• 천문학논총
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• 제22권3호
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• pp.55-61
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• 2007

The KASINICS (Korea Astronomy and Space science Institute Near Infrared Camera System) is a ground-based near-infrared (NIR) imaging instrument. KASINICS has offner relay optics to reduce unwanted infrared light. For the offner optics, we adopted an ultra precision machining process which is installed at KBSI (Korea Basics Science research Institute). Since the offner relay optics is made of aluminum 6061 metal material, we did several tests to reach the specification. We found that a 0.497mm radius nose bite and 220m/min machining speed are best tool and condition to make this offner optics with the precision machine. In this paper, we report the technical method of ultra precision machining and results of the KASINICS offner optics.

• 천문학논총
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• 제21권2호
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• pp.43-49
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• 2006

The KASINICS (KASI Near Infrared Camera System) is a ground-based Near-Infrared (NIR) imaging instrument developed by the Korea Astronomy and Space Science Institute (KASI). In this paper, we report the test results of the KASINICS camera optics system which is comprised of a 1-1 Offner relay. We measure that the surface RMS fluctuations of the Offner mirrors are at the level of $10^{-1}-10^{-2}$ of the target wavelengths, showing that the mirrors are sufficiently smooth for NIR observations. The alignment of the Offner optics system has been checked too. Our ray-tracing simulations find that the image quality should not degrade more than the pixel size of the KASINICS ($40{\mu}m$), if a de-centering or a tilt of the Offner mirrors are within 5mm, or $2.5^{\circ}$. Our measurement shows that the de-centering or the tilt of the Offner mirrors are less than 1 mm or $0.5^{\circ}$, assuring that the KASINICS image quality are not affected by the alignment errors. We have also measured that the optics resolution is $20{\mu}m$ and it does not degrade more than 10% over the detector surface area of 14.3 mm ${/times}$ 14.3mm. Overall, we conclude that the KASINICS optics system satisfies the design requirements for NIR imaging observations.

• 한국광학회지
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• 제28권3호
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• pp.108-115
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• 2017

본 논문은 400~900 nm 파장 대역을 갖는 가시광 및 근적외선 분광기의 조립 및 성능 평가에 대하여 보고한다. 본 분광기는 이 후 결상 망원경과 함께 시야각 ${\pm}7.68^{\circ}$을 갖는 f/2.5의 영상 분광기를 구성한다. 검출기로는 $24{\times}24{\mu}m$ 피치로 이뤄진 $640{\times}480$ 전하결합소자(CCD)가 적용된다. 분광기는 두 개의 동심 구면으로 구성된 오프터 타입이며, 분광을 위하여 2번째 거울이 회절격자 거울로 교체되어 있다. 본 논문에서 다루는 분광기 광학 설계가 제곱평균제곱근(root mean suqared, RMS) 파면 잔여 수차가 210 nm(파장 600 nm 기준, $0.35{\lambda}$)로 통상 적용되는 간섭계를 이용한 이중 경로 광학 측정법 적용이 어렵고, 또한 측정 및 정렬의 용이성을 고려하여 샤크-하트만 센서를 적용한 단일 경로 파면 측정법을 적용하여 정렬 및 조립 절차를 수립하였다. 최종 조립 후 RMS 파면 오차 변화가 전 시야에 걸쳐 90 nm이내로 정렬되었음을 확인하였다. 이 후 조립 광학 구성을 유지한 채 2개 적층슬릿 지그를 이용하여 생성한 다중 핀 홀의 크립톤 램프 분광 이미지를 획득하였으며, 획득된 이미지의 분석을 통하여 조립 분광기의 분광 분해능, 키스톤 및 스마일이 각 4.32 nm, 0.08 픽셀 및 0.13 픽셀로 요구 사항을 만족하는 것을 확인하였다. 결론적으로 샤크-하트만 센서를 적용한 오프너 분광기의 조립 절차는 유효함을 확인하였다.

• 천문학회보
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• 제35권1호
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• pp.39.2-39.2
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• 2010

In this paper, I present the domestic development of near infrared camera systems for the ground telescope and the space satellite. These systems are the first infrared instruments made for astronomical observation in Korea. KASINICS (KASI Near Infrared Camera System) was developed to be installed on the 1.8m telescope of the Bohyunsan Optical Astronomy Observatory (BOAO) in Korea. KASINICS is equipped with a $512{\times}512$ InSb array enable L band observations as well as J, H, and Ks bands. The field-of-view of the array is $3.3'{\times}3.3'$ with a resolution of 0.39"/pixel. It employs an Offner relay optical system providing a cold stop to eliminate thermal background emission from the telescope structures. From the test observation, limiting magnitudes are J=17.6, H=17.5, Ks=16.1 and L(narrow)=10.0 mag at a signal-to-noise ratio of 10 in an integration time of 100 s. MIRIS (Multi-purpose InfraRed Imaging System) is the main payload of the STSAT-3 in Korea. MIRIS Space Observation Camera (SOC) covers the observation wavelength from $0.9{\mu}m$ to $2.0{\mu}m$ with a wide field of view $3.67^{\circ}{\times}3.67^{\circ}$. The PICNIC HgCdTe detector in a cold box is cooled down below 100K by a micro Stirling cooler of which cooling capacity is 220mW at 77K. MIRIS SOC adopts passive cooling technique to chill the telescope below 200K by pointing to the deep space (3K). The cooling mechanism employs a radiator, a Winston cone baffle, a thermal shield, MLI of 30 layers, and GFRP pipe support in the system. Opto-mechanical analysis was made in order to estimate and compensate possible stresses from the thermal contraction of mounting parts at cryogenic temperatures. Finite Element Analysis (FEA) of mechanical structure was also conducted to ensure safety and stability in launching environments and in orbit. MIRIS SOC will mainly perform the Galactic plane survey with narrow band filters (Pa $\alpha$ and Pa $\alpha$ continuum) and CIB (Cosmic Infrared Background) observation with wide band filters (I and H) driven by a cryogenic stepping motor.