绝对差分算法误差对测大气视宁度的影响分析

对绝对差分算法检测太阳边缘的起伏测量白日视宁度的方法进行了研究,并对绝对差分的结果进行二阶拟合使之可以达到亚像素的检测精度。对可能的影响因素如噪声和像差等进行了分析和数值模拟,算法的精度优于0．1”。模拟结果表明,采用绝对差分算法可以对白日视宁度进行高精度的测量,最后用绝对差分算法对实际数据进行了处理,给出了初步结果。     

基于振动测量的视宁度测量方法研究

根据像运动法测视宁度的原理,研究了一种新的视宁度测量方法,可以用口径为10 cm左右的望远镜测视宁度,并能排除人为因素和仪器光学质量的影响。原理是用加速度传感器测量望远镜的振动,并从单个星像的抖动中扣除镜筒振动的影响。为此设计了一套测量振动装置,进行了观测,并与差分像运动视宁度监测仪(Differential Image Motion Monitor,DIMM)作了比较,发现该方法在一定程度上消除了望远镜抖动对像运动法测视宁度的影响,但不能完全消除。     

差分像运动视宁度优化监测法

大气视宁度是衡量台址大气光学品质的重要指标。差分像运动视宁度监测仪(Differential Image Motion Monitor,DIMM)被广泛应用于国内外天文选址的视宁度测量作业。介绍了一种优良的视宁度测量方法——差分像运动视宁度优化监测(Improved to Differential Image Motion Monitor,I-DIMM)法。首先对I-DIMM的结构设计和视宁度计算方法进行了详细描述;随后通过设置0. 36 m和0. 12 m两种口径望远镜进行视宁度的模拟测量,将I-DIMM测量结果与传统的DIMM测量的结果进行对比,均证明I-DIMM视宁度计算方法比DIMM更为精确;最后对模拟结果进行了分析,证明了I-DIMM相比于DIMM的优势。     

用DIMM测视宁度的几个问题

DIMM测视宁度是目前世界上通行和好的方法之一 ,但仪器、观测和处理方法不同会影响观测结果和精度 ,本文就其中的几个最主要因素进行讨论。包括 :望远镜和子瞳 ,曝光时间 ,取样时间 ,星像计算的判据和计算方法问题     

用DIMM测视宁度的几个问题

DIMM测视宁度是目前世界上通行和好的方法之一，但仪器、观测和处理方法不同会影响观测结果和精度，本文就其中的几个最主要因素进行讨论。包括：望远镜和子瞳，曝光时间，取样时间，星像计算的判据和计算方法问题。     

天文仪器中图像跟踪定位算法的比较研究

天文光学观测中采用快速图像跟踪定位可以降低大气视宁度和望远镜跟踪误差的影响,提高观测效率.针对天文仪器观测的需要选择了两类共5种算法,通过数值实验和实验室实测对这两类算法在不同噪声背景下的精度和稳定性进行了比较研究,数值实验和实验室测试的结果表明归一化互相关法和重心法既有较高的精度,又有较好的抗干扰可靠性,将分别被应用于2.16 m望远镜的高色散光谱仪前置系统和SONG(Stellar Observations Network Group)项目的科学仪器.     

长期视宁度监测DIMM系统设计方案

视宁度参数r0是现代天文选址中需要测量的一个重要物理量,而差分像视宁度监测仪(Differential Image Motion Monitor,DIMM)是目前普遍采用的测量视宁度参数r0的天文仪器。详细介绍了可进行长期视宁度监测的DIMM系统的设计方案,重点讨论了目标星指向、自动导星、自动测量和数据保存等部分。长期视宁度监测DIMM系统的部署,有助于分析已选站址或候选站址的本征视宁度,评价一个站址的成像质量。     

三孔较差像运动测量仪计算和统计的进一步探讨

从天文选址的角度出发 ,介绍了影响望远镜光学成像质量的大气湍流的成因、特性以及它对星光波前的影响 ,进而对衡量大气宁静度的量度值———大气视宁度做了详细的叙述 ,包括其测量方法 ,以及目前国际天文选址界常用的较差像运动测量仪的测量原理 ,介绍了云台三孔较差像运动测量仪的光学和硬件结构组成部分 ,对图像处理 /采集软件中用Waldie法计算大气视宁度值与用Roddier法计算大气视宁度值的不同之处进行了理论的分析 ,编写了Roddier法相应软件 ,并用于实测中测量了大气视宁度的值 ,得到一些有意义的结果。     

对Pickering视宁度等级判定法的补充

使用望远镜目视星像评估视宁度时,常用Pickering视宁度等级(Pickering Seeing Scale)判定法,但这个等级并未仔细考虑望远镜的光瞳函数对衍射环的影响。事实上经典的Pickering视宁度等级并不非常适合目前常用的有副镜的折反射望远镜,本文通过数值模拟和解析计算验证了这个问题,并在此基础上对Pickering视宁度等级判定法做了相应的补充。     

PSSN在TMT宽视场光谱仪中的应用研究

光学系统像质评价是光学设计的核心,通过对常用像质评价方法与在30 m望远镜(Thirty Meter Telescope,TMT)的像质评价中提出的归一化点源灵敏度函数(Normalized Point Source Sensitivity,PSSN)的分析比较,对PSSN在TMT宽视场光谱仪(Wide Field Optical Spectrometer,WFOS)中的应用进行了研究.包括对大气视宁度的简化模拟、TMT中M3的移动对系统PSSN的影响、WFOS中准直镜的移动对系统PSSN的影响、在不同大气湍流的条件下PSSN与天顶角的关系以及PSSN与波像差的均方根值(root mean square of wavefront error,RMS WFE)μ之间的关系.结果表明,PSSN对视宁度受限下的TMT的像质评价是有效的.     

山东大学威海天文台视宁度研究

山东大学威海天文台拥有口径1 m的赤道式反射光学望远镜,于2007年6月建成并投入使用。对天文台2008年、2009年的所有观测数据用编写的IRAF自动处理程序进行处理得到了大气视宁度值,对得到的大气视宁度进行了分析研究,并与天文台气象站获得的气象数据一起进行了分析。经分析得到了山东大学威海天文台的大气视宁度状况,同时得到了一些大气视宁度随气象因素变化的规律。     

A means for improving telescope derives

In seeking to minimize local seeing, some large telescopes are being planned with less wind protection than has been traditional and some sites with very good seeing appear to suffer significantly from ground-transmitted vibration. A great care is needed in designing new telescopes to ensure that vibration does not become a dominant cause of image degradation. A supplementary drive system is proposed which could improve on past tracking performances even in such adverse conditions. The system may also reduce the costs of very large telescopes by easing the demands on the stiffness and accuracy of their mountings and drives.Paper presented at the Symposium on JNLT and Related Engineering Developments, Tokyo, November 29–December 2, 1988.     

像运动法测量视宁度参数中曝光时间的重要性及其测定

大气湍流会导致天文图像的像质衰减 ,而视宁度r0 则是描述这种衰减的特征参数。在本文中 ,我们给出了像运动法测量中r0 和曝光时间之间的关系 :曝光时间必须小于大气相干时间 ,否则测量的r0 值将偏大。基于这个原因以及对仪器检测的需要 ,我们必须对视宁度测量仪的曝光时间进行准确地测量。为此我们设计了一种实验方法来测定视频CCD的曝光时间 ,实验的结果表明这种方法是可靠的     

Site testing at Muztagh-ata site Ⅱ:seeing statistics

In this article,we present a detailed analysis of the statistical properties of seeing for the Muztaghata site which is a candidate site for hosting the future Chinese Large Optical/infrared Telescope(LOT)project.The measurements were obtained with differential image motion monitors(DIMMs) from April2017 to November 2018 at different heights during different periods.The median seeings at 11 m and6 m are very close but significantly different from that on the ground.We mainly analyzed the seeing at11 m monthly and hourly,having found that the best season for observing was from late autumn to early winter and seeing tended to improve during the night only in autumn.The analysis of the dependence on temperature inversion,wind speed and direction also was made and the best meteorological conditions for seeing are given.     

Acceleration feedback control(AFC) enhanced by disturbance observation and compensation(DOC) for high precision tracking in telescope systems

In this paper, a cascade acceleration feedback control(AFC) enhanced by a disturbance observation and compensation(DOC) method is proposed to improve the tracking precision of telescope systems.Telescope systems usually suffer some uncertain disturbances, such as wind load, nonlinear friction and other unknown disturbances. To ensure tracking precision, an acceleration feedback loop which can increase the stiffness of such a system is introduced. Moreover, to further improve the tracking precision, we introduce the DOC method which can accurately estimate the disturbance and compensate it. Furthermore,the analysis of tracking accuracy used by this method is proposed. Finally, a few comparative experimental results show that the proposed control method has excellent performance for reducing the tracking error of a telescope system.     

Simultaneous seeing measurement through the Subaru Telescope in the visible and near-infrared bands for the wavelength dependence evaluation

Stellar images have been obtained under natural seeing at visible and near-infrared wavelengths simultaneously through the Subaru Telescope at Mauna Kea. The image quality is evaluated by the full-width at the half-maximum (FWHM) of the stellar images. The observed ratio of FWHM in the V-band to the K-band is 1.54 ± 0.17 on average. The ratio shows tendency to decrease toward bad seeing as expected from the outer scale influence, though the number of the samples is still limited. The ratio is important for simulations to evaluate the performance of a ground-layer adaptive optics system at near-infrared wavelengths based on optical seeing statistics. The observed optical seeing is also compared with outside seeing to estimate the dome seeing of the Subaru Telescope.     

A Comparison of Several Image Locating Algorithms in Astronomical Instruments

In astronomical observations at optical wavelengths, a fast image tracking system can be adopted to reduce the effects of the atmospheric seeing and telescopic tracking error, and therefore improve the observing efficiency. Aiming at the need of astronomical observations, totally 5 kinds of algorithms in two categories were selected to make a comparative study on their accuracies and stabilities under different noise conditions by both numerical experiment and laboratory test. The results indicate that the normalized cross-correlation method and barycenter method have not only a higher accuracy but also a better reliability against interferences, they will be applied to the high-resolution spectrograph of the Xinglong 2.16 m telescope and the scienti?c instruments of the SONG (Stellar Observations Network Group) project, respectively.     

Las campanas observatory seeing measurements

Instrumentation built to record seeing data automatically via image motion measurements of bright stars in small telescopes is described. The centroid of the star image is found 256 times s^-1 in one dimension and is analyzed on-line. The device works over a range of FWHM values as would be seen through a large telescope between <0.1 and 3.0 arcsec. The first results for two identical instruments set up at two locations near the duPont Telescope at Las Campanas Observatory are reported. For a total of 61 nights of data (450 h at each site), the median seeing is 0.6 arcsec, with quartiles at 0.4 and 0.8 arcsec. These are FWHM values referred to 5000 Å at the zenith. So far, the two sites are indistinguishable on average.     

Field-Dependent Adaptive Optics Correction Derived with the Spectral Ratio Technique

In this empirical study, we compare high-resolution observations obtained with the 65-cm vacuum reflector at Big Bear Solar Observatory (BBSO) in 2005 and with the Dunn Solar Telescope (DST) at the National Solar Observatory/Sacramento Peak (NSO/SP) in 2006. We measure the correction of the high-order adaptive optics (AO) systems across the field of view (FOV) using the spectral ratio technique, which is commonly employed in speckle masking imaging, and differential image motion measurements. The AO correction is typically much larger (10^′′ to 25^′′) than the isoplanatic angle and can be described by a radially symmetric function with a central core and extended wings. The full-width at half-maximum (FWHM) of the core represents a measure of the AO correction. The average FWHM values for BBSO and NSO/SP are 23.5^′′ and 18.2^′′, respectively. The extended wings of the function show that the AO systems still contribute to an improved speckle reconstruction at the periphery of the 80^′′×80^′′ FOV. The major differences in the level of AO correction between BBSO and NSO/SP can be explained by different contributions of ground-layer- and free-atmosphere-dominated seeing, as well as different FOVs of the wavefront sensors. In addition, we find an anisotropic spectral ratio in sunspot penumbrae caused by the quasi-one-dimensional nature of penumbral filaments, which introduces a significant error in the estimation of the Fourier amplitudes during the image restoration process.     

湍流大气的像质衰减参数及测量

讨论了经过大气后天文图象的象质衰减,研究了对这种衰减进行描述的视宁度参数ｒ０及其它几个大气光学参数,介绍了几种测量象质衰减参数的方法,重点介绍了我们将差分像运动法运用于白日视宁度测量的尝试以及新设计的可兼顾昼夜的视宁度测量仪,仪器已用于云台白日的视宁度测量。最后对近场近似假设进行了定量分析,在此基础上给出了新确定的近场近似成立的范围,这一范围比以前所给的要更大些。