Hector - a new massively multiplexed IFS instrument for the Anglo-Australian Telescope
Hector will be the new massively-multiplexed integral field spectroscopy (IFS) instrument for the Anglo-Australian Telescope (AAT) in Australia and the next main dark-time instrument for the observatory. Based on the success of the SAMI instrument, which is undertaking a 3400-galaxy survey, the inte...
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ftdatacite:10.48550/arxiv.1608.03921 2023-05-15T18:11:50+02:00 Hector - a new massively multiplexed IFS instrument for the Anglo-Australian Telescope Bryant, Julia J. Bland-Hawthorn, Joss Lawrence, Jon Croom, Scott Brown, David Venkatesan, Sudharshan Gillingham, Peter R. Zhelem, Ross Content, Robert Saunders, Will Staszak, Nicholas F. van de Sande, Jesse Couch, Warrick Leon-Saval, Sergio Tims, Julia McDermid, Richard Schaefer, Adam 2016 https://dx.doi.org/10.48550/arxiv.1608.03921 https://arxiv.org/abs/1608.03921 unknown arXiv https://dx.doi.org/10.1117/12.2230740 arXiv.org perpetual, non-exclusive license http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/ Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics astro-ph.IM FOS Physical sciences article-journal Article ScholarlyArticle Text 2016 ftdatacite https://doi.org/10.48550/arxiv.1608.03921 https://doi.org/10.1117/12.2230740 2022-04-01T11:08:42Z Hector will be the new massively-multiplexed integral field spectroscopy (IFS) instrument for the Anglo-Australian Telescope (AAT) in Australia and the next main dark-time instrument for the observatory. Based on the success of the SAMI instrument, which is undertaking a 3400-galaxy survey, the integral field unit (IFU) imaging fibre bundle (hexabundle) technology under-pinning SAMI is being improved to a new innovative design for Hector. The distribution of hexabundle angular sizes is matched to the galaxy survey properties in order to image 90% of galaxies out to 2 effective radii. 50-100 of these IFU imaging bundles will be positioned by 'starbug' robots across a new 3-degree field corrector top end to be purpose-built for the AAT. Many thousand fibres will then be fed into new replicable spectrographs. Fundamentally new science will be achieved compared to existing instruments due to Hector's wider field of view (3 degrees), high positioning efficiency using starbugs, higher spectroscopic resolution (R~3000-5500 from 3727-7761A, with a possible redder extension later) and large IFUs (up to 30 arcsec diameter with 61-217 fibre cores). A 100,000 galaxy IFS survey with Hector will decrypt how the accretion and merger history and large-scale environment made every galaxy different in its morphology and star formation history. The high resolution, particularly in the blue, will make Hector the only instrument to be able to measure higher-order kinematics for galaxies down to much lower velocity dispersion than in current large IFS galaxy surveys, opening up a wealth of new nearby galaxy science. : Submitted for SPIE Astronomical Telescopes and Instrumentation 2016 Text sami DataCite Metadata Store (German National Library of Science and Technology) Hector ENVELOPE(-63.376,-63.376,-64.579,-64.579) |
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Hector will be the new massively-multiplexed integral field spectroscopy (IFS) instrument for the Anglo-Australian Telescope (AAT) in Australia and the next main dark-time instrument for the observatory. Based on the success of the SAMI instrument, which is undertaking a 3400-galaxy survey, the integral field unit (IFU) imaging fibre bundle (hexabundle) technology under-pinning SAMI is being improved to a new innovative design for Hector. The distribution of hexabundle angular sizes is matched to the galaxy survey properties in order to image 90% of galaxies out to 2 effective radii. 50-100 of these IFU imaging bundles will be positioned by 'starbug' robots across a new 3-degree field corrector top end to be purpose-built for the AAT. Many thousand fibres will then be fed into new replicable spectrographs. Fundamentally new science will be achieved compared to existing instruments due to Hector's wider field of view (3 degrees), high positioning efficiency using starbugs, higher spectroscopic resolution (R~3000-5500 from 3727-7761A, with a possible redder extension later) and large IFUs (up to 30 arcsec diameter with 61-217 fibre cores). A 100,000 galaxy IFS survey with Hector will decrypt how the accretion and merger history and large-scale environment made every galaxy different in its morphology and star formation history. The high resolution, particularly in the blue, will make Hector the only instrument to be able to measure higher-order kinematics for galaxies down to much lower velocity dispersion than in current large IFS galaxy surveys, opening up a wealth of new nearby galaxy science. : Submitted for SPIE Astronomical Telescopes and Instrumentation 2016 |
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Bryant, Julia J. Bland-Hawthorn, Joss Lawrence, Jon Croom, Scott Brown, David Venkatesan, Sudharshan Gillingham, Peter R. Zhelem, Ross Content, Robert Saunders, Will Staszak, Nicholas F. van de Sande, Jesse Couch, Warrick Leon-Saval, Sergio Tims, Julia McDermid, Richard Schaefer, Adam |
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Hector - a new massively multiplexed IFS instrument for the Anglo-Australian Telescope |
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Hector - a new massively multiplexed IFS instrument for the Anglo-Australian Telescope |
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Hector - a new massively multiplexed IFS instrument for the Anglo-Australian Telescope |
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