Scientific Reports (Aug 2021)

The passband integration properties of Birefringent filter

  • Xiaofan Wang,
  • Mikhail Leonidovich Demidov,
  • Yuanyong Deng,
  • Haiying Zhang

DOI
https://doi.org/10.1038/s41598-021-96126-9
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 11, no. 1
pp. 1 – 11

Abstract

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Abstract In this article, we discuss an observation phenomenon where the total amount of photons in the full passband of the Birefringent filter is a constant number that is considered by removing the spectrum of the light source irrespective of the instrument transmittance. This conclusion is only noticed and considered to be correct in Huairou Solar Observing Station since 1980’s. This article will give an answer to the question that had been proposed by the previous reachers. The article structure is organized as history (Sec. 1), experiment (Sec. 2), math (Sec. 3), and discussion (Sec. 4). This issue should be the Paseval-Theorem manifesting itself in astronomical measurement, even though we rigorously demonstrate that this photons conservation has its mathematical generality in Sec. 3.