Y. A. Azzam, F. Elnagahy, I. Zead, B. Brondel, P. Mack
{"title":"(KFISP) Kottamia Faint Imaging Spectro-Polarimeter: software, motion control, performance and results","authors":"Y. A. Azzam, F. Elnagahy, I. Zead, B. Brondel, P. Mack","doi":"10.1117/12.2561665","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1117/12.2561665","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":215000,"journal":{"name":"Ground-based and Airborne Instrumentation for Astronomy VIII","volume":"45 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2020-12-13","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"115858639","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
D. Greggio, C. Schwab, D. Magrin, S. D. Filippo, V. Viotto, F. Rigaut
{"title":"Optical design of a broadband atmospheric dispersion corrector for MAVIS","authors":"D. Greggio, C. Schwab, D. Magrin, S. D. Filippo, V. Viotto, F. Rigaut","doi":"10.1117/12.2561406","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1117/12.2561406","url":null,"abstract":"\"The MCAO Assisted Visible Imager and Spectrograph (MAVIS), is a new instrument for ESO’s Very Large Telescope. The science instruments, namely an imager and a spectrograph observing at VIS wavelengths (370-1000nm), are fed by a MCAO module which performs wide field wavefront sensing and correction by means of both NGS and LGS stars. To maximize sky coverage, tip-tilt sensing is done at NIR wavelengths (1000-1700 nm) by selecting up to three stars in a 2arcmin FoV. In order to maximize the stability between NGS wavefront sensor and scientific instruments, we designed a common-path Atmospheric Dispersion Corrector (ADC) able to efficiently compensate for atmospheric differential refraction in the full wavelength range used by the MAVIS sub-systems. In this paper we present the design of the ADC. A few possible combinations of glasses are proposed and compared in terms of residual chromatic aberration, throughput, exit pupil movement and total thickness of the prism assembly.\"","PeriodicalId":215000,"journal":{"name":"Ground-based and Airborne Instrumentation for Astronomy VIII","volume":"36 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2020-12-13","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"114464768","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
S. Graf, M. Rutowska, M. Wiest, S. Rost, C. Straubmeier, L. Labadie
{"title":"The warm calibration unit of METIS: Laboratory tests and proof-of-concept","authors":"S. Graf, M. Rutowska, M. Wiest, S. Rost, C. Straubmeier, L. Labadie","doi":"10.1117/12.2562106","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1117/12.2562106","url":null,"abstract":"METIS, the mid-infrared imager and spectrograph for the wavelength range 2.9-14 µm (astronomical L-, M- and N bands), will be equipped with a calibration unit, developed at the University of Cologne, which task is to deliver simulated sources for the test and calibration of the main imaging and spectral functionalities of METIS. Our subsystem, as the full METIS instrument, is currently in the Phase C of the project, which leads to the Final Design Review expected by the end of 2021. In this contribution, we first briefly introduce the general concepts chosen for the Warm Calibration Unit (WCU) and then detail the laboratory work that is undertaken in Cologne to validate most of the concepts presented at the Preliminary Design Review. A core unit of the WCU is the integrating sphere combined with the black body, which is the hub delivering the calibration functionalities. We first report the measured spatial uniformity of the output port of the integrating sphere when fed with the black body source radiation. The measurement made using our uncooled thermal camera, evidences a spatial uniformity below 1% RMS. Longer integration times will further improve the final accuracy on this important parameter. We also take a closer look at the black body source and report on its flux temporal stability, which is found to be better than 1% over a 2h duration. We characterize time windows for different settings of the main WCU light source, which is the black body and stability and repeatability of the detected signal. Through different experiments we investigated the best options to manufacture the aperture mask that will be used to generate artificial point sources.","PeriodicalId":215000,"journal":{"name":"Ground-based and Airborne Instrumentation for Astronomy VIII","volume":"233 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2020-12-13","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"116260858","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Ongoing and future instrument upgrades at Gemini","authors":"R. Diaz, S. Goodsell, S. Kleinman, P. Hirst","doi":"10.1117/12.2562401","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1117/12.2562401","url":null,"abstract":"Gemini Observatory is committed to providing its community with the best possible competitive instrumentation suite given technological and budget constraints. The Observatory operates 4 facility instruments plus 1 AO system at each 8m telescope. It is incorporating a new facility high resolution spectrograph, building a major workhorse multi-channel instrument for transient sources follow up, and designing a new multi-conjugate AO system. We also run three major upgrades of workhorse instruments and a long-term program to support user motivated upgrades. This paper provides a summary of results of the last three years of the instrument upgrades program and an update on our strategy to keep our instrumentation suite competitive.","PeriodicalId":215000,"journal":{"name":"Ground-based and Airborne Instrumentation for Astronomy VIII","volume":"26 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2020-12-13","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"127532743","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
