Astronomy and Astrophysics – Astronomy
Scientific paper
Aug 2008
adsabs.harvard.edu/cgi-bin/nph-data_query?bibcode=2008spie.7014e.229b&link_type=abstract
Ground-based and Airborne Instrumentation for Astronomy II. Edited by McLean, Ian S.; Casali, Mark M. Proceedings of the SPI
Astronomy and Astrophysics
Astronomy
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Scientific paper
ACAM will be mounted permanently at a folded-Cassegrain focus of the WHT. It can be used for broad-band or narrow-band optical imaging of an 8.3-arcmin field, or for low-resolution (R ~ 500) spectroscopy. As the only wide-field optical imager at the Cassegrain focus, ACAM is designed to cater for a broad range of science programmes, including those requiring rapid response (e.g. gamma-ray bursts, supernovae) or scheduling at awkward intervals (e.g. successive exoplanet transits), and those requiring the use of many filters (e.g. Hα mapping of low-redshift galaxies). The imaging requirements alone are demanding, requiring a trade-off between field of view (> 8 arcmin), PSF (<< seeing), wavelength coverage (UV to near-IR), throughput (> 0.8) and radius-dependent wavelength shift (< 0.5 nm, for narrow-band filters). We discuss how the trade-off was effected and present the final optical and mechanical design, and the expected performance.
Agocs Tibor
Benn Chris
Dee Kevin
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