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| Paper: |
Hector – Next Generation Multi-Object IFU for the Anglo-Australian Telescope |
| Volume: |
507, Multi-Object Spectroscopy in the Next Decade: Big Questions, Large Surveys, and Wide Fields |
| Page: |
291 |
| Authors: |
Bryant, J. J.; Bland-Hawthorn, J. |
| Abstract: |
Hector will be the new massively-multiplexed IFU spectrograph for the Anglo-Australian Observatory in Australia and the next main dark-time instrument for the observatory. Based on the success of the SAMI instrument, which is undergoing the largest galaxy survey done to-date, the hexabundle technology underpinning SAMI is being improved to a new innovative design and scaled up in numbers to give 50-100 IFU imaging bundles across a 2 or 3-degree field. ‘Starbug' robots will position the hexabundles across the field plate and several thousand fibers will then be fed into new replicable spectrographs. First prototypes will be on-sky in mid-2016, with full instrument build expected to take ∼5 years. Hector will allow a survey of 100,000 nearby galaxies, sufficient to disentangle intertwined processes in order to investigate the buildup of angular momentum in galaxies and how gas gets into and out of galaxies. |
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