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Telescopes and Astronomical Observations Ay16 Lecture 5 Feb 14, 2008 Outline: What can we observe? Telescopes Optical, IR, Radio, High Energy ++ Limitations Angular resolution Spectroscopy Data Handling A telescope is an instrument designed for the observation of remote objects and the collection of electromagnetic radiation. "Telescope" (from the Greek tele = 'far' and skopein = 'to look or see'; teleskopos = 'far-seeing') was a name invented in 1611 by Prince Frederick Sesi while watching a presentation of Galileo Galilei's instrument for viewing distant objects. "Telescope" can refer to a whole range of instruments operating in most regions of the electromagnetic spectrum. Telescopes are “Tools” By themselves, most telescopes are not scientfically useful. They need yet other tools a.k.a. instruments. What Can We Observe? Brightness (M) + dM/dt = Light Curves, Variability + dM/d = Spectrum or SED + dM/d/dt = Spectral Variability Position + d(,)/dt = Proper Motion + d2(,)/dt2 = Acceleration Polarization “Instruments” • Flux detectors Photometers / Receivers • Imagers Cameras, array detectors • Spectrographs + Spectrometers “Spectrophotometer” Aberrations • • • • • Spherical Coma Chromatic Field Curvature Astigmatism Mt. Wilson & G. E. Hale 60-inch 1906 100-inch 1917 • Edwin Hubble at the Palomar Schmidt Telescope circa 1950 Telescope Mirrors Multiple designs Solid Honeycomb Meniscus Segmented Focal Plane Scale Scale is simply determined by the effective focal length “fl” of the telescope. = 206265”/fl(mm) arcsec/mm * Focal ratio is the ratio of the focal legnth to the diameter Angular Resolution The resolving power of a telescope (or any optical system) depends on its size and on the wavelength at which you are working. The Rayleigh criterion is sin () = 1.22 /D where is the angular resolution in Radians Airy Diffraction Pattern • * more complicated as more optics get added… Encircled Energy Another way to look at this is to calculate how much energy is lost outside an aperture. For a typical telescope diameter D with a secondary mirror of diameter d, the excluded energy is x( r) ~ [5 r (1- d/D)] -1 where r is in units of /D radians a 20 inch telescope collects 99% of the light in 14 arcseconds 2 Micron AllSky Survey • 3 Channel Camera Silicon Arrays --- CCDs CCD Operation Bucket Brigade • • FAST Spectrograph • Simple Fiber fed Spectrograph Hectospec (MMT) Holmdel Horn GBT • Astronomical Telescopes & Observations, continued Lecture 6 The Atmosphere Space Telescopes Telescopes of the Future Astronomical Data Reduction I. Atmospheric transparency Hubble Ground vs Space • Adaptive Optics Chandra X-Ray Obs Grazing Incidence X-ray Optics Total External Reflection X-Ray Reflection Snell’s Law sin11 = sin22 2/1 = 12 sin2 = sin1 /12 Critical angle = sin C = 12 --> total external reflection, not refraction GLAST A Compton telecope Compton Scattering LAT GBM The Future? Space JWST, Constellation X 10-20 m UV? Ground LSST, GSMT (GMT,TMT,EELT….) TMT TMT GMT EELT = OWL OWL Optical Design JWST ConX Chinese Antarctic Astronomy Astronomical Data Two Concepts: 1. Signal-to-Noise 2. Noise Sources Photon Counting Signal O = photons from the astronomical object. Usually time dependent. e.g. Consider a star observed with a telescope on a single element detector O = photon rate / cm2 / s / A x Area x integration time x bandwidth = # of photons detected from source Noise N = unwanted contributions to counts. From multiple sources (1) Poisson(shot) noise = sqrt(O) from Poisson probability distribution (Assignment: look up Normal = Gaussan and Poisson distributions) Poisson Distribution • Normal=Gaussian Distribution The Bell Curve Normal = Gaussian 50% of the area is inside +/- 0.67 68% “ “ “ +/- 1.00 90% “ “ “ +/- 1.69 95 % “ “ “ +/- 1.96 99 % “ “ “ +/- 2.58 99.6% “ “ “ +/- 3.00 of the mean (2) Background noise from sky + telescope and possibly other sources Sky noise is usually calculated from the sky brightness per unit area (square arcseconds) also depends on telescope area, integration time and bandpass B = Sky counts/solid angle/cm2/s/A x sky area x area x int time x bandwidth Detector Noise (3) Dark counts = D counts/second/pixel (time dependent) (4) Read noise = R (once per integration so not time dependent) So if A = area of telescope in cm2 t = integration time in sec W = bandwidth in A O = Object rate (cts/s/cm2/A) B = Sky (background) rate D = dark rate R = read noise S/N = OAtW/((O+B)AtW + Dt + R2)1/2 Special Cases Background limited (B >> D or R) S/N = O/(O+S)1/2 x (AtW)1/2 Detector limited (R2 >> D or OAtW or BAtW) S/N = OAtW/R (e.g. high resolution spectroscopy) CCD Data Image data cts/pixel from object, dark, “bias” Image Calibration Data bias frames flat fields dark frames (often ignored if detector good) Image Display Software SAODS9 Format .fits NGC1700 from Keck Spectra with LRIS on Keck Bias Frame gives the DC level of the readout amplifier, also gives the read noise estimate. Flat Field Image through filter on either twilight sky or dome Image Reduction Steps Combine (average) bias frames Subtract Bias from all science images Combine (average) flat field frames filter by filter, fit smoothed 2-D polynomial, and divide through so average = 1.000 Divide science images by FF, filter by filter. Apply other routines as necessary. Astronomical Photometry For example, for photometry you will want to calibrate each filter (if it was photometric --- no clouds or fog) by doing aperture photometry of standard stars to get the cts/sec for a given flux Then apply that to aperture photometry of your unknown stars. NB. There are often color terms and atmospheric extinction. Photometry, con’t v = -2.5 x log10(vcts/sec) + constant V = v + C1(B-V) + kVx + C2 …… x = sec(zenith distance) = airmass (B-V) = C3(b-v) + C4 + kBVx + ….