Results & Scientific Papers

How to Cite HETDEX

We request that the following acknowledgement be included in any paper using data or software from HETDEX public data releases:

HETDEX is led by the University of Texas at Austin McDonald Observatory and Department of Astronomy with participation from the Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München, Max-Planck-Institut für Extraterrestrische Physik (MPE), Leibniz-Institut für Astrophysik Potsdam (AIP), Texas A&M University, Pennsylvania State University, Institut für Astrophysik Göttingen, The University of Oxford, Max-Planck-Institut für Astrophysik (MPA), The University of Tokyo and Missouri University of Science and Technology.

Observations for HETDEX were obtained with the Hobby-Eberly Telescope (HET), which is a joint project of the University of Texas at Austin, the Pennsylvania State University, Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München, and Georg-August-Universität Göttingen. The HET is named in honor of its principal benefactors, William P. Hobby and Robert E. Eberly. The Visible Integral-field Replicable Unit Spectrograph (VIRUS) was used for HETDEX observations. VIRUS is a joint project of the University of Texas at Austin, Leibniz-Institut für Astrophysik Potsdam (AIP), Texas A&M University, Max-Planck-Institut fürExtraterrestrische Physik (MPE), Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München, Pennsylvania State University, Institut für Astrophysik Göttingen, University of Oxford, and the Max-Planck-Institut fur Astrophysik (MPA).

The authors acknowledge the Texas Advanced Computing Center (TACC) at The University of Texas at Austin for providing high performance computing, visualization, and storage resources that have contributed to the research results reported within this paper. URL: http://www.tacc.utexas.edu

Funding for HETDEX has been provided by the partner institutions, the National Science Foundation, the State of Texas, the US Air Force, and by generous support from private individuals and foundations.

HETDEX MAIN SURVEY PAPERS

We also ask that papers cite the key technical publications of HETDEX relevant to the data or software being used:

Survey Description

• Gebhardt, Karl et al. 2021. The Hobby-Eberly Telescope Dark Energy Experiment (HETDEX) Survey Design, Reductions, and Detections. https://ui.adsabs.harvard.edu/abs/2021ApJ…923..217G

Instrumentation and Telescope Reference Papers

• Hill, Gary J. et al. 2021. The HETDEX Instrumentation: Hobby-Eberly Telescope Wide-field Upgrade and VIRUS. https://ui.adsabs.harvard.edu/abs/2021AJ….162..298H
• Ramsey et al. 1998. Early performance and present status of the Hobby-Eberly Telescope. https://ui.adsabs.harvard.edu/abs/1998SPIE.3352…34R

Catalog Papers

• Liu, Chenxu et al. 2022. The Active Galactic Nuclei in the Hobby-Eberly Telescope Dark Energy Experiment Survey (HETDEX). I. Sample Selection. https://ui.adsabs.harvard.edu/abs/2022ApJS..261…24L
• Mentuch Cooper, Erin et al. 2023. HETDEX Public Source Catalog 1: 220 K Sources Including Over 50 K Ly α Emitters from an Untargeted Wide-area Spectroscopic Survey. https://ui.adsabs.harvard.edu/abs/2023ApJ…943..177M

Classification Paper

• Davis, Dustin et al. 2023. The HETDEX Survey Emission-line Exploration and Source Classification. https://ui.adsabs.harvard.edu/abs/2023ApJ…946…86D

