Adaptive Optics Spectroscopy: Preliminary Theoretical Results

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1997-08-12

arxiv.org/abs/astro-ph/9708103v1

Astronomy and Astrophysics

Astrophysics

Proceeding SPIE Conference on Adaptive Optics and Applications, 1997, 3126, in press, 12 pages and 6 figs included, also avail

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We have done theoretical calculations and simulations for infrared spectroscopy at the MMT 6.5 m with laser guide star AO, which provides almost full sky coverage. The results show we can expect 40-60% of the photons from a unresolved source within 0.2 arcsec diameter circle for J, H, K, L and M bands under typical atmospheric seeing condition at 2.2 micron. Therefore, the spectrograph entrance slit size should match the 0.2 arcsec image to obtain high throughput. Higher resolution can be achieved by narrowing down the slit size to match the diffraction-limited image core size of about 0.1 arcsec in the infrared. However, the throughput will be correspondingly reduced by a factor of two. Due to the limited atmospheric isoplanatic angle in the J, H and K bands, the encircled photon percentage within 0.2 arcsec diameter drops from 40-60% when the object is at the laser pointing direction to 20-40% when the object is about 30 arcsec away from the laser direction. Therefore, the useful field of view for AO multiple object spectroscopy is about 60 arcsec. Further studies of IR background (sky and thermal) and IR detector performance show that spectral resolution of R = 2,000 can take full advantage of AO images without much penalty due to the dark current of the IR detector and IR OH sky emission lines. We have also studied natural guide star AO spectroscopy. More details are in the paper.

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