Linkage Infrastructure, Equipment and Facilities - Grant ID: LE150100144

Funded Activity Summary

Hector - a revolutionary spectrograph for understanding how galaxies evolve. Hector - a revolutionary spectrograph for understanding how galaxies evolve: The project team recently demonstrated the extraordinary power of a new Sydney-Australian Astronomical Observatory Multi-object Integral-field spectrograph (SAMI) at the Anglo-Australian Telescope. This early prototype demonstrated it was possible to place 13 hexabundles accurately onto the images of 13 galaxies and to obtain spectroscopy at 61 contiguous positions across each galaxy. This provides a wealth of information about stars and gas in each galaxy. SAMI has generated enormous interest in new science across the Australian and international community. This project intends to develop a far more powerful facility, 'Hector', that will allow us to answer new scientific questions. For the first time, we will learn how the properties of galaxies evolve with their surrounds, and what this tells us about how galaxies form.

Funded Activity Details

Start Date: 01-01-2015

End Date: 31-12-2015

Funding Scheme: Linkage Infrastructure, Equipment and Facilities

Funding Amount: $430,000.00

Funder: Australian Research Council

Research Topics

ANZSRC Field of Research (FoR)

Astronomical and Space Sciences | Photonics, Optoelectronics and Optical Communications | Cosmology and Extragalactic Astronomy | Astronomical and Space Instrumentation

ANZSRC Socio-Economic Objective (SEO)

Expanding Knowledge in the Physical Sciences | Expanding Knowledge in Technology |

Other Keywords

Astronomical and Space Instrumentation | Astronomical and Space Sciences | Cosmology and Extragalactic Astronomy | Expanding Knowledge in Technology | Expanding Knowledge in the Physical Sciences | Photonics, Optoelectronics and Optical Communications

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