The LSST calibration hardware system design and Development

Fisher Levine Merlin; Patrick Ingraham; Christopher W. Stubbs; Chuck Claver; Robert Lupton; Constanza Araujo; Ming Liang; John Andrewa; Jeff Barr; Kairn Brannon; Michael Coughlin; William Gressler; Jacques Sebag; Sandrine Thomas; Oliver Wiecha; Peter Yoachim

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The LSST calibration hardware system design and Development

Fisher Levine Merlin, Patrick Ingraham, Christopher W. Stubbs, Chuck Claver, Robert Lupton, Constanza Araujo, Ming Liang, John Andrewa, Jeff Barr, Kairn Brannon, Michael Coughlin, William Gressler, Jacques Sebag, Sandrine Thomas, Oliver Wiecha, Peter Yoachim

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Abstract

The Large Synoptic Survey Telescope (LSST) is currently under construction and upon completion will perform precision photometry over the visible sky at a 3-day cadence. To meet the stringent relative photometry goals, LSST will employ multiple calibration systems to measure and compensate for systematic errors. This paper describes the design and development of these systems including: A dedicated calibration telescope and spectrograph to measure the atmospheric transmission function, a collimated beam projector to characterize the spatial dependence of the LSST transmission function and a at field screen illumination system to measure the high-frequency variations in the global system response function.

Original language	English (US)
Title of host publication	Ground-Based and Airborne Telescopes VI
Editors	Heather K. Marshall, Helen J. Hall, Roberto Gilmozzi
Publisher	SPIE
ISBN (Electronic)	9781510601918
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1117/12.2233404
State	Published - 2016
Externally published	Yes
Event	Ground-Based and Airborne Telescopes VI - Edinburgh, United Kingdom Duration: Jun 26 2016 → Jul 1 2016

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Name	Proceedings of SPIE - The International Society for Optical Engineering
Volume	9906
ISSN (Print)	0277-786X
ISSN (Electronic)	1996-756X

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Conference	Ground-Based and Airborne Telescopes VI
Country/Territory	United Kingdom
City	Edinburgh
Period	6/26/16 → 7/1/16

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© 2016 SPIE.

Keywords

Atmospheric transmission
Calibration
LSST
Operations
Photometry
Spectrograph

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Merlin, F. L., Ingraham, P., Stubbs, C. W., Claver, C., Lupton, R., Araujo, C., Liang, M., Andrewa, J., Barr, J., Brannon, K., Coughlin, M., Gressler, W., Sebag, J., Thomas, S., Wiecha, O., & Yoachim, P. (2016). The LSST calibration hardware system design and Development. In H. K. Marshall, H. J. Hall, & R. Gilmozzi (Eds.), Ground-Based and Airborne Telescopes VI Article 99060O (Proceedings of SPIE - The International Society for Optical Engineering; Vol. 9906). SPIE. https://doi.org/10.1117/12.2233404

The LSST calibration hardware system design and Development. / Merlin, Fisher Levine; Ingraham, Patrick; Stubbs, Christopher W. et al.
Ground-Based and Airborne Telescopes VI. ed. / Heather K. Marshall; Helen J. Hall; Roberto Gilmozzi. SPIE, 2016. 99060O (Proceedings of SPIE - The International Society for Optical Engineering; Vol. 9906).

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Merlin, FL, Ingraham, P, Stubbs, CW, Claver, C, Lupton, R, Araujo, C, Liang, M, Andrewa, J, Barr, J, Brannon, K, Coughlin, M, Gressler, W, Sebag, J, Thomas, S, Wiecha, O & Yoachim, P 2016, The LSST calibration hardware system design and Development. in HK Marshall, HJ Hall & R Gilmozzi (eds), Ground-Based and Airborne Telescopes VI., 99060O, Proceedings of SPIE - The International Society for Optical Engineering, vol. 9906, SPIE, Ground-Based and Airborne Telescopes VI, Edinburgh, United Kingdom, 6/26/16. https://doi.org/10.1117/12.2233404

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