Filtration of atmospheric noise in narrow-field astrometry with very large telescopes

Details Filtration of atmospheric noise in narrow-field astrometry with very large telescopes Filtration of atmospheric noise in narrow-field astrometry with very large telescopes

2005-12-21

arxiv.org/abs/astro-ph/0512524v1

Astron.Astrophys.427:1127,2004

Astronomy and Astrophysics

Astrophysics

18 pages, 17 figures

Scientific paper

10.1051/0004-6361:20041481

This paper presents a non-classic approach to narrow field astrometry that offers a significant improvement over conventional techniques due to enhanced reduction of atmospheric image motion. The method is based on two key elements: apodization of the entrance pupil and the enhanced virtual symmetry of reference stars. Symmetrization is implemented by setting special weights to each reference star. Thus a reference field itself forms a virtual net filter that effectively attenuates the image motion spectrum. Atmospheric positional error was found to follow a power dependency ~ R^{K \mu /2} D^{-K/2+1/3} on angular field size R and aperture D; here K is some optional even integer 2<=K<=sqrt{8N+1}-1 limited by a number N of reference stars, and \mu <= 1 is a term dependent on K and the magnitude and sky star distribution in the field. As compared to conventional techniques for which K=2, the improvement in accuracy increases by some orders. Limitations to astrometric performance of monopupil large ground-based telescopes are estimated. The total atmospheric and photon noise for at a 10 m telescope at good 0.4" seeing was found to be, depending on sky star density, 10 to 60 microarcsec per 10 min exposure in R band. For a 100 m telescope and FWHM=0.1" (low-order adaptive optics corrections) the potential accuracy is 0.2 to 2 microarcsec.

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