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HET Publication and Press Release Policy


  The Hobby-Eberly Telescope Board of Directors approved the following update to the HET's Publication Policy in October 2023.  All publications that include HET data are expected to comply with the policy, which involves acknowledgements of the telescope and instrumentation, and appropriate citations of supporting publications.  When a peer-reviewed paper using HET data appears in print, the lead author should contact the HET Publications Coordinator, currently Donald Schneider (dps7@psu.edu), with the final journal reference information.


HET Publication and Press Release Policy (pdf file)

A list of all peer-reviewed HET papers, with ADS links, can be found at
   http://personal.science.psu.edu/dps7/hetpapers.html


Below is a brief summary of the key points for those planning to publish HET observations or produce press releases based on HET data:


The following items shall appear in all HET publications:
  • A footnote to title:
    • Based on observations obtained with the Hobby-Eberly Telescope (HET), which is a joint project of the University of Texas at Austin, the Pennsylvania State University, Ludwig-Maximillians-Universitaet Muenchen, and Georg-August Universitaet Goettingen. The HET is named in honor of its principal benefactors, William P. Hobby and Robert E. Eberly.
  • TACC supercomputer data reduction and hosting:
    • We acknowledge the Texas Advanced Computing Center (TACC) at The University of Texas at Austin for providing high performance computing, visualization, and storage resources that have contributed to the results reported within this paper.


HET Queue Scheduling:
In papers where the HET Queue Scheduling plays an important role (e.g., Targets of Opportunity, Synoptic Observations), the following reference should be cited:

Visible Integral-field Replicable Unit Spectrograph (VIRUS)
Acknowledgment:
  • “VIRUS is a joint project of the University of Texas at Austin, Leibniz-Institut fur Astrophysik Potsdam (AIP), Texas A&M University (TAMU), Max-Planck-Institut fur Extraterrestrische Physik (MPE), Ludwig-Maximilians-Universitaet Muenchen, Pennsylvania State University, Institut fur Astrophysik Goettingen, University of Oxford, and the Max-Planck-Institut fur Astrophysik (MPA). In addition to Institutional support, VIRUS was partially funded by the National Science Foundation, the State of Texas, and generous support from private individuals and foundations.”
  • Here is a text file containing that acknowledgement with LaTeX-style umlauts.
For papers discussing VIRUS hardware and particularly the VIRUS IFUs, there is this additional acknowledgment, but this reference won't normally be needed on science papers:
  • “Financial support for innoFSPEC Potsdam of the German BMBF program Unternehmen Region and of Land Brandenburg, MWFK is gratefully acknowledged. We also acknowledge support by the German BMI program Wirtschaft trifft Wissenschaft. “
Reference:
The following reference should appear in all papers that are acquired with the Wide-field Upgrade, but this paper also serves as the VIRUS instrument reference:


Low Resolution Spectrograph 2 (LRS2)

Acknowledgment:

  • The Low Resolution Spectrograph 2 (LRS2) was developed and funded by the University of Texas at Austin McDonald Observatory and Department of Astronomy, and by Pennsylvania State University. We thank the Leibniz-Institut fur Astrophysik Potsdam (AIP) and the Institut fur Astrophysik Goettingen (IAG) for their contributions to the construction of the integral field units.

Reference:


Habitable-zone Planet Finder (HPF)
Acknowledgment:
  • These results are based on observations obtained with the Habitable-zone Planet Finder Spectrograph on the HET. The HPF team acknowledges support from NSF grants AST-1006676, AST-1126413, AST-1310885, AST-1517592, AST-1310875, ATI 2009889, ATI-2009982, AST-2108512, and the NASA Astrobiology Institute (NNA09DA76A) in the pursuit of precision radial velocities in the NIR. The HPF team also acknowledges support from the Heising-Simons Foundation via grant 2017-0494.  
References:
As of 2023, the final HPF overview paper has not yet been written. Authors who wish to include a more detailed description of the current instrument can include a passage in the paper along these lines:
  • The observations were obtained using the Habitable-zone Planet Finder (HPF; Mahadevan et al. 2012, 2014), a near-infrared, stabilized (Stefansson et al. 2016), fiber-fed (Kanodia et al. 2018), high-resolution precision radial velocity spectrograph located at the 10-meter Hobby-Eberly Telescope (HET) in Texas. We use the algorithms described in the tool HxRGproc for bias removal, non-linearity correction, cosmic ray correction, slope/flux and variance image calculation (Ninan et al. 2018) of the raw HPF data. We use barycorrpy (Kanodia and Wright 2018) to perform the barycentric correction on the individual spectra, which is the Python implementation  of the algorithms from Wright and Eastman (2014). HPF has the capability for simultaneous calibration using a NIR Laser Frequency Comb (Metcalf et al. 2019).
Press Release Policy:

Press releases should be handled by each institution's publicity office, but on or preferably before the day of the release the HET Scientist should be informed. This will allow the HET Scientist to notify each of the partners, thus allowing them to respond appropriately to media interest or inquiries that might arise.










Additional Acknowledgement Information

Land Acknowledgement
We would like to acknowledge that the HET is built on Indigenous land. Moreover, we would like to acknowledge and pay our respects to the Carrizo & Comecrudo, Coahuiltecan, Caddo, Tonkawa, Comanche, Lipan Apache, Alabama-Coushatta, Kickapoo, Tigua Pueblo, and all the American Indian and Indigenous Peoples and communities who have been or have become a part of these lands and territories in Texas, here on Turtle Island.

Night Operations Staff
If you wish to acknowledge the assistance of members of our night operations staff, the night staff on duty can be found in the night report.

Use of SDSS/PS1/Gaia catalogs in observatory operations
This work makes use of the Pan-STARRS1 Surveys (PS1) and the PS1 public science archive, which have been made possible through contributions by the Institute for Astronomy, the University of Hawaii, the Pan-STARRS Project Office, the Max-Planck Society and its participating institutes. This work makes use of data from the European Space Agency (ESA) mission Gaia (https://www.cosmos.esa.int/gaia), processed by the Gaia Data Processing and Analysis Consortium (DPAC, https://www.cosmos.esa.int/web/gaia/dpac/consortium). Funding for the DPAC has been provided by national institutions, in particular the institutions participating in the Gaia Mulitilateral Agreement. This work makes use of the Sloan Digital Sky Survey IV, with funding provided by the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation, the U.S. Department of Energy Office of Science, and the Participating Institutions. SDSS-IV acknowledges support and resources from the Center for High-Performance Computing at the University of Utah. The SDSS web site is www.sdss.org.


Decommissioned instruments:

Marcario Low Resolution Spectrograph (LRS)
Acknowledgment:
  • The Marcario Low Resolution Spectrograph is named for Mike Marcario of High Lonesome Optics who fabricated several optics for the instrument but died before its completion. The LRS is a joint project of the Hobby-Eberly Telescope partnership and the Instituto de Astronomía de la Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México.
Reference:
  • Hill, G.J., Nicklas, H.E., MacQueen, P.J., Tejada, C., Cobos Duenas, F.J., and Mitsch, W. 1998, Proc. SPIE, 3355, 375

Medium Resolution Spectrograph (MRS)
Acknowledgement:
  • none at this time

High Resolution Spectrograph (HRS)
Acknowledgement:
  • none at this time
Reference:
  • Tull, R.G., 1998, Proc. SPIE, 3355, 387














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HET Publication and Press Release Policy