RTS2中新CCD类型扩展方法

CCD是天文望远镜中最常见的观测终端设备,也是望远镜自主控制系统中的重要组成部分。随着天文望远镜自主观测需求的不断出现以及技术的快速发展,开源的RTS2软件系统成为目前该领域研究中受到较多关注的系统之一。但RTS2支持的CCD设备较为有限,同时控制接口约定也相对固定。在针对部分特殊的CCD设备(如LAMOST中采用的32台CCD设备、选址用的部分CCD设备)时,仅实现原有类的方法是不够的。在深入分析RTS2源码的基础上,重点从参数、命令、协议扩展方面研究基于原有的Camera类,通过继承的方法构造新的CCD类型,实现对LAMOST项目的 CCD控制,取得了较好的效果,对在RTS2中集成望远镜系统其他类型设备也有较好的参考价值。     

绕月探测工程CCD立体相机的实验室辐射定标

探月光学有效载荷系统含CCD立体相机与干涉成像光谱仪两台光学遥感器,CCD立体相机完成的科学目标主要是与激光高度计配合获取月球表面三维立体图像。文章主要叙述了三线阵立体相机的工作原理,定标内容、目的以及CCD裸片像元检测和整机的相对定标和绝对定标过程。     

基于MYSQL/LINUX 的LAMOST数据库设计与实现

大天区面积多目标光纤光谱天文望远镜（LAMOST）将被建成，在投入使用之前设计开发出全自动处理光谱的软件系统是必需的。完善的数据库系统是该光谱处理软件不可缺少的一部分。本文分析了LAMOST对数据库的需求，设计并实现了基于MYSQL／LINUX的LAMOST数据库系统并对该系统进行了初步测试。     

由USB3相机和GigE相机构建的图像采集系统

使用不同厂商生产且接口类型不同的高速相机组建一个统一控制的图像采集系统,会大大增加开发的难度。介绍一个由USB3接口CCD相机和GigE接口CCD相机组成的图像采集系统的硬件结构和软件开发方案。硬件方面,相机在外同步触发信号的作用下,由一台图像工作站同时采集两台相机的图像。软件方面,使用不同相机的开发包进行二次开发,系统运行后弹出两台相机的控制与采集界面,采用人机交互方式进行相机配置。两台相机可以独立工作,亦可同步采集。图像采集系统实验表明,系统工作正常,但在工作站完成两台相机单帧图像采集的时间差均值约15 ms。     

LAMOST观测控制系统用户界面设计

位于国家天文台兴隆观测基地的大天区面积多目标光纤光谱天文望远镜(LAMOST)是世界上最大的、可操控的反射施密特望远镜。为了便于控制望远镜,提高观测效率,设计了观测控制系统图形用户界面。首先分析了LAMOST望远镜的控制软件体系结构,采用基于场景的以用户为中心的设计方法,对界面进行了分析和设计。使用Qt、CORBA、多线程技术和MVC模式,实现了用户界面,并对界面进行了测试。最后,用户界面得到了用户的认可,成功应用于LAMOST观测。     

一种基于主分量分析的减天光方法

天光是天体观测中的一种重要噪声源.减天光问题是制约多目标光纤光谱观测深度的重要因素.主分量分析(PCA)是统计学的一种分析方法,它可以用来寻找各个天光谱之间的关系,以进一步获得目标光谱中含有的天光成分.为了研究LAMOST的减天光方法,用SDSS的一组原始观测数据进行了仿真实验,实验结果表明,采用PCA方法比SDSS处理程序能够更有效地减天光.最后对PCA方法在LAMOST中的应用前景进行了展望.     

一种基于二维算法的新颖的多目标光纤光谱数据处理流程

郭守敬望远镜(Large Sky Area Multi-Object Fiber Spectroscopic Telescope,LAMOST)、斯隆数字巡天(Sloan Digital Sky Survey,SDSS)、英澳望远镜(AngloAustralia Telescope,AAT)等大多数多目标光纤光谱望远镜现用的数据处理流程都是基于一维算法的.以LAMOST为例提出多目标光纤光谱数据处理流程方法.在LAMOST现用数据处理流程中,在预处理过程之后,通过基于一维模型的抽谱算法从二维观测目标光谱数据中得到一维抽谱结果作为中间数据.后续的处理步骤都基于一维模型的算法.然而,这种数据处理流程不符合观测光谱的形成机理.因此,在每个步骤中都引入了不可忽略的误差.为了解决这一问题,提出了一种还未被用于LAMOST及其他望远镜数据处理系统的新颖的数据处理流程.重新设计安排了各个数据处理模块的顺序,各关键步骤算法都是基于二维模型的.核心算法将详细论述.此外,列出了部分实验结果来证明二维算法的有效性和优越性.     

