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Taurus – A Wide Field Imaging Fabry-Perot Spectrometer

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  04 August 2017

P. D. Atherton
Affiliation:
Imperial College, London
K. Taylor
Affiliation:
AAO, Sydney and RGO, Herstmonceux, Sussex.

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TAURUS, an imaging Fabry-Perot system, was developed as a collaborative project by the Royal Greenwich Observatory and Imperial College London and is capable of obtaining seeing-limited velocity field information over a 9 arcminute field on a 4 m telescope. At the detector (the IPCS) the image of the source is modified by the fringe pattern of the capacitatively stabilized servo-controlled Fabry-Perot. As the Fabry-Perot is scanned, this fringe pattern tracks radially across the field and each pixel of the detector maps out a spectral line profile within the bandpass of the “blocking” interference filter. At each F-P spacing a picture (Typically 256 × 256 pixels) is recorded on computer disk. 100 pictures make up a complete scan, covering for example 1,200 km sec−1 free spectral range (this range in practice depends on the particular etalon). In this manner a 3 D data cube of the field is built up where (X, Y, Z) are typically (256 pixels, 256 pixels, 100 steps).

Type
I. Kinematics of Gas and the Underlying Mass Distribution
Copyright
Copyright © Reidel 1983 

References

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