Abstract

The Hobby-Eberly Telescope (HET) is a phenomenal resource UT Austin. Graduate students, postdocs, and faculty have 100s of hours available three times a year to observe with world-class spectroscopic instruments. Targets are submitted to a queue and the data is reduced the next day. The goal of this presentation is threefold: 1) to show the wide range of scientific programs accessible with the HET, 2) to inform users about the data reduction pipelines, products, and advanced algorithms, and 3) to highlight a new survey from the HET, the HET VIRUS Parallel Survey (HETVIPS). Attendees are encouraged to come with questions and pick my brain for ways that the HET can help them.