期刊
MONTHLY NOTICES OF THE ROYAL ASTRONOMICAL SOCIETY
卷 506, 期 4, 页码 5589-5605出版社
OXFORD UNIV PRESS
DOI: 10.1093/mnras/stab2109
关键词
instrumentation: miscellaneous; instrumentation: spectrographs; techniques: imaging spectroscopy; techniques: spectroscopic telescopes
资金
- IN2P3 (France)
- STFC (UnitedKingdom)
- DOE [DE-AC02-76SF00515]
- NSF
- LSST Corporation (United States)
- Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique
- National Energy Research ScientificComputingCenter, aDOEOffice of Scienc [DE-AC02-05CH11231]
- UK BIS National E-infrastructure capital grants
- GridPP Collaboration
- DOE
The paper presents the testing of a holographic optical element as an aberration-corrected grating for a telescope slitless spectrograph, showing promising results. The holographic disperser prototypes produce significantly better focused spectra compared to regular gratings, approaching theoretical performance in resolution. The roadmap for producing a competitive holographic element for the Vera Rubin Observatory auxiliary telescope has been established.
We report in this paper the test of a plane holographic optical element to be used as an aberration-corrected grating for a slitless spectrograph, inserted in a convergent telescope beam. Our long-term objective is the optimization of a specific hologram to switch the auxiliary telescope imager of the Vera Rubin Observatory into an accurate slitless spectrograph, dedicated to the atmospheric transmission measurement. We present and discuss here the promising results of tests performed with prototype holograms at the CTIO m telescope during a run of 17 nights in 2017 May-June. After their on-sky geometrical characterization, the performances of the holograms as aberration-balanced dispersive optical elements have been established by analysing spectra obtained from spectrophotometric standard stars and narrow-band emitter planetary nebulae. Thanks to their additional optical function, our holographic disperser prototypes allow us to produce significantly better focused spectra within the full visible wavelength domain nm than a regular grating, which suffers from strong defocusing and aberrations when used in similar conditions. We show that the resolution of our slitless on-axis spectrograph equipped with the hologram approaches its theoretical performance. While estimating the benefits of a hologram for the spectrum resolution, the roadmap to produce a competitive holographic element for the Vera Rubin Observatory auxiliary telescope has been established.
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