Bibcode
DOI
Méndez-Abreu, J.; Sánchez-Almeida, J.; Muñoz-Tuñón, C.; Rodríguez-Espinosa, J. M.; Aguerri, J. A. L.; Rosa González, D.; Mayya, Y. D.; Vega, O.; Terlevich, R.; Terlevich, E.; Bertone, E.; Rodríguez-Merino, L. H.
Bibliographical reference
Publications of the Astronomical Society of the Pacific, Volume 123, issue 907, pp.1107-1116
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2011
Citations
6
Refereed citations
5
Description
OSIRIS (Optical System for Imaging and low Resolution Integrated
Spectroscopy) is the first light instrument of the Gran Telescopio
Canarias (GTC). It provides a flexible and competitive tunable filter
(TF). Since it is based on a Fabry-Perot interferometer working in a
collimated beam, the TF transmission wavelength depends on the position
of the target with respect to the optical axis. This effect is
nonnegligible and must be accounted for in the data reduction. Our
article establishes a wavelength calibration for OSIRIS TF with the
accuracy required for spectrophotometric measurements using the full
field of view (FOV) of the instrument. The variation of the transmission
wavelength λ(R) across the FOV is well described by
λ(R)=λ(0)/√{1 + R/(f2)}2, where
λ(0) is the central wavelength, R represents the physical
distance from the optical axis, and f2=185.70±0.17 mm
is the effective focal length of the camera lens. This new empirical
calibration yields an accuracy better than 1 Å across the
entire OSIRIS FOV (˜8'×8'), provided
that the position of the optical axis is known within 45 μm
(≡1.5 binned pixels). We suggest a calibration protocol to grant
such precision over long periods, upon realignment of OSIRIS optics, and
in different wavelength ranges. This calibration differs from the
calibration in the OSIRIS manual, which nonetheless provides an accuracy
≲1 Å for R≲2'.
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