Preliminary design of a multi-slit image slicer for EST

Calcines, A.; López, R. L.; Collados, M.
Bibliographical reference

Ground-based and Airborne Instrumentation for Astronomy IV. Proceedings of the SPIE, Volume 8446, id. 844674-844674-9 (2012).

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2012
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3
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2
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Description
Integral field spectroscopy is a modern technique used in Astronomy to obtain simultaneous spectral information of all points in a bidimensional field of view. This communication presents the preliminary design of a multi-slit image slicer to be coupled to the spectrographs of the 4 meters aperture European Solar Telescope. This integral field unit will provide the observation of an 80 arcsec2 field of view, rearranged into 8 slits of 200 arcsec length by 0.05 arcsec width. Different optical design alternatives with diffraction limited optical quality, as well as the design of a prototype for the GREGOR solar telescope, are presented.