分离式靶标摄影测量在LAMOST中的应用

为了获取LAMOST焦面板上光纤的零位位置,提出了一种基于分离式标准靶标的高精度摄影测量方法。首先,根据Tsai摄像机标定参数模型介绍了CCD相机的标定原理。然后介绍了用光重心算法求取靶标发光点像面坐标及通过球面三角公式计算靶标发光点物面坐标。接着,利用最小二乘法导出了含标定参数的方程组。最后,介绍了标准靶标的放置方法以及提高光纤位置测量精度的靶标取法。实验结果表明:CCD相机的标定残差平均值为8.8μm;标定残差的标准差为5.3μm。测量方法简单易行,通过仔细分析,找出了残差偏大的原因,对后续进一步测量实验有重要指导意义。     

基于数据仓库的星系光谱分类

大天区面积多目标光纤光谱天文望远镜(LAMOST)将被建成,会产生大量的星系光谱数据。根据天文数据的积累过程,我们设计基于数据仓库的星系光谱分类系统。文章首先介绍了星系光谱的特征,数据仓库的特点,在此基础上描述了建立基于数据仓库的星系光谱自动分类系统的步骤,并给出对该系统进行测试的结果。     

同幅双速跟踪成像CCD相机数字控制器的设计

在介绍了同幅双速跟踪成像CCD相机的工作原理及其对相机数字控制器的要求之后,阐述了该数字控制器的设计思想,基本结构,并给出了仿真及测试结果。针对仿真及测试过程中出现的问题作了较为详细的分析,并提出了解决的方法。通过软件仿真及硬件测试,表明其设计是基本正确的。     

LAMOST CCD camera-control system based on RTS2

The Large Sky Area Multi-Object Fiber Spectroscopic Telescope(LAMOST) is the largest existing spectroscopic survey telescope, having 32 scientific charge-coupled-device(CCD) cameras for acquiring spectra. Stability and automation of the camera-control software are essential, but cannot be provided by the existing system. The Remote Telescope System 2 nd Version(RTS2) is an open-source and automatic observatory-control system. However, all previous RTS2 applications were developed for small telescopes. This paper focuses on implementation of an RTS2-based camera-control system for the 32 CCDs of LAMOST. A virtual camera module inherited from the RTS2 camera module is built as a device component working on the RTS2 framework. To improve the controllability and robustness, a virtualized layer is designed using the master-slave software paradigm, and the virtual camera module is mapped to the 32 real cameras of LAMOST. The new system is deployed in the actual environment and experimentally tested. Finally, multiple observations are conducted using this new RTS2-frameworkbased control system. The new camera-control system is found to satisfy the requirements for automatic camera control in LAMOST. This is the first time that RTS2 has been applied to a large telescope, and provides a referential solution for full RTS2 introduction to the LAMOST observatory control system.     

A Performance Study of the CCD Cameras of the Joint Laboratory of Optical Astronomy

A performance study of several CCD cameras of the Chinese Joint Laboratory of Optical Astronomy (CJLOA) is presented. The main results are: 1) We propose a modified classical method to analyse the linearity of CCD cameras. This method is more sensitive and accurate as well as more intuitive, especially in measuring around the 0.1%-0.2% range of nonlinearity. 2) To illustrate the advantage of the method, the linearity performance of the CCD cameras at CJLOA has been measured and analysed. 3) For the CCD systems tested, there is no unique formula to represent the correlation over the entire CCD frame between the deviation from linearity and the pixel value, i.e., different pixel has different correction even though their pixel values are the same. 4) For the BFOSC (BAO Faint Object Spectrograph Camera) Loral CCD camera and the Tek CCD camera at the 1.56-m reflector, blooming (bleeding) happens long before saturation, and we suspect whether it could have resulted from the charge transfer efficiency (CTE) n     

Research on the readout noise suppression method for digital correlated double sampling