HETDEX SCIENCE PAPERS

• Mukae, Shiro et al. 2020. Cosmological 3D H I Gas Map with HETDEX Ly-alpha Emitters and eBOSS QSOs at z = 2: IGM-Galaxy/QSO Connection and a ~40 Mpc Scale Giant H II Bubble Candidate. https://ui.adsabs.harvard.edu/abs/2020ApJ…903…24M
• Hawkins, Keith et al. 2021. The Stars of the HETDEX Survey. I. Radial Velocities and Metal-poor Stars from Low-resolution Stellar Spectra. https://ui.adsabs.harvard.edu/abs/2021ApJ…911..108H
• Weiss, Laurel H. et al. 2021. The HETDEX Survey: The Ly-alpha Escape Fraction from 3D-HST Emission-Line Galaxies at z ~ 2. https://ui.adsabs.harvard.edu/abs/2021ApJ…912..100W
• Indahl, Briana et al. 2021. HETDEX [O III] Emitters. I. A Spectroscopically Selected Low-redshift Population of Low-mass, Low-metallicity Galaxies. https://ui.adsabs.harvard.edu/abs/2021ApJ…916…11I/
• Davis, Dustin et al. 2021. Detection of Lyman Continuum from 3.0 < z < 3.5 Galaxies in the HETDEX Survey. https://ui.adsabs.harvard.edu/abs/2021ApJ…920..122D
• Farrow, Daniel J. et al. 2021. Correcting correlation functions for redshift-dependent interloper contamination. https://ui.adsabs.harvard.edu/abs/2021MNRAS.507.3187F
• Hill, Gary J. et al. 2021. The HETDEX Instrumentation: Hobby-Eberly Telescope Wide-field Upgrade and VIRUS. https://ui.adsabs.harvard.edu/abs/2021AJ….162..298H
• Zhang, Yechi et al. 2021. First HETDEX Spectroscopic Determinations of Ly-alpha and UV Luminosity Functions at z = 2-3: Bridging a Gap between Faint AGNs and Bright Galaxies. https://ui.adsabs.harvard.edu/abs/2021ApJ…922..167Z
• Gebhardt, Karl et al. 2021. The Hobby-Eberly Telescope Dark Energy Experiment (HETDEX) Survey Design, Reductions, and Detections. https://ui.adsabs.harvard.edu/abs/2021ApJ…923..217G
• Lujan Niemeyer, Maja et al. 2022. Surface Brightness Profile of Lyman–alpha Halos out to 320 kpc in HETDEX. https://ui.adsabs.harvard.edu/abs/2022ApJ…929…90L
• Lujan Niemeyer, Maja et al. 2022. Ly-alpha Halos around [O III]-selected Galaxies in HETDEX. https://ui.adsabs.harvard.edu/abs/2022ApJ…934L..26L
• Liu, Chenxu et al. 2022. The Active Galactic Nuclei in the Hobby-Eberly Telescope Dark Energy Experiment Survey (HETDEX). I. Sample Selection. https://ui.adsabs.harvard.edu/abs/2022ApJS..261…24L
• Liu, Chenxu et al. 2022.  The Active Galactic Nuclei in the Hobby-Eberly Telescope Dark Energy Experiment Survey (HETDEX). II. Luminosity Function. https://ui.adsabs.harvard.edu/abs/2022ApJ…935..132L
• McCarron, Adam P. et al. 2022. Stellar Populations of Lyα-emitting Galaxies in the HETDEX Survey. I. An Analysis of LAEs in the GOODS-N Field. https://ui.adsabs.harvard.edu/abs/2022ApJ…936..131M
• Laseter, Isaac H. et al. 2022. A Search for Lensed Lyα Emitters within the Early HETDEX Data Set. https://ui.adsabs.harvard.edu/abs/2022ApJ…940….9L
• Liu, Chenxu et al. 2022. The Active Galactic Nuclei in the Hobby-Eberly Telescope Dark Energy Experiment Survey (HETDEX). III. A Red Quasar with Extremely High Equivalent Widths Showing Powerful Outflows.  https://ui.adsabs.harvard.edu/abs/2022ApJ…940…40L
• Mentuch Cooper, Erin et al. 2023. HETDEX Public Source Catalog 1: 220 K Sources Including Over 50 K Ly α Emitters from an Untargeted Wide-area Spectroscopic Survey. https://ui.adsabs.harvard.edu/abs/2023ApJ…943..177M
• Vinkó, József et al. 2023. Searching for Supernovae in HETDEX Data Release 3. https://ui.adsabs.harvard.edu/abs/2023ApJ…946…31V
• Tardugno Poleo, Valentina et al. 2023. Identifying Active Galactic Nuclei at z~3 from the HETDEX Survey Using Machine Learning. https://ui.adsabs.harvard.edu/abs/2023AJ….165..153T
• Davis, Dustin et al. 2023. The HETDEX Survey Emission-line Exploration and Source Classification. https://ui.adsabs.harvard.edu/abs/2023ApJ…946…86D
• Zhang, Yechi et al. 2023. The Stellar Mass-Black Hole Mass Relation at z~2 down to MBH~10⁷ M_⊙  Determined by HETDEX. https://ui.adsabs.harvard.edu/abs/2023ApJ…948..103Z
• House, Lindsay R. et al. 2023. Using Dark Energy Explorers and Machine Learning to Enhance the Hobby-Eberly Telescope Dark Energy Experiment. https://ui.adsabs.harvard.edu/abs/2023ApJ…950…82H/
• Sun, Dongsheng et al. 2023.  Cosmological-scale Lyα Forest Absorption around Galaxies and AGNs Probed with the HETDEX and SDSS Spectroscopic Data. https://ui.adsabs.harvard.edu/abs/2023ApJ…951…25S
• Davis, Dustin et al. 2023. HETDEX Public Source Catalog 1-Stacking 50,000 Lyman Alpha Emitters. https://ui.adsabs.harvard.edu/abs/2023ApJ…954..209D/
• Liu, Chenxu et al. 2023. The Pre-explosion Environments and The Progenitor of SN 2023ixf from the Hobby Eberly Telescope Dark Energy Experiment (HETDEX). https://ui.adsabs.harvard.edu/abs/2023ApJ…958L..37L
• Weiss, Laurel H. et al. 2024. Absorption Troughs of Lyalpha Emitters in HETDEX. https://ui.adsabs.harvard.edu/abs/2024ApJ…962..102W