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Feb 2011
adsabs.harvard.edu/cgi-bin/nph-data_query?bibcode=2011noao.prop..186c&link_type=abstract
NOAO Proposal ID #2011A-0186
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The Hobby-Eberly Telescope Dark Energy Experiment (HETDEX) is a Stage III program to study the evolution of Dark Energy using the power- spectrum of 1.9 < z < 3.5 Ly(alpha) emitting galaxies (LAEs). This survey, which will begin in 2012, will use an extremely large integral- field unit to obtain R ~ 800 spectra between 3500 Aand 5500 Aover 420 deg^2 of sky (filling factor 1/7). Since whatever falls in the instrument's 34,000 1.5 arcsec diameter fibers will be recorded, the project will generate a unique unbiased spectral database of ~ 800,000 LAEs, ~ 1,000,000 [O II] emitters, ~ 25,000 AGN, ~ 250,000 foreground stars, and ~ 400,000 other objects. We propose to use the Mosaic camera on the KPNO 4-m telescope to perform a g,r survey of 40 deg^2 of the HETDEX strip. These observation will allow HETDEX to discriminate LAEs from foreground [O II] sources, and, when combined with the HETDEX spectra, generate an invaluable database for the astronomical community. Projects that can be done with the data range from probing the history of star-formation as a function of environment, to examining the processes of cluster formation, to measuring the frequency of extremely metal-poor halo stars.
Adams Josh
Blanc Guillermo
Ciardullo Robin
Drory Niv
Gebhardt Karl
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