Simfit and focus diversity: Methods for determining the focus of the SIRTF telescope in space without a focus slew

Proceedings of SPIE - The International Society for Optical Engineering

Volumn 4850, Issue 1, 2002, Pages 428-440

  Hoffmann, William F ^a   Hora, Joseph L ^b   Mentzell, J Eric ^c   Marx, Catherine T ^c   Eisenhardt, Peter R ^d  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ARIZONA   (United States)

^b HARVARD SMITHSONIAN CENTER FOR ASTROPHYSICS   (United States)

^c NASA GODDARD SPACE FLIGHT CENTER   (United States)

^d CALIFORNIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

Author keywords

Cryogenic; Focus diversity; Infrared; IRAC; Optical testing; Simfit; Simulated images; SIRTF; Telescope focus

Indexed keywords

COMPUTER SIMULATION; CRYOGENICS; EXTRAPOLATION; IMAGE QUALITY; OPTICAL TELESCOPES; OPTICAL TESTING;

SIMULATED IMAGES;

SPACE OPTICS;

EID: 0037956943     PISSN: 0277786X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1117/12.461528     Document Type: Conference Paper

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