The construction, alignment, and installation of the VIRUS spectrograph

Sarah E. Tuttle; Gary J. Hill; Hanshin Lee; Brian Vattiat; Eva Noyola; Niv Drory; Mark Cornell; Trent Peterson; Taylor Chonis; Richard Allen; Gavin Dalton; Darren Depoy; Doug Edmonston; Maximillian Fabricius; Dionne Haynes; Andreas Kelz; Martin Landriau; Michael Lesser; Bob Leach; Jennifer Marshall; Jeremy Murphy; David Perry; Travis Prochaska; Jason Ramsey; Richard Savage

doi:10.1117/12.2056503

The construction, alignment, and installation of the VIRUS spectrograph

Sarah E. Tuttle, Gary J. Hill, Hanshin Lee, Brian Vattiat, Eva Noyola, Niv Drory, Mark Cornell, Trent Peterson, Taylor Chonis, Richard Allen, Gavin Dalton, Darren Depoy, Doug Edmonston, Maximillian Fabricius, Dionne Haynes, Andreas Kelz, Martin Landriau, Michael Lesser, Bob Leach, Jennifer MarshallJeremy Murphy, David Perry, Travis Prochaska, Jason Ramsey, Richard Savage

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Abstract

VIRUS is the massively replicated fiber-fed spectrograph being built for the Hobby-Eberly Telescope to support HETDEX (the Hobby-Eberly Telescope Dark Energy Experiment). The instrument consists of 156 identical channels, fed by 34,944 fibers contained in 78 integral field units, deployed in the 22 arcminute field of the upgraded HET. VIRUS covers 350-550nm at R 700 and is built to target Lyman α emitters at 1.9 < z < 3.5 to measure the evolution of dark energy. Here we present the assembly line construction of the VIRUS spectrographs, including their alignment and plans for characterization. We briefly discuss plans for installation on the telescope. The spectrographs are being installed on the HET in several stages, and the instrument is due for completion by the end of 2014.

Original language	English (US)
Title of host publication	Ground-Based and Airborne Instrumentation for Astronomy V
Editors	Suzanne K. Ramsay, Ian S. McLean, Hideki Takami
Publisher	SPIE
ISBN (Electronic)	9780819496157
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1117/12.2056503
State	Published - 2014
Event	Ground-Based and Airborne Instrumentation for Astronomy V - Montreal, Canada Duration: Jun 22 2014 → Jun 26 2014

Publication series

Name	Proceedings of SPIE - The International Society for Optical Engineering
Volume	9147
ISSN (Print)	0277-786X
ISSN (Electronic)	1996-756X

Other

Other	Ground-Based and Airborne Instrumentation for Astronomy V
Country/Territory	Canada
City	Montreal
Period	6/22/14 → 6/26/14

Keywords

Astronomical Instrumentation: Spectrographs
Spectrographs: Integral field
Spectrographs: VIRUS
Telescopes: Hobby-Eberly

ASJC Scopus subject areas

Electronic, Optical and Magnetic Materials
Condensed Matter Physics
Computer Science Applications
Applied Mathematics
Electrical and Electronic Engineering

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Tuttle, S. E., Hill, G. J., Lee, H., Vattiat, B., Noyola, E., Drory, N., Cornell, M., Peterson, T., Chonis, T., Allen, R., Dalton, G., Depoy, D., Edmonston, D., Fabricius, M., Haynes, D., Kelz, A., Landriau, M., Lesser, M., Leach, B., ... Savage, R. (2014). The construction, alignment, and installation of the VIRUS spectrograph. In S. K. Ramsay, I. S. McLean, & H. Takami (Eds.), Ground-Based and Airborne Instrumentation for Astronomy V [91470R] (Proceedings of SPIE - The International Society for Optical Engineering; Vol. 9147). SPIE. https://doi.org/10.1117/12.2056503

The construction, alignment, and installation of the VIRUS spectrograph. / Tuttle, Sarah E.; Hill, Gary J.; Lee, Hanshin et al.

Ground-Based and Airborne Instrumentation for Astronomy V. ed. / Suzanne K. Ramsay; Ian S. McLean; Hideki Takami. SPIE, 2014. 91470R (Proceedings of SPIE - The International Society for Optical Engineering; Vol. 9147).

Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Conference contribution

Tuttle, SE, Hill, GJ, Lee, H, Vattiat, B, Noyola, E, Drory, N, Cornell, M, Peterson, T, Chonis, T, Allen, R, Dalton, G, Depoy, D, Edmonston, D, Fabricius, M, Haynes, D, Kelz, A, Landriau, M, Lesser, M, Leach, B, Marshall, J, Murphy, J, Perry, D, Prochaska, T, Ramsey, J & Savage, R 2014, The construction, alignment, and installation of the VIRUS spectrograph. in SK Ramsay, IS McLean & H Takami (eds), Ground-Based and Airborne Instrumentation for Astronomy V., 91470R, Proceedings of SPIE - The International Society for Optical Engineering, vol. 9147, SPIE, Ground-Based and Airborne Instrumentation for Astronomy V, Montreal, Canada, 6/22/14. https://doi.org/10.1117/12.2056503

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