Customized broadband sloan-filters for the JST/T250 and JAST/T80 telescopes: summary of results

U. Brauneck; R. Sprengard; S. Bourquin; A. Marín-Franch

doi:10.1117/12.2272425

5 September 2017 Customized broadband sloan-filters for the JST/T250 and JAST/T80 telescopes: summary of results

U. Brauneck, R. Sprengard, S. Bourquin, A. Marín-Franch

Proceedings Volume 10401, Astronomical Optics: Design, Manufacture, and Test of Space and Ground Systems; 104011D (2017) https://doi.org/10.1117/12.2272425
Event: SPIE Optical Engineering + Applications, 2017, San Diego, California, United States

Abstract

The Centro de Estudios de Fisica del Cosmos de Aragon (CEFCA) will conduct a photometric sky survey with 2 new telescopes recently setup on the Javalambre mountain in Spain: the JST/T250 is a 2.55m telescope with a plate scale of 22.67”/mm and a 3° diameter field of view (FoV) and the auxiliary telescope JAST/T80 with a 82cm primary mirror and a FoV of 2 deg diameter. A multiple CCD (9k-by-9k array size, 10μm pixel size) mosaic camera is used in combination with filter trays or filter wheels, each containing a multitude of filters in dimensions of 101.7x96.5mm or 106.8x106.8mm. For this project, SCHOTT manufactured 56 specially designed narrow band steep edged bandpass interference filters and 5 broadband sloan-filters which were completed only recently. We report here on the results of the broadband sloanfilters with transmission bands of 324-400nm (sloan-u), 400-550nm (sloan-g), 550-700nm (sloan-r), 695-850nm (sloan-i) and 830-1200nm (sloan-z). The filters are composed of SCHOTT filterglasses and clearglass substrates coated with interference filters and represent an improvement of broadband sloan filters commonly used in astronomy. Inspite of the absorptive elements, the filters show maximum possible transmissions achieved by magnetron sputtered filter coatings. In addition the blocking of the filters is better than OD5 in the range 250–1050nm. A high image quality required a low transmitted wavefront error (<λ/8 locally, respectively <λ/2 globally) which was achieved by combining up to 2 substrates. We report on the spectral and interferometric results measured on the filters.

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U. Brauneck, R. Sprengard, S. Bourquin, and A. Marín-Franch "Customized broadband sloan-filters for the JST/T250 and JAST/T80 telescopes: summary of results", Proc. SPIE 10401, Astronomical Optics: Design, Manufacture, and Test of Space and Ground Systems, 104011D (5 September 2017); https://doi.org/10.1117/12.2272425

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