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是什么限制了银河系中心的近红外天体测量?

What is limiting near-infrared astrometry in the Galactic Center?

Tobias K. Fritz, Stefan Gillessen, Sascha Trippe, Thomas Ott, Hendrik Bartko, Oliver Pfuhl, Katie Dodds-Eden, Richard Davies, Frank Eisenhauer, Reinhard Genzel

摘要:

系统地研究了基于自适应光学的近红外成像数据的高精度天体测量误差来源。重点讨论了在银河系中心拥挤恒星场中的应用。我们表明,在<=100微弧秒的水平上,一些影响限制了精度。最重要的是不完全减去看到晕的邻星,残留的图像失真和无法识别的混淆的目标源与较暗的来源在背景中。误差预算的进一步贡献者是估计点扩散函数的不确定性、信噪比引起的统计不确定性、坐标变换误差、地球大气中折射的色度、后自适应光学差分倾斜抖动和非等晕性。对于亮度为mK=14的恒星,残余图像失真限制了天体测量,对于较暗的恒星,限制是由周围恒星的视晕设置的。为了大幅度提高当前一代望远镜的天体测量性能,最适合采用在相对较小视场(r<=3”)上具有高性能和弱视宁晕的自适应光学系统。此外,估计或重建视晕的技术可能是有前途的。

英文摘要:

We systematically investigate the error sources for high-precision astrometry from adaptive optics based near-infrared imaging data. We focus on the application in the crowded stellar field in the Galactic Center. We show that at the level of <=100 micro-arcseconds a number of effects are limiting the accuracy. Most important are the imperfectly subtracted seeing halos of neighboring stars, residual image distortions and unrecognized confusion of the target source with fainter sources in the background. Further contributors to the error budget are the uncertainty in estimating the point spread function, the signal-to-noise ratio induced statistical uncertainty, coordinate transformation errors, the chromaticity of refraction in Earth's atmosphere, the post adaptive optics differential tilt jitter and anisoplanatism. For stars as bright as mK=14, residual image distortions limit the astrometry, for fainter stars the limitation is set by the seeing halos of the surrounding stars. In order to improve the astrometry substantially at the current generation of telescopes, an adaptive optics system with high performance and weak seeing halos over a relatively small field (r<=3") is suited best. Furthermore, techniques to estimate or reconstruct the seeing halo could be promising.

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