离焦量误差对相位差法波前重构的影响

相位差法波前探测是利用焦面和已知像差函数及像差尺度的离焦位置上同时采集的一对短曝光图像,通过最优化方法使代价函数最小化,从而得到目标和波前相位估计值的渡前探测方法.本文通过计算机模拟了像差函数为离焦像差的情况下,经相位差法波前探测成像系统后在焦面和离焦面上采集得到的图像强度分布,采用有限内存拟牛顿法(LFBGS)对模拟图像进行数值求解,实现了渡前相位的重构和对面源目标的重建;由于在实际应用中测量误差和机械加工带来的离焦量偏差是不可避免的,因此在模拟实验中就离焦量尺度不精确的情况进行了分析.     

基于相位差法的光学综合孔径望远镜失调检测技术

光学综合孔径望远镜常常因为子望远镜间的失调大于1λ而产生相位差,影响望远镜的分辨能力.基于相位差法的检测技术,主要是利用在焦面和离焦位置上同时采集的一对图像,对光瞳上的相位分布进行恢复,从而得出子望远镜间的微小失调误差.在计算机模拟成像系统的基础上,我们使用有限差分法对波前相位进行了恢复.模拟研究结果表明,相位差法可以较准确恢复出波前相位,检测出失调量.     

基于相位差方法的天文目标高分辨率成像研究

基于相位差方法的天文目标高分辨率成像,是利用在焦面和离焦位置上同时采集的一对或者多对短曝光图像,对目标和大气湍流引入的波前相位分布进行估计．在计算机模拟望远镜成像系统和相位差方法图像采集过程的基础上,利用信号估计和最优化理论,确定了高斯噪声模型下的目标函数,采用适合于大规模无约束优化的有限内存拟牛顿法对图像恢复问题进行了数值求解．恢复结果表明,基于相位差方法的高分辨成像技术,可以有效地克服大气湍流的影响,解决天文扩展目标的图像恢复问题．     

基于遗传算法的相位差法波前检测piston误差

光学综合孔径望远镜常常因为子望远镜间的失调大于1λ产生相位差,影响望远镜的分辨能力。基于相位差法的检测技术,可以检测出子望远镜间的微小失调误差。提出了相位差波前检测方法与遗传算法相结合,设计了一个相位差波前传感器,进行综合孔径望远系统的piston误差检测。在计算机模拟成像系统的基础上,仿真结果证明,基于遗传算法的相位差波前检测方法可以较准确地恢复波前相位,检测piston误差。     

一米新真空太阳望远镜离焦对高分辨太阳观测图像重建的影响

由于太阳辐射、环境温度等因素,太阳望远镜在一个观测日内往往有较明显的像差变化,而离焦是其中的主要像差。针对抚仙湖1 m太阳望远镜的高分辨成像观测系统,对其离焦像差及变化进行了简要分析,在此基础上模拟分析了离焦像差对图像高分辨统计重建的影响。分析结果表明,离焦像差对高分辨重建图像的相位传递函数影响不大,但对调制传递函数有明显的影响,进而造成像质衰减,应当进行补偿。     

多功能天文经纬仪图像采集系统

多功能天文经纬仪是云南天文台新近研制的一种基于通用CCD观测的天体测量望远镜。在这台新型望远镜中,用两个模拟相机分别测量仪器的水平差和高度轴的准直差。当望远镜工作时,望远镜控制系统发出两路触发信号．一路控制数字相机,另一路控制两个模拟相机。两个采集卡分别安装在不同的工作站上,工作在外触发模式。介绍了望远镜的转轴观测模式,主要包含转轴前和转轴后两个观测阶段,采集图像的时刻和数量是由外触发信号控制的。介绍了硬件结构图。说明了软件编写的流程和实现方法．并且对系统中涉及的主要程序算法进行了较为详细的说明。图像采集软件的编写采用VC＋＋和SaperaLT。给出了采集系统软件的工作界面及图像采集系统采集的图像．并对数字相机拍摄的恒星像进行了简单的分析。     

高分辨率太阳图像重建方法

高空间分辨率的太阳观测数据有助于深入研究太阳大气现象、太阳物理基本问题。地基大口径太阳望远镜常通过自适应光学技术和图像重建技术获取高空间分辨率图像。目前太阳图像重建技术主要有斑点成像术和斑点相位差法两类。介绍了斑点成像术中几类方法的原理,阐述了斑点成像术重建太阳像的流程以及几个关键步骤,介绍了多帧盲反卷积和相位差法的原理,比较了斑点成像术和斑点相位差法的特点,最后阐述了它们在太阳高分辨率观测中的应用和发展趋势。     

