Deployment of the Hobby-Eberly Telescope Wide Field Upgrade

Hill, Gary J.; Drory, Niv; Good, John M.; Lee, Hanshin; Vattiat, Brian L.; Kriel, Herman; Ramsey, Jason; Bryant, Randy; Elliot, Linda; Fowler, Jim; Haeuser, Marco; Landiau, Martin; Leck, Ron; Odewahn, Stephen; Perry, Dave; Savage, Richard; Mrozinski, Emily Schroeder; Shetrone, Matthew; DePoy, D. L.; Prochaska, Travis; Marshall, J. L.; Damm, George; Gebhardt, Karl; MacQueen, Phillip J.; Martin, Jerry; Armandroff, Taft und Ramsey, Lawrence W. (2016): Deployment of the Hobby-Eberly Telescope Wide Field Upgrade. Ground-based and Airborne Telescopes VI, Edinburgh, United Kingdom, 26 June - 1 July 2016. Hall, Helen J. (Hrsg.): In: Ground-Based and Airborne Telescopes VI : 26 June-1 July 2016, Edinburgh, United Kingdom, UNSP 990606 Bellingham, Washington: SPIE Digital Library.

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.

• Dokumententyp: Konferenzbeitrag (Bericht)
• Fakultät: Physik
• Themengebiete: 500 Naturwissenschaften und Mathematik > 530 Physik
• ISSN: 0277-786X
• Ort: Bellingham, Washington
• Bemerkung: Proceedings of SPIE ; 9906. ISBN 978-1-5106-0191-8. Teilkonferenz von: SPIE Astronomical Telescopes + Instrumentation
• Sprache: Englisch