A New Strategy for Deep Wide-Field High Resolution Optical Imaging

Details A New Strategy for Deep Wide-Field High Resolution Optical Imaging A New Strategy for Deep Wide-Field High Resolution Optical Imaging

1999-12-09

arxiv.org/abs/astro-ph/9912181v1

Astronomy and Astrophysics

Astrophysics

46 pages, 22 figures, submitted to PASP, a version with higher resolution images and other supplementary material can be found

Scientific paper

10.1086/316578

We propose a new strategy for obtaining enhanced resolution (FWHM = 0.12 arcsec) deep optical images over a wide field of view. As is well known, this type of image quality can be obtained in principle simply by fast guiding on a small (D = 1.5m) telescope at a good site, but only for target objects which lie within a limited angular distance of a suitably bright guide star. For high altitude turbulence this 'isokinetic angle' is approximately 1 arcminute. With a 1 degree field say one would need to track and correct the motions of thousands of isokinetic patches, yet there are typically too few sufficiently bright guide stars to provide the necessary guiding information. Our proposed solution to these problems has two novel features. The first is to use orthogonal transfer charge-coupled device (OTCCD) technology to effectively implement a wide field 'rubber focal plane' detector composed of an array of cells which can be guided independently. The second is to combine measured motions of a set of guide stars made with an array of telescopes to provide the extra information needed to fully determine the deflection field. We discuss the performance, feasibility and design constraints on a system which would provide the collecting area equivalent to a single 9m telescope, a 1 degree square field and 0.12 arcsec FWHM image quality.

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