HETDEX: Overview of the Hobby-Eberly Telescope Dark Energy Experiment and Instrumentation

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Jan 2012

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American Astronomical Society, AAS Meeting #219, #424.01

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The Hobby-Eberly Telescope Dark Energy Experiment (HETDEX) is a blind spectroscopic survey to map the evolution of dark energy using Lyman-alpha emitting galaxies as tracers. HETDEX comprises a major upgrade of the HET, deployment of the massively replicated integral field spectrograph, VIRUS, and the execution of a multi-year blind spectroscopic survey. VIRUS, consists of 75 IFUs distributed across the 22-arcmin field of the upgraded 9.2-m HET. Each 50x50 sq. arcsec IFU is made up of 448 1.5-arcsec fibers, and feeds a pair of spectrographs with a fixed bandpass of 350-550 nm and resolving power R 700. Each exposure gathers 33,600 spectra. Observing 20 minutes per field, we reach a line flux limit of 3.5e-17 ergs-sec-1-cm-2 and mAB 22. The baseline survey will deliver spectra of 0.8M LAEs in a 9 cubic Gpc volume with 1.9 < z < 3.5, and 1M [OII] emitters with z < 0.48. In addition, the survey will cover 0.4M other galaxies, 0.25M stars, 2000 galaxy clusters, 7000 QSOs with z < 3.5, and 20,000 NVSS radio sources. The main survey area of 42x7 sq. deg. is centered at 13hr, +53deg. Within that 300 sq. deg. region we cover 1/4.5 with fibers; thus 60 sq. deg. of sky have spectra. Initial observations will be conducted from Spring 2013 through Spring 2015. We present an overview of the project, including instrumentation and details of the planned surveys.

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