Hobby-Eberly Telescope
(HET, SST, Spectroscopic Survey Telescope)
(10-meter telescope in Texas)
The Hobby-Eberly Telescope (HET,
originally to be named the Spectroscopic Survey Telescope, SST)
is a
10-meter reflector telescope
at the McDonald Observatory in Texas
that began operation in 1996.
It has a segmented mirror consisting of 91 hexagonal mirror segments.
Instruments:
Former instruments:
- HRS - "high resolution spectrograph".
- MRS - "medium resolution spectrograph".
- LRS - "low resolution spectrograph".
VIRUS was developed for the HETDEX survey,
and is an integral field spectrograph consisting of over
150 small spectrographs, each handling over 200 fibers
from HET's field of view (FOV).
The Southern African Large Telescope (SALT) was originally planned to be a copy
of the Hobby-Eberly Telescope and does have the
same spherical primary mirror but also includes
some significant changes.
(telescope,reflector,dark energy,ground,Texas)
Further reading:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hobby-Eberly_Telescope
http://mcdonaldobservatory.org/research/telescopes/HET
https://mcdonald.utexas.edu/for-researchers/research-facilities/hobby-eberly-telescope
https://hydra.as.utexas.edu/
https://ui.adsabs.harvard.edu/abs/1996MNSSA..55..116./abstract
https://ui.adsabs.harvard.edu/abs/1996ASPC...87...33K/abstract
https://ui.adsabs.harvard.edu/abs/2000kthr.conf..157G/abstract
Referenced by pages:
altazimuth mount
HETDEX
intensity mapping surveys
NEWS
segmented mirror
Southern African Large Telescope (SALT)
Spitzer HETDEX Exploratory Large Area Survey (SHELA)
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