TTF: A Flexible Approach to Narrowband Imaging

Joss Bland-Hawthorn & D. Heath Jones

Anglo-Australian Observatory, P.O. Box 296, Epping, NSW 2121
jbh@aaossz.aao.gov.au
Mount Stromlo & Siding Spring Observatories,
Private Bag, Weston Creek P.O., ACT 2611
dhj@mso.anu.edu.au

Abstract:

The Taurus Tunable Filter (TTF) is a tunable narrowband interference filter covering wavelengths from 6300Å to the sensitivity drop-off of conventional CCDs ( Å), although a blue `arm' (4000-6500Å) is to be added by the end of 1997. The TTF offers monochromatic imaging at the cassegrain foci of both the Anglo-Australian and William Herschel Telescopes, with an adjustable passband of between 6 and 60 Å. In addition, frequency switching with the TTF can be synchronized with movement of charge (charge shuffling) on the CCD which has important applications to many astrophysical problems. Here we review the different modes of TTF and suggest their use for follow-up narrowband imaging to the AAO/UKST Galactic Plane H Survey.

Keywords: instrumentation: detectors -- methods: observational
  -- techniques: interferometric

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