S. Sivanandam, S. Chapman, D. Erickson, P. Hickson, S. Thibault, M. Sawicki, A. Muzzin, J. Dunn, A. Peck, S. Roberts, K. Venn, G. Sivo, M. Tschimmel, David Henderson, M. Lamb, Shaojie Chen, Saugata Dutt, O. Lardière, A. Anthony, Alexis Hill, D. Brousseau, Tristan Chabot
{"title":"Gemini Infrared Multi-Object Spectrograph: preliminary design overview","authors":"S. Sivanandam, S. Chapman, D. Erickson, P. Hickson, S. Thibault, M. Sawicki, A. Muzzin, J. Dunn, A. Peck, S. Roberts, K. Venn, G. Sivo, M. Tschimmel, David Henderson, M. Lamb, Shaojie Chen, Saugata Dutt, O. Lardière, A. Anthony, Alexis Hill, D. Brousseau, Tristan Chabot","doi":"10.1117/12.2561607","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1117/12.2561607","url":null,"abstract":"The Gemini Infrared Multi-Object Spectrograph (GIRMOS) is an adaptive optics-fed multi-object integral field spectrograph with a parallel imaging capability. GIRMOS implements multi-object adaptive optics (MOAO) for each of its spectrographs by taking advantage of the infrastructure offered by Gemini upcoming wide-field AO facility at Manua Kea. The instrument offers the ability to observe four objects simultaneously within the Gemini-North AO (GNAO) system’s field-of-regard or a single object by tiling the four fields that feed light to four separate spectrographs. Each integral field spectrograph has an independent set of selectable spatial scales (0.025\", 0.05\", and 0.1\" /spaxel) and spectral resolution (R 3,000 and 8,000) within an operating band of 0.95 2.4µm. These spatial scales correspond to indvidual spectrograph fields of view of 1x1\", 2X2\" , and 4x4\", respectively. GIRMOS’s imager offers Nyquist sampling of the diffraction limit in H-band over a 85x85\" imaging field. The imager can function in a parallel data acquisition mode with just minor vignetting spectroscopic pick- offs when they are deployed.","PeriodicalId":215000,"journal":{"name":"Ground-based and Airborne Instrumentation for Astronomy VIII","volume":"61 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2020-12-13","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"127042610","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
N. Konidaris, G. Rudie, A. Newman, T. Hare, Jason E. Williams, A. Lanz, D. Kelson, J. Crane
{"title":"The Magellan Infrared Multiobject Spectrograph project","authors":"N. Konidaris, G. Rudie, A. Newman, T. Hare, Jason E. Williams, A. Lanz, D. Kelson, J. Crane","doi":"10.1117/12.2561171","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1117/12.2561171","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":215000,"journal":{"name":"Ground-based and Airborne Instrumentation for Astronomy VIII","volume":"12 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2020-12-13","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"122784420","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
S. Ozaki, T. Hattori, K. Aoki, Chien-Hsiu Lee, M. Fukushima, H. Iwashita, K. Mitsui, Yoko Tanaka, T. Tsuzuki, N. Okada, Y. Obuchi, S. Miyazaki, T. Yamashita
{"title":"Performances of an integral field unit for FOCAS on the Subaru telescope","authors":"S. Ozaki, T. Hattori, K. Aoki, Chien-Hsiu Lee, M. Fukushima, H. Iwashita, K. Mitsui, Yoko Tanaka, T. Tsuzuki, N. Okada, Y. Obuchi, S. Miyazaki, T. Yamashita","doi":"10.1117/12.2560602","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1117/12.2560602","url":null,"abstract":"We have developed an integral field unit (IFU) for the existing optical imaging spectrograph, Faint Object Camera And Spectrograph (FOCAS), on the Subaru telescope. FOCAS IFU finally saw a first light on March 2nd, 2018, and started the common use from 2019. In order to observe faint targets like distant galaxies, our IFU has a coarse sampling comparable to the best seeing size and high throughput. The field of view is 13.4 10.0 arcsec2 which is divided into 23 slices with the width of 0.435 arcsec. Our IFU has a slit separated by about 5.2 arcmin from an object field in order to simultaneously obtain a sky spectrum. We confirmed that the image quality is good enough for the 0.435-arcsec slice width and the best seeing size of 0.4 arcsec. Mean and median throughput of the IFU are respectively 85.0% and 87.3%. However some fields show lower throughput due to misalignment of the IFU optics and the worst throughput is 61.9% at one field corner. Flat fielding error is almost within ±3%, but worse errors are found at the low-throughput region. The worst error is 9% at the lowest throughput region.","PeriodicalId":215000,"journal":{"name":"Ground-based and Airborne Instrumentation for Astronomy VIII","volume":"37 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2020-12-13","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"116532023","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
P. Martinez, C. Gouvret, A. Marcotto, J. Dejonghe, A. Spang, M. Beaulieu, O. Preis, G. Doyen, J. L. Duigou
