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A Versatile Multi-Mode Fabry-Perot Instrument

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  25 April 2016

Michael A. Dopita  and
John A. Hart
Michael A. Dopita
Affiliation:
Mount Stromlo and Siding Spring Observatory, Research School of Physical Sciences, Australian National University
John A. Hart
Affiliation:
Mount Stromlo and Siding Spring Observatory, Research School of Physical Sciences, Australian National University
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Fabry-Perot instruments have been extensively used for many years for the study of spatially extended emission nebulae because they offer a potential luminosity resolution product (L × R pot) which exceeds by a high factor tha attainable by aerating spectrometer. Meaburn (1970) shows that this product is given by the relationwhere P is the number of resolution elements each containing a maximum solid angle, Ω observed simultaneously, ti is the refractive index of the medium between the plates, A is the acceptance area of the device, εo is the transmission coefficient of the associated optics and εF the transmission coefficient of the Fabry-Perot (which if coated with dielectric multilayers can be very high).

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Publications of the Astronomical Society of Australia , Volume 3 , Issue 1 , September 1976 , pp. 35 - 38
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Copyright © Astronomical Society of Australia 1976

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