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    MUSE crowded field 3D spectroscopy in NGC 300 : I. First results from central fields
    (Les Ulis : EDP Sciences, 2018) Roth, Martin M.; Sandin, Christer; Kamann, Sebastian; Husser, Tim-Oliver; Weilbacher, Peter M.; Monreal-Ibero, Ana; Bacon, Roland; den Brok, Mark; Dreizler, Stefan; Kelz, Andreas; Marino, Raffaella Anna; Steinmetz, Matthias
    Aims. As a new approach to the study of resolved stellar populations in nearby galaxies, our goal is to demonstrate with a pilot study in NGC 300 that integral field spectroscopy with high spatial resolution and excellent seeing conditions reaches an unprecedented depth in severely crowded fields. Methods. Observations by MUSE with seven pointings in NGC 300 have resulted in data cubes that are analyzed in four ways: (1) Point spread function-fitting 3D spectroscopy with PampelMUSE, as already successfully pioneered in globular clusters, yields de-blended spectra of individually distinguishable stars, thus providing a complete inventory of blue and red supergiants, and asymptotic giant branch (AGB) stars of type M and C. The technique is also applicable to emission line point sources and provides samples of planetary nebulae (PNe) that are complete down to m5007 = 28. (2) Pseudo-monochromatic images, created at the wavelengths of the most important emission lines and corrected for continuum light with the P3D visualization tool, provide maps of HâII regions, supernova remnants (SNR), and the diffuse interstellar medium (ISM) at a high level of sensitivity, where also faint point sources stand out and allow for the discovery of PNe, Wolf-Rayet (WR) stars, etc. (3) The use of the P3D line-fitting tool yields emission line fluxes, surface brightness, and kinematic information for gaseous objects, corrected for absorption line profiles of the underlying stellar population in the case of Hα. (4) Visual inspection of the data cubes by browsing through the row-stacked spectra image in P3D is demonstrated to be efficient for data mining and the discovery of background galaxies and unusual objects. Results. We present a catalog of luminous stars, rare stars such as WR, and other emission line stars, carbon stars, symbiotic star candidates, PNe, HâII regions, SNR, giant shells, peculiar diffuse and filamentary emission line objects, and background galaxies, along with their spectra. Conclusions. The technique of crowded-field 3D spectroscopy, using the PampelMUSE code, is capable of deblending individual bright stars, the unresolved background of faint stars, gaseous nebulae, and the diffuse component of the ISM, resulting in unprecedented legacy value for observations of nearby galaxies with MUSE.
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    The HETDEX Instrumentation: Hobby-Eberly Telescope Wide-field Upgrade and VIRUS
    (London : Institute of Physics Publ., 2021) Hill, Gary J.; Lee, Hanshin; MacQueen, Phillip J.; Kelz, Andreas; Drory, Niv; Vattiat, Brian L.; Good, John M.; Ramsey, Jason; Kriel, Herman; Peterson, Trent; DePoy, D. L.; Gebhardt, Karl; Marshall, J. L.; Tuttle, Sarah E.; Bauer, Svend M.; Chonis, Taylor S.; Fabricius, Maximilian H.; Froning, Cynthia; Häuser, Marco; Indahl, Briana L.; Jahn, Thomas; Landriau, Martin; Leck, Ron; Montesano, Francesco; Prochaska, Travis; Snigula, Jan M.; Zeimann, Greg; Bryant, Randy; Damm, George; Fowler, J. R.; Janowiecki, Steven; Martin, Jerry; Mrozinski, Emily; Odewahn, Stephen; Rostopchin, Sergey; Shetrone, Matthew; Spencer, Renny; Mentuch Cooper, Erin; Armandroff, Taft; Bender, Ralf; Dalton, Gavin; Hopp, Ulrich; Komatsu, Eiichiro; Nicklas, Harald; Ramsey, Lawrence W.; Roth, Martin M.; Schneider, Donald P.; Sneden, Chris; Steinmetz, Matthias
    The Hobby-Eberly Telescope (HET) Dark Energy Experiment (HETDEX) is undertaking a blind wide-field low-resolution spectroscopic survey of 540 deg2 of sky to identify and derive redshifts for a million Lyα-emitting galaxies in the redshift range 1.9 < z < 3.5. The ultimate goal is to measure the expansion rate of the universe at this epoch, to sharply constrain cosmological parameters and thus the nature of dark energy. A major multiyear Wide-Field Upgrade (WFU) of the HET was completed in 2016 that substantially increased the field of view to 22′ diameter and the pupil to 10 m, by replacing the optical corrector, tracker, and Prime Focus Instrument Package and by developing a new telescope control system. The new, wide-field HET now feeds the Visible Integral-field Replicable Unit Spectrograph (VIRUS), a new low-resolution integral-field spectrograph (LRS2), and the Habitable Zone Planet Finder, a precision near-infrared radial velocity spectrograph. VIRUS consists of 156 identical spectrographs fed by almost 35,000 fibers in 78 integral-field units arrayed at the focus of the upgraded HET. VIRUS operates in a bandpass of 3500-5500 Å with resolving power R ≃ 800. VIRUS is the first example of large-scale replication applied to instrumentation in optical astronomy to achieve spectroscopic surveys of very large areas of sky. This paper presents technical details of the HET WFU and VIRUS, as flowed down from the HETDEX science requirements, along with experience from commissioning this major telescope upgrade and the innovative instrumentation suite for HETDEX.