Astronomy and Astrophysics – Astrophysics – Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics
Scientific paper
2011-10-24
Astronomy and Astrophysics
Astrophysics
Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics
14 pages, 8 figures, Accepted for publication in MNRAS
Scientific paper
The Large Sky Area Multi--object Fibre Spectroscopic Telescope (LAMOST) is the largest (aperture 4 m) wide field of view (FOV) telescope and is equipped with the largest amount (4000) of optical fibres in the world. For the LAMOST North and the LAMOST South the FOV are 5 deg and 3.5 deg, the linear diameters are 1.75 m and 1.22 m, respectively. A new kind of atmospheric dispersion corrector (ADC) is put forward and designed for LAMOST. It is a segmented lens which consists of many lens--prism strips. Although it is very big, its thickness is only 12 mm. Thus the difficulty of obtaining big optical glass is avoided, and the aberration caused by the ADC is small. Moving this segmented lens along the optical axis, the different dispersions can be obtained. The effects of ADC's slits on the diffraction energy distribution and on the obstruction of light are discussed. The aberration caused by ADC is calculated and discussed. All these results are acceptable. Such an ADC could also be used for other optical fibre spectroscopic telescopes, especially those which a have very large FOV.
Jia Peng
Liu Genrong
Su Ding-qiang
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