The early performance and present status of the Hobby-Eberly telescope

被引：319

作者：

Ramsey, LW ^{[1
]}

Adams, MT ^{[1
]}

Barnes, TG ^{[1
]}

Booth, JA ^{[1
]}

Cornell, ME ^{[1
]}

Fowler, JR ^{[1
]}

Gaffney, N ^{[1
]}

Glaspey, JW ^{[1
]}

Good, J ^{[1
]}

Hill, GJ ^{[1
]}

Kelton, PW ^{[1
]}

Krabbendam, VL ^{[1
]}

Long, L ^{[1
]}

MacQueen, PJ ^{[1
]}

Ray, FB ^{[1
]}

Ricklefs, RL ^{[1
]}

Sage, J ^{[1
]}

Sebring, TA ^{[1
]}

Spiesman, WJ ^{[1
]}

Steiner, M ^{[1
]}

机构：

[1] Penn State Univ, University Pk, PA 16802 USA

来源：

ADVANCED TECHNOLOGY OPTICAL/IR TELESCOPES VI | 1998年 / 3352卷

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D O I：

10.1117/12.319287

中图分类号：

P1 [天文学];

学科分类号：

0704 ;

摘要：

The Hobby-Eberly telescope (HET) is a recently completed 9-meter telescope designed to specialize in spectroscopy. It saw first light in December 1996 and during July 1997, it underwent its first end-to end testing acquiring its first spectra of target objects. We review the basic design of the HET. In addition we summarize the performance of the telescope used with a commissioning spherical aberration corrector and spectrograph, the status of science operations and plans for the implementation of the final spherical aberration corrector & facility class instruments.

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页码：34 / 42

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