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instruments
Solar Physics course lecture 3 May 4, 2010
Frans Snik BBL 415 (710) [email protected] www.astro.uu.nl/~snik
instruments
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instruments info from photons
• spatial (x,y) • temporal (t) • spectral (λ) • polarization ( )
→ usually photon starved at the diffraction limit!
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instruments info from photons
• filter imaging • spectroscopy • (spectro-)polarimetry
X-ray, UV, visible, IR, radio? resolution? time coverage? disk coverage?
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instruments imaging optics
Terminology • reimaging image and pupil planes • diffraction limited optics:
no aberrations > Airy disk across field • F/#=N=feff/D : “beam speed” • telecentric: pupil in infinity
→ same transmission across the field → field independent of defocus
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instruments detectors
• (photographic) • CCD/CMOS • IR array
• read noise • dark current • read-out spead
Airy disk
pixel size (~10x10 µ) Nyquist sampling
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instruments spectrographs (3.3)
• (prism) • Czerny-Turner (Ebert-Fastie) • Littrow • (Fourier Transform Spectrometer)
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instruments grating (3.3.1)
(3.27)
(3.28)
blazed echelle grating → high resolution at high order → most energy into blaze angle → multiple-order spectrum using cross-disperser prism
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instruments Czerny-Turner
• (curved) slit • coma cancelled
by symmetric design
• astigmatism present
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instruments Littrow
• more compact design
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instruments polarization optics
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instruments polarization optics
polarizers • wire grid
?!?!
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instruments polarization optics
polarizers • stretched polymer (dichroism)
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instruments polarization optics
polarizers • Brewster angle
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instruments polarization optics
polarizers • birefringent crystal
no & ne
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instruments polarization optics
retarders → introduction of phase difference
half wave plate quarter wave plate
chromatic and temperature sensitive for birefringent plates
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instruments polarization optics
retarders
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instruments filters
• interference filter • Fabry-Pérot interferometer • Lyot filter • (Michelson interferometer)
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instruments interference filter
~10 Å bandpass
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instruments Fabry-Pérot interferometer (3.4.4)
(3.49)
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instruments Fabry-Pérot interferometer
= finesse
= free spectral range (peak separation)
R→1
(3.51)
(3.52-53)
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instruments Fabry-Pérot interferometer
• collimated beam – spectral purity – spectral dependency on angle – image degradation in pupil plane
• telecentric beam – pupil apodization – defocus – field independence – high image quality
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instruments Lyot filter (3.4.1-2)
2n+1δ 2nδ
• FSR from thinnest stage
• bandpass from thickest stage
birefringent stages sandwiched between polarizers
(3.37)
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instruments Lyot filter
• rotating waveplates introduce addional phase shift → wavelength tuning
• Evans split → wide field → extra stages with same number of polarizers
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instruments Stokes vector
operational and full description of polarization
→differential photometry Q/I, U/I, V/I = polarization degree beware of sign conventions!
Q= U= V= -
-
-
I= = =
+
+
+
:(I+Q)/2
:(I-Q)
:(I+U)
:(I-U)
:(I+V)
:(I-V)
/2
/2
/2
/2
/2
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instruments Mueller matrices
€
Mcoord ,mir =
1 0 0 00 1 0 00 0 −1 00 0 0 −1
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instruments Mueller matrices
• Any non-normal reflection/refraction creates or modifies polarization.
• 45° Al mirror:
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instruments Mueller matrices
• Stresses in glass elements produce birefringence.
courtesy: Alex Feller
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instruments polarimetry
=measurement of Stokes vector.
I,V: magnetogram I,Q,U,V: vector magnetogram →other lectures
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instruments modulation & demodulation
need multiple measurements to determine (components of) the Stokes vector
• temporal modulation → susceptible to seeing • spatial modulation → 2 different detectors (parts)
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instruments modulation & demodulation
• rotating waveplate + ‘selection’ polarizer
→ linear combinations of I with Q, U and V used in Hinode-SOT
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instruments modulation & demodulation
Liquid Crystal Variable Retarders (LCVRs)
fast
slow
fast
slow
V < δ δ m a x
V=0 δ δ = m a x
~20 ms
fast
slow
slow
fast
V<0 V>0
ferroelectric Liquid Crystals (fLCs)
~100 µs
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instruments modulation & demodulation
I+Q
0 λ 0 λ
• 2 LCVRs + polarizer
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instruments modulation & demodulation
0 λ 1/2 λ
I-Q
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instruments modulation & demodulation
0 λ 1/4 λ
I+V
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instruments modulation & demodulation
0 λ 3/4 λ
I-V
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instruments modulation & demodulation
1/4 λ 1/4 λ
I+U
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instruments modulation & demodulation
1/4 λ 3/4 λ
I-U
• also complicated 4-fold modulation scheme
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instruments modulation & demodulation
• temporal modulation faster than seeing
→ demodulating camera
ZIMPOL 10-5 polarimetric
sensitivity
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instruments
theta cell
5 cm fused silica objective lens (2 cm effective)
fiber launcher (pupil)
spectrograph (detector synchronized)
fused silica collimator
achromatic field selector
polarimeter (fast modulator @ 250 Hz + polarizer)
S5T prototype
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instruments modulation & demodulation
spatial modulation with synchronous detectors
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instruments
• Dual beam: best of both worlds: spatial & temporal modulation: rotating wave plate + polarizing beam-splitter.
Seeing effects and gain table effects drop out to first order!
modulation & demodulation
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instruments modulation & demodulation
courtesy: M. Rodenhuis
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instruments instrumental polarization
• every reflection polarizes... • every piece of glass is birefringent... ...to some degree
• careful design – rotationally symmetric – 90° compensations
• calibration!
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instruments limitations to polarimetry • photon noise • read noise • seeing • guiding errors • scattered light • instrumental polarization • cross-talk • fringing • chromatism • temperature dependence • etc.
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instruments exercises
• 3.11 • 3.12 • 3.16 • Show that a wave-plate with its axes at 0 and 90
degrees does not do anything to incoming Stokes Q (defined ± as linear polarization at and 90 degrees). Why is this?
• At what time of the day does the telescope of Fig. 3.15 have minimal instrumental polarization? Show with a calculation.