Astronomy and Astrophysics – Astrophysics – Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics
Scientific paper
2011-05-05
Ebizuka, N., et al. 2011, PASJ, 63, S613-S622
Astronomy and Astrophysics
Astrophysics
Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics
18 pages, 12 figures, accepted for publication in PASJ 63, SP2 (Subaru special issue)
Scientific paper
Faint Object Camera and Spectrograph (FOCAS) is a versatile common-use optical instrument for the 8.2m Subaru Telescope, offering imaging and spectroscopic observations. FOCAS employs grisms with resolving powers ranging from 280 to 8200 as dispersive optical elements. A grism is a direct-vision grating composed of a transmission grating and prism(s). FOCAS has five grisms with replica surface-relief gratings including an echelle-type grism, and eight grisms with volume-phase holographic (VPH) gratings. The size of these grisms is 110 mm X 106 mm in aperture with a maximum thickness of 110 mm. We employ not only the dichromated gelatin, but also the hologram resin as a recording material for VPH gratings. We discuss the performance of these FOCAS grisms measured in the laboratory, and verify it by test observations, and show examples of astronomical spectroscopic observations.
Ebizuka Noboru
Hattori Takashi
Iye Masanori
Kashikawa Nobunari
Kashiwagi Masako
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