icon

abstract

  • 2014 SPIE. 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.

name of conference

  • Ground-based and Airborne Telescopes V

published proceedings

  • GROUND-BASED AND AIRBORNE TELESCOPES V

author list (cited authors)

  • Hill, G. J., Drory, N., Good, J., Lee, H., Vattiat, B. L., Kriel, H., ... Moriera, W.

citation count

  • 6

complete list of authors

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

editor list (cited editors)

  • Stepp, L. M., Gilmozzi, R., & Hall, H. J.

publication date

  • July 2014