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| DOI | 10.1103/PHYSREVRESEARCH.5.023145 | ||||
| Año | 2023 | ||||
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Ground-based optical astronomical observations supported by or in the vicinity of laser guide-star systems can be contaminated by Raman-scattered laser photons. Anticipating, alleviating, and correcting for the impact of this self-inflicted contamination requires a detailed knowledge of the pure-rotational and rotational-vibrational spectrum of the molecules in our atmosphere. We present a 15.3-hr-deep combined spectrum of the 4LGSF's 589 nm approximate to 509 THz sodium laser beams of Paranal observatory, acquired with the ESPRESSO spectrograph at a resolution A/4A similar to= 140000 approximate to 0.12 cm-1 and an altitude of 23 km above mean sea level. We identify 865 Raman lines over the spectral range of [3770; 7900] angstrom approximate to [+9540; -4315] cm-1, with relative intensities spanning similar to 5 orders of magnitudes. These lines are associated to the most abundant molecules of dry air, including their isotopes: 14N 14N, 14N 15N, 16O 16O, 16O 17O, 16O 18O, and 12C 16O 16O. The signal-to-noise of these observations implies that professional observatories can treat the resulting catalog of Raman lines as exhaustive (for the detected molecules, over the observed Raman shift range) for the purpose of predicting/correcting/exploiting Raman lines in astronomical data. Our observations also reveal that the four laser units of the 4LGSF do not all lase at the same central wavelength. We measure a blueshift of +43 +/- 10 MHz similar to= -50 -/+ 10 fm with respect to A* = 5891.59120 angstrom for LGSU1/2, and +94 +/- 10 MHz similar to= -109 -/+ 10 fm for LGSU3/4. These offsets, including the difference of similar to 50 MHz between LGSU1/2 and LGSU3/4, are larger than the observed 4LGSF spectral stability of +/- 3 MHz over hours. They remain well within the operational requirements for creating artificial laser guide-stars, but hinder the assessment of the radial velocity accuracy of ESPRESSO at the required level of 10 m s-1. Altogether, our observations demonstrate how Raman lines can be exploited by professional observatories as highly-accurate, on-sky wavelength references.
| Ord. | Autor | Género | Institución - País |
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| 1 | Vogt, Frederic | Hombre |
Fed Off Meteorol & Climatol MeteoSwiss - Suiza
Federal Office of Meteorology and Climatology MeteoSwiss - Suiza |
| 2 | Mehner, Andrea | Mujer |
Observatorio Europeo Austral - Chile
European Southern Observatory Santiago - Chile Observatorio Europeo Austral - Alemania |
| 3 | Gu, P. -G. | Hombre |
Univ Geneva - Suiza
Univ Porto - Portugal Faculty of Science - Suiza Centro de Astrofísica da Universidade do Porto - Portugal |
| 4 | Yu, Shanshan | - |
CALTECH - Estados Unidos
California Institute of Technology - Estados Unidos |
| 5 | Kerber, Florian | Hombre |
Observatorio Europeo Austral - Alemania
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| 6 | Pfrommer, Thomas | Hombre |
Observatorio Europeo Austral - Alemania
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| 7 | Hackenberg, Wolfgang | Hombre |
Observatorio Europeo Austral - Alemania
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| 8 | Calia, Domenico Bonaccini | Hombre |
Observatorio Europeo Austral - Alemania
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| 8 | Bonaccini Calia, Domenico | Hombre |
Observatorio Europeo Austral - Alemania
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| Swiss National Science Foundation |
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| Schweizerischer Nationalfonds zur Förderung der Wissenschaftlichen Forschung |
| National Aeronautics and Space Administration. Government |
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| We are very grateful to A. Cabral and J. P. Coelho for simulating the observational setup described in Sec. II using their Zemax model of UT4, its Coude train, and the ESPRESSO instrument. We thank Telescope & Instrument Operator Extraordinaire Diego Parraguez, Night Astronomer Anita Zanella, and Instrument Gurus Jose-Luis Alvares, Juan Beltran Pella, and Alvaro Diaz for their infallible support during the observing run. We also acknowledge the courtesy of the MUSE Consortium (with visitor time awarded immediately prior to our observations) for turning the telescope over to us on-time every night. We thank R. Matthey de l'Endroit for enlightening discussions and valuable suggestions regarding this article, as well as the anonymous reviewer for constructive feedback. This research has made use of the following Python packages: aplpy (an open-source plot-ting package for Python) [64] , astroplan [65] , astropy (a community-developed core PYTHON package for Astronomy) [66,67] , astroquery (a package hosted online [68] , which provides a set of tools for querying astronomical web forms and databases; [69,70] ) , dfitspy [71] , emcee [72] , fcmaker (a PYTHON module to create ESO-compliant finding charts for OBs on p2; [73,74] ) , matplotlib [75] , numpy [76] , pandas [77,78] , scipy [79] , spectres [80] , and specutils [81] . This research has also made use of the Aladin interactive sky atlas [82] , of SAOImage ds9 [developed by Smithsonian Astrophysical Observatory [83] ] , and of NASA's Astrophysics Data System. A portion of this work has been carried out within the framework of the National Centre of Competence in Research PlanetS supported by the Swiss National Science Foundation. PFi acknowledges the financial support of the SNSF. Other portions of this article present research carried out at the Jet Propulsion Laboratory, California Institute of Technology, under contract with the National Aeronautics and Space Administration. Government sponsorship is acknowledged by S.Y. The article contains modified Copernicus Climate Change Service information 2022. Neither the European Commission nor ECMWF is responsible for any use that may be made of the Copernicus information or data it contains. Based on observations made with ESO Telescopes at the La Silla Paranal Observatory under Program Id. 4104.L-0074 (A) . All the observations described in this article arefreely available online from the ESO Science Archive Facility. No detector was harmed during the astronomical observations presented in this article. |
| We are very grateful to A. Cabral and J. P. Coelho for simulating the observational setup described in Sec. using their Zemax model of UT4, its Coudé train, and the ESPRESSO instrument. We thank Telescope & Instrument Operator Extraordinaire Diego Parraguez, Night Astronomer Anita Zanella, and Instrument Gurus José-Luis Álvares, Juan Beltran Peña, and Álvaro Díaz for their infallible support during the observing run. We also acknowledge the courtesy of the MUSE Consortium (with visitor time awarded immediately prior to our observations) for turning the telescope over to us on-time every night. We thank R. Matthey de l'Endroit for enlightening discussions and valuable suggestions regarding this article, as well as the anonymous reviewer for constructive feedback. This research has made use of the following Python packages: aplpy (an open-source plotting package for Python) , astroplan , astropy (a community-developed core Python package for Astronomy) , astroquery (a package hosted online , which provides a set of tools for querying astronomical web forms and databases; ), dfitspy , emcee , fcmaker (a Python module to create ESO-compliant finding charts for OBs on p2; ), matplotlib , numpy , pandas , scipy , spectres , and specutils . This research has also made use of the Aladin interactive sky atlas , of SAOImage ds9 [developed by Smithsonian Astrophysical Observatory ], and of NASA's Astrophysics Data System. A portion of this work has been carried out within the framework of the National Centre of Competence in Research PlanetS supported by the Swiss National Science Foundation. PFi acknowledges the financial support of the SNSF. Other portions of this article present research carried out at the Jet Propulsion Laboratory, California Institute of Technology, under contract with the National Aeronautics and Space Administration. Government sponsorship is acknowledged by S.Y. The article contains modified Copernicus Climate Change Service information 2022. Neither the European Commission nor ECMWF is responsible for any use that may be made of the Copernicus information or data it contains. Based on observations made with ESO Telescopes at the La Silla Paranal Observatory under Program Id. 4104.L-0074(A). All the observations described in this article are freely available online from the ESO Science Archive Facility. No detector was harmed during the astronomical observations presented in this article. |