A high-sensitivity coronagraph stray light detection device

Abstract

The invention provides a high-sensitivity coronagraph stray light detection device, which relates to the field of observation and detection of astronomical targets. The optical filter is arranged between the coronagraph to be tested and the single-photon counting detector, and the single-photon counting detector is arranged on the focal plane of the coronagraph to be tested; The simulated sunlight enters the coronagraph to be tested, the band-pass filter performs wavelength selection for the band to be tested, and the single photon counting imaging detector detects the stray light brightness and solar surface brightness of the coronagraph to be tested. The invention can realize the detection of the coronagraph stray light suppression ability by separately measuring the solar surface radiation and the coronagraph stray light radiation, and overcomes the inability to use solar radiation directly to coronagraph stray light suppression in low altitude areas due to the influence of atmospheric scattering. Difficulties in the detection of photoinhibition capacity.

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technical field [0001] The invention belongs to the field of astronomical target observation and detection, and in particular relates to a high-sensitivity coronagraph stray light detection device. Background technique [0002] In the field of optical technology, the suppression level of stray light is one of the important indicators for measuring optical instruments, especially the instruments for measuring the corona, which have high requirements for suppression of stray light. This type of instrument acquires weak coronal images at the edge of strong solar solar radiation, and the brightness of the corona is extremely weak compared to the solar surface, and the inner corona brightness near the edge of the solar surface in the visible light band is only 10 -5 B ⊙ (B ⊙ : luminance at the center of the sun face), 2.5R away from the center of the sun face ⊙ (R ⊙ : the radius of the sun) the outer corona brightness is as low as 10 -7 B ⊙ , the farther away from the cente...

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Problems solved by technology

In addition, since photodiodes are used to detect light signals at the focal plane of the coronagraph, the diodes also need to be precisely calibrated, which is expensive

Moreover, because the diode cannot display the collected image, the detection result is not intuitive, and the receiving area of ​​the photodiode is very small, so it is difficult to cover the entire field of view of the coronagraph that needs to be detected at one time, and the real-time performance is poor.

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