VIRUS: assembly, testing and performance of 33,000 fibres for HETDEX

Andreas Kelz; Thomas Jahn; D. Haynes; G. J. Hill; H. Lee; J. D. Murphy; Justus Neumann; Harald Nicklas; M. Rutowska; C. Sandin; O. Streicher; S. Tuttle; M. Fabricius; S. M. Bauer; B. Vattiat; H. Anwand; Richard D. Savage

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VIRUS: assembly, testing and performance of 33,000 fibres for HETDEX

Andreas Kelz, Thomas Jahn, D. Haynes, G. J. Hill, H. Lee, J. D. Murphy, Justus Neumann, Harald Nicklas, M. Rutowska, C. Sandin, O. Streicher, S. Tuttle, M. Fabricius, S. M. Bauer, B. Vattiat, H. Anwand, Richard D. Savage

Institute of Cosmology & Gravitation

University of Texas at Austin

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VIRUS is the visible, integral-field replicable unit spectrograph for the Hobby-Eberly-Telescope (HET) consisting of 75 integral-field-units that feed 150 spectrographs. The full VIRUS instrument features over 33,000 fibres, each projecting to 1.5 arcseconds diameter on sky, deployed at the prime focus of the upgraded 10m HET. The assembly and acceptance testing for all IFUs includes microscopic surface quality inspections, astrometry of fibre positions, relative throughput measurements, focal-ratio-degradation evaluation, and system acceptance using a VIRUS reference spectrograph to verify the image quality, spectral transmission, stability, or to detect any stray light issues.

Original language	English
Title of host publication	Proceedings Volume 9147, Ground-based and Airborne Instrumentation for Astronomy V
Editors	Suzanne K. Ramsay, Ian S. McLean, Hideki Takami
Publisher	SPIE Press
Number of pages	13
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1117/12.2056384
Publication status	Published - 10 Jul 2014
Event	SPIE Astronomical Telescopes + Instrumentation - Montréal, Canada Duration: 22 Jun 2014 → 27 Jun 2014

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Conference	SPIE Astronomical Telescopes + Instrumentation
Country/Territory	Canada
City	Montréal
Period	22/06/14 → 27/06/14

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Kelz, A., Jahn, T., Haynes, D., Hill, G. J., Lee, H., Murphy, J. D., Neumann, J., Nicklas, H., Rutowska, M., Sandin, C., Streicher, O., Tuttle, S., Fabricius, M., Bauer, S. M., Vattiat, B., Anwand, H., & Savage, R. D. (2014). VIRUS: assembly, testing and performance of 33,000 fibres for HETDEX. In S. K. Ramsay, I. S. McLean, & H. Takami (Eds.), Proceedings Volume 9147, Ground-based and Airborne Instrumentation for Astronomy V Article 914775 SPIE Press. https://doi.org/10.1117/12.2056384

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VIRUS: assembly, testing and performance of 33,000 fibres for HETDEX. / Kelz, Andreas; Jahn, Thomas; Haynes, D. et al.
Proceedings Volume 9147, Ground-based and Airborne Instrumentation for Astronomy V. ed. / Suzanne K. Ramsay; Ian S. McLean; Hideki Takami. SPIE Press, 2014. 914775.

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