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Miscellaneous details of the VIRUS spectrograph

The Visible Integral-Field Replicable Unit Spectrograph (VIRUS) is a new facility instrument for the Hobby-Eberly Telescope (HET). As the name suggested VIRUS is actually an array of identical spectrographs.
Doublet spectrograph is fed by an IFU.




Last updated: Sun, 14 Apr 2019 04:27:16 +0000 stevenj



Overview

The Telescope

Technical Overview

Object Observability

Performance

Non-sidereal observations

Instruments

LRS2

LRS2 Summary

LRS2 Details

LRS2 Fiber Layout and Position Angle

LRS2 Throughput

LRS2 Observing details

VIRUS

VIRUS - Summary

VIRUS - Setting up on targets

VIRUS - Misc details

VIRUS - Throughput and sensitivity

VIRUS - low surface brightness sensitivity

VIRUS - Dithers, IFUs, Tiling

VIRUS - Tiling observations

Habitable Zone Planet Finder (HPF)

HPF Details

HPF Setting up on targets

HPF Throughput and Exposure Meter

HPF Data Reductions

HRS-2 (in development)

HRS-2 Summary

HRS-2 Details

HRS-2 configurations

HRS-2 exposure meter

HRS-2 Position Angle and Fiber layout

HRS-2 Throughput

Old Instruments

HRS - old

LRS - old

MRS - old

Program Preparation

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