Monday, March 05, 2012

Medium Res Pinhole data


We took 14um Q-branch data while in medium res mode to evaluate the spatial and spectral focus while the echelle mirror was placed at different settings in the range of +8 turns to +15 turns. We used clickfit for all measurements. The images were 4SUTR, so we first made a single frame by subtracting frame4 from frame1 for each image. Then we rotated the images in IDL with the rotate(im,1) function. 

Then clickfit,/box was used on the region from point (200,500)--> (700,700), encompassing
most of the Q branch and some of the R-branch. We selected a sequence of 5 odd-numbered Q-branch lines to fit (something like 7-9-11-13-15, but I will determine this and update the post soon) and used these lines to fit 1-D Gaussians to. The tabular data below shows the median FWHM of the line fits and the standard deviation.
The plots show all measurements of the median FWHM values.

Once I identify the lines we used, I'll be able to get the pixel/wavelength scale and report the spectral resolutions. 

These files are in B_12_02_03/
#filename     echelle_mirror_position spatial_FWHM stddev(spatial_FWHM)  spectral_FWHM stddev(spectral_FWHM)
636    12    5.55    0.50    5.10    0.39
637     8    6.12    0.55    5.54    0.50
638    10    5.51    0.49    5.23    0.48
639     9    5.73    0.51    5.40    0.65
640    11    5.45    0.48    5.19    0.48
641    12    5.54    0.54    5.10    0.45
642    13    5.81    0.57    5.17    0.47
643    14    6.36    0.63    5.16    0.49
644    15    7.38    0.73    5.31    0.48
645     9    5.74    0.51    5.36    0.99
646    10    5.50    0.49    5.38    0.51
647    10    5.51    0.49    5.39    0.67
648    11    5.46    0.53    5.20    0.45
649    12    5.54    0.50    5.12    0.47
650    13    5.81    0.58    5.13    0.38
651    11    5.47    0.48    5.26    0.25

It appears that +12 had the best spectral focus, and +11 was the best spatial focus. 

1 comment:

MJR said...

Great! Now if we can get the high res pinholes to this point....