Developement of a stabilized Fabry-Perot etalon based calibrator for Hanle Echelle Spectrograph (HESP)

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العنوان: Developement of a stabilized Fabry-Perot etalon based calibrator for Hanle Echelle Spectrograph (HESP)
المؤلفون: Das, Tanya, Banyal, Ravinder K., T., Sivarani, B, Ravindra
سنة النشر: 2020
المجموعة: Astrophysics
مصطلحات موضوعية: Astrophysics - Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics
الوصف: Accurate wavelength calibration is an important factor for any measurement with high resolution spectrographs. Stellar spectrum comprises of discrete absorption or emission lines whose position is precisely determined by calibrating the spectrograph using known reference lines generated from laboratory sources. For the spectrograph to measure small variations in Doppler shift, the wavelength calibration must be sufficiently stable during observation time. Instrument instability, mainly due to environmental factors like temperature and pressure variations, limitations of traditional calibration methods, for example Th-Ar lamps, are the main challenges which high precision spectroscopy. Through proper environmental control, by maintaining pressure at few mbar and temperature fluctuations within $\pm$0.05$^{\circ}$C, Fabry P\'erot etalon (FP) can yield a velocity precision of 1-10 m/s, when used for wavelength calibration. We have developed a passively stabilized FP based wavelength calibrator for Hanle Echelle Spectrograph (HESP) installed on Himalayan Chandra Telescope (HCT) at Indian Astronomical Observatory (IAO), Hanle, India. The etalon has been characterized using Fourier Transform Spectrograph (FTS) and initial test runs have been performed with HESP. In this paper we present the design and construction of the instrument along with preliminary test results obtained from HESP.
Comment: Accepted in Applied Optics. 9 pages, 19 figures
نوع الوثيقة: Working Paper
DOI: 10.1364/AO.384713
URL الوصول: http://arxiv.org/abs/2006.01453
رقم الأكسشن: edsarx.2006.01453
قاعدة البيانات: arXiv