Astronomy and Astrophysics – Astrophysics
Scientific paper
2001-08-09
Astrophys.J.563:611-628,2001
Astronomy and Astrophysics
Astrophysics
Astrophysical Journal, accepted. 53 pages, 16 figures, aastex
Scientific paper
10.1086/323770
Tunable narrow-band, emission-line surveys have begun to show the ease with which star forming galaxies can be identified in restricted redshift intervals to z ~ 5 with a 4m class telescope. These surveys have been carried out with imaging systems at the Cassegrain or Nasmyth focus and are therefore restricted to fields smaller than 10 arcmin. We now show that tunable narrowband imaging is possible over a 30 arcmin field with a high-performance Lyot filter placed directly in front of a CCD mosaic at the prime focus. Our design is intended for the f/3.3 prime focus of the AAT 3.9m, although similar devices can be envisaged for the Subaru 8m (f/2), Palomar 5m (f/3.4), VISTA 4m (f/6), Mayall 4m (f/2.6) or CFHT 3.6m (f/4). A modified Wynne doublet ensures sub-arcsecond performance over the field. In combination with the new Wide-Field Imaging 8K x 8K mosaic (WFI) at the AAT, the overall throughput (35%) of the system to unpolarised light is expected to be comparable to the TAURUS Tunable Filter (TTF). Unlike the TTF, the field is fully monochromatic and the instrumental profile has much better wing suppression. For targetted surveys of emission-line sources at z ~ 1, a low-resolution (R ~ 150 at 550nm) Lyot filter on a 4m telescope is expected to be comparable or superior to current instruments on 8-10m class telescopes. We demonstrate that the 30 arcmin field is well matched to superclusters at these redshifts such that large-scale structure should be directly observable.
Baldry Ivan K.
Bland-Hawthorn Jonathan
Breugel Wil van
Gillingham Peter R.
Jones David Heath
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