As mentioned in Section 1 the
Hobby-Eberly Telescope Dark Energy Experiment (HETDEX) will use the VIRUS instrument to conduct a blind spectroscopic survey covering an effective area of ~90 [degrees.sup.2].
The find comes out of the
Hobby-Eberly Telescope Massive Galaxy Survey (MGS).
The Southern African Large Telescope (SALT) is an evolution of the
Hobby-Eberly Telescope (HET) at McDonald Observatory in Texas, USA.
To date, astronomers have discovered nearly 700 planets orbiting stars in our galaxy (with billions suspected), but they have probed the atmospheres of only a handful, using space telescopes and the largest ground-based telescopes such as the
Hobby-Eberly Telescope (HET).
To determine the blazar's distance, the team then took visible-light spectra with the
Hobby-Eberly Telescope in Fort Davis, Texas.
With the 10-meter
Hobby-Eberly Telescope in Texas we obtained spectra throughout the 4.6-hour orbit.
Using the
Hobby-Eberly Telescope, the astronomers observed the planets' parent stars - called HD 240237, BD +48 738, and HD 96127 - tens of light years away from our solar system.
The SALT SAC is substantially different from that of HET (the
Hobby-Eberly Telescope in Texas, which acted as a prototype for SALT) and most importantly has a much higher optical specification.
McArthur and her team used data from Hubble Space Telescope (HST), theiant
Hobby-Eberly Telescope, and other ground-based telescopes combined with extensive modeling to unearth a landslide of information about the planetary system surrounding the nearby star Upsilonndromedae.
Low-resolution spectra taken at the
Hobby-Eberly Telescope in Texas suggest orbital motion, yielding a combined blackhole mass of at least 150 million Suns.