Optical design for Antarctic Bright Star Survey Telescope

Zhengyang Li; Haipin Lu; Xiangyan Yuan

doi:10.3788/COL201513.111101

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Chinese Optics Letters
Vol. 13, Issue 11, 111101 (2015)

Optical design for Antarctic Bright Star Survey Telescope

Zhengyang Li^1、2、*, Haipin Lu^1、2, and Xiangyan Yuan^1、2

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¹National Astronomical Observatories/Nanjing Institute of Astronomical Optics and Technology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Nanjing 210042, China

²Key Laboratory of Astronomical Optics & Technology, Nanjing Institute of Astronomical Optics and Technology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Nanjing 210042, China

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Abstract

The exoplanet search is one of the most exciting research fields in astrophysics. The Antarctic Bright Star Survey Telescope (BSST), capable of continuous exoplanet observation on polar nights, is a Ritchey–Chretien telescope with a three-lens field corrector, and has a 300 mm aperture, 2.76 focal ratio, and a wavelength coverage ranging from 0.36 to 1.014 μm. Equipped with a

4 k \times 4 k

and

12 μm / pixel

CCD camera, the BSST can gain a field of view of 4.8°. This Letter presents the optical design, tolerance analysis, and the alignment plan for the BSST, and the test observation results.