{"title":"The segmented pupil experiment for exoplanet detection. 4. A versatile image-based wavefront sensor for active optics","authors":"P. Martinez, C. Gouvret, A. Marcotto, J. Dejonghe, A. Spang, M. Beaulieu, O. Preis, G. Doyen, J. L. Duigou","doi":"10.1117/12.2562390","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1117/12.2562390","url":null,"abstract":"SPEED – the segmented pupil experiment for exoplanet detection – currently in final integration phase, is designed to test strategies and technologies for high-contrast instrumentation with segmented telescopes by offering an ideal cocoon to progress in these domains with complex telescope apertures. SPEED combines precision segment phasing architectures, optimised small inner-working angle (IWA) coronagraphy, and wavefront shaping to create a small IWA and small field of view (FoV) dark hole in the science detector. Over the years SPEED has made significant hardware and software progress to start the exploitation of the bench. We have completed several key hardware including the common-path wavefront sensor for cophasing optics based on the self-coherent camera (SCC) concept. In this paper, we report on the wavefront sensing strategy designed for SPEED, from the adaptation of the SCC concept to cophasing optics towards an alternative implementation of the conventional SCC, called the fast-modulated SCC, for both wavefront control and shaping applications. We present a progress overview on this wavefront sensor for (i) cophasing control and monitoring from the scientific image, as well as (ii) its interest for the wavefront shaping unit of the bench.","PeriodicalId":215000,"journal":{"name":"Ground-based and Airborne Instrumentation for Astronomy VIII","volume":"85 2","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2020-12-13","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"120921531","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
G. Rodeghiero, M. C. Vázquez, S. Barboza, Robert J. Harris, P. Bizenberger, M. Hartl, N. Geis, J. Pott, R. Hofferbert, J. Ramos, F. Müller, R. Rohloff, U. Neumann, D. Kampf, S. Rabien, V. Hörmann, R. Davies, E. Gendron, Mathieu Cohen, Y. Clénet
{"title":"Preliminary design and performance verification of the MICADO Standalone Relay Optics","authors":"G. Rodeghiero, M. C. Vázquez, S. Barboza, Robert J. Harris, P. Bizenberger, M. Hartl, N. Geis, J. Pott, R. Hofferbert, J. Ramos, F. Müller, R. Rohloff, U. Neumann, D. Kampf, S. Rabien, V. Hörmann, R. Davies, E. Gendron, Mathieu Cohen, Y. Clénet","doi":"10.1117/12.2576162","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1117/12.2576162","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":215000,"journal":{"name":"Ground-based and Airborne Instrumentation for Astronomy VIII","volume":"65 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2020-12-13","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"120982566","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
P. Hickson, J. Hellemeier, B. Ma, D. Erickson, S. Sivanandam
{"title":"Gemini infrared multi-object spectrograph: calibration system","authors":"P. Hickson, J. Hellemeier, B. Ma, D. Erickson, S. Sivanandam","doi":"10.1117/12.2561705","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1117/12.2561705","url":null,"abstract":"The Gemini Infrared Multi-Object Spectrograph (GIRMOS) is a four-channel adaptive-optics-assisted integralfield spectrograph being designed for the Gemini 8-meter telescopes. Deployed behind the Gemini-North Adaptive Optics (GNAO) system, it will provide spatially-resolved spectra over the 0.9-2.4 um wavelength range for four fields simultaneously. Its multi-object adaptive optics will provide additional correction of the target fields, beyond that achieved by the GNAO system, enabling integral-field spectroscopy with near-diffraction-limited resolution and unprecedented sensitivity. A parallel imaging channel will view the field of regard and provide a simultaneous imaging capability. The primary science objectives include mapping chemical abundances, star formation and kinematics in high-redshift galaxies, and studies of stellar populations, star formation and supermassive black holes in nearby galaxies. In order to support the science programs, GIRMOS requires a system that enables photometric, spectroscopic and astrometric calibration. The GIRMOS Calibration System (CAL) serves this purpose, uniformly illuminating the spectroscopic and imaging channels with both continuous and narrow-line light for flat-field and wavelength calibration. In order to replicate the light path through the instrument as closely as possible, the CAL optical system matches both the pupil position and the focal ratio of the beam delivered to the instrument by GNAO. CAL also includes a metrology system, employing focal-plane masks, to permit precise calibration of the positions of the pick-off arms of the object selection system, and to map optical distortion and instrument flexure. This paper summarizes the key requirements of the CAL system, presents its conceptual design and discusses its expected performance.","PeriodicalId":215000,"journal":{"name":"Ground-based and Airborne Instrumentation for Astronomy VIII","volume":"4 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2020-12-13","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"114986855","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}