HET Acknowledgments and Publication Policy
Land Acknowledgement
The Hobby-Eberly Telescope Board of Directors approved the
following update to the HET's Publication Policy in Fall
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.
Engineering/Commissioning
All publications
Queue Observing
TACC
Instruments
VIRUS
LRS2
HPF
HETDEX
Night Operations Staff
Decommissioned instruments
Engineering/Commissioning
Observations
Data obtained during a scheduled instrument
engineering/commissioning operations belong to the instrument PI
who has the right to determine the coauthors on any publications
that result from these observations.
During the early operational phase of an instrument,
investigators are strongly encouraged to consider the
contributions of key members of the instrument team and include
them as co-authors.
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.
- References for
telescope:
- Hobby-Eberly
Telescope:
- Wide-field Upgrade:
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:
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 Instruments:
In papers where HET data are being reported, the following
acknowledgments and references shall appear for the instrumentation
used in the investigation:
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:
- Hill, G.J., et al., 2021, AJ, 162, 298
(https://arxiv.org/abs/2110.03843)
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
Chonis, T.S., Hill, G.J., Lee, H., Tuttle, S.E., Vattiat,
B.L., Drory, N., Indahl, B.L., Peterson, T.W., and Ramsey,
J., 2016, Proc. SPIE 9908, 99084C
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
Mahadevan, S., et al. 2012, Proc. SPIE, 8446
https://ui.adsabs.harvard.edu/abs/2012SPIE.8446E..1SM
Mahadevan, S., et al. 2014, Proc. SPIE, 9147
http://adsabs.harvard.edu/abs/2014SPIE.9147E..1GM
Mahadevan, S., et al. 2018, Proc. SPIE, 10702
https://www.spiedigitallibrary.org/search?term=10.1117%2F12.2313835
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).
Mahadevan, S., et al. 2014, Proc. SPIE, 9147, 91471G - http://adsabs.harvard.edu/abs/2014SPIE.9147E..1GM
Stefansson, G., et al. 2016, ApJ, 833, 175 - http://adsabs.harvard.edu/abs/2016ApJ...833..175S
HETDEX
Acknowledgement:
- HETDEX (including the WFU of the HET) is led by the University
of Texas at Austin McDonald Observatory and Department of
Astronomy with participation from the
Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München, Max-Planck-Institut für
Extraterrestriche-Physik (MPE), Leibniz-Institut für Astrophysik
Potsdam (AIP), Texas A\&M University, Pennsylvania State
University, Institut für Astrophysik Göttingen, The University
of Oxford, Max-Planck-Institut für Astrophysik (MPA), The
University of Tokyo, and Missouri University of Science and
Technology. In addition to Institutional support, HETDEX is
funded by the National Science Foundation (grant AST-0926815),
the State of Texas, the US Air Force (AFRL FA9451-04-2-0355),
and generous support from private individuals and foundations.
We thank the staffs of McDonald Observatory, HET, AIP, MPE,
TAMU, IAG, Oxford University Department of Physics, the
University of Texas Center for Electromechanics, and the
University of Arizona College of Optical Sciences for their
contributions to the development of the HET WFU and VIRUS.
References
- Gebhardt, K., et al. 2021, ApJ, 923, 217
- Hill, G.J., et al. 2021, AJ, 162, 298
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:
High Resolution Spectrograph (HRS)
Acknowledgement:
Reference:
- Tull, R.G., 1998, Proc. SPIE, 3355, 387
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.
Last updated: Tue, 07 Feb 2023 16:30:44 +0000 stevenj
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