Development of Fiber IFU and Observation of Venus Cloud Tops

2017 Fiscal Year Final Research Report

• Project/Area Number: 26400480
• Research Category: Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research (C)
• Allocation Type: Multi-year Fund
• Section: 一般
• Research Field: Space and upper atmospheric physics
• Research Institution: Chiba Institute of Technology
• Principal Investigator: YAMADA Manabu 千葉工業大学, 惑星探査研究センター, 研究員 (40451512)
• Co-Investigator(Kenkyū-buntansha): 山崎 敦 国立研究開発法人宇宙航空研究開発機構, 宇宙科学研究所, 助教 (00374893) ; 鍵谷 将人 東北大学, 理学研究科, 助教 (30436076)
• Project Period (FY): 2014-04-01 – 2018-03-31
• Keywords: ファイバ面分光 / 装置開発 / 紫外観測 / 金星

Outline of Final Research Achievements

We have developed a new type method of creating integral field unit (IFU) for two-dimensional spectral imager. Our new method can increase number of fiber in IFU to about thousand. We made a spectral imager for observation of Venus in ultraviolet range by using the new developed IFU. By attaching this device to a telescope, we succeeded obtain many data cube from near 330nm to 500nm of Venus.

Free Research Field

惑星科学