Hector - a revolutionary spectrograph for understanding how galaxies evolve

赫克托-一个革命性的摄谱仪，了解星系如何演变：该项目小组最近展示了一个新的悉尼-澳大利亚天文台多目标积分场摄谱仪（SAMI）在英澳望远镜的非凡力量。这个早期的原型证明了有可能将13个hexabundles准确地放置在13个星系的图像上，并在每个星系的61个相邻位置获得光谱。这提供了关于每个星系中恒星和气体的丰富信息。SAMI在澳大利亚和国际社会对新科学产生了巨大的兴趣。该项目旨在开发一种功能更强大的设备“赫克托”，这将使我们能够回答新的科学问题。这是第一次，我们将了解星系的性质如何与周围环境一起演变，以及这告诉我们星系是如何形成的。

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.