High-resolution ultraviolet spectrograph for sounding rocket measurements of planetary emission line profiles

Walter M. Harris; John T. Clarke; John W. Caldwell; Paul D. Feldman; Brett C. Bush; Daniel M. Cotton; Supriya Chakrabarti

doi:10.1117/12.149165

1 December 1993 High-resolution ultraviolet spectrograph for sounding rocket measurements of planetary emission line profiles

Walter M. Harris, John T. Clarke, John W. Caldwell, Paul D. Feldman, Brett C. Bush, Daniel M. Cotton, Supriya Chakrabarti

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Optical Engineering, Vol. 32, Issue 12, (December 1993). https://doi.org/10.1117/12.149165

Abstract

We constructed a high-resolution imaging spectrograph for use as a payload in a sounding rocket experiment. The spectrograph employs a modified Ebert-Fastie design with a LiF objective prism and a replica of an El echelle grating developed for the Space Telescope Imaging Spectrograph. The instrument has a 5-arcmin-long adjustable width entrance aperture with two identical secondary apertures separated from the primary by ±2 arcmin. The secondary apertures are intended for simultaneous measurement of the sky background. The spectrograph has been optimized for measurement of the 221st order of Lyman-α at a resolution of 0.03 to 0.04 Å. The detector system is a two-dimensional photon counting device that employs a microchannel plate intensifier and a wedge and strip anode readout. The spectrograph is used as a focal plane instrument of the Jupiter Telescope, a Cassegrain telescope constructed exclusively for use as a sounding rocket payload. The Jupiter Telescope is self-pointed, employing image motion compensation to achieve 2- to 3-arc sec image quality. The telescope/spectrograph payload was launched from the White Sands Missile Range on May 4, 1991, to observe the H Lyman-α line profile spatially resolved across the disk of Jupiter in the North-South (polar) and East-West (equatorial) directions, and to measure the H Lyman-α emission line profile from interplanetary hydrogen associated with the local insterstellar medium.

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Walter M. Harris, John T. Clarke, John W. Caldwell, Paul D. Feldman, Brett C. Bush, Daniel M. Cotton, and Supriya Chakrabarti "High-resolution ultraviolet spectrograph for sounding rocket measurements of planetary emission line profiles," Optical Engineering 32(12), (1 December 1993). https://doi.org/10.1117/12.149165

Published: 1 December 1993

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