太阳偏振图像高分辨重建误差仿真分析

地基太阳望远镜磁像仪在进行偏振测量时会受到大气湍流的影响,导致测量结果不准确。通过同步探测波前像差,对太阳窄带偏振图像退卷积重建的方法可以克服窄带滤光器带来的偏振测量通道光子数水平较低等问题,将高分辨图像重建算法应用到太阳偏振图像的重建中。在重建过程中,波前估计不准确会导致重建的偏振图像受到I的串扰,与真实的偏振信号之间存在一定偏差。为了研究同步重建过程中波前复原精度对偏振图像重建精度的影响,通过建立仿真模型,对不同视宁度和不同波前复原精度下I对偏振信号的串扰进行了仿真。结果表明,偏振图像的重建质量与波前复原精度正相关,在一定的条件下,增加用于图像重建的帧数和降低图像分辨率等方法也可以降低I对偏振信号的串扰。     

基于精密光程差调制的时域干涉信号闭合相位检测方法研究

闭合相位法是实现长基线恒星光干涉高分辨成像的重要技术手段之一,获得精确的闭合相位信息是进行光干涉图像重构的先决条件.提出一种基于精密光程差调制的时域干涉信号闭合相位检测方法,在3路干涉臂上进行非冗余精密光程调制,并通过多次干涉测量结合数据拟合的方法消除光程差调制中存在的正弦误差,使得光程调制的精度达到20 nm以内.引入高速探测器件提升时域干涉信号的采样频率,对探测器上获得的时域干涉信号进行傅立叶变换处理,获得3路干涉臂精确的闭合相位信息.室内实验结果表明,基于精密光程调制的时域信号闭合相位计算精度可以达到1/50波长以内.     

自适应光学应用于月球激光测距中视场旋转对大气波前倾斜量提取的影响

自适应光学技术应用于月球激光测距试验中需要实时针对月面扩展源进行大气波前倾斜量的提取,望远镜在跟踪月亮的过程中存在月面本身相对望远镜的物方视场的旋转以及望远镜自身的运动所引起的像方视场的旋转,本文讨论了望远镜物方视场及像方视场旋转的规律以及其对大气波前倾斜量提取的影响。     

An iterative wavefront sensing algorithm for high-contrast imaging systems

Wavefront sensing from multiple focal plane images is a promising technique for high-contrast imaging systems.However,the wavefront error of an optics system can be properly reconstructed only when it is very small.This paper presents an iterative optimization algorithm for the direct measurement of large static wavefront errors from only one focal plane image.We first measure the intensity of the pupil image to get the pupil function of the system and acquire the aberrated image on the focal plane with a p...     

白日视宁度监测仪和在抚仙湖的初步观测结果

报导了用南方基地云南天文台太阳差分像运动视宁度监测仪和美国国立太阳天文台的太阳闪烁仪 ,在云南省澄江县抚仙湖老鹰地红外太阳塔选址点进行的对比观测 ,简要地介绍了这两种视宁度测量方法的原理 ,对观测的初步结果进行了分析。     

三孔较差视宁度监视仪及试观测报告

本文介绍了云南天文台研制的三孔较差视宁度监视仪，统计了１９９４年３月至７月期间的试观测情况，及仪器定标和数据处理结果。     

Radiation from arbitrarily shaped objects in the vicinity of Kerr Black Holes

The properties of images of rings in Kerr geometry in each order are examined, showing that there are two principally different image types, depending on whether the extended emitting object has surface elements with larger declination relative to the equatorial plane than does the observer. In this case, the assumption of infinitesimal thinness of the emitting object as used for the general relativistic flux transformation until now, is an invalid approximation. Local images of a vertically extended accretion disc as seen by different observers are presented. They demonstrate the importance to take into account the first indirect image as well.     

Very High-Resolution Solar X-Ray Imaging Using Diffractive Optics

This paper describes the development of X-ray diffractive optics for imaging solar flares with better than 0.1 arcsec angular resolution. X-ray images with this resolution of the ???10?MK plasma in solar active regions and solar flares would allow the cross-sectional area of magnetic loops to be resolved and the coronal flare energy release region itself to be probed. The objective of this work is to obtain X-ray images in the iron-line complex at 6.7?keV observed during solar flares with an angular resolution as fine as 0.1 arcsec ?C over an order of magnitude finer than is now possible. This line emission is from highly ionized iron atoms, primarily Fe xxv, in the hottest flare plasma at temperatures in excess of ???10 MK. It provides information on the flare morphology, the iron abundance, and the distribution of the hot plasma. Studying how this plasma is heated to such high temperatures in such short times during solar flares is of critical importance in understanding these powerful transient events, one of the major objectives of solar physics. We describe the design, fabrication, and testing of phase zone plate X-ray lenses with focal lengths of ???100 m at these energies that would be capable of achieving these objectives. We show how such lenses could be included on a two-spacecraft formation-flying mission with the lenses on the spacecraft closest to the Sun and an X-ray imaging array on the second spacecraft in the focal plane ???100 m away. High-resolution X-ray images could be obtained when the two spacecraft are aligned with the region of interest on the Sun. Requirements and constraints for the control of the two spacecraft are discussed together with the overall feasibility of such a formation-flying mission.     

Perturbation theory of N point-mass gravitational lens systems without symmetry: small mass-ratio approximation

This paper makes the first systematic attempt to determine using perturbation theory the positions of images by gravitational lensing due to arbitrary number of coplanar masses without any symmetry on a plane, as a function of lens and source parameters. We present a method of Taylor-series expansion to solve the lens equation under a small mass-ratio approximation. First, we investigate perturbative structures of a single-complex-variable polynomial, which has been commonly used. Perturbative roots are found. Some roots represent positions of lensed images, while the others are unphysical because they do not satisfy the lens equation. This is consistent with a fact that the degree of the polynomial, namely the number of zeros, exceeds the maximum number of lensed images if   N = 3  (or more). The theorem never tells which roots are physical (or unphysical). In this paper, unphysical ones are identified. Secondly, to avoid unphysical roots, we re-examine the lens equation. The advantage of our method is that it allows a systematic iterative analysis. We determine image positions for binary lens systems up to the third order in mass ratios and for arbitrary N point masses up to the second order. This clarifies the dependence on parameters. Thirdly, the number of the images that admit a small mass-ratio limit is less than the maximum number. It is suggested that positions of extra images could not be expressed as Maclaurin series in mass ratios. Magnifications are finally discussed.     

A new method of photometric calibration of photographic plats by a doubly refracting crystal filter

A filter composed of a crossed pair of doubly refracting crystals and a polaroid, mounted at the focal plane of the telescope, divides each star image into two images of constant intensity ratio. It is shown that such a filter arrangement is capable of providing reliable photographic calibration for stellar photometry.     

Counterstreaming in a Large Polar Crown Filament

The motion of small-scale structures is well resolved in high-resolution filament images that were observed on 19 June 1998 with the Swedish Vacuum Solar Telescope, La Palma. The filament was between 80 000 and 100 000 km high. The study is based on two hours of narrow-band observations at three wavelength positions in Hα. Velocities along the line of sight and in the transverse direction, respectively, V _los and V _tr, were measured for a large number of individual small-scale filament structures. Small features are all moving along nearly parallel threads, some in one direction along the threads and the remainder in the other direction, a pattern of motion known as counterstreaming. The net flow velocities in the two directions are about 8 km s⁻¹ and both are tilted by an angle δ≃16° relative to the plane of the sky. This angle is less than expected, by factors between 2.0 and 2.5, relative to the local horizontal plane. We believe that V _los is underestimated by these factors due to a line-shift reducing effect by the underlying Hα absorption line of the chromosphere. Supplementary material to this paper is available in electronic form at http://dx.doi.org/10.1023/A:1026150809598     

A genetic algorithm for the non-parametric inversion of strong lensing systems

We present a non-parametric technique to infer the projected mass distribution of a gravitational lens system with multiple strong-lensed images. The technique involves a dynamic grid in the lens plane on which the mass distribution of the lens is approximated by a sum of basis functions, one per grid cell. We used the projected mass densities of Plummer spheres as basis functions. A genetic algorithm then determines the mass distribution of the lens by forcing images of a single source, projected back on to the source plane, to coincide as well as possible. Averaging several tens of solutions removes the random fluctuations that are introduced by the reproduction process of genomes in the genetic algorithm and highlights those features common to all solutions. Given the positions of the images and the redshifts of the sources and the lens, we show that the mass of a gravitational lens can be retrieved with an accuracy of a few percent and that, if the sources sufficiently cover the caustics, the mass distribution of the gravitational lens can also be reliably retrieved. A major advantage of the algorithm is that it makes full use of the information contained in the radial images, unlike methods that minimize the residuals of the lens equation, and is thus able to accurately reconstruct also the inner parts of the lens.     

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.