This afternoon we took some data intended to verify that the leaking of third-order light through the 7.466µm filter had been fixed by the replacement of the BaF2 blocker used in CD8 with CaF2.
Looking back at CD8 in the lab book, found a reference to leaking third-order light in B_10_08_18/b222.fits. Here's the image.
It's apparent that there are two overlaid patterns of orders....the more widely-spaced set shouldn't be there.
Today we went back to the same echelle angle and filter, this time using the pinhole:
The pinhole makes for narrow orders but less overall light...the integration time was increased bay a factor of three over that for b222 to check whether there might be faint leakage between the orders, but none appears. Looks like the CaF2 did the trick.
Subscribe to:
Post Comments (Atom)


No comments:
Post a Comment