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.
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.
- References for telescope:
- Hobby-Eberly
Telescope:
- Ramsey, L.W.,
et al. 1998, Proc. SPIE, 3352, 34
- Wide-field Upgrade:
- Hill, G.J., et al. 2021,
AJ, 162, 298
- 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:
- Shetrone, M.D., et al. 2007, PASP 119, 556
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
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
- Mahadevan, S., et al. 2014, Proc. SPIE, 9147
- Mahadevan, S., et al. 2018, Proc. SPIE, 10702
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).
- Mahadevan, S., et al. 2012, Proc. SPIE, 8446, 84461S
- Mahadevan, S., et al. 2014, Proc. SPIE, 9147, 91471G
- Kanodia, S., et al., 2018, Proc. SPIE, 10702, 107026Q
- Stefansson, G., et al. 2016, ApJ, 833, 175
- Ninan, J.P., et al. 2018, Proc. SPIE, 10709, 107092U
- Wright and Eastman 2014, PASP, 126, 838
- Kanodia and Wright 2018, RNAAS, 2, 1, 4
- Metcalf, A.J., et al. 2019, Optica, 6, 233
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:
High Resolution Spectrograph (HRS)
Acknowledgement:
Reference:
- Tull, R.G., 1998, Proc. SPIE, 3355, 387
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