Bibcode
López, Roberto; Calcines, Ariadna
Referencia bibliográfica
Ground-based and Airborne Instrumentation for Astronomy II. Edited by McLean, Ian S.; Casali, Mark M. Proceedings of the SPIE, Volume 7014, pp. 701452-701452-11 (2008).
Fecha de publicación:
8
2008
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Descripción
In this contribution an Atmospheric Dispersion Corrector (ADC) developed
for the FastCam project is presented. FastCam is a system based on
'lucky imaging' techniques for high spatial resolution, developed at the
Instituto de Astrofisica de Canarias (IAC). The use of a system to
correct the atmosphere's effects is necessary to obtain a good optics
quality in order to satisfy science requirements. Two alternatives for
an atmospheric dispersion corrector for the instrument FastCam have been
studied. One ADC has been designed to be implemented and intended to
correct that atmospherical effect at the 4.2m William Herschel Telescope
(Roque de los Muchachos Observatory, La Palma) for zenithal distances
larger than 15 degrees, mainly in I band. The excellent resolution
reached with FastCam makes this effect to distort the images. This work
presents the design of an ADC as a pre-focus system of two prisms with
variable separation in order to compensate the dispersion until zenithal
distances of 50°. Both are placed in a rotator to align the
orientation of zenithal distorsion. The results for this ADC has been
tested in lab, and in May 2008, at the WHT; our next step will be to use
it at the 10.4m Gran Telescopio Canarias (GTC). Although the system is
still under the final stages of its development, we want to implement it
to the new instruments for high spatial resolution.