Asgard/NOTT: water vapor and CO\(_2\) atmospheric dispersion compensation system

To leverage the angular resolution of interferometry at high contrast, one must employ specialized beam-combiners called interferometric nullers. Nullers discard part of the astrophysical information to optimize the recording of light present in the dark fringe of the central source. Asgard/NOTT wil...

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Veröffentlicht in:arXiv.org 2024-07
Hauptverfasser: Laugier, Romain, Defrère, Denis, Ireland, Michael, Garreau, Germain, Absil, Olivier, Matter, Alexis, Petrov, Romain, Berio, Philippe, Tuthill, Peter, Marc-Antoine Martinod, Labadie, Lucas
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Zusammenfassung:To leverage the angular resolution of interferometry at high contrast, one must employ specialized beam-combiners called interferometric nullers. Nullers discard part of the astrophysical information to optimize the recording of light present in the dark fringe of the central source. Asgard/NOTT will deploy a beam-combination scheme offering good instrumental noise rejection when phased appropriately, but for which information is degenerate on the outputs, prompting a dedicated tuning strategy using the science detector. The dispersive effect of water vapor can be corrected with prisms forming a variable thickness of glass. But observations in the L band suffer from an additional and important chromatic effect due to longitudinal atmospheric dispersion coming from a resonance of CO2 at 4.3 micron. To compensate for this effect efficiently, a novel type of compensation device will be deployed leveraging a gas cell of variable length at ambient pressure. After reviewing the impact of water vapor and CO2, we present the design of this atmospheric dispersion compensation device and describe a strategy to maintain this tuning on-sky.
ISSN:2331-8422
DOI:10.48550/arxiv.2407.17177