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白天天空偏振校准限制

Daytime Sky Polarization Calibration Limitations

David M. Harrington, Jeffrey R. Kuhn, Arturo López Ariste

摘要:

白天的天空最近已被证明是一个有用的校准工具,用于推导大型天文望远镜的偏振串扰特性。丹尼尔·K·井上太阳望远镜(DKIST)和其他正在建设中的大型望远镜可以从大型反射镜的精确偏振校准中受益。几种大气现象和仪器误差可能会限制技术的准确性。在Haleakala的3.67米AEOS望远镜上,我们使用HiVIS分光偏振仪进行了一次大型观测活动,以确定限制并开发用于提取一致校准的算法。有效的采样的望远镜光学配置和过滤的数据为几个派生的参数提供鲁棒性派生的米勒矩阵校准。天空的二阶散射模型表明,这种方法是相对不敏感的多重散射在天空中提供的校准观测是在高偏振度的区域。该技术也是不敏感的假设望远镜诱导偏振提供的反射镜涂层是高反射性的。Zemax衍生的偏振模型显示偏振预测和相应的天空校准的功能依赖之间的协议。

英文摘要:

The daytime sky has been recently demonstrated as a useful calibration tool for deriving polarization cross-talk properties of large astronomical telescopes. The Daniel K Inouye Solar Telescope (DKIST) and other large telescopes under construction can benefit from precise polarimetric calibration of large mirrors. Several atmospheric phenomena and instrumental errors potentially limit the techniques accuracy. At the 3.67m AEOS telescope on Haleakala, we have performed a large observing campaign with the HiVIS spectropolarimeter to identify limitations and develop algorithms for extracting consistent calibrations. Effective sampling of the telescope optical configurations and filtering of data for several derived parameters provide robustness to the derived Mueller matrix calibrations. Second-order scattering models of the sky show that this method is relatively insensitive to multiple-scattering in the sky provided calibration observations are done in regions of high polarization degree. The technique is also insensitive to assumptions about telescope induced polarization provided the mirror coatings are highly reflective. Zemax-derived polarization models show agreement between the functional dependence of polarization predictions and the corresponding on-sky calibrations.

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