As the areas of CCD detectors and CCD mosaics have become larger and larger,the number of readout channels in astronomical cameras has increased accordingly to keep the image readout time within an acceptable range.For the large area cameras or the mosaic cameras,the analog Correlated Double Sampling(aCDS)circuit used in traditional astronomical cameras for suppressing readout noise is difficult to integrate into the camera controllers within the constraints of the space and energy consumption.Recently,digital CDS(dCDS)technology has been developed to solve this problem,which also offers novel analysis and noise suppression methods.In this study,a mathematical model is presented to conveniently analyze the frequency characteristic of a dCDS circuit,which is then simulated by a numerical method for investigating the noise suppression capability with different sampling weights.Importantly,using this model,the extreme point with lowest readout noise can be predicted for a certain dCDS model;and for a specific CCD readout frequency,readout noise can be suppressed by selecting the proper dCDS model.A testing system is then constructed for validating the efficiency of the proposed method.     

2.4m望远镜摄谱仪狭缝监视系统

为了实现对云南天文台2.4m望远镜摄谱仪狭缝的远程监视,我们以CPLD为核心设计了CCD控制器,用PC-104嵌入式计算机采集图像,利用pcAnywhere软件实现远程数据传输,以较低的成本设计制作了一套狭缝监视系统。该系统目前已经通过测试,达到了狭缝监视的基本要求,并为下一步实现自动导星和Robotic观测打下了基础。本文详细介绍了该系统的软硬件设计和测试结果。     

An Active Flexure Compensation Method for LAMOST spectrograph based on BP-Neural Network

The Large sky Area Multi-Object fiber Spectroscopic Telescope(LAMOST) is a Chinese national scientific research facility operated by National Astronomical Observatories, Chinese Academy of Sciences(NAOC). The LAMOST survey for the Milky Way Galaxy and extra-galactic objects has been carried out for several years. The accuracies in measuring radial velocity are expected to be 5 km s-1 for the low resolution spectroscopic survey(R = 1800), and 1 km s-1 for the medium resolution mode. The stability of spectrograph is the main factor affecting the accuracies in measuring radial velocity, so an Active Flexure Compensation Method(AFCM) based on Back Propagation Neural Network(BPNN) is proposed in this paper. It utilizes a deep BP(4-layer, 5-layer etc.) model of thermal-induced flexure to periodically predict and apply flexure corrections by commanding the corresponding tilt and tip motions to the camera. The spectrograph camera system is adjusted so that the positions of these spots match those in a reference image. The simulated calibration of this compensation method analytically illustrates its performance on LAMOST spectrograph.     

The Method of Measurements of Celestial Coordinates in Wide-Field TV-Frames

We present a method for calculations of equatorial coordinates of any point in the single frame of the wide-field TV systems. This method can be applying for the different television systems [wide-field cameras, all-sky cameras, the cameras with the hybrid TV-system (the system with coupled of the Image Intensifier) et al.]. In that system the calculations of distortions are difficult. Therefore, we devised this method which helps decrease errors (due to distortion and the electro-optical system).The method can be used for measuring of equatorial coordinates of meteor tracks under difficult conditions during the observations such as partial cloudiness, small number of stars and large distortions of the coordinate grid in the frame. These restrictions cannot be overcome by other methods. In the case of the small number of stars the present method using of the reference stars received on a series of frames during the observation period. The accuracy of the method has been estimated to be 4′–8′ (for cameras with fov 50°?×?40° at the CCD 720?×?576 pixels) for maximum number of reference points in the frame. The method used 3 reference points for calculation of the equatorial coordinates of the object. One can use this method if the camera was re-oriented as well. We use this method for our wide field of view cameras.     

The Armagh Observatory Meteor Camera Cluster: Overview and Status

Armagh Observatory installed a sky monitoring system consisting of two wide angle (90° × 52°) and one medium angle (52° × 35°) cameras in July 2005. The medium angle camera is part of a double station setup with a similar camera in Bangor, ∼73 km ENE of Armagh. All cameras use UFOCapture to record meteors automatically; software for off-line photometry, astrometry and double station calculations is currently being developed. The specifications of the cameras and cluster configuration are described in detail. 2425 single station meteors (1167, 861 and 806 by the medium-angle and the wide-angle cameras respectively) and 547 double station meteors were recorded during the months July 2005 to Dec 2006. About 212 double station meteors were recorded by more than one camera in the cluster. The effects of weather conditions on camera productivity are discussed. The distribution of single and double station meteor counts observed for the years 2005 and 2006 and calibrated for weather conditions are presented.