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Serendipitous Supernovae found in HETDEX data with machine learning
May 18, 2023

In their recent article published in Astrophysical Journal titled “Searching for Supernovae in HETDEX Data Release 3″, University of Texas at Austin researcher József Vinkó and HETDEX team members describe a novel technique to discover Supernovae hidden within the massive […]

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See the massive 3D map of neutral hydrogen around HETDEX galaxies
April 26, 2023

In an article now in press at the Astrophysical Journal, lead by HETDEX Graduate student Dongsheng Sun from the University of Tokyo, demonstrates how neutral hydrogen and HETDEX galaxies interplay. Using the Lyman-alpha forest absorptions of 14,736 background quasars from the […]

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Galaxy Goldmine, including 50 thousand distant galaxies, revealed in HETDEX’s first publicly released source catalog
April 26, 2023

Astronomers have barely scratched the surface of mapping the nearly endless stars and galaxies of the heavens. Using supercomputers, researchers with The University of Texas at Austin have now revealed the locations of more than 200,000 new astronomical objects. Their […]

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Undergraduate HETDEX Researcher wins Scholarship
January 3, 2023

Isaiah Pipkin, University of Texas at Austin Physics and Astronomy undergraduate, won the TEAM-UP Together Award. It was given this year to 31 African American Students from across the country in physics and astronomy. TEAM-UP Together is a collective action initiative […]

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University of Texas scientists use dating app tech to locate distant galaxies, dark energy
December 12, 2022

AUSTIN (KXAN) — Researchers at the University of Texas are turning to some rather unusual tech to locate distant galaxies. “I’ve been calling it Astro Tinder for a long time,” said UT Professor of Astrophysics Karl Gebhardt. Gebhardt is part […]

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HETDEX Graduate Student Featured on CBS
December 8, 2022

UT Graduate Student Lindsay House talks to CBS about the Dark Energy Explorers Citizen Science Project. See the CBS Interview Here Join our Dark Energy Explorers team by classifying HETDEX galaxies as real distant galaxies or fake signals. Download the […]

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HETDEX Project On Track to Probe Dark Energy
December 30, 2020

Three years into its quest to reveal the nature of dark energy, the Hobby-Eberly Telescope Dark Energy Experiment (HETDEX) is on track to complete the largest map of the cosmos ever. The team will create a three-dimensional map of 2.5 […]

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‘Crown Jewels’ Ready for Telescope
June 1, 2020

Sophisticated set of mirrors will sharpen, widen HET’s view of the sky. The “crown jewels” of the Hobby-Eberly Telescope upgrade — a set of four mirrors designed to sharpen the view to pinpoint precision — have been installed on the […]

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