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Physical Model Driven Calibration. Paul Bristow (INSY/SED/ESO) Thanks to: Michael Rosa, Yves Jung, Florian Kerber, Andrea Modigliani, Sabine Moehler (ESO) Data Simulation Workshop – ESO Garching – April 2016. Brief history of IPMG.
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Physical Model Driven Calibration Paul Bristow (INSY/SED/ESO) Thanks to: Michael Rosa, Yves Jung, Florian Kerber, Andrea Modigliani, Sabine Moehler (ESO) Data Simulation Workshop – ESO Garching – April 2016
Brief history of IPMG • 1999: Michael Rosa founded the Instrument Physical Modelling Groupinside the Space Telescope – European Co-ordinating Facility • Florian Kerber, Anastasia Alexov (later Mauro Fiorentino) & Paul Bristow • ST-ECF was wound up in 2006 • Legacy at ESO • Physical modelling and reference data for: • CRIRES • X-shooter
Brief history of IPMG cont. • Projects included: • FOS • Wavelength scale (geomagnetic environment of HST) • Scattered light (grating analysis) • STIS • Wavelength calibration (discussed in detail below) • Simulated readout (CTE) • Reference data • HCL characterisation (spectral atlases, operational behaviour and ageing) • Material characterisation (e.g. refractive index data) • Recognised by a NASA group achievement award shared with NIST colleagues
Astronet Roadmap 2009 “As a core fundamental element, and as a guide, it is recommended that funding provision for laboratory astrophysics be included in the planning of all astronomical and space mission research programmes at a level of the order of 2% of overall budget, with each programme taking “ownership” and peer-review of this part of the project.”Astronet Infrastructure Roadmap, p.132 Precision Radial Velocity, PSU 2010
Calibration Reference Data • Traceable to laboratory standards >> “ground truth” • For wavelength calibration reference data link to frequency/time • Meta Data describing “what and how” • Error information • Documented by original data provider • Published Precision Radial Velocity, PSU 2010
Matrix representation of optical components • ME is the matrix representation of the order m transformation performed by an Echelle grating with E at off-blaze angle . This operates on a 4D vector with components (wavelength, x, y, z).
Applications • Wavelength calibration • Simulations • Early DRS development • Effects of modifications/upgrades • Instrument monitoring/QC • Advanced ETC?
A Precautionary Note Regarding the CRIRES Implementation • Potentially more useful for CRIRES because of moving components • Never clear why it didn’t work properly • Erratic behaviour of the instrument did not help, but the problem was almost certainly with the model.
X-Shooter (300nm-2.5m) • Commissioned 2009 • Vernet et al. 2011.A & A. in press • Model for UVB, VIS& NIR arms • Same model kernel • Independent configuration files • Cross dispersed, medium res’n, single slit • Single mode (no moving components) • Cassegrain & heavy => Flexure
Physical Model Optimisation FOR EVERY CALIBRATION EXPOSURE
Effective camera focal length (mm) Effective camera focal length (mm) UVB Camera temperature sensor reading (°C) VIS Camera temperature sensor reading (°C)
Detector tilt (°) Detector tip (°) Effective camerafocal length (mm) Modified Julian Date (days)
X-shooter Flexure • Backbone flexure • Causes movement of target on spectrograph slits • Corrected with Automatic Flexure Compensation exposures • Spectrograph flexure • Flexing of spectrograph optical bench • Can also be measured in AFC exposures • First order translation automatically removed by pipeline UVB VIS NIR
Lab Measurements • NIR arm • Multi-pinhole • Translational & higher order distortions
AFC Exposures • Obtained with every science obs => large dataset ~300 exp from Jan – May 2011 • Single pinhole, Pen-ray lamp • Window: • 1000x1000 win (UVB 12/VIS 14 lines) • Entire array (NIR 160 lines) VIS UVB NIR
Choosing “open” parameters • All parameters open • Slow • Optimal result • Degeneracy • Physically motivated: • Related to flexure • Constrained by data • In these results: • Prism orientation; Grating Orientation; Grating constant; Camera focal length; Detector position and orientation
NIR (Product moment correlation)
Improvements and Updates • Full ray trace • computationally possible now • integration of eg. a Zemax library • Removes modelling assumptions (would be much easier to diagnose problems such as occurred for CRIRES) • No direct implementation in CPL • Despite fantastic support from Andrea and Yves… • It was still a huge overhead • Begin the development much earlier in the project lifetime • STIS: during operations • CRIRES: end of MAIT • X-Shooter: middle of MAIT • Ideal: During preliminary design phase
Summary • Model based calibration is not a new concept • It has been applied with some success to HST and ESO instruments • Needs to be supported by appropriate reference data • In 2016 this is computationally inexpensive while the development represents a small investment relative to EELT instrument resources