Hector: a revolutionary survey machine to discover how galaxies formed

赫克托：一台革命性的探测机器，用来发现星系是如何形成的。银河系的形成，是当今宇宙学中最重要的问题之一。其中一个关键的未知数是，形成恒星的气体是如何进入暗物质晕形成星系的，以及这些星系为什么旋转。该项目旨在组建一支一流的仪器团队来建造Hector，这是第一台自动化的六角形光谱仪；组建一个大型团队，将Hector对100,000个星系的光谱成像与澳大利亚新的射电观测结合起来；并将这项技术推广到巨型麦哲伦望远镜。这将有助于确保澳大利亚在这十年中在观测宇宙学和仪器方面处于领先地位，并进入极大望远镜时代。

Hector: a revolutionary survey machine to discover how galaxies formed. The formation of the Milky Way, is one of the most important questions in cosmology today. One of the key unknowns is how the gas, which forms the stars, gets into dark matter halos to make galaxies and why these galaxies spin. This project aims to assemble a first-rate instrument team to build Hector, the first automated hexabundle spectrograph; to assemble a large team to combine Hector's spectral imaging of 100,000 galaxies with new Australian radio observations; and to extend this technology for the Giant Magellan Telescope. This will help to ensure Australia's leadership in observational cosmology and instrumentation through this decade and into the era of extremely large telescopes.