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

doi:10.1117/12.2231063

27 July 2016 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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Proceedings Volume 9906, Ground-based and Airborne Telescopes VI; 990606 (2016) https://doi.org/10.1117/12.2231063
Event: SPIE Astronomical Telescopes + Instrumentation, 2016, Edinburgh, United Kingdom

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 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.

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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, and Lawrence W. Ramsey "Deployment of the Hobby-Eberly Telescope wide-field upgrade", Proc. SPIE 9906, Ground-based and Airborne Telescopes VI, 990606 (27 July 2016); https://doi.org/10.1117/12.2231063

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