A new broadband atmospheric dispersion corrector for HROS-TMT

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Autori principali: Bestha, Manjunath, Sivarani, Thirupathi, Wehbe, Bachar, Hasan, Amirul, P, Bharat Chandra, Divakar, Devika K, Unni, Athira, Menon, Parvathy, Surya, Arun, Saraf, Pallavi
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author Bestha, Manjunath
Sivarani, Thirupathi
Wehbe, Bachar
Hasan, Amirul
P, Bharat Chandra
Divakar, Devika K
Unni, Athira
Menon, Parvathy
Surya, Arun
Saraf, Pallavi
author_facet Bestha, Manjunath
Sivarani, Thirupathi
Wehbe, Bachar
Hasan, Amirul
P, Bharat Chandra
Divakar, Devika K
Unni, Athira
Menon, Parvathy
Surya, Arun
Saraf, Pallavi
contents Atmospheric dispersion causes light from celestial objects with different wavelengths to refract at varying angles as it passes through Earth's atmosphere. This effect results in an elongated image at the focal plane of a telescope and diminishes fiber coupling efficiency into spectrographs. We propose an optical design that incorporates a Rotational Atmospheric Dispersion Corrector (RADC) to address the broadband dispersion encountered in the multi-object mode of the High-Resolution Optical Spectrograph (HROS) on the Thirty Meter Telescope (TMT). The RADC corrects the dispersion across the entire wavelength range (0.31-1 micron), using Amici prisms optimized for over 90% transmission efficiency and minimal angular deviation of the beam from the optical axis after dispersion correction. For enhanced accuracy, particularly in the blue region, we have, for the first time, implemented the Filippenko (1982) model in Zemax via a custom Dynamic-Link Library (DLL) file.
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spellingShingle A new broadband atmospheric dispersion corrector for HROS-TMT
Bestha, Manjunath
Sivarani, Thirupathi
Wehbe, Bachar
Hasan, Amirul
P, Bharat Chandra
Divakar, Devika K
Unni, Athira
Menon, Parvathy
Surya, Arun
Saraf, Pallavi
Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics
Earth and Planetary Astrophysics
Atmospheric dispersion causes light from celestial objects with different wavelengths to refract at varying angles as it passes through Earth's atmosphere. This effect results in an elongated image at the focal plane of a telescope and diminishes fiber coupling efficiency into spectrographs. We propose an optical design that incorporates a Rotational Atmospheric Dispersion Corrector (RADC) to address the broadband dispersion encountered in the multi-object mode of the High-Resolution Optical Spectrograph (HROS) on the Thirty Meter Telescope (TMT). The RADC corrects the dispersion across the entire wavelength range (0.31-1 micron), using Amici prisms optimized for over 90% transmission efficiency and minimal angular deviation of the beam from the optical axis after dispersion correction. For enhanced accuracy, particularly in the blue region, we have, for the first time, implemented the Filippenko (1982) model in Zemax via a custom Dynamic-Link Library (DLL) file.
title A new broadband atmospheric dispersion corrector for HROS-TMT
topic Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics
Earth and Planetary Astrophysics
url https://arxiv.org/abs/2511.03225