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.
| Item Type: | Conference or Workshop Item (Report) |
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| Faculties: | Physics |
| Subjects: | 500 Science > 530 Physics |
| ISSN: | 0277-786X |
| Place of Publication: | Bellingham, Washington |
| Annotation: | Proceedings of SPIE ; 9906. ISBN 978-1-5106-0191-8. Teilkonferenz von: SPIE Astronomical Telescopes + Instrumentation |
| Language: | English |
| Item ID: | 47966 |
| Date Deposited: | 27. Apr 2018, 08:14 |
| Last Modified: | 04. Nov 2020, 13:25 |
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