近地天体望远镜增加卡氏内氏焦点的可行性研究

近地天体望远镜是巡天望远镜, 具有短焦距、大视场、低空间分辨率的光学特点. 望远镜只有一个主焦点, 焦距1.8 m, 底片比例9um/'', 像斑几何能量集中度EE80 ≤2''(像斑环绕能量的80%,即80% encircled energy, 记为EE80), 有效视场直径为4.28-°(14.3deg2), 目前配10k times 10k的STA1600LN CCD (charge-coupled device) camera, 观测视场为9deg2. 通过光学系统设计, 在原光学系统上增加副镜及场改正镜, 获得了焦距9m的卡氏焦点和内氏焦点，底片比例43.6 um /"，在直径15''的可用视场内，像斑EE80≤0.5",为近地天体望远镜实现多终端观测提供了理论依据.     

近地天体望远镜的PSF分布研究

盱眙近地天体望远镜CCD视场为1.94°×1.94°,作为大视场望远镜由于存在场曲现象,因此根据单颗星像调焦会导致PSF(Point Spread Function)分布不均匀.研究所拍摄图像的PSF分布特征,并通过拟合半高全宽和离焦量的函数关系模拟出弯曲焦面,从而确定出最佳成像平面.制定出根据PSF的半高全宽直方图来判断最佳成像平面的调焦方法.     

一个巨型望远镜方案

提出一个有特色的巨型望远镜(FGT)方案．其主镜口径为30米，主焦比为1．2，由1095块圆环形子镜构成．采用地平式装置．光学系统包括Nasmyth系统、折轴(Coude)系统和一个大视场系统．提出一个由4个镜面组成的新的Nasmyth系统，在约10′的视场范围内像斑小于爱里斑，达到衍射极限．比传统的Nasmyth系统的衍射极限视场大得多．可在这样的大视场内同时作好几个小区域的衍射极限的观测．当由Nasmyth系统转换到折轴系统和大视场系统时，采用主动光学技术改变子镜的面形、倾斜和平移，产生一个新的主镜面形，使折轴系统和大视场系统都能得到很好的像质．大视场系统的视场直径25′，场曲轻微，并有可能校正大气色散．给出了子镜面形和位置的公差，并讨论了望远镜的装置和结构,方案中的特色和创新对未来大望远镜的研制有普遍意义．     

关于云南天文台2.4米望远镜YFOSC的CCD的平场

与国家天文台兴隆站2.16m安装的北京天文台暗天体分光成像仪(BAO Faint Object Spectrograph and Camera,BFOSC)系统相似,云南天文台2.4m望远镜安装了云南暗弱天体光谱及成像仪(Yunnan Faint-Object Spectrograph and Camera,YFOSC),对它在直接照相时的CCD平场性能做了测定.使用不同旋转角度拍摄平均而得的平场,可以使不同位置拍摄的像场,所受最大误差≤0.015 mag.但与卡焦的VersArray CCD照相机不同,即使在视场中间直径6.′5的圆内,误差约在0.010～0.013 mag之间,达不到≤0.005 mag的精度.     

关于云南天文台2.4米望远镜YFOSC的CCD的平场

与国家天文台兴隆站2.16 m安装的北京天文台暗天体分光成像仪(BAO FaintObject Spectrograph and Camera,BFOSC)系统相似,云南天文台2.4 m望远镜安装了云南暗弱天体光谱及成像仪(Yunnan Faint-Object Spectrograph and Camera,YFOSC),对它在直接照相时的CCD平场性能做了测定。使用不同旋转角度拍摄平均而得的平场,可以使不同位置拍摄的像场,所受最大误差≤0.015 mag。但与卡焦的VersArray CCD照相机不同,即使在视场中间直径6.’5的圆内,误差约在0.010～0.013 mag之间,达不到≤0.005 mag的精度。     

探宝梅西叶（十二）

爱好者观测 这几个天体中,观测M101较为容易。M101在梅西叶星表中算是角直径比较大的星系,一般情况下用7×50的双简望远镜就能观测到,呈现暗淡的星云状,但要看见旋臂比较困难。而M95、M96和M105都属于梅西叶星表中比较难观测的天体,用7×50双筒望远镜勉强可见,要用口径10cm以上乃至15cm的望远镜才能看得比较好,在小望远镜中它们可以被收进同一个视场中。     

大视场巡天望远镜探测器响应与滤光片优化分析

大视场巡天望远镜(Wide Field Survey Telescope,WFST)是采用主焦式光学设计、2.5 m口径、具备强大巡天能力的望远镜,可以开展大规模图像巡天,用于刻画银河系和近邻宇宙的组成和结构、普查太阳系天体和外部构成、开展时域天文监测等科学研究工作.结合大视场巡天望远镜光学系统的透过率、西藏阿里站址的大气透过率和冒纳凯阿台址的天光发射谱,比较不同电荷耦合器件(Charge Coupled Device,CCD)量子响应曲线、读出噪声和不同曝光时间情况下,不同类型天体在u、g、r、i、z和w波段的能谱响应,分析各个波段测光信噪比,优化确定CCD响应曲线和用于太阳系天体巡天的白光滤光片(w)设计.分析结果显示:蓝敏CCD对探测超新星等高能爆发暂现源有优势,但在r、i、z波段效率降低,从而降低这些波段的巡天探测灵敏度.光学宽带CCD响应曲线兼顾蓝端和红端能谱响应,在相同观测时间内,可以实现比蓝敏CCD更高的巡天灵敏度.采用宽带CCD响应曲线,结合估算的WFST系统光学成像效率及站址的天光和消光,计算给出了巡天观测对太阳系天体(G2V恒星光谱)、椭圆星系(E)、漩涡星系(Sbc/Scd)、不规则星系(Im)、类星体、I型和II型超新星的探测灵敏度.通过调节w波段的带宽和中心波长,可以实现对不同类型天体的能谱响应信噪比最大化.综合比较,确定w滤光片的优化设计波长范围为367–795 nm.最后,计算给出了各波段长期巡天图像数据叠加的探测灵敏度随曝光时间的变化曲线.     

兴隆85cm望远镜的夜天光平场及Fringing效应

北京师范大学参与共建的85 cm光学望远镜是中国科学院国家天文台兴隆观测站的主力观测设备之一.利用该望远镜在2019年5月12日的非常规观测数据,构建了其在B、V、 R、 I 4个波段的夜天光平场,并与相应的天光平场进行了比较.发现天光平场改正的典型误差在0.5%左右,全视场最大可达1.5%–2.0%.同时,还构建了I波段夜天光背景的Fringing模型,并开放给该望远镜用户使用.     

1m红外太阳望远镜光电导行系统中像场旋转的分析

云南天文台1m红外太阳望远镜(YNST)光电导行系统是基于检测太阳像在面阵CMOS图像传感器上的偏移量作为反馈控制信号的高精度闭环跟踪系统[1]。由于YNST是一个地平式装置,在太阳像偏移检测量中存在着像场旋转量,为了获取稳定清晰的太阳像,必须对检测量进行消旋[2]才能达到光电导行系统的跟踪要求。根据球面天文学及天体测量学的知识并结合导行镜的光学系统,推导了光电导行系统中像场旋转的变化规律并对其进行模拟分析。     

关于地平式反射望远镜的CCD平场(英文)

现有标准设计的反光望远镜在拍摄CCD平场时,绝大多数都受残留散射光的影响.但是赤道式与地平式反光镜所受影响是不同的.在赤道式上做时间序列较差测光时,只要待测星永远位于CCD的固定像元上,不太准确的CCD平场也能得到高精度的测光结果.当需要0.1%～0.3%精度的平场时,则可以采用夜天平场.地平式的特点是,它的CCD相机必须置于旋转器上,在跟踪天体时不停地旋转,以抵消地球自转的影响.上述用于赤道式的方法失效,因此,在CCD平场时,消除散射光的影响比赤道式更为重要.一个典型的地平式反光镜的例子是NAOC兴隆天文台的EOS 1米镜.虽然该台已附加了防散射光的装置,但是对所有B、V、R、I滤光片,在不同旋转器位置拍摄的CCD平场,仍然有2%～3%的差别(主要是梯度).该文给出了改进的建议,必须满足下面两个条件:Cij=C(r);旋转器的中心与反光镜的光学中心重合.此问题的解决对所有地平式反光望远镜都有普遍意义.     

A wide-field corrector at the prime focus of a Ritchey-Chrétien telescope

We propose a form of a lens corrector at the prime focus of a hyperboloidal mirror that provides a flat field of view up to 3° in diameter at image quality D₈₀<0.8 arcsec in integrated (0.32–1.1 µm) light. The corrector consists of five lenses made of fused silica. All lens surfaces are spherical in shape, so the system is capable of achieving better images, if necessary, by aspherizing the surfaces. The optical system of the corrector is stable in the sense that its principal features are retained when optimized after significant perturbations of its parameters. As an example, we calculated three versions of the corrector for the Blanco 4-m telescope at Cerro Tololo Inter-American Observatory with \(2\mathop .\limits^ \circ 12\), \(2\mathop .\limits^ \circ 4\) and \(3\mathop .\limits^ \circ 0\) fields of view.     

SCORPIO-2 guiding and calibration system in the prime focus of the 6-m telescope

We describe a device (adapter) for off-axis guiding and photometric calibration of wide-angle spectrographs operating in the prime focus of the 6-m telescope of the Special Astrophysical Observatory of the Russian Academy of Sciences. To compensate coma in off-axis star images an achromatic lens corrector is used, which ensures maintaining image quality (FWHM) at a level of about 1″ within 15′ from the optical axis. The device has two 54″-diameter movable guiding fields, which can move in 10′ × 4.′5 rectangular areas. The device can perform automatic search for guiding stars, use them to control the variations of atmospheric transmittance, and focus the telescope during exposure. The limiting magnitude of potential guiding stars is m _R ~ 17^m. The calibration path whose optical arrangement meets the telecentrism condition allows the spectrograph to be illuminated both by a source of line spectrum (a He–Ne–Ar filled lamp) and by a source of continuum spectrum. The latter is usually represented either by a halogen lamp or a set of light-emitting diodes, which provide illumination of approximately uniform intensity over the wavelength interval from 350 to 900 nm. The adapter is used for observations with SCORPIO-2 multimode focal reducer.     

Exact optics – VI. Schmidt cameras and prime correctors

The methods of exact optics are here extended to cover the design of lens and mirror systems. Power series are given for the shapes of both Schmidt corrector plates and their complementary almost spherical mirrors. Their off-axis images are analysed.
A meniscus glass corrector extends the prime focus field of an f /3.333 reflector with subarcsecond images by a factor greater than 10.     

Three types of 2-degree field compensating atmospheric dispersion correctors for prime focus

Three types of prime focus correctors for Chinese 2.16m telescope are introduced in this paper. Each corrector has a 2 degree field and can be used to compensate the atmospheric dispersion of 6″. All the three correctors have excellent image quality and the angles between the principal rays and the optical axes are quite small. There is no special technological difficulty in their fabrication. These designs can not only be used in the 2.16m telescope but also be applied to other large telescopes.     

Polarization comparison between on-axis and off-axis dual reflector telescopes: Zemax and Grasp8 simulations

The cross-polarization performance for an off-axis dual reflector telescope is shown to be equivalent to an on-axis telescope when used for a large-format focal plane array. The need for low sidelobes forces the on-axis designs to high curvature, which in turn leads to high cross-polarization at the edge of the field. A scheme for correcting instrumental-polarization is presented, as well as a full design for a polarization-pure optical system capable of supporting a 1000-element focal plane array.     

IFU Unit in Scorpio-2 Focal Reducer for Integral-Field Spectroscopy on the 6-m Telescope of the Special Astrophysical Observatory of the Russian Academy of Sciences

We describe the scheme and design features of the new IFU unit (Integral Field Unit) meant to perform integral-field spectroscopy as a part of SCORPIO-2 focal reducer, which is mounted in the prime focus of the 6-m telescope of the Special Astrophyscial Observatory of the Russian Academy of Sciences. The design of the unit is based on the principle of the formation of array spectra using a lens raster combined with optical fibers. The unit uses a rectangular raster consisting of 22×22 square 2-mm diameter lenses. The image of the object is transferred by an optical system with a 23^× magnification from the focal plane of the telescope to the plane of the lens raster. The image scale is —0.″75/lens and the field of view of the instrument has the size of 16.″5 × 16.—5². The raster also contains two extra 2 × 7 lens arrays to acquire the night-sky spectra whose images are offset by ±3′from the center. Optical fibers are used to transform micropupil images into two pseudoslits located at the IFU collimator entrance. When operating in the IFU mode a set of volume phase holographic gratings (VPHG) provides a spectral range of 4600–7300 Å and a resolution λ/δλ of 1040 to 2800. The quantum efficiency of SCORPIO-2 field spectroscopy is 6–13% depending on the grating employed.We describe the technique of data acquisition and reduction using IFU unit and report the results of test observations of the Seyfert galaxyMrk 78 performed on the 6-m telescope of the Special Astrophysical Observatory of the Russian Academy of Sciences.     

DSRT三轴低频天线指向误差批量测量和校正方法

稻城圆环阵太阳射电望远镜(Daocheng Solar Radio Telescope, DSRT)作为子午工程二期太阳-行星际探测子系统的重要部分, 工作在150--450MHz频段, 可提供高空间、高时间分辨率的太阳爆发亮温图像. 针对DSRT天线的高精度指向测量以及对指向误差批量标定和校正的需求, 首先根据DSRT独有的三轴座架系统, 通过四元数旋转变换法建立了天线3参数编码器零点误差模型; 然后提出了基于射电源的漂移扫描法获得16个单元天线功率方向图, 并根据2维方向图确定波束中心的方法精确测量了DSRT天线指向误差; 最后用最小二乘法拟合得到模型参数, 并通过天线控制软件重新调整各个轴的零点, 后对调整结果进行验证. 结果表明指向校正方法可靠有效, 校正后16个天线的指向精度为0.5$^\circ$之内, 明显优于校正前3.5$^\circ$的指向误差, 满足误差小于DSRT天线最高工作频率下的1/10波束范围内的要求.     

Ghost Images in Schmidt CCD Photometry

The wide field of the Schmidt telescope implies a greater chance of the field containing bright objects, and the presence of a corrector lens produces a certain type of ghost images. We summarize and confirm the features of such ghost images in Schmidt CCD photometry. The ghost images could be star-like under special observational conditions. The zenith distance of the telescope, among other factors, is found to correlate with different patterns of the ghost images. Some relevant issues are discussed and possible applications of our results are suggested.     

A generalized measurement equation and van Cittert-Zernike theorem for wide-field radio astronomical interferometry

We derive a generalized van Cittert-Zernike (vC-Z) theorem for radio astronomy that is valid for partially polarized sources over an arbitrarily wide field of view (FoV). The classical vC-Z theorem is the theoretical foundation of radio astronomical interferometry, and its application is the basis of interferometric imaging. Existing generalized vC-Z theorems in radio astronomy assume, however, either paraxiality (narrow FoV) or scalar (unpolarized) sources. Our theorem uses neither of these assumptions, which are seldom fulfiled in practice in radio astronomy, and treats the full electromagnetic field. To handle wide, partially polarized fields, we extend the two-dimensional (2D) electric field (Jones vector) formalism of the standard 'Measurement Equation' (ME) of radio astronomical interferometry to the full three-dimensional (3D) formalism developed in optical coherence theory. The resulting vC-Z theorem enables full-sky imaging in a single telescope pointing, and imaging based not only on standard dual-polarized interferometers (that measure 2D electric fields) but also electric tripoles and electromagnetic vector-sensor interferometers. We show that the standard 2D ME is easily obtained from our formalism in the case of dual-polarized antenna element interferometers. We also exploit an extended 2D ME to determine that dual-polarized interferometers can have polarimetric aberrations at the edges of a wide FoV. Our vC-Z theorem is particularly relevant to proposed, and recently developed, wide FoV interferometers such as Low Frequency Array (LOFAR) and Square Kilometer Array (SKA), for which direction-dependent effects will be important.     

Magnetic field of solar prominences: The procedure of radio observations

The first successful radio astronomical results of measurements of the magnetic field of solar prominences are presented. The accuracy of polarization and magnetic field observations is 3 · · 10⁻⁴ and 2 G, respectively. The observations were made by the 22-meter radio telescope of the Crimean Astrophysical Observatory at wavelengths of 8 and 13.5 mm. It has been found that the value of the magnetic fields coincides with the optical one (from 7 to 30 G), but the image of radio polarization differs from